Ansible Contracts

Ansible
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 77 65
Rank change year-on-year -1 -12 +3
Contract jobs citing Ansible 1,066 1,639 3,126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.65% 3.02% 3.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.14% 19.78% 22.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 1,163 2,233
10th Percentile £413 £450 £438
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £724 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 36 3
10th Percentile £61.40 £54.38 £36.05
25th Percentile £68.75 £58.59 £37.63
Median hourly rate £74.00 £73.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% +80.25% -14.74%
75th Percentile £74.72 £78.00 £49.13
90th Percentile £76.00 £86.50 £54.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.00 £73.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +1.37% +48.98% +4.81%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,294 8,287 14,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.25% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,743 5,823 10,166
10th Percentile £300 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £455 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +10.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 174 184
10th Percentile £17.72 £18.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £22.16 £26.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £57.50 £23.12
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +148.76% -10.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £73.74 £47.61
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.75 £67.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.08 £46.18 £20.00
% change year-on-year -24.03% +130.90% -6.98%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England -2 920 £550 -9.69% 121
UK excluding London +5 532 £538 -2.27% 112
London -26 403 £575 -11.54% 47
Work from Home -5 360 £550 -8.33% 89
South East +17 193 £550 -4.35% 26
South West +11 132 £550 -8.33% 20
North of England +12 111 £523 -9.13% 20
Yorkshire +49 66 £523 -12.55% 9
Midlands +28 53 £570 -0.87% 12
Scotland -16 48 £480 -6.11% 17
West Midlands +22 39 £584 -8.47% 7
North West -19 35 £519 -9.77% 7
East of England -12 15 £550 +10.00% 5
East Midlands +18 14 £500 - 5
North East -4 10 £550 -8.33% 4
Wales -25 3 £689 +31.24%

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 85 (7.97%) Confluence
2 28 (2.63%) OpenStack
3 24 (2.25%) Apache
4 21 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.03%) nginx
6 9 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.56%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.56%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.47%) JBoss
8 5 (0.47%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.38%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 4 (0.38%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 3 (0.28%) Drupal
10 3 (0.28%) IIS
10 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.19%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.094%) Doxygen
2 1 (0.094%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.094%) Maximo
3 1 (0.094%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 381 (35.74%) AWS
2 252 (23.64%) Azure
3 127 (11.91%) GitHub
4 109 (10.23%) GCP
5 81 (7.60%) OpenShift
6 77 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
7 73 (6.85%) Amazon S3
8 68 (6.38%) Serverless
9 59 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 53 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
12 42 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (3.28%) PaaS
14 33 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (2.72%) IaaS
16 24 (2.25%) SaaS
16 24 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 23 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
18 19 (1.78%) Apigee
19 17 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 132 (12.38%) Firewall
2 54 (5.07%) DNS
3 38 (3.56%) TCP/IP
3 38 (3.56%) VPN
4 33 (3.10%) Network Security
5 30 (2.81%) BGP
6 29 (2.72%) DHCP
7 25 (2.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 25 (2.35%) OSPF
8 24 (2.25%) SNMP
8 24 (2.25%) SSL
8 24 (2.25%) VLAN
8 24 (2.25%) WAN
9 22 (2.06%) Cisco Firepower
10 18 (1.69%) SAN
11 17 (1.59%) Cisco ISE
11 17 (1.59%) HTTP
11 17 (1.59%) LAN
12 16 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (5.16%) Elasticsearch
3 53 (4.97%) MySQL
4 47 (4.41%) SQL Server
5 43 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
6 40 (3.75%) Relational Database
7 39 (3.66%) MongoDB
8 21 (1.97%) NoSQL
9 20 (1.88%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
12 17 (1.59%) InfluxDB
13 13 (1.22%) Big Data
13 13 (1.22%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.94%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.94%) Redis
15 9 (0.84%) Informix
16 8 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
17 5 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 350 (32.83%) Jenkins
2 194 (18.20%) Git
3 172 (16.14%) GitLab
4 109 (10.23%) JIRA
5 69 (6.47%) Bitbucket
6 56 (5.25%) SonarQube
7 54 (5.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 52 (4.88%) Artifactory
9 43 (4.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 39 (3.66%) Cucumber
10 39 (3.66%) Selenium
11 33 (3.10%) TeamCity
12 23 (2.16%) Robot Framework
13 20 (1.88%) Maven
14 19 (1.78%) REST Assured
15 18 (1.69%) CircleCI
16 15 (1.41%) Visual Studio
17 14 (1.31%) Subversion
18 12 (1.13%) Gradle
19 11 (1.03%) Travis CI
General
1 203 (19.04%) Social Skills
2 152 (14.26%) Finance
3 103 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (9.47%) Banking
5 86 (8.07%) Public Sector
6 30 (2.81%) Investment Banking
7 24 (2.25%) Law
8 19 (1.78%) Telecoms
9 18 (1.69%) Aerospace
10 14 (1.31%) Retail
11 13 (1.22%) Police
12 9 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 9 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.75%) Retail Banking
14 7 (0.66%) Legal
15 6 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.56%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.56%) Marketing
16 4 (0.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 112 (10.51%) Developer
3 107 (10.04%) Senior
4 84 (7.88%) Architect
5 78 (7.32%) Network Engineer
