Ansible Contracts in Scotland

Ansible
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 79 46 79
Rank change year-on-year -33 +33 -17
Contract jobs citing Ansible 48 151 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.21% 5.36% 3.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.39% 26.77% 24.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 99 90
10th Percentile £429 £440 £400
25th Percentile £475 £481 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £586
90th Percentile £634 £635 £625
UK median daily rate £558 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +43.75% -
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.25% +32.73% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 276 564 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.71% 20.04% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 395 326
10th Percentile £224 £260 £200
25th Percentile £400 £425 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -4.97% +15.28%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £588
90th Percentile £649 £650 £684
UK median daily rate £515 £565 £565
% change year-on-year -8.85% - +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £19.59 £21.47 £34.00
25th Percentile £26.32 £30.00 £41.31
Median hourly rate £37.99 £56.25 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -32.47% +25.50% -32.09%
75th Percentile £49.21 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £55.68 £59.65 £49.36
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Scotland

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Scotland

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +13 24 £530 +5.21% 6
Glasgow -32 20 £525 -12.50% 9
Renfrewshire -3 1 £600 +20.80%
Fife - 1 £310 -
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.08%) Apache
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
1 1 (2.08%) EPiServer
1 1 (2.08%) IIS
1 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.08%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) AWS
2 25 (52.08%) OpenShift
3 14 (29.17%) Amazon S3
3 14 (29.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 14 (29.17%) Serverless
4 13 (27.08%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (22.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (14.58%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (12.50%) Azure
10 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (10.42%) AWS Fargate
11 3 (6.25%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (6.25%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (4.17%) IaaS
13 1 (2.08%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (2.08%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.58%) Firewall
2 6 (12.50%) SAN
3 5 (10.42%) NAS
4 2 (4.17%) DNS
4 2 (4.17%) Network Security
4 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.08%) BIG-IP
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (2.08%) DHCP
5 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (2.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (2.08%) Internet
5 1 (2.08%) SNMP
5 1 (2.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.08%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (20.83%) MongoDB
3 8 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (14.58%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (12.50%) InfluxDB
5 6 (12.50%) Informix
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.08%) Big Data
7 1 (2.08%) MariaDB
7 1 (2.08%) MySQL
7 1 (2.08%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
7 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (39.58%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.83%) Git
3 8 (16.67%) Maven
4 7 (14.58%) Gradle
5 6 (12.50%) Artifactory
5 6 (12.50%) GitLab
6 1 (2.08%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.08%) gulp
6 1 (2.08%) JIRA
6 1 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.08%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (22.92%) Public Sector
2 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Banking
4 4 (8.33%) Finance
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (10.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Data Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) Site Manager
3 5 (10.42%) Site Reliability Manager
4 4 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Database Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) AWS CDK
2 3 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.58%) Replication
3 4 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (8.33%) PKI
4 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.17%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Clustering
6 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (47.92%) Linux
2 11 (22.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (18.75%) Windows
4 8 (16.67%) Unix
5 6 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 17 (35.42%) DevOps
4 14 (29.17%) Agile
4 14 (29.17%) Observability
5 12 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (18.75%) Data Protection
7 9 (18.75%) Kanban
7 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (18.75%) Scrum
8 8 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (16.67%) High Availability
8 8 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 7 (14.58%) Containerisation
9 7 (14.58%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (12.50%) Configuration Management
10 6 (12.50%) Migration
10 6 (12.50%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 33 (68.75%) Python
2 14 (29.17%) Bash
3 13 (27.08%) Groovy
4 10 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 9 (18.75%) SQL
6 8 (16.67%) Ruby
7 7 (14.58%) Shell Script
8 5 (10.42%) Perl
9 2 (4.17%) Java
9 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.08%) C#
10 1 (2.08%) Go
10 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
10 1 (2.08%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) KVM
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (56.25%) Terraform
2 24 (50.00%) Grafana
3 22 (45.83%) Kubernetes
4 10 (20.83%) Prometheus
5 6 (12.50%) Kibana
6 3 (6.25%) NetBackup
6 3 (6.25%) Packer
6 3 (6.25%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.25%) Puppet
7 2 (4.17%) Nagios
8 1 (2.08%) OpenView
8 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.08%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (6.25%) Commvault
2 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.25%) Veritas
2 3 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (2.08%) AlienVault
3 1 (2.08%) BMC
3 1 (2.08%) CA
3 1 (2.08%) Cisco
3 1 (2.08%) F5
3 1 (2.08%) Fortinet
3 1 (2.08%) Remedy
3 1 (2.08%) SaltStack
3 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.08%) SolarWinds