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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 79 66
Rank change year-on-year -18 -13 +5
Contract jobs citing Ansible 851 1,396 2,424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.31% 2.94% 3.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.89% 19.12% 21.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 1,026 1,729
10th Percentile £422 £450 £438
25th Percentile £475 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £611 £596
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +2.56% +13.43%
75th Percentile £650 £731 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +9.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 31 2
10th Percentile £50.63 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £55.13 £58.59 £57.50
Median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +24.26% +21.45%
75th Percentile £74.58 £78.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.75 £90.00 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.25% +48.98% +6.65%

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 4,506 7,301 11,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.21% 15.38% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 5,278 8,167
10th Percentile £270 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £572
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £683 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 175 158
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.59 £13.18
25th Percentile £20.00 £25.71 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £55.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +155.81% -12.07%
75th Percentile £50.25 £73.75 £27.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.45 £57.88
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
% change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -36 369 £575 -11.54% 156
South East +29 181 £547 +1.67% 38
North of England +4 122 £515 -12.34% 36
South West -5 119 £553 -5.96% 47
Yorkshire +64 73 £485 -23.92% 11
North West -37 40 £525 -8.70% 22
Midlands +6 37 £550 +10.00% 22
West Midlands -4 25 £582 +10.86% 11
East Midlands +13 12 £499 +1.84% 11
East of England -27 11 £625 +25.00% 17
North East -5 9 £550 -15.38% 3
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 76 (8.93%) Confluence
2 27 (3.17%) OpenStack
3 21 (2.47%) Apache
4 16 (1.88%) nginx
5 9 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.82%) IIS
8 6 (0.71%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.71%) JBoss
9 5 (0.59%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.47%) Apache Spark
11 3 (0.35%) CMS
11 3 (0.35%) Drupal
11 3 (0.35%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.24%) Traefik
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
13 1 (0.12%) SAS
13 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 307 (36.08%) AWS
2 210 (24.68%) Azure
3 92 (10.81%) GitHub
4 91 (10.69%) GCP
5 55 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
7 47 (5.52%) OpenShift
8 46 (5.41%) Amazon S3
8 46 (5.41%) Serverless
9 35 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
11 29 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (3.29%) PaaS
13 24 (2.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (2.23%) IaaS
16 17 (2.00%) Apigee
17 16 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
18 15 (1.76%) Slack
19 14 (1.65%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 99 (11.63%) Firewall
2 57 (6.70%) DNS
3 37 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 32 (3.76%) VPN
5 27 (3.17%) VLAN
6 25 (2.94%) SAN
7 24 (2.82%) BGP
7 24 (2.82%) Network Security
8 23 (2.70%) DHCP
8 23 (2.70%) SSL
9 19 (2.23%) OSPF
10 17 (2.00%) SNMP
10 17 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (1.88%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (1.88%) Cisco Nexus
11 16 (1.88%) HSRP
11 16 (1.88%) IPsec
12 15 (1.76%) Cisco Firepower
12 15 (1.76%) Cisco ISE
12 15 (1.76%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
2 49 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.41%) MySQL
4 43 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 35 (4.11%) Relational Database
6 29 (3.41%) NoSQL
7 26 (3.06%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
10 18 (2.12%) Data Lake
11 16 (1.88%) Big Data
12 13 (1.53%) RDBMS
13 9 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.06%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.06%) InfluxDB
14 8 (0.94%) BigQuery
14 8 (0.94%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.94%) Sybase ASE
15 6 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 323 (37.96%) Jenkins
2 165 (19.39%) Git
3 151 (17.74%) GitLab
4 108 (12.69%) JIRA
5 55 (6.46%) Bitbucket
6 52 (6.11%) SonarQube
7 46 (5.41%) Artifactory
8 41 (4.82%) Selenium
9 35 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 35 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 31 (3.64%) Cucumber
11 29 (3.41%) TeamCity
12 24 (2.82%) REST Assured
13 20 (2.35%) Robot Framework
14 18 (2.12%) CircleCI
14 18 (2.12%) Subversion
15 14 (1.65%) Visual Studio
16 13 (1.53%) Travis CI
17 10 (1.18%) JMeter
17 10 (1.18%) Maven
General
1 177 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 117 (13.75%) Finance
3 96 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.34%) Public Sector
5 49 (5.76%) Banking
6 28 (3.29%) Law
7 18 (2.12%) Aerospace
8 15 (1.76%) Legal
8 15 (1.76%) Retail
9 13 (1.53%) Police
10 11 (1.29%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.35%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.35%) Marketing
15 3 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
16 2 (0.24%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 186 (21.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 80 (9.40%) Developer
3 74 (8.70%) Senior
4 71 (8.34%) Architect
5 63 (7.40%) Network Engineer
6 52 (6.11%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (5.05%) AWS DevOps
8 41 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (4.70%) Lead
