Ansible Contracts in the South East

Ansible
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 56 85 62
Rank change year-on-year +29 -23 +9
Contract jobs citing Ansible 181 143 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.21% 2.54% 3.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.69% 18.77% 24.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 93 167
10th Percentile - £407 £425
25th Percentile £425 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -2.27% +11.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £675 £730 £700
England median daily rate £550 £611 £596
% change year-on-year -9.95% +2.56% +13.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £54.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.41 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.67 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £67.93 -
90th Percentile - £74.10 -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -9.25% +24.26% +21.45%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 764 762 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.54% 13.51% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 557 737
10th Percentile £213 £307 £250
25th Percentile £400 £432 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £613
90th Percentile £674 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £575 £572
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.52% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 29
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.50 £48.50 £16.11
Median hourly rate £34.25 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.70% +173.26% -43.05%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £45.00
90th Percentile £49.88 £75.75 £67.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £55.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.00% +155.81% -12.07%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the South East 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
Hampshire +8 86 £450 -10.00% 15
Thames Valley +25 61 £613 +15.29% 13
Berkshire +7 46 £625 +9.41% 7
Surrey +14 15 £613 +0.62%
West Sussex +15 14 £550 -5.17%
Oxfordshire +8 8 £500 +5.26% 1
Buckinghamshire +22 7 £550 -15.38% 5
East Sussex +9 5 £538 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (2.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.55%) Apache
3 1 (0.55%) JBoss
3 1 (0.55%) nginx
3 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.87%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (22.65%) AWS
2 38 (20.99%) Azure
3 11 (6.08%) GitHub
4 10 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.31%) Datadog
5 6 (3.31%) IaaS
6 4 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (2.21%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.66%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.66%) GCP
8 2 (1.10%) CloudFront
8 2 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.10%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.10%) PaaS
8 2 (1.10%) Route 53
8 2 (1.10%) Slack
8 2 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.18%) DNS
2 9 (4.97%) Firewall
3 8 (4.42%) DHCP
3 8 (4.42%) SAN
4 6 (3.31%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (2.21%) NAS
5 4 (2.21%) VPN
6 3 (1.66%) BGP
6 3 (1.66%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (1.66%) IOS XR
6 3 (1.66%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.55%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.55%) Junos
7 1 (0.55%) MPLS
7 1 (0.55%) Network Security
7 1 (0.55%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) VSAN
7 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.60%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.08%) MySQL
2 11 (6.08%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.52%) MongoDB
3 10 (5.52%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.31%) RDBMS
5 5 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.55%) Big Data
8 1 (0.55%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (29.28%) Jenkins
2 39 (21.55%) Git
3 38 (20.99%) GitLab
4 25 (13.81%) Selenium
5 24 (13.26%) Cucumber
5 24 (13.26%) REST Assured
5 24 (13.26%) SonarQube
6 16 (8.84%) JIRA
6 16 (8.84%) Sonatype Nexus
7 15 (8.29%) Robot Framework
8 14 (7.73%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.66%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.10%) Subversion
11 1 (0.55%) JUnit
11 1 (0.55%) MSI
11 1 (0.55%) MSTest
11 1 (0.55%) NUnit
11 1 (0.55%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (10.50%) Law
4 13 (7.18%) Police
4 13 (7.18%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.31%) Finance
6 5 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Banking
9 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (14.92%) Security Engineer
2 26 (14.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (11.05%) Developer
3 20 (11.05%) Linux Engineer
4 19 (10.50%) Senior
5 18 (9.94%) Architect
6 16 (8.84%) Java Engineer
7 14 (7.73%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (7.18%) Security Architect
9 9 (4.97%) Network Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Platform Specialist
