Ansible Contracts in the Thames Valley

Ansible
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 76 79
Rank change year-on-year +18 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Ansible 44 70 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.91% 2.61% 2.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.04% 21.81% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 46 48
10th Percentile £396 £425 £421
25th Percentile £413 £513 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £600 £544
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% +10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £691
90th Percentile £557 £688 £760
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.25 £56.88
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - -19.15% -
75th Percentile - £59.38 £60.63
90th Percentile - £65.75 -
South East median hourly rate - £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year - -22.61% +11.59%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

Ansible falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 183 321 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.11% 11.95% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 243 273
10th Percentile £318 £205 £303
25th Percentile £413 £300 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £623
90th Percentile £663 £650 £725
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 11
10th Percentile - £21.34 £48.50
25th Percentile - £28.41 £54.69
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.29% +5.60%
75th Percentile - £52.81 £75.38
90th Percentile - £66.50 £81.37
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +20 40 £494 -20.20% 29
Buckinghamshire +8 2 £425 -22.73% 18
Oxfordshire -2 2 £488 -2.50% 14
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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 3 (6.82%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 28 (63.64%) Azure
2 27 (61.36%) AWS
3 8 (18.18%) GCP
4 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (11.36%) GitHub
6 2 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.27%) Serverless
7 1 (2.27%) SonarCloud
7 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.73%) BGP
1 10 (22.73%) TCP/IP
2 9 (20.45%) VLAN
3 7 (15.91%) Firewall
4 6 (13.64%) Network Security
5 5 (11.36%) MPLS
5 5 (11.36%) OSPF
6 4 (9.09%) VPN
7 3 (6.82%) DHCP
7 3 (6.82%) DNS
7 3 (6.82%) FTP
7 3 (6.82%) SMTP
7 3 (6.82%) tcpdump
7 3 (6.82%) Telnet
8 1 (2.27%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.27%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.27%) Junos
8 1 (2.27%) LAN
8 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) Big Data
2 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 12 (27.27%) GitLab
3 9 (20.45%) Cucumber
3 9 (20.45%) JIRA
3 9 (20.45%) REST Assured
3 9 (20.45%) Selenium
3 9 (20.45%) SonarQube
4 8 (18.18%) Git
5 5 (11.36%) Robot Framework
6 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 17 (38.64%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (18.18%) Law
4 6 (13.64%) Finance
4 6 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 4 (9.09%) Police
6 1 (2.27%) Electronics
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Administrator
2 5 (11.36%) Automation Tester
2 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Java Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Java Software Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Software Engineer
2 5 (11.36%) Telecoms Tester
2 5 (11.36%) Tester
3 4 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Developer
3 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Java Developer
3 4 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) ARM Templates
1 9 (20.45%) Java EE
1 9 (20.45%) REST
2 3 (6.82%) LDAP
3 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.27%) Jinja
3 1 (2.27%) JSON
3 1 (2.27%) NETCONF
3 1 (2.27%) RESTCONF
3 1 (2.27%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 9 (20.45%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 18 (40.91%) Linux
2 10 (22.73%) Windows
3 7 (15.91%) Ubuntu
4 6 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (11.36%) Windows Server
6 4 (9.09%) AIX
6 4 (9.09%) Unix
7 2 (4.55%) CentOS
7 2 (4.55%) HPUX
7 2 (4.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Configuration Management
2 20 (45.45%) DevOps
3 18 (40.91%) Containerisation
4 14 (31.82%) Test Automation
5 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 9 (20.45%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (20.45%) Software Architecture
7 9 (20.45%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (15.91%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (13.64%) High Availability
10 6 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
11 5 (11.36%) Customer-Centric Approach
11 5 (11.36%) Customer-Centricity
11 5 (11.36%) Decision-Making
11 5 (11.36%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (11.36%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 9 (20.45%) Java
4 4 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) Bicep
5 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) Korn
6 1 (2.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (43.18%) Security Cleared
2 17 (38.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) CCNP
3 6 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.09%) CCSA
4 4 (9.09%) CCSE
4 4 (9.09%) Check Point Certification
5 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) CCIE
6 1 (2.27%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) NFS
2 3 (6.82%) Samba
2 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (45.45%) Kubernetes
1 20 (45.45%) Terraform
2 9 (20.45%) Docker Swarm
2 9 (20.45%) Podman
3 6 (13.64%) Progress Chef
3 6 (13.64%) Puppet
4 5 (11.36%) yum
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (4.55%) SCCM
6 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.27%) Grafana
6 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) VMware
2 8 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 7 (15.91%) Cisco
3 7 (15.91%) Red Hat
4 5 (11.36%) Databricks
4 5 (11.36%) HP
4 5 (11.36%) Palo Alto
5 4 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.27%) Citrix
6 1 (2.27%) F5
6 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (2.27%) Juniper
6 1 (2.27%) New Relic
6 1 (2.27%) SAP
6 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.27%) Splunk