6 69 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
6 69 (6.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 64 (6.00%) Automation Engineer
8 53 (4.97%) AWS DevOps
9 48 (4.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 46 (4.32%) Lead
11 44 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
12 43 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
13 39 (3.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 38 (3.56%) Security Engineer
15 34 (3.19%) Linux Engineer
16 33 (3.10%) Consultant
17 31 (2.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 28 (2.63%) Security Architect
19 26 (2.44%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.75%) REST
2 68 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
3 65 (6.10%) YAML
4 49 (4.60%) .NET
5 42 (3.94%) Kafka
6 31 (2.91%) JSON
7 29 (2.72%) Node.js
8 28 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
9 21 (1.97%) Spring
10 20 (1.88%) .NET Core
10 20 (1.88%) AWS CDK
11 19 (1.78%) Java EE
12 18 (1.69%) ARM Templates
12 18 (1.69%) OpenID
13 17 (1.59%) React
14 16 (1.50%) RESTful
14 16 (1.50%) SAML
15 15 (1.41%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.41%) XML
16 14 (1.31%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.85%) PKI
2 55 (5.16%) Data Centre
3 51 (4.78%) Linux Command Line
4 46 (4.32%) Public Cloud
5 42 (3.94%) Replication
6 32 (3.00%) Management Information System
7 31 (2.91%) Clustering
8 30 (2.81%) Product Ownership
9 21 (1.97%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.31%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.03%) Data Structures
14 11 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (0.84%) Virtual Team
17 8 (0.75%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 450 (42.21%) Linux
2 218 (20.45%) Windows
3 126 (11.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 90 (8.44%) Unix
5 62 (5.82%) Windows Server
6 31 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 28 (2.63%) CentOS
8 23 (2.16%) Solaris
9 21 (1.97%) Ubuntu
10 13 (1.22%) zOS
11 12 (1.13%) Apple iOS
11 12 (1.13%) VMS
12 11 (1.03%) Android
13 9 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (0.75%) Windows 10
15 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.28%) Windows 2000
16 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.28%) Windows XP
17 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (44.37%) DevOps
2 391 (36.68%) CI/CD
3 270 (25.33%) Agile
4 251 (23.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 206 (19.32%) Configuration Management
6 172 (16.14%) Containerisation
7 155 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
8 147 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 142 (13.32%) Continuous Integration
10 105 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 105 (9.85%) Scrum
11 98 (9.19%) Infrastructure Automation
12 82 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
12 82 (7.69%) Software Engineering
13 77 (7.22%) Task Automation
14 71 (6.66%) ITIL
15 66 (6.19%) Platform Engineering
16 61 (5.72%) Change Management
16 61 (5.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 60 (5.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 504 (47.28%) Python
2 280 (26.27%) PowerShell
3 160 (15.01%) Bash
4 133 (12.48%) Java
5 94 (8.82%) Shell Script
6 87 (8.16%) SQL
7 57 (5.35%) Go
8 39 (3.66%) Groovy
8 39 (3.66%) JavaScript
9 35 (3.28%) Perl
10 33 (3.10%) C#
11 28 (2.63%) Scala
12 26 (2.44%) Ruby
13 24 (2.25%) C
14 21 (1.97%) TypeScript
15 13 (1.22%) C++
16 12 (1.13%) JCL
16 12 (1.13%) REXX
16 12 (1.13%) Tcl
17 10 (0.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 440 (41.28%) Security Cleared
2 290 (27.20%) SC Cleared
3 149 (13.98%) DV Cleared
4 52 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (4.88%) Degree
5 39 (3.66%) CCNP
6 26 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.25%) CCNA
8 22 (2.06%) CCIE
9 19 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.56%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (0.38%) RHCE
13 4 (0.38%) SANS
14 3 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.28%) CISSP
14 3 (0.28%) OCP
14 3 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.32%) QA
2 11 (1.03%) PCI DSS
2 11 (1.03%) RMADS
3 10 (0.94%) NIST
4 8 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (0.75%) GDPR
5 5 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.38%) NCSC
6 4 (0.38%) SLA
7 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.094%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.094%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.094%) PMO
System Software
1 301 (28.24%) Docker
2 130 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 86 (8.07%) Active Directory
4 40 (3.75%) VMware NSX
5 37 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
7 31 (2.91%) Hyper-V
8 27 (2.53%) vSphere
9 21 (1.97%) Firmware
10 13 (1.22%) NFS
11 12 (1.13%) Time Sharing Option
12 8 (0.75%) KVM
13 5 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 5 (0.47%) XenApp
13 5 (0.47%) XenDesktop
14 4 (0.38%) vCloud
14 4 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
15 2 (0.19%) Ceph
15 2 (0.19%) LXC
15 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 519 (48.69%) Terraform
2 374 (35.08%) Kubernetes
3 166 (15.57%) Puppet
4 123 (11.54%) Grafana
5 108 (10.13%) Prometheus
6 104 (9.76%) Progress Chef
7 33 (3.10%) Kibana
8 30 (2.81%) Docker Swarm
9 27 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
10 26 (2.44%) logstash
10 26 (2.44%) PowerCLI
11 24 (2.25%) Packer
11 24 (2.25%) Salt
12 22 (2.06%) vRealize
13 18 (1.69%) vCenter Server
14 16 (1.50%) NetBackup
15 15 (1.41%) Nagios
15 15 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
16 14 (1.31%) Podman
16 14 (1.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 200 (18.76%) VMware
2 124 (11.63%) Red Hat
3 101 (9.47%) Microsoft
4 97 (9.10%) Cisco
5 78 (7.32%) Oracle
6 68 (6.38%) Splunk
7 53 (4.97%) IBM
8 50 (4.69%) Dell
9 43 (4.03%) Atlassian
10 42 (3.94%) F5
10 42 (3.94%) Google
11 37 (3.47%) Palo Alto
12 35 (3.28%) CheckPoint
12 35 (3.28%) SolarWinds
13 32 (3.00%) Citrix
13 32 (3.00%) Fortinet
13 32 (3.00%) ServiceNow
14 30 (2.81%) HP
15 25 (2.35%) CyberArk
16 21 (1.97%) Juniper