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 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 50 45 82
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 -13
Contract jobs citing Ansible 119 151 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.66% 4.46% 2.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.87% 28.49% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 109 76
10th Percentile £455 £437 £458
25th Percentile £514 £513 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £638
90th Percentile - £725 £675
England median daily rate £550 £611 £596
% change year-on-year -9.95% +2.56% +13.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 1
10th Percentile £57.10 £53.75 -
25th Percentile £58.75 £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £74.44 £78.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +35.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £76.28 £86.40 -
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 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 427 530 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.13% 15.67% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 431 373
10th Percentile £213 £350 £251
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £572
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.52% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 17
10th Percentile - £53.75 £11.17
25th Percentile - £60.25 £15.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £77.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.39% +287.50% -59.60%
75th Percentile £72.85 £78.00 £27.75
90th Percentile £76.28 £89.50 £50.29
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 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
Wiltshire -4 43 £700 +27.27% 9
Gloucestershire -8 37 £556 -3.26% 18
Bristol -1 18 £525 -12.50% 6
Devon +4 12 £450 -35.71% 4
Dorset - 5 £275 -
Somerset -3 2 - - 3
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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 33 (27.73%) Confluence
2 5 (4.20%) Apache
3 4 (3.36%) Apache Solr
3 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.36%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.25%) AWS
2 23 (19.33%) Azure
3 21 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 11 (9.24%) GCP
5 9 (7.56%) Serverless
6 8 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (6.72%) PaaS
7 7 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 7 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.68%) GitHub
8 2 (1.68%) Slack
9 1 (0.84%) Google Container Engine
9 1 (0.84%) IaaS
9 1 (0.84%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.24%) Firewall
2 10 (8.40%) VPN
3 8 (6.72%) AMQP
3 8 (6.72%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.88%) Network Security
5 5 (4.20%) DNS
6 4 (3.36%) HTTPS
6 4 (3.36%) IPsec
6 4 (3.36%) SAN
7 3 (2.52%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.68%) IPv4
8 2 (1.68%) OSPF
8 2 (1.68%) VLAN
9 1 (0.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.56%) InfluxDB
2 8 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.20%) MySQL
5 4 (3.36%) Couchbase
5 4 (3.36%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (36.97%) Jenkins
2 36 (30.25%) JIRA
3 32 (26.89%) Bitbucket
4 22 (18.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (11.76%) Git
6 9 (7.56%) Artifactory
7 6 (5.04%) GitLab
7 6 (5.04%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.84%) JMeter
9 1 (0.84%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.84%) Selenium
General
1 30 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.13%) Aerospace
4 10 (8.40%) Legal
5 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.84%) Electronics
7 1 (0.84%) Finance
7 1 (0.84%) Marketing
7 1 (0.84%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (15.97%) Developer
3 10 (8.40%) Senior
4 8 (6.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (5.04%) Consultant
5 6 (5.04%) Lead
5 6 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Architect
7 4 (3.36%) Automation Architect
7 4 (3.36%) Database Consultant
7 4 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Network Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Senior Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Site Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.53%) .NET
2 22 (18.49%) .NET Core
3 20 (16.81%) YAML
4 12 (10.08%) RabbitMQ
5 8 (6.72%) REST
6 6 (5.04%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (5.04%) ModSecurity
7 4 (3.36%) .NET Framework
7 4 (3.36%) JSON
7 4 (3.36%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (1.68%) Fluent Bit
8 2 (1.68%) Loki
9 1 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.84%) Kafka
9 1 (0.84%) NumPy
9 1 (0.84%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
1 7 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 6 (5.04%) Security Posture
3 5 (4.20%) PKI
4 4 (3.36%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (63.03%) Linux
2 30 (25.21%) Windows
3 10 (8.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.20%) CentOS
5 4 (3.36%) Unix
5 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.52%) VMS
6 3 (2.52%) Windows 2000
6 3 (2.52%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.84%) Solaris
7 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (54.62%) CI/CD
2 52 (43.70%) DevOps
3 47 (39.50%) Configuration Management
4 41 (34.45%) Infrastructure Automation
5 31 (26.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (25.21%) Task Automation
7 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (18.49%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (18.49%) Deployment Automation
8 22 (18.49%) OO
8 22 (18.49%) OOP
9 17 (14.29%) Agile
10 13 (10.92%) Containerisation
11 12 (10.08%) Software Engineering
12 11 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (9.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (9.24%) Software Delivery
13 10 (8.40%) Validation
14 9 (7.56%) Service Management
15 8 (6.72%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 65 (54.62%) PowerShell
2 61 (51.26%) Python
3 22 (18.49%) Bash
4 16 (13.45%) C
5 14 (11.76%) Java
6 13 (10.92%) Go
7 9 (7.56%) Shell Script
7 9 (7.56%) SQL
8 4 (3.36%) PHP
9 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.84%) Bicep
10 1 (0.84%) C++
Qualifications
1 87 (73.11%) Security Cleared
2 43 (36.13%) DV Cleared
2 43 (36.13%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.20%) Degree
4 4 (3.36%) CCNP
4 4 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.36%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.68%) CCIE
5 2 (1.68%) CCNA
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.84%) GIAC
6 1 (0.84%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) QA
2 4 (3.36%) GDPR
2 4 (3.36%) HIPAA
2 4 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.36%) NIST
3 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (36.97%) Docker
2 25 (21.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (12.61%) VMware NSX
4 9 (7.56%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (6.72%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (6.72%) vSphere
6 5 (4.20%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 68 (57.14%) Terraform
2 44 (36.97%) Kubernetes
3 26 (21.85%) PowerCLI
4 19 (15.97%) Progress Chef
5 18 (15.13%) Grafana
5 18 (15.13%) Prometheus
6 15 (12.61%) Puppet
7 9 (7.56%) Salt
8 8 (6.72%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (5.04%) OPNET
10 2 (1.68%) Argo
10 2 (1.68%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.84%) Kibana
11 1 (0.84%) SELinux
Vendors
1 33 (27.73%) Atlassian
2 30 (25.21%) VMware
3 22 (18.49%) Dell
3 22 (18.49%) HP
4 16 (13.45%) Red Hat
5 10 (8.40%) Google
5 10 (8.40%) Microsoft
6 8 (6.72%) Cisco
6 8 (6.72%) SaltStack
7 6 (5.04%) Splunk
8 4 (3.36%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.52%) Fortinet
9 3 (2.52%) Juniper
10 2 (1.68%) F5
10 2 (1.68%) Oracle
10 2 (1.68%) SolarWinds
11 1 (0.84%) SAP