Ansible
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 66 72
Rank change year-on-year -33 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing Ansible 973 1,999 2,971
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.23% 3.33% 3.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.97% 20.68% 20.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 1,479 2,091
10th Percentile £425 £450 £438
25th Percentile £487 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.29% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £679
90th Percentile £729 £798 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 5
10th Percentile £47.75 £53.75 £37.00
25th Percentile £53.38 £56.88 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.25 £73.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +32.73% +37.50%
75th Percentile £73.33 £76.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.00 £60.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.73% +32.73% +37.50%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,128 9,668 14,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.10% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,668 6,975 10,263
10th Percentile £250 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £566 £564
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +0.40% +12.75%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £673
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 213 190
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.31 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.77 £23.25 £15.78
Median hourly rate £31.50 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -45.22% +158.08% -23.17%
75th Percentile £55.00 £72.50 £47.84
90th Percentile £70.50 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £44.88 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.21% +124.38% -9.09%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in the UK

Ansible
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England -21 819 £550 -11.65% 339
UK excluding London -12 483 £550 - 218
London -44 367 £575 -11.54% 157
Work from Home -39 340 £575 -4.17% 206
South East +13 165 £550 - 50
North of England +1 129 £524 -10.85% 34
South West -6 98 £600 +4.35% 49
Yorkshire +66 65 £514 -17.76% 9
North West -39 56 £540 -8.09% 21
Scotland -44 50 £525 +2.34% 27
Midlands -12 21 £520 +4.00% 29
West Midlands -6 13 £536 -0.23% 15
East of England -12 12 £650 +18.18% 17
Wales +14 10 £643 +22.38% 6
East Midlands +14 8 £498 +11.91% 14
North East -2 8 £550 -18.52% 4

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 69 (7.09%) Confluence
2 44 (4.52%) OpenStack
3 27 (2.77%) nginx
4 25 (2.57%) Apache
5 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.72%) Apache Solr
6 7 (0.72%) IIS
7 6 (0.62%) Anypoint
7 6 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.51%) JBoss
8 5 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.41%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.41%) Drupal
10 3 (0.31%) CMS
10 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.21%) Traefik
11 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 382 (39.26%) AWS
2 257 (26.41%) Azure
3 116 (11.92%) GitHub
4 94 (9.66%) GCP
5 69 (7.09%) OpenShift
6 68 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (6.78%) Serverless
8 64 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
9 60 (6.17%) Amazon S3
9 60 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (4.52%) IaaS
12 43 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 42 (4.32%) PaaS
14 36 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
14 36 (3.70%) SaaS
15 34 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (2.26%) Datadog
18 19 (1.95%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 125 (12.85%) Firewall
2 75 (7.71%) DNS
3 54 (5.55%) TCP/IP
4 45 (4.62%) VPN
5 38 (3.91%) SAN
6 34 (3.49%) Network Security
7 32 (3.29%) BGP
8 31 (3.19%) DHCP
9 29 (2.98%) VLAN
10 26 (2.67%) SSL
11 23 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
12 22 (2.26%) Cisco ASA
12 22 (2.26%) OSPF
13 20 (2.06%) NAS
13 20 (2.06%) SNMP
14 19 (1.95%) IPsec
14 19 (1.95%) WAN
15 18 (1.85%) MPLS
16 17 (1.75%) HSRP
16 17 (1.75%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.71%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
3 60 (6.17%) MySQL
4 48 (4.93%) SQL Server
5 43 (4.42%) Relational Database
6 38 (3.91%) MongoDB
7 36 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (3.29%) NoSQL
9 21 (2.16%) Big Data
10 20 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (1.95%) Apache Cassandra
11 19 (1.95%) Data Lake
12 18 (1.85%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.44%) InfluxDB
14 10 (1.03%) Oracle Database
15 9 (0.92%) Couchbase
15 9 (0.92%) DynamoDB
16 8 (0.82%) BigQuery
16 8 (0.82%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 355 (36.49%) Jenkins
2 174 (17.88%) Git
3 147 (15.11%) GitLab
4 114 (11.72%) JIRA
5 67 (6.89%) SonarQube
6 54 (5.55%) Bitbucket
7 47 (4.83%) Cucumber
8 46 (4.73%) Artifactory
9 41 (4.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 41 (4.21%) Selenium
10 35 (3.60%) Sonatype Nexus
11 24 (2.47%) REST Assured
12 23 (2.36%) TeamCity
13 22 (2.26%) Maven
14 19 (1.95%) Robot Framework
14 19 (1.95%) Subversion
15 14 (1.44%) CircleCI
15 14 (1.44%) Visual Studio
16 10 (1.03%) JUnit
16 10 (1.03%) Postman
General
1 201 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 111 (11.41%) Finance
3 96 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (9.66%) Public Sector
5 58 (5.96%) Banking
6 29 (2.98%) Investment Banking
7 27 (2.77%) Law
8 19 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 18 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.54%) Legal
11 13 (1.34%) Police
12 11 (1.13%) Retail
13 8 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.51%) German Language
15 5 (0.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.41%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 185 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 103 (10.59%) Developer
3 88 (9.04%) Senior
4 81 (8.32%) Architect
5 69 (7.09%) Network Engineer
6 61 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
7 50 (5.14%) AWS DevOps
7 50 (5.14%) Platform Engineer
8 47 (4.83%) Linux Engineer
9 46 (4.73%) Lead
10 44 (4.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 39 (4.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 37 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 32 (3.29%) Cloud Engineer
14 30 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
15 28 (2.88%) Automation Engineer
16 27 (2.77%) Senior DevOps
17 26 (2.67%) Python Engineer
17 26 (2.67%) Security Engineer
18 24 (2.47%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (8.84%) Elastic Stack
2 70 (7.19%) REST
3 60 (6.17%) .NET
4 59 (6.06%) YAML
5 45 (4.62%) JSON
6 38 (3.91%) Node.js
7 33 (3.39%) Kafka
8 26 (2.67%) ARM Templates
8 26 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
9 24 (2.47%) Java EE
9 24 (2.47%) XML
10 23 (2.36%) .NET Core
11 22 (2.26%) RESTful
11 22 (2.26%) Spring
12 21 (2.16%) LDAP
13 17 (1.75%) Jinja
14 16 (1.64%) OpenID
14 16 (1.64%) SAML
15 15 (1.54%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.06%) PKI
2 56 (5.76%) Data Centre
3 55 (5.65%) Public Cloud
4 45 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
5 42 (4.32%) Replication
6 37 (3.80%) Cloud Native
7 34 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 29 (2.98%) Clustering
9 28 (2.88%) Onboarding
10 21 (2.16%) Product Ownership
11 20 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
11 20 (2.06%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.23%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
16 9 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (0.92%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.72%) CCTV
17 7 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 425 (43.68%) Linux
2 193 (19.84%) Windows
3 97 (9.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 95 (9.76%) Unix
5 72 (7.40%) Windows Server
6 40 (4.11%) CentOS
7 32 (3.29%) Ubuntu
8 23 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 21 (2.16%) Solaris