10 38 (4.47%) Automation Engineer
10 38 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 36 (4.23%) Linux Engineer
12 33 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
13 32 (3.76%) Security Engineer
14 30 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 24 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
16 24 (2.82%) Security Architect
16 24 (2.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 23 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.99%) Elastic Stack
2 67 (7.87%) YAML
3 63 (7.40%) .NET
3 63 (7.40%) REST
4 40 (4.70%) JSON
5 34 (4.00%) Kafka
6 30 (3.53%) Node.js
6 30 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
7 24 (2.82%) Java EE
8 23 (2.70%) .NET Core
9 19 (2.23%) Spring
9 19 (2.23%) XML
10 18 (2.12%) RESTful
11 16 (1.88%) Jinja
11 16 (1.88%) LDAP
11 16 (1.88%) OpenID
12 15 (1.76%) ARM Templates
12 15 (1.76%) ASP.NET
13 13 (1.53%) Middleware
13 13 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.29%) PKI
2 47 (5.52%) Linux Command Line
3 40 (4.70%) Data Centre
4 37 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 33 (3.88%) Replication
6 28 (3.29%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.94%) Clustering
8 21 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 17 (2.00%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.88%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.53%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
14 9 (1.06%) Private Cloud
14 9 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.82%) Fat Client
16 7 (0.82%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 379 (44.54%) Linux
2 160 (18.80%) Windows
3 98 (11.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 76 (8.93%) Unix
5 58 (6.82%) Windows Server
6 28 (3.29%) CentOS
7 21 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (2.12%) Solaris
9 17 (2.00%) Ubuntu
9 17 (2.00%) zOS
10 14 (1.65%) VMS
11 13 (1.53%) Android
11 13 (1.53%) Apple iOS
12 10 (1.18%) Oracle Linux
13 4 (0.47%) Debian
14 3 (0.35%) Windows 2000
14 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.35%) Windows XP
15 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (47.00%) DevOps
2 343 (40.31%) CI/CD
3 227 (26.67%) Agile
4 207 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (22.09%) Configuration Management
6 147 (17.27%) Containerisation
7 146 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
8 126 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
9 107 (12.57%) Test Automation
10 91 (10.69%) Scrum
11 74 (8.70%) ITIL
12 71 (8.34%) Infrastructure Automation
13 67 (7.87%) Task Automation
14 63 (7.40%) Platform Engineering
14 63 (7.40%) Software Engineering
15 61 (7.17%) Deployment Automation
15 61 (7.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 52 (6.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 49 (5.76%) SDLC
18 48 (5.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 439 (51.59%) Python
2 244 (28.67%) PowerShell
3 148 (17.39%) Bash
4 119 (13.98%) Java
5 82 (9.64%) Shell Script
6 69 (8.11%) SQL
7 56 (6.58%) Go
8 49 (5.76%) JavaScript
9 42 (4.94%) C#
10 41 (4.82%) Perl
11 26 (3.06%) C
12 20 (2.35%) C++
12 20 (2.35%) Ruby
13 19 (2.23%) Groovy
14 16 (1.88%) JCL
14 16 (1.88%) REXX
15 12 (1.41%) Tcl
16 7 (0.82%) PHP
17 5 (0.59%) Scala
17 5 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 375 (44.07%) Security Cleared
2 255 (29.96%) SC Cleared
3 118 (13.87%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.29%) Cisco Certification
5 37 (4.35%) CCNP
5 37 (4.35%) Degree
6 26 (3.06%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.70%) CCNA
8 16 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.65%) CCIE
10 11 (1.29%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.71%) RHCE
12 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (0.47%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.47%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.35%) OCP
13 3 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.24%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.82%) QA
2 14 (1.65%) GDPR
3 12 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.29%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.18%) NIST
6 7 (0.82%) RMADS
7 6 (0.71%) NCSC
8 5 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.47%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.47%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 255 (29.96%) Docker
2 104 (12.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (6.82%) Active Directory
4 40 (4.70%) Virtual Machines
5 31 (3.64%) vSphere
6 29 (3.41%) VMware NSX
7 25 (2.94%) Hyper-V
8 24 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (2.23%) NFS
10 18 (2.12%) Firmware
11 16 (1.88%) Time Sharing Option
12 5 (0.59%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 5 (0.59%) KVM
13 4 (0.47%) Ceph
14 2 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
15 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
15 1 (0.12%) Samba
15 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 435 (51.12%) Terraform
2 305 (35.84%) Kubernetes
3 150 (17.63%) Puppet
4 96 (11.28%) Prometheus
5 92 (10.81%) Grafana
6 88 (10.34%) Progress Chef
7 34 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
8 32 (3.76%) Kibana
9 29 (3.41%) logstash
10 26 (3.06%) PowerCLI
11 24 (2.82%) Red Hat Satellite
12 23 (2.70%) Packer
13 21 (2.47%) Salt
13 21 (2.47%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 18 (2.12%) NetBackup
15 17 (2.00%) Podman
16 13 (1.53%) vRealize
17 11 (1.29%) HP Fortify
17 11 (1.29%) Netcool
17 11 (1.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 146 (17.16%) VMware
2 102 (11.99%) Red Hat
3 77 (9.05%) Cisco
4 70 (8.23%) Microsoft
5 60 (7.05%) Dell
5 60 (7.05%) Splunk
6 54 (6.35%) IBM
7 52 (6.11%) Oracle
8 39 (4.58%) Atlassian
9 38 (4.47%) Google
10 34 (4.00%) HP
10 34 (4.00%) SolarWinds
11 27 (3.17%) Citrix
11 27 (3.17%) F5
12 26 (3.06%) ServiceNow
13 25 (2.94%) Veritas
14 22 (2.59%) Fortinet
14 22 (2.59%) Palo Alto
15 20 (2.35%) CheckPoint
16 17 (2.00%) CA