Ansible Contracts in England

Ansible
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 77 68
Rank change year-on-year -26 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 813 1,549 2,440
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.21% 3.10% 3.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.58% 19.80% 21.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 1,143 1,743
10th Percentile £425 £450 £444
25th Percentile £488 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £590
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +5.93% +12.38%
75th Percentile £661 £725 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
UK median daily rate £558 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 29 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £55.50
25th Percentile £53.38 £58.59 £56.25
Median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +26.96% +43.75%
75th Percentile £73.33 £76.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £79.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.25% +32.73% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,376 7,823 11,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.87% 15.64% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,163 5,710 8,323
10th Percentile £250 £350 £362
25th Percentile £409 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £682 £675
90th Percentile £700 £756 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £565 £565
% change year-on-year -8.85% - +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 184 164
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.83 £14.08
25th Percentile £17.72 £24.56 £15.69
Median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.19% +167.44% -10.42%
75th Percentile £49.06 £73.72 £42.59
90th Percentile £70.63 £82.50 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £27.25 £57.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -52.61% +155.56% -43.75%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in England

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in England

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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
London -43 365 £575 -11.54% 130
South East +25 167 £550 - 47
North of England 0 117 £520 -13.33% 32
South West -4 105 £563 -4.26% 46
Yorkshire +63 66 £514 -17.76% 9
North West -45 43 £540 -8.09% 19
Midlands -9 21 £520 +4.00% 21
West Midlands -10 12 £550 +4.76% 11
East of England -13 11 £650 +21.50% 18
East Midlands +20 9 £499 +12.13% 10
North East -1 8 £550 -18.52% 4
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 68 (8.36%) Confluence
2 42 (5.17%) OpenStack
3 24 (2.95%) nginx
4 22 (2.71%) Apache
5 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.74%) Apache Solr
6 6 (0.74%) IIS
6 6 (0.74%) JBoss
7 5 (0.62%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.49%) Drupal
8 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.37%) CMS
9 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.25%) Traefik
10 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.12%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 313 (38.50%) AWS
2 209 (25.71%) Azure
3 88 (10.82%) GitHub
4 87 (10.70%) GCP
5 50 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (6.15%) Serverless
6 48 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
7 42 (5.17%) Amazon S3
8 38 (4.67%) OpenShift
9 36 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (3.69%) PaaS
11 30 (3.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 28 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (3.20%) IaaS
14 25 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
15 18 (2.21%) SaaS
16 17 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
16 17 (2.09%) Slack
17 16 (1.97%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 104 (12.79%) Firewall
2 62 (7.63%) DNS
3 40 (4.92%) TCP/IP
4 35 (4.31%) VPN
5 30 (3.69%) BGP
5 30 (3.69%) VLAN
6 29 (3.57%) SAN
7 27 (3.32%) DHCP
8 26 (3.20%) Network Security
9 22 (2.71%) OSPF
10 21 (2.58%) Cisco ASA
10 21 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (2.34%) IPsec
11 19 (2.34%) SSL
12 17 (2.09%) SNMP
13 16 (1.97%) Cisco Firepower
13 16 (1.97%) Cisco ISE
13 16 (1.97%) HSRP
13 16 (1.97%) MPLS
14 15 (1.85%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.01%) Elasticsearch
2 56 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (5.54%) MySQL
3 45 (5.54%) SQL Server
4 33 (4.06%) Relational Database
5 31 (3.81%) NoSQL
6 27 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (2.83%) MongoDB
8 21 (2.58%) Big Data
9 20 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (2.46%) Data Lake
10 15 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 13 (1.60%) RDBMS
12 9 (1.11%) Couchbase
12 9 (1.11%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.98%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.98%) InfluxDB
13 8 (0.98%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 313 (38.50%) Jenkins
2 152 (18.70%) Git
3 135 (16.61%) GitLab
4 103 (12.67%) JIRA
5 52 (6.40%) SonarQube
6 49 (6.03%) Bitbucket
7 40 (4.92%) Selenium
8 38 (4.67%) Artifactory
9 34 (4.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 33 (4.06%) Cucumber
11 31 (3.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (2.95%) REST Assured
13 22 (2.71%) TeamCity
14 19 (2.34%) Robot Framework
15 18 (2.21%) Subversion
16 14 (1.72%) Visual Studio
17 13 (1.60%) CircleCI
17 13 (1.60%) Maven
18 10 (1.23%) JMeter
18 10 (1.23%) JUnit
General
1 170 (20.91%) Social Skills
2 104 (12.79%) Finance
3 88 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (9.10%) Public Sector
5 36 (4.43%) Banking
6 28 (3.44%) Law
7 18 (2.21%) Aerospace
8 17 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.85%) Legal
10 13 (1.60%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.60%) Police
11 12 (1.48%) Retail
12 9 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.62%) German Language
15 4 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 171 (21.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (9.72%) Developer
3 77 (9.47%) Architect
4 74 (9.10%) Senior
5 66 (8.12%) Network Engineer
6 49 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
7 48 (5.90%) Lead
8 42 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
9 40 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
10 36 (4.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 34 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
12 31 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 26 (3.20%) Automation Engineer
14 26 (3.20%) Security Engineer
15 25 (3.08%) Senior DevOps
16 24 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
16 24 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
16 24 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
17 23 (2.83%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (9.35%) Elastic Stack
2 63 (7.75%) REST
3 59 (7.26%) .NET
4 53 (6.52%) YAML
5 41 (5.04%) JSON
6 31 (3.81%) Node.js
7 29 (3.57%) Kafka
8 24 (2.95%) Java EE
9 23 (2.83%) .NET Core
10 22 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (2.58%) Spring
12 20 (2.46%) XML
13 19 (2.34%) LDAP
14 18 (2.21%) RESTful
15 16 (1.97%) Jinja
16 15 (1.85%) ASP.NET
17 14 (1.72%) Middleware
17 14 (1.72%) OpenID
17 14 (1.72%) React
18 13 (1.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.52%) PKI
2 43 (5.29%) Public Cloud
3 40 (4.92%) Linux Command Line
4 39 (4.80%) Data Centre
5 34 (4.18%) Replication
6 27 (3.32%) Clustering
7 23 (2.83%) Cloud Native
8 22 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.34%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.23%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.23%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.86%) Fat Client
15 7 (0.86%) Thin Client
16 6 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 361 (44.40%) Linux
2 148 (18.20%) Windows
3 84 (10.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 74 (9.10%) Unix
5 59 (7.26%) Windows Server
6 40 (4.92%) CentOS
7 25 (3.08%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.46%) Solaris
8 20 (2.46%) Windows Server 2019
9 18 (2.21%) VMS
10 17 (2.09%) zOS
11 13 (1.60%) Oracle Linux
12 9 (1.11%) Android
13 8 (0.98%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.74%) Debian
15 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.37%) Windows 2000
16 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
16 3 (0.37%) Windows XP
17 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (46.00%) DevOps
2 321 (39.48%) CI/CD
3 215 (26.45%) Agile
4 197 (24.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 171 (21.03%) Configuration Management
6 131 (16.11%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 119 (14.64%) Continuous Integration
9 90 (11.07%) Test Automation
10 86 (10.58%) Scrum
11 75 (9.23%) ITIL
12 66 (8.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 60 (7.38%) Task Automation
14 59 (7.26%) Deployment Automation
15 57 (7.01%) Software Engineering
16 56 (6.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 55 (6.77%) Platform Engineering
18 54 (6.64%) Migration
19 52 (6.40%) SDLC
20 51 (6.27%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 428 (52.64%) Python
2 211 (25.95%) PowerShell
3 159 (19.56%) Bash
4 115 (14.15%) Java
5 73 (8.98%) SQL
6 72 (8.86%) Shell Script
7 59 (7.26%) Go
8 54 (6.64%) JavaScript
9 45 (5.54%) Perl
10 43 (5.29%) C#
11 26 (3.20%) C
12 25 (3.08%) Ruby
13 20 (2.46%) C++
14 16 (1.97%) JCL
14 16 (1.97%) REXX
15 14 (1.72%) Groovy
16 12 (1.48%) Tcl
17 8 (0.98%) TypeScript
18 6 (0.74%) Scala
19 5 (0.62%) Korn
Qualifications
1 357 (43.91%) Security Cleared
2 256 (31.49%) SC Cleared
3 105 (12.92%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.54%) Cisco Certification
5 37 (4.55%) CCNP
6 30 (3.69%) Degree
7 23 (2.83%) CCNA
8 21 (2.58%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.35%) CCIE
11 7 (0.86%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.62%) RHCE
13 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.37%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.25%) CEH
14 2 (0.25%) CISSP
14 2 (0.25%) GIAC
14 2 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (4.43%) QA
2 16 (1.97%) GDPR
3 13 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.35%) NIST
5 8 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.86%) NCSC
6 7 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.86%) RMADS
7 4 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.49%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.49%) SLA
8 3 (0.37%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.12%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 232 (28.54%) Docker
2 86 (10.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (7.01%) Active Directory
4 36 (4.43%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (4.31%) VMware NSX
6 34 (4.18%) vSphere
7 29 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (2.46%) Hyper-V
8 20 (2.46%) NFS
9 18 (2.21%) Firmware
10 16 (1.97%) Time Sharing Option
11 5 (0.62%) KVM
12 4 (0.49%) Ceph
13 3 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 3 (0.37%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.25%) Varnish
14 2 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 412 (50.68%) Terraform
2 274 (33.70%) Kubernetes
3 135 (16.61%) Puppet
4 95 (11.69%) Prometheus
5 92 (11.32%) Grafana
6 78 (9.59%) Progress Chef
7 36 (4.43%) Kibana
8 33 (4.06%) logstash
9 30 (3.69%) Docker Swarm
10 29 (3.57%) Packer
11 24 (2.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 23 (2.83%) PowerCLI
13 20 (2.46%) Red Hat Satellite
14 19 (2.34%) vRealize
15 18 (2.21%) NetBackup
16 17 (2.09%) Podman
17 16 (1.97%) vCenter Server
18 14 (1.72%) Netcool
19 11 (1.35%) Nagios
19 11 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 135 (16.61%) VMware
2 90 (11.07%) Red Hat
3 79 (9.72%) Cisco
4 68 (8.36%) Microsoft
5 67 (8.24%) Dell
6 57 (7.01%) Splunk
7 56 (6.89%) IBM
8 53 (6.52%) Oracle
9 37 (4.55%) Atlassian
9 37 (4.55%) SolarWinds
10 36 (4.43%) HP
11 32 (3.94%) ServiceNow
12 30 (3.69%) Google
13 29 (3.57%) Citrix
14 25 (3.08%) Veritas
15 23 (2.83%) F5
16 22 (2.71%) Palo Alto
17 18 (2.21%) CA
17 18 (2.21%) CheckPoint
18 17 (2.09%) Brocade