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 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 83 76 72
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Ansible 503 718 999
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.42% 3.15% 3.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.18% 21.33% 23.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 507 695
10th Percentile £425 £413 £423
25th Percentile £463 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £629
90th Percentile £689 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +9.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 25 2
10th Percentile £50.63 £53.75 £41.98
25th Percentile £55.13 £56.25 £44.56
Median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +48.98% +4.81%
75th Percentile £74.58 £78.00 £53.31
90th Percentile £75.75 - £55.83
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.25% +48.98% +6.65%

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 2,375 3,366 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.40% 14.78% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 2,423 2,982
10th Percentile £213 £281 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.22% +11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 124 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.24 £12.63
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +113.75% -12.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £27.31
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.00 £50.77
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.78
% change year-on-year -47.83% +164.00% -45.55%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
South East +29 181 £547 +1.67% 38
North of England +4 122 £515 -12.34% 36
South West -5 119 £553 -5.96% 47
Yorkshire +64 73 £485 -23.92% 11
Scotland -33 47 £520 +2.56% 17
North West -37 40 £525 -8.70% 22
Midlands +6 37 £550 +10.00% 22
West Midlands -4 25 £582 +10.86% 11
East Midlands +13 12 £499 +1.84% 11
East of England -27 11 £625 +25.00% 17
North East -5 9 £550 -15.38% 3
Wales -10 6 £645 +25.76% 5
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 56 (11.13%) Confluence
2 11 (2.19%) Apache
3 10 (1.99%) nginx
4 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.99%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.80%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.60%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) Drupal
7 3 (0.60%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.40%) Traefik
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 170 (33.80%) AWS
2 107 (21.27%) Azure
3 51 (10.14%) OpenShift
4 49 (9.74%) GitHub
5 40 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
6 38 (7.55%) GCP
7 37 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (7.36%) Amazon S3
8 35 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (6.36%) Serverless
10 27 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 10 (1.99%) PaaS
15 9 (1.79%) Apigee
15 9 (1.79%) IaaS
15 9 (1.79%) Kong
15 9 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 7 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.33%) Firewall
2 36 (7.16%) DNS
3 27 (5.37%) VPN
4 25 (4.97%) TCP/IP
5 19 (3.78%) SAN
6 17 (3.38%) VLAN
7 16 (3.18%) IPsec
7 16 (3.18%) SSL
8 15 (2.98%) BGP
8 15 (2.98%) Cisco ASA
9 14 (2.78%) OSPF
10 13 (2.58%) Network Security
10 13 (2.58%) SNMP
10 13 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
11 12 (2.39%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (2.39%) Cisco ISE
11 12 (2.39%) EIGRP
11 12 (2.39%) HSRP
11 12 (2.39%) NetScaler
11 12 (2.39%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (9.34%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (6.96%) MySQL
3 29 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
4 26 (5.17%) MongoDB
4 26 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 22 (4.37%) SQL Server
6 21 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (2.98%) InfluxDB
8 14 (2.78%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.99%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
11 7 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (1.19%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.19%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.19%) Informix
13 4 (0.80%) Couchbase
13 4 (0.80%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
15 2 (0.40%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 170 (33.80%) Jenkins
2 91 (18.09%) GitLab
3 89 (17.69%) Git
4 73 (14.51%) JIRA
5 43 (8.55%) SonarQube
6 38 (7.55%) Bitbucket
7 31 (6.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 29 (5.77%) Selenium
9 26 (5.17%) Cucumber
10 24 (4.77%) Artifactory
10 24 (4.77%) REST Assured
10 24 (4.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 16 (3.18%) Robot Framework
12 14 (2.78%) Visual Studio
13 11 (2.19%) Maven
14 10 (1.99%) CircleCI
15 9 (1.79%) Travis CI
16 7 (1.39%) Gradle
17 6 (1.19%) Burp Suite
17 6 (1.19%) Subversion
General
1 122 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 82 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (9.15%) Public Sector
4 24 (4.77%) Finance
5 19 (3.78%) Law
6 18 (3.58%) Aerospace
7 13 (2.58%) Police
8 11 (2.19%) Legal
9 10 (1.99%) Banking
10 5 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.99%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.60%) Retail
13 2 (0.40%) Advertising
13 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.40%) Marketing
13 2 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Games
14 1 (0.20%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 95 (18.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (8.95%) Developer
2 45 (8.95%) Senior
3 33 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
4 32 (6.36%) Network Engineer
5 30 (5.96%) Security Engineer
6 29 (5.77%) Linux Engineer
7 28 (5.57%) Architect
8 25 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 21 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (3.18%) Automation Engineer
11 16 (3.18%) Java Engineer
12 15 (2.98%) Lead
13 14 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (2.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 14 (2.78%) Site Engineer
13 14 (2.78%) Storage Manager
14 13 (2.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 13 (2.58%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.54%) YAML
2 51 (10.14%) REST
3 45 (8.95%) .NET
4 34 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (4.77%) Java EE
5 24 (4.77%) JSON
6 23 (4.57%) .NET Core
7 21 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (3.38%) AWS CDK
9 13 (2.58%) ARM Templates
9 13 (2.58%) ASP.NET
9 13 (2.58%) Kafka
10 12 (2.39%) Jinja
11 9 (1.79%) Apache NiFi
11 9 (1.79%) RESTful
11 9 (1.79%) XML
12 8 (1.59%) Keycloak
13 7 (1.39%) Node.js
14 6 (1.19%) ActiveMQ
14 6 (1.19%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 60 (11.93%) PKI
2 43 (8.55%) Linux Command Line
3 30 (5.96%) Replication
4 29 (5.77%) Public Cloud
5 24 (4.77%) Data Centre
6 21 (4.17%) Cloud Native
7 12 (2.39%) Clustering
8 10 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.79%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.59%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.39%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.39%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.19%) Security Posture
13 5 (0.99%) Fat Client
13 5 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.99%) Thin Client
14 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
15 3 (0.60%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 243 (48.31%) Linux
2 107 (21.27%) Windows
3 62 (12.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 36 (7.16%) Unix
5 32 (6.36%) Windows Server
6 19 (3.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (3.58%) Ubuntu
8 15 (2.98%) zOS
9 13 (2.58%) Solaris
10 12 (2.39%) VMS
11 10 (1.99%) CentOS
12 4 (0.80%) Debian
12 4 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.60%) Android
13 3 (0.60%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.60%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.60%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.20%) AIX
14 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (41.55%) DevOps
2 173 (34.39%) CI/CD
3 129 (25.65%) Agile
4 123 (24.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 108 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (19.48%) Configuration Management
7 96 (19.09%) Continuous Integration
8 84 (16.70%) Containerisation
9 68 (13.52%) Test Automation
10 55 (10.93%) Scrum
11 51 (10.14%) Infrastructure Automation
12 50 (9.94%) Task Automation
13 48 (9.54%) Deployment Automation
14 46 (9.15%) Change Management
15 45 (8.95%) Software Engineering
16 42 (8.35%) ITIL
17 40 (7.95%) Migration
18 39 (7.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 37 (7.36%) Project Management
20 34 (6.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 258 (51.29%) Python
2 172 (34.19%) PowerShell
3 102 (20.28%) Bash
4 59 (11.73%) Java
5 44 (8.75%) Shell Script
6 39 (7.75%) SQL
7 35 (6.96%) Go
8 28 (5.57%) Perl
9 23 (4.57%) C
10 19 (3.78%) Groovy
11 18 (3.58%) JavaScript
12 16 (3.18%) Ruby
13 15 (2.98%) JCL
13 15 (2.98%) REXX
14 14 (2.78%) C#
15 13 (2.58%) TypeScript
16 12 (2.39%) Tcl
17 9 (1.79%) C++
18 6 (1.19%) PHP
19 4 (0.80%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 256 (50.89%) Security Cleared
2 153 (30.42%) SC Cleared
3 85 (16.90%) DV Cleared
4 24 (4.77%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (3.98%) CCNP
6 18 (3.58%) CCNA
6 18 (3.58%) Degree
7 6 (1.19%) RHCE
8 5 (0.99%) CCIE
8 5 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.80%) RHCSA
10 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.40%) SANS
12 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.20%) LPIC
12 1 (0.20%) OCP
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.36%) QA
2 9 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.39%) RMADS
4 6 (1.19%) GDPR
4 6 (1.19%) NIST
5 4 (0.80%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.60%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.40%) NCSC
7 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.40%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
System Software
1 139 (27.63%) Docker
2 75 (14.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (5.96%) Active Directory
4 27 (5.37%) vSphere
5 23 (4.57%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (4.17%) VMware NSX
7 20 (3.98%) VMware ESXi
8 19 (3.78%) Hyper-V
9 16 (3.18%) NFS
10 15 (2.98%) Time Sharing Option
11 12 (2.39%) Firmware
12 5 (0.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.40%) Ceph
13 2 (0.40%) KVM
13 2 (0.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.20%) LXC
14 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.20%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 260 (51.69%) Terraform
2 167 (33.20%) Kubernetes
3 76 (15.11%) Grafana
4 68 (13.52%) Puppet
5 61 (12.13%) Prometheus
6 52 (10.34%) Progress Chef
7 32 (6.36%) Docker Swarm
8 26 (5.17%) PowerCLI
9 24 (4.77%) Red Hat Satellite
10 18 (3.58%) NetBackup
11 17 (3.38%) Kibana
12 16 (3.18%) Podman
12 16 (3.18%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 15 (2.98%) Packer
14 13 (2.58%) Nagios
14 13 (2.58%) Salt
15 11 (2.19%) HP Fortify
15 11 (2.19%) Nessus
16 10 (1.99%) Graylog
16 10 (1.99%) Rancher
Vendors
1 103 (20.48%) VMware
2 72 (14.31%) Red Hat
3 46 (9.15%) Dell
4 40 (7.95%) Splunk
5 35 (6.96%) Atlassian
5 35 (6.96%) Cisco
5 35 (6.96%) Microsoft
5 35 (6.96%) Oracle
6 31 (6.16%) IBM
7 28 (5.57%) SolarWinds
8 27 (5.37%) HP
9 25 (4.97%) Veritas
10 18 (3.58%) ServiceNow
11 16 (3.18%) Broadcom
11 16 (3.18%) Brocade
11 16 (3.18%) Google
12 15 (2.98%) CA
13 14 (2.78%) Citrix
14 12 (2.39%) Palo Alto
14 12 (2.39%) SaltStack