10 20 (2.06%) zOS
11 18 (1.85%) VMS
12 15 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
13 10 (1.03%) Android
14 8 (0.82%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.62%) Debian
15 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
16 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
17 3 (0.31%) Windows 2000
17 3 (0.31%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (44.60%) DevOps
2 361 (37.10%) CI/CD
3 248 (25.49%) Agile
3 248 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 190 (19.53%) Configuration Management
5 157 (16.14%) Containerisation
6 153 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
7 145 (14.90%) Continuous Integration
8 109 (11.20%) Test Automation
9 102 (10.48%) Scrum
10 83 (8.53%) ITIL
11 81 (8.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 79 (8.12%) Software Engineering
13 77 (7.91%) Deployment Automation
14 73 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 72 (7.40%) Platform Engineering
16 70 (7.19%) Migration
17 65 (6.68%) Cybersecurity
17 65 (6.68%) Infrastructure Automation
18 64 (6.58%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 497 (51.08%) Python
2 223 (22.92%) PowerShell
3 192 (19.73%) Bash
4 121 (12.44%) Java
5 93 (9.56%) SQL
6 77 (7.91%) Shell Script
7 64 (6.58%) Go
8 62 (6.37%) Perl
9 56 (5.76%) JavaScript
10 45 (4.62%) Ruby
11 44 (4.52%) C#
12 26 (2.67%) Groovy
13 25 (2.57%) C
14 21 (2.16%) C++
14 21 (2.16%) Scala
15 19 (1.95%) JCL
15 19 (1.95%) REXX
16 18 (1.85%) TypeScript
17 12 (1.23%) Tcl
18 7 (0.72%) Korn
Qualifications
1 377 (38.75%) Security Cleared
2 285 (29.29%) SC Cleared
3 95 (9.76%) DV Cleared
4 44 (4.52%) Degree
5 43 (4.42%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (3.49%) CCNP
7 23 (2.36%) CCNA
8 22 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.03%) CCIE
13 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.41%) RHCE
14 4 (0.41%) SANS
15 3 (0.31%) RHCSA
16 1 (0.10%) CEH
16 1 (0.10%) Linux+ Certification
16 1 (0.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.52%) QA
2 18 (1.85%) NCSC
3 17 (1.75%) GDPR
4 16 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.23%) NIST
6 8 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
7 7 (0.72%) RMADS
8 6 (0.62%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.41%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.41%) SLA
11 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 266 (27.34%) Docker
2 99 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (6.47%) Active Directory
4 42 (4.32%) vSphere
5 41 (4.21%) VMware NSX
6 38 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
7 33 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
8 24 (2.47%) Hyper-V
9 23 (2.36%) NFS
10 19 (1.95%) Time Sharing Option
11 18 (1.85%) Firmware
12 13 (1.34%) KVM
13 5 (0.51%) vCloud
13 5 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.41%) Ceph
15 3 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 3 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.21%) iptables
16 2 (0.21%) Varnish
16 2 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 493 (50.67%) Terraform
2 329 (33.81%) Kubernetes
3 160 (16.44%) Puppet
4 131 (13.46%) Grafana
5 120 (12.33%) Prometheus
6 98 (10.07%) Progress Chef
7 44 (4.52%) Kibana
8 36 (3.70%) Packer
9 33 (3.39%) logstash
10 31 (3.19%) Docker Swarm
11 27 (2.77%) Nagios
11 27 (2.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 26 (2.67%) ZABBIX
13 24 (2.47%) NetBackup
14 23 (2.36%) PowerCLI
15 22 (2.26%) vRealize
16 21 (2.16%) Graylog
16 21 (2.16%) Red Hat Satellite
17 19 (1.95%) vCenter Server
18 16 (1.64%) Podman
Vendors
1 158 (16.24%) VMware
2 98 (10.07%) Red Hat
3 83 (8.53%) Microsoft
4 82 (8.43%) Cisco
5 73 (7.50%) Dell
6 71 (7.30%) Splunk
7 65 (6.68%) Oracle
8 63 (6.47%) IBM
9 42 (4.32%) Atlassian
10 39 (4.01%) HP
11 37 (3.80%) SolarWinds
12 35 (3.60%) ServiceNow
13 33 (3.39%) Google
14 31 (3.19%) Citrix
15 28 (2.88%) F5
15 28 (2.88%) Palo Alto
15 28 (2.88%) Veritas
16 23 (2.36%) Brocade
17 22 (2.26%) CA
18 20 (2.06%) Fortinet