Ansible Contracts in the UK excluding London

Ansible
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 77 77
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -5
Contract jobs citing Ansible 474 746 970
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.31% 3.12% 3.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.33% 20.84% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 536 680
10th Percentile £425 £425 £421
25th Percentile £475 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £558 £600 £586
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.39% +11.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 3
10th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £43.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £47.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £73.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +32.73% +37.50%
75th Percentile £74.44 £75.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.05 £78.00 £57.00
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.25% +32.73% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,332 3,580 4,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.34% 14.99% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 2,624 3,012
10th Percentile £210 £282 £231
25th Percentile £374 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £600
90th Percentile £655 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £563 £565
% change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 136 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £12.97
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.06
Median hourly rate £34.25 £44.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.68% +124.38% -9.09%
75th Percentile £49.06 £65.00 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.63 £75.25 £52.35
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the UK excluding London

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South East +29 167 £550 - 47
North of England +1 117 £520 -13.33% 32
South West -4 105 £563 -4.26% 48
Yorkshire +62 66 £514 -17.76% 9
Scotland -36 48 £525 +1.94% 14
North West -41 43 £540 -8.09% 19
Midlands -8 21 £520 +4.00% 22
West Midlands -11 12 £550 +4.76% 11
East of England -5 11 £650 +21.50% 19
East Midlands +16 9 £499 +12.13% 11
North East -4 8 £550 -18.52% 4
Wales +3 7 £645 +22.76% 6
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 49 (10.34%) Confluence
2 11 (2.32%) nginx
3 9 (1.90%) Apache
4 8 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.84%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.63%) CMS
7 3 (0.63%) Drupal
7 3 (0.63%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.42%) Traefik
9 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.21%) SAS
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.48%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 172 (36.29%) AWS
2 112 (23.63%) Azure
3 49 (10.34%) GitHub
4 45 (9.49%) OpenShift
5 40 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 39 (8.23%) Amazon EC2
7 37 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 36 (7.59%) Amazon S3
9 35 (7.38%) Serverless
10 33 (6.96%) GCP
11 26 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.32%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (2.11%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (2.11%) IaaS
14 10 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (1.90%) Apigee
16 8 (1.69%) Datadog
17 7 (1.48%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 65 (13.71%) Firewall
2 37 (7.81%) DNS
3 26 (5.49%) TCP/IP
4 25 (5.27%) VPN
5 21 (4.43%) SAN
6 17 (3.59%) VLAN
7 16 (3.38%) BGP
7 16 (3.38%) IPsec
8 15 (3.16%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (3.16%) Network Security
9 14 (2.95%) OSPF
10 13 (2.74%) SNMP
10 13 (2.74%) SSL
10 13 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (2.53%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (2.53%) Cisco ISE
11 12 (2.53%) EIGRP
11 12 (2.53%) HSRP
11 12 (2.53%) NetScaler
11 12 (2.53%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (8.02%) MySQL
3 29 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 28 (5.91%) SQL Server
5 24 (5.06%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (5.06%) MongoDB
6 19 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (2.95%) InfluxDB
8 13 (2.74%) NoSQL
9 12 (2.53%) RDBMS
10 11 (2.32%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.48%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (1.27%) Data Lake
13 6 (1.27%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.27%) Informix
14 4 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.84%) Couchbase
14 4 (0.84%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.63%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 168 (35.44%) Jenkins
2 79 (16.67%) GitLab
3 76 (16.03%) Git
4 71 (14.98%) JIRA
5 44 (9.28%) SonarQube
6 37 (7.81%) Bitbucket
7 29 (6.12%) Selenium
8 28 (5.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 26 (5.49%) Cucumber
10 24 (5.06%) REST Assured
10 24 (5.06%) Sonatype Nexus
11 22 (4.64%) Artifactory
12 15 (3.16%) Robot Framework
13 14 (2.95%) Visual Studio
14 13 (2.74%) Maven
15 8 (1.69%) CircleCI
15 8 (1.69%) Gradle
16 7 (1.48%) Travis CI
17 6 (1.27%) Burp Suite
17 6 (1.27%) Subversion
General
1 125 (26.37%) Social Skills
2 79 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 45 (9.49%) Public Sector
4 28 (5.91%) Finance
5 19 (4.01%) Law
6 18 (3.80%) Aerospace
7 13 (2.74%) Police
8 11 (2.32%) Legal
9 10 (2.11%) Banking
10 6 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.84%) German Language
13 3 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.63%) Marketing
13 3 (0.63%) Retail
14 2 (0.42%) Advertising
14 2 (0.42%) Electronics
14 2 (0.42%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (18.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (10.34%) Senior
3 48 (10.13%) Developer
4 35 (7.38%) Network Engineer
