Ansible Contracts in the Thames Valley

Ansible
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Ansible skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Ansible over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 87 89
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -22
Contract jobs citing Ansible 65 58 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.46% 2.06% 2.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.57% 17.21% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 40 47
10th Percentile £425 £413 £418
25th Percentile £513 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% +1.16% +13.16%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £619
90th Percentile £688 £750 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.88 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.63 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £58.67 £55.00
% change year-on-year -19.04% +6.67% +45.70%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

Ansible is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 316 337 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.95% 11.95% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 254 267
10th Percentile £205 £300 £237
25th Percentile £310 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% +2.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £650
South East median daily rate £475 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 8
10th Percentile £19.81 £48.50 £10.88
25th Percentile £25.22 £54.69 £12.78
Median hourly rate £38.75 £66.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.29% +58.08% -16.50%
75th Percentile £48.75 £75.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £56.88 £81.37 £72.88
South East median hourly rate £43.00 £58.67 £21.50
% change year-on-year -26.71% +172.88% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +1 48 £619 +13.79% 7
Oxfordshire +10 9 £500 +5.26% 2
Buckinghamshire +13 8 £550 -15.38% 3
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.08%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) JBoss
2 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.31%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) AWS
3 5 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.62%) GCP
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.08%) Serverless
6 1 (1.54%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.54%) GitHub
6 1 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.54%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) DHCP
1 7 (10.77%) DNS
1 7 (10.77%) Firewall
2 4 (6.15%) NAS
2 4 (6.15%) SAN
2 4 (6.15%) VPN
3 3 (4.62%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (4.62%) NX-OS
3 3 (4.62%) SNA
4 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.08%) VSAN
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.54%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.54%) Junos
5 1 (1.54%) Network Security
5 1 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.23%) MySQL
2 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.54%) Big Data
6 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 40 (61.54%) Jenkins
2 25 (38.46%) Selenium
2 25 (38.46%) SonarQube
3 24 (36.92%) Cucumber
3 24 (36.92%) REST Assured
4 16 (24.62%) GitLab
5 14 (21.54%) JIRA
6 13 (20.00%) Git
7 7 (10.77%) Visual Studio
8 2 (3.08%) JUnit
9 1 (1.54%) Appium
9 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.54%) Maven
9 1 (1.54%) MSTest
9 1 (1.54%) NUnit
9 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.54%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.54%) Spinnaker
9 1 (1.54%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (36.92%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (29.23%) Law
4 13 (20.00%) Police
5 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Finance
5 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Java Engineer
2 12 (18.46%) Developer
3 10 (15.38%) Senior
4 7 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Java Developer
4 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Software Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Lead
6 4 (6.15%) Network Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Java Architect
7 3 (4.62%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (40.00%) REST
2 24 (36.92%) Java EE
3 13 (20.00%) ARM Templates
4 8 (12.31%) .NET
5 7 (10.77%) ASP.NET
5 7 (10.77%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.08%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.08%) Node.js
6 2 (3.08%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (3.08%) RESTful
6 2 (3.08%) SOAP
6 2 (3.08%) Spring
6 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.08%) Web Services
6 2 (3.08%) YAML
7 1 (1.54%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.54%) Apache Camel
7 1 (1.54%) J2EE
7 1 (1.54%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) PKI
2 4 (6.15%) Fat Client
2 4 (6.15%) Thin Client
3 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.08%) Linux
2 8 (12.31%) Windows
3 5 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (6.15%) Ubuntu
4 4 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 4 (6.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (4.62%) Unix
6 2 (3.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (52.31%) DevOps
3 28 (43.08%) Continuous Integration
4 27 (41.54%) Test Automation
5 26 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
6 25 (38.46%) Decision-Making
7 24 (36.92%) Software Architecture
7 24 (36.92%) Software Engineering
8 20 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (26.15%) Containerisation
10 15 (23.08%) Configuration Management
11 9 (13.85%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (10.77%) Agile
13 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
13 7 (10.77%) Deployment Automation
13 7 (10.77%) Mentoring
14 4 (6.15%) Capacity Planning
15 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Management
15 3 (4.62%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.00%) Java
2 15 (23.08%) PowerShell
3 12 (18.46%) Python
4 8 (12.31%) C#
5 4 (6.15%) Bash
6 3 (4.62%) SQL
7 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.54%) Go
8 1 (1.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (72.31%) Security Cleared
2 42 (64.62%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) Degree
4 3 (4.62%) CCNP
4 3 (4.62%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) CCIE
6 1 (1.54%) HP ASE
6 1 (1.54%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.54%) RHCE
6 1 (1.54%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (30.77%) Docker
2 7 (10.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (9.23%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.23%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.15%) VMware NSX
5 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (3.08%) vSphere
7 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.54%) NFS
Systems Management
1 26 (40.00%) Terraform
2 23 (35.38%) Kubernetes
3 12 (18.46%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (18.46%) Podman
4 6 (9.23%) vCenter Server
5 5 (7.69%) vRealize
6 4 (6.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (6.15%) Nessus
6 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.15%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (6.15%) WSUS
6 4 (6.15%) ZABBIX
7 3 (4.62%) Grafana
7 3 (4.62%) Netcool
7 3 (4.62%) Puppet
8 2 (3.08%) Graylog
8 2 (3.08%) Nagios
8 2 (3.08%) Packer
8 2 (3.08%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.08%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 15 (23.08%) VMware
2 10 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.23%) Oracle
5 4 (6.15%) Veeam
6 3 (4.62%) CheckPoint
6 3 (4.62%) Cisco
6 3 (4.62%) Dynatrace
6 3 (4.62%) IBM
6 3 (4.62%) Infoblox
6 3 (4.62%) Nokia
7 2 (3.08%) Dell
7 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.08%) Splunk
8 1 (1.54%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.54%) Google
8 1 (1.54%) Juniper
8 1 (1.54%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds