Ansible
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 69 70
Rank change year-on-year -32 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing Ansible 955 1,828 2,958
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.25% 3.23% 3.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.76% 20.29% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 1,340 2,074
10th Percentile £425 £450 £438
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £725 £798 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 31 4
10th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £36.50
25th Percentile £50.94 £56.56 £38.75
Median hourly rate £62.25 £73.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +49.74% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.36 £90.00 £61.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £68.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -9.12% +40.51% +21.88%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,090 9,010 13,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.00% 15.91% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,695 6,452 10,023
10th Percentile £264 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £623 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 203 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.73 £13.62
25th Percentile £18.89 £24.13 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.50 £55.00 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +151.26% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.13 £70.13 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.95 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% -13.83%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 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
England -22 820 £550 -11.65% 288
UK excluding London -12 476 £550 - 173
London -42 363 £575 -12.21% 133
Work from Home -32 327 £564 -6.00% 159
South East +18 169 £540 -0.60% 37
North of England +14 120 £515 -12.34% 37
South West -6 105 £553 -7.92% 44
Yorkshire +60 73 £485 -19.17% 8
Scotland -35 45 £522 +1.75% 9
North West -39 39 £525 -9.68% 25
Midlands -8 24 £520 +2.97% 25
West Midlands -10 13 £638 +21.43% 17
East Midlands +7 11 £498 +3.75% 8
East of England -12 11 £625 +20.19% 15
North East -8 8 £550 -15.38% 4
Wales -1 6 £645 +22.76% 4

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 76 (7.96%) Confluence
2 35 (3.66%) OpenStack
3 27 (2.83%) Apache
4 24 (2.51%) nginx
5 9 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.63%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.63%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.63%) IIS
7 6 (0.63%) JBoss
8 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.42%) Drupal
8 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.31%) CMS
9 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.21%) Traefik
10 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.10%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 371 (38.85%) AWS
2 240 (25.13%) Azure
3 117 (12.25%) GitHub
4 97 (10.16%) GCP
5 75 (7.85%) OpenShift
6 64 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
8 61 (6.39%) Amazon S3
9 60 (6.28%) Serverless
10 53 (5.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (4.82%) PaaS
13 40 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 38 (3.98%) IaaS
15 31 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
15 31 (3.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (3.04%) SaaS
17 27 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
18 19 (1.99%) Apigee
19 17 (1.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 121 (12.67%) Firewall
2 65 (6.81%) DNS
3 47 (4.92%) TCP/IP
4 41 (4.29%) VPN
5 31 (3.25%) SAN
6 30 (3.14%) SSL
7 29 (3.04%) BGP
7 29 (3.04%) VLAN
8 26 (2.72%) DHCP
9 25 (2.62%) Network Security
10 24 (2.51%) OSPF
11 22 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (2.09%) Cisco ASA
13 19 (1.99%) Cisco Nexus
13 19 (1.99%) IPsec
13 19 (1.99%) SNMP
13 19 (1.99%) WAN
14 18 (1.88%) NAS
15 17 (1.78%) HSRP
15 17 (1.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
3 56 (5.86%) MySQL
4 48 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 37 (3.87%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 32 (3.35%) NoSQL
8 31 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (1.99%) Apache Cassandra
9 19 (1.99%) Big Data
10 18 (1.88%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.57%) RDBMS
12 14 (1.47%) InfluxDB
13 11 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.05%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.94%) Couchbase
15 9 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (0.94%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.84%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 353 (36.96%) Jenkins
2 180 (18.85%) Git
3 151 (15.81%) GitLab
4 114 (11.94%) JIRA
5 69 (7.23%) SonarQube
6 59 (6.18%) Bitbucket
7 54 (5.65%) Artifactory
8 47 (4.92%) Cucumber
9 43 (4.50%) Selenium
10 41 (4.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 41 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 27 (2.83%) TeamCity
12 24 (2.51%) REST Assured
13 21 (2.20%) Maven
14 20 (2.09%) Robot Framework
15 19 (1.99%) Subversion
16 16 (1.68%) CircleCI
17 14 (1.47%) Visual Studio
18 13 (1.36%) Travis CI
19 12 (1.26%) Postman
General
1 206 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 119 (12.46%) Finance
3 99 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (8.69%) Public Sector
5 67 (7.02%) Banking
6 28 (2.93%) Law
7 26 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.88%) Aerospace
8 18 (1.88%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.57%) Legal
9 15 (1.57%) Retail
10 13 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.36%) Police
11 6 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.42%) Marketing
13 3 (0.31%) German Language
Job Titles
1 202 (21.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 94 (9.84%) Developer
3 89 (9.32%) Senior
4 76 (7.96%) Architect
5 70 (7.33%) Network Engineer
6 66 (6.91%) AWS Engineer
7 53 (5.55%) AWS DevOps