10 7 (3.87%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.87%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 7 (3.87%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.31%) Administrator
11 6 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.31%) Database Specialist
11 6 (3.31%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 6 (3.31%) Systems Administrator
12 5 (2.76%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.13%) REST
2 24 (13.26%) Java EE
3 14 (7.73%) .NET
4 13 (7.18%) ARM Templates
4 13 (7.18%) ASP.NET
4 13 (7.18%) YAML
5 9 (4.97%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.21%) Django
6 4 (2.21%) Keycloak
6 4 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.21%) RESTful
7 3 (1.66%) JSON
7 3 (1.66%) OpenID
7 3 (1.66%) YANG
8 2 (1.10%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (1.10%) Kafka
8 2 (1.10%) Loki
8 2 (1.10%) Spring
9 1 (0.55%) Node.js
9 1 (0.55%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (26.52%) PKI
2 24 (13.26%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (4.97%) Clustering
4 8 (4.42%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.42%) Replication
5 6 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.21%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.21%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.66%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.66%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.10%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 74 (40.88%) Linux
2 39 (21.55%) Windows
3 36 (19.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (11.60%) Windows Server
5 19 (10.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (7.73%) Unix
7 9 (4.97%) Solaris
7 9 (4.97%) VMS
8 7 (3.87%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (30.94%) DevOps
2 51 (28.18%) Test Automation
3 42 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (22.65%) Agile
4 41 (22.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (17.68%) Configuration Management
6 31 (17.13%) Continuous Integration
7 30 (16.57%) Technical Leadership
8 29 (16.02%) Containerisation
9 24 (13.26%) Decision-Making
9 24 (13.26%) Software Architecture
10 23 (12.71%) Software Engineering
11 22 (12.15%) CI/CD
12 18 (9.94%) Scrum
13 16 (8.84%) High Availability
13 16 (8.84%) Infrastructure Automation
14 15 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (7.73%) Deployment Automation
15 14 (7.73%) Mentoring
15 14 (7.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 82 (45.30%) PowerShell
2 79 (43.65%) Python
3 34 (18.78%) Bash
4 32 (17.68%) Java
5 14 (7.73%) C#
5 14 (7.73%) Shell Script
6 8 (4.42%) Go
6 8 (4.42%) Perl
6 8 (4.42%) SQL
7 7 (3.87%) C++
8 4 (2.21%) C
8 4 (2.21%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.66%) Ruby
9 3 (1.66%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.10%) AWK
10 2 (1.10%) Bourne shell
10 2 (1.10%) Korn
11 1 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 136 (75.14%) Security Cleared
2 82 (45.30%) SC Cleared
3 36 (19.89%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.97%) Degree
5 4 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.66%) CCNP
6 3 (1.66%) RHCE
6 3 (1.66%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.10%) CCIE
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.55%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.55%) OCP
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.87%) RMADS
2 2 (1.10%) GDPR
2 2 (1.10%) QA
3 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (26.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (18.78%) Docker
3 24 (13.26%) Active Directory
4 19 (10.50%) vSphere
5 18 (9.94%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (5.52%) Hyper-V
7 7 (3.87%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (3.31%) VMware NSX
9 2 (1.10%) Ceph
9 2 (1.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.55%) LXC
10 1 (0.55%) NFS
10 1 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.55%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 102 (56.35%) Terraform
2 51 (28.18%) Kubernetes
3 17 (9.39%) Puppet
3 17 (9.39%) Red Hat Satellite
4 16 (8.84%) Progress Chef
5 14 (7.73%) Podman
6 12 (6.63%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (4.97%) Packer
7 9 (4.97%) Salt
8 8 (4.42%) vRealize
9 7 (3.87%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 6 (3.31%) Nessus
10 6 (3.31%) Rancher
11 5 (2.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (2.76%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.76%) WSUS
12 4 (2.21%) Grafana
12 4 (2.21%) Nagios
12 4 (2.21%) vCenter Server
12 4 (2.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 64 (35.36%) VMware
2 48 (26.52%) Red Hat
3 18 (9.94%) Oracle
4 13 (7.18%) SolarWinds
5 11 (6.08%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.97%) Veritas
7 8 (4.42%) Cisco
7 8 (4.42%) SaltStack
8 6 (3.31%) IBM
9 5 (2.76%) Arqiva
9 5 (2.76%) Dell
10 4 (2.21%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.21%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.21%) Splunk
10 4 (2.21%) Veeam
11 3 (1.66%) EMC
11 3 (1.66%) Infoblox
11 3 (1.66%) New Relic
11 3 (1.66%) Nokia
11 3 (1.66%) TOWER Software