5 30 (6.33%) Linux Engineer
6 29 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 25 (5.27%) Architect
9 24 (5.06%) Security Engineer
10 22 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
11 20 (4.22%) Lead
12 17 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (3.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (3.38%) Java Engineer
14 15 (3.16%) Site Engineer
15 14 (2.95%) Storage Manager
16 13 (2.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 12 (2.53%) Administrator
17 12 (2.53%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (10.76%) REST
2 43 (9.07%) .NET
3 38 (8.02%) YAML
4 33 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (5.06%) Java EE
6 23 (4.85%) .NET Core
7 21 (4.43%) JSON
8 18 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
9 15 (3.16%) AWS CDK
10 14 (2.95%) ARM Templates
11 13 (2.74%) ASP.NET
12 12 (2.53%) Jinja
12 12 (2.53%) Kafka
12 12 (2.53%) RESTful
13 10 (2.11%) Node.js
14 7 (1.48%) Apache NiFi
14 7 (1.48%) Keycloak
14 7 (1.48%) Web Services
14 7 (1.48%) XML
15 6 (1.27%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 50 (10.55%) PKI
2 38 (8.02%) Linux Command Line
3 31 (6.54%) Public Cloud
4 30 (6.33%) Replication
5 26 (5.49%) Cloud Native
6 24 (5.06%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.53%) Clustering
8 10 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.11%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 6 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.05%) Fat Client
12 5 (1.05%) Thin Client
13 4 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.84%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 222 (46.84%) Linux
2 96 (20.25%) Windows
3 45 (9.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (8.23%) Unix
5 29 (6.12%) Windows Server
6 19 (4.01%) Ubuntu
7 18 (3.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (3.16%) zOS
9 12 (2.53%) Solaris
9 12 (2.53%) VMS
10 10 (2.11%) CentOS
11 6 (1.27%) Debian
12 4 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.63%) Android
13 3 (0.63%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.63%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.63%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.21%) AIX
14 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (44.09%) DevOps
2 163 (34.39%) CI/CD
3 131 (27.64%) Agile
4 111 (23.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 102 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
6 93 (19.62%) Continuous Integration
7 84 (17.72%) Configuration Management
8 74 (15.61%) Containerisation
9 64 (13.50%) Test Automation
10 54 (11.39%) Scrum
11 48 (10.13%) Deployment Automation
12 45 (9.49%) Software Engineering
12 45 (9.49%) Task Automation
13 43 (9.07%) Change Management
13 43 (9.07%) Migration
14 41 (8.65%) ITIL
15 40 (8.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 35 (7.38%) Technical Leadership
17 33 (6.96%) Infrastructure Automation
18 32 (6.75%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 244 (51.48%) Python
2 136 (28.69%) PowerShell
3 102 (21.52%) Bash
4 61 (12.87%) Java
5 44 (9.28%) SQL
6 36 (7.59%) Shell Script
7 32 (6.75%) Go
8 30 (6.33%) Perl
9 22 (4.64%) C
9 22 (4.64%) JavaScript
10 20 (4.22%) Groovy
10 20 (4.22%) Ruby
11 15 (3.16%) C#
11 15 (3.16%) JCL
11 15 (3.16%) REXX
12 13 (2.74%) TypeScript
13 12 (2.53%) Tcl
14 9 (1.90%) C++
15 7 (1.48%) PHP
16 4 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 228 (48.10%) Security Cleared
2 140 (29.54%) SC Cleared
3 72 (15.19%) DV Cleared
4 25 (5.27%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (4.43%) CCNP
6 18 (3.80%) CCNA
6 18 (3.80%) Degree
7 6 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.05%) CCIE
8 5 (1.05%) RHCE
9 3 (0.63%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.42%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.42%) SANS
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.21%) GIAC
11 1 (0.21%) JNCIE
11 1 (0.21%) LPIC
11 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.38%) QA
2 8 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.48%) RMADS
4 6 (1.27%) GDPR
4 6 (1.27%) NIST
5 4 (0.84%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.63%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.42%) NCSC
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.42%) SLA
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 126 (26.58%) Docker
2 58 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (6.33%) Active Directory
4 29 (6.12%) vSphere
5 22 (4.64%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (4.64%) VMware NSX
6 17 (3.59%) NFS
7 15 (3.16%) Time Sharing Option
8 14 (2.95%) Hyper-V
9 12 (2.53%) Firmware
10 9 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.42%) Ceph
13 2 (0.42%) KVM
13 2 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.42%) Varnish
13 2 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 1 (0.21%) LXC
14 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 238 (50.21%) Terraform
2 155 (32.70%) Kubernetes
3 71 (14.98%) Grafana
4 57 (12.03%) Prometheus
5 53 (11.18%) Puppet
6 41 (8.65%) Progress Chef
7 28 (5.91%) Docker Swarm
8 23 (4.85%) PowerCLI
9 19 (4.01%) NetBackup
10 18 (3.80%) Red Hat Satellite
11 17 (3.59%) Packer
12 16 (3.38%) Podman
12 16 (3.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 15 (3.16%) Nagios
14 14 (2.95%) Kibana
15 13 (2.74%) vRealize
16 11 (2.32%) Graylog
16 11 (2.32%) HP Fortify
16 11 (2.32%) Nessus
17 9 (1.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 87 (18.35%) VMware
2 54 (11.39%) Red Hat
3 46 (9.70%) Dell
4 37 (7.81%) Microsoft
5 35 (7.38%) Atlassian
5 35 (7.38%) Oracle
6 34 (7.17%) Cisco
6 34 (7.17%) Splunk
7 30 (6.33%) IBM
8 29 (6.12%) SolarWinds
9 26 (5.49%) HP
9 26 (5.49%) Veritas
10 18 (3.80%) ServiceNow
11 16 (3.38%) Broadcom
11 16 (3.38%) Brocade
11 16 (3.38%) CA
11 16 (3.38%) Citrix
12 14 (2.95%) Palo Alto
13 13 (2.74%) Google
14 10 (2.11%) F5