Ansible Contracts in the South West

Ansible
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 53 49 76
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 -12
Contract jobs citing Ansible 105 161 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.30% 4.44% 2.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.05% 26.70% 18.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 119 81
10th Percentile £513 £448 £438
25th Percentile £518 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +9.30% +7.50%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £600
90th Percentile - £725 £656
England median daily rate £550 £625 £590
% change year-on-year -12.00% +5.93% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 1
10th Percentile £57.10 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £57.94 -
Median hourly rate £74.44 £75.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +31.30% +43.75%
75th Percentile - £78.00 -
90th Percentile £76.28 £79.20 -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -9.25% +26.96% +43.75%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 403 603 561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.68% 16.64% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 500 391
10th Percentile £204 £325 £250
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £591 £650 £594
90th Percentile £700 £720 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 20 20
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £60.48 £16.85
Median hourly rate £40.00 £69.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.03% +245.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.28 £87.75 £55.03
England median hourly rate £25.77 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -55.19% +167.44% -10.42%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Gloucestershire -7 37 £550 -4.35% 20
Wiltshire -1 36 £700 +27.27% 7
Bristol +2 18 £525 -12.50% 13
Devon -5 5 £550 -21.43% 3
Dorset - 5 £275 - 1
Somerset 0 2 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 30 (28.57%) Confluence
2 5 (4.76%) Apache
3 4 (3.81%) Apache Solr
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.81%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.24%) AWS
2 26 (24.76%) Azure
3 15 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 13 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.57%) Serverless
6 8 (7.62%) GCP
7 6 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (5.71%) Amazon S3
7 6 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.86%) GitHub
8 3 (2.86%) PaaS
9 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.95%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.95%) Google Container Engine
10 1 (0.95%) IaaS
10 1 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.38%) Firewall
2 8 (7.62%) TCP/IP
2 8 (7.62%) VPN
3 7 (6.67%) AMQP
3 7 (6.67%) Network Security
4 5 (4.76%) DNS
5 4 (3.81%) HTTPS
5 4 (3.81%) IPsec
5 4 (3.81%) SAN
6 3 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.90%) IPv4
7 2 (1.90%) OSPF
7 2 (1.90%) VLAN
8 1 (0.95%) DMZ
8 1 (0.95%) Internet
8 1 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) InfluxDB
1 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.76%) MySQL
5 4 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.81%) Couchbase
5 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (39.05%) Jenkins
2 34 (32.38%) JIRA
3 29 (27.62%) Bitbucket
4 22 (20.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (8.57%) Artifactory
6 7 (6.67%) Git
6 7 (6.67%) GitLab
7 6 (5.71%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.95%) GoCD
9 1 (0.95%) JMeter
9 1 (0.95%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.95%) Selenium
General
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.14%) Aerospace
4 10 (9.52%) Legal
5 4 (3.81%) German Language
5 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.90%) Electronics
7 2 (1.90%) Finance
7 2 (1.90%) Marketing
7 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.95%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (31.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (19.05%) Developer
3 14 (13.33%) Senior
4 7 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (5.71%) Database Engineer
5 6 (5.71%) Lead
5 6 (5.71%) Senior Database Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Network Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Test Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (2.86%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.81%) .NET
2 22 (20.95%) .NET Core
3 11 (10.48%) RabbitMQ
4 10 (9.52%) YAML
5 8 (7.62%) REST
6 6 (5.71%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (3.81%) JSON
7 4 (3.81%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (2.86%) ModSecurity
9 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.95%) Kafka
9 1 (0.95%) Keycloak
9 1 (0.95%) NumPy
9 1 (0.95%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.81%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.86%) PKI
4 3 (2.86%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (60.00%) Linux
2 21 (20.00%) Windows
3 5 (4.76%) CentOS
4 4 (3.81%) Unix
4 4 (3.81%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.86%) VMS
5 3 (2.86%) Windows 2000
5 3 (2.86%) Windows XP
6 2 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.95%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 56 (53.33%) DevOps
3 35 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 28 (26.67%) Task Automation
5 27 (25.71%) Infrastructure Automation
6 24 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (21.90%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (21.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (20.95%) Agile
8 22 (20.95%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (20.95%) OO
8 22 (20.95%) OOP
9 12 (11.43%) Containerisation
9 12 (11.43%) Software Engineering
10 11 (10.48%) Software Delivery
11 10 (9.52%) Migration
11 10 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 9 (8.57%) Service Management
13 8 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (6.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 55 (52.38%) Python
2 49 (46.67%) PowerShell
3 22 (20.95%) Bash
4 16 (15.24%) C
5 15 (14.29%) SQL
6 13 (12.38%) Java
7 12 (11.43%) Go
8 8 (7.62%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.81%) PHP
10 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.95%) Bicep
11 1 (0.95%) C++
11 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 75 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 41 (39.05%) DV Cleared
3 35 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) CCNP
4 4 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.86%) Degree
6 2 (1.90%) CCIE
6 2 (1.90%) CCNA
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.95%) GIAC
7 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.95%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) QA
2 4 (3.81%) GDPR
2 4 (3.81%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.81%) NIST
3 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.95%) SLA
3 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (37.14%) Docker
2 14 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.43%) VMware NSX
4 9 (8.57%) vSphere
5 8 (7.62%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (5.71%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.95%) NFS
Systems Management
1 59 (56.19%) Terraform
2 38 (36.19%) Kubernetes
3 23 (21.90%) PowerCLI
4 15 (14.29%) Grafana
4 15 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.57%) Progress Chef
6 7 (6.67%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (6.67%) Puppet
7 3 (2.86%) OPNET
8 1 (0.95%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.95%) Kibana
8 1 (0.95%) Packer
8 1 (0.95%) SCOM
8 1 (0.95%) SELinux
Vendors
1 30 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 22 (20.95%) Dell
2 22 (20.95%) HP
3 18 (17.14%) VMware
4 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
5 7 (6.67%) Google
5 7 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.76%) Cisco
7 4 (3.81%) CyberArk
7 4 (3.81%) Fortinet
8 3 (2.86%) F5
8 3 (2.86%) Juniper
9 2 (1.90%) Oracle
9 2 (1.90%) SAP
9 2 (1.90%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.90%) Splunk
10 1 (0.95%) Citrix
10 1 (0.95%) Palo Alto