8 48 (5.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 44 (4.61%) Linux Engineer
10 43 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
11 42 (4.40%) Automation Engineer
12 40 (4.19%) Lead
13 38 (3.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 36 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
15 31 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
15 31 (3.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 30 (3.14%) Security Engineer
17 28 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
18 27 (2.83%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 26 (2.72%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (8.59%) Elastic Stack
2 69 (7.23%) REST
3 61 (6.39%) .NET
4 58 (6.07%) YAML
5 46 (4.82%) JSON
6 37 (3.87%) Node.js
7 34 (3.56%) Kafka
8 31 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
9 25 (2.62%) ARM Templates
10 24 (2.51%) Java EE
11 23 (2.41%) .NET Core
11 23 (2.41%) RESTful
11 23 (2.41%) XML
12 19 (1.99%) OpenID
13 18 (1.88%) Spring
14 17 (1.78%) Jinja
14 17 (1.78%) LDAP
15 16 (1.68%) SAML
16 15 (1.57%) ASP.NET
16 15 (1.57%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 62 (6.49%) PKI
2 50 (5.24%) Public Cloud
3 49 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
4 47 (4.92%) Data Centre
5 41 (4.29%) Replication
6 31 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.14%) Cloud Native
8 29 (3.04%) Product Ownership
9 27 (2.83%) Clustering
10 26 (2.72%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.36%) Private Cloud
14 10 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (0.94%) Data Structures
15 9 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.73%) Fat Client
16 7 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 413 (43.25%) Linux
2 171 (17.91%) Windows
3 91 (9.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 89 (9.32%) Unix
5 64 (6.70%) Windows Server
6 33 (3.46%) CentOS
7 28 (2.93%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (2.09%) zOS
9 19 (1.99%) Solaris
10 18 (1.88%) VMS
11 15 (1.57%) Android
12 14 (1.47%) Apple iOS
13 12 (1.26%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.63%) Debian
15 3 (0.31%) Windows 2000
15 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.31%) Windows XP
16 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
16 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (46.49%) DevOps
2 369 (38.64%) CI/CD
3 259 (27.12%) Agile
4 222 (23.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (19.69%) Configuration Management
6 167 (17.49%) Containerisation
7 161 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (15.29%) Continuous Integration
9 127 (13.30%) Test Automation
10 106 (11.10%) Scrum
11 81 (8.48%) Deployment Automation
12 77 (8.06%) ITIL
13 76 (7.96%) Software Engineering
14 72 (7.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 68 (7.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 68 (7.12%) Task Automation
16 61 (6.39%) Infrastructure Automation
16 61 (6.39%) Platform Engineering
17 58 (6.07%) Cybersecurity
17 58 (6.07%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 506 (52.98%) Python
2 229 (23.98%) PowerShell
3 185 (19.37%) Bash
4 115 (12.04%) Java
5 87 (9.11%) Shell Script
6 85 (8.90%) SQL
7 65 (6.81%) Go
8 52 (5.45%) Perl
9 51 (5.34%) JavaScript
10 42 (4.40%) C#
11 34 (3.56%) Ruby
12 28 (2.93%) C
13 27 (2.83%) Groovy
14 20 (2.09%) C++
14 20 (2.09%) Scala
15 19 (1.99%) JCL
15 19 (1.99%) REXX
16 16 (1.68%) TypeScript
17 12 (1.26%) Tcl
18 7 (0.73%) PHP
Qualifications
1 366 (38.32%) Security Cleared
2 255 (26.70%) SC Cleared
3 111 (11.62%) DV Cleared
4 45 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
5 41 (4.29%) Degree
6 36 (3.77%) CCNP
7 25 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 23 (2.41%) CCNA
9 17 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.47%) CCIE
11 9 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.52%) RHCE
13 4 (0.42%) SANS
14 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.31%) RHCSA
15 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.21%) CISSP
15 2 (0.21%) GIAC
15 2 (0.21%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.71%) QA
2 17 (1.78%) NCSC
3 14 (1.47%) GDPR
4 13 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.15%) NIST
6 8 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.73%) RMADS
8 6 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.42%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.42%) SLA
10 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 277 (29.01%) Docker
2 88 (9.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (5.86%) Active Directory
4 39 (4.08%) vSphere
5 33 (3.46%) VMware NSX
6 30 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (2.51%) Hyper-V
9 23 (2.41%) NFS
10 19 (1.99%) Time Sharing Option
11 18 (1.88%) Firmware
12 6 (0.63%) KVM
13 5 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 5 (0.52%) vCloud
14 4 (0.42%) Ceph
15 3 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.21%) Varnish
16 2 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 1 (0.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 477 (49.95%) Terraform
2 344 (36.02%) Kubernetes
3 152 (15.92%) Puppet
4 126 (13.19%) Grafana
5 116 (12.15%) Prometheus
6 83 (8.69%) Progress Chef
7 39 (4.08%) Kibana
8 34 (3.56%) Docker Swarm
9 31 (3.25%) Packer
10 30 (3.14%) logstash
11 25 (2.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 24 (2.51%) PowerCLI
13 22 (2.30%) Red Hat Satellite
14 21 (2.20%) Nagios
14 21 (2.20%) NetBackup
15 17 (1.78%) Podman
16 16 (1.68%) Graylog
16 16 (1.68%) vRealize
17 14 (1.47%) ZABBIX
18 12 (1.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 135 (14.14%) VMware
2 95 (9.95%) Red Hat
3 84 (8.80%) Cisco
4 75 (7.85%) Microsoft
5 71 (7.43%) Splunk
6 65 (6.81%) Oracle
7 64 (6.70%) Dell
8 63 (6.60%) IBM
9 38 (3.98%) Atlassian
10 35 (3.66%) HP
11 34 (3.56%) Google
11 34 (3.56%) SolarWinds
12 31 (3.25%) Citrix
12 31 (3.25%) F5
13 30 (3.14%) ServiceNow
14 28 (2.93%) Veritas
15 26 (2.72%) Palo Alto
16 22 (2.30%) Fortinet
17 21 (2.20%) CA
18 20 (2.09%) Brocade