Ansible Contracts in the West Midlands

Ansible
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 91 87 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing Ansible 25 43 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.29% 1.92% 2.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.25% 14.14% 23.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 50
10th Percentile £512 £413 £424
25th Percentile £554 £480 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £625
90th Percentile £688 £731 £675
England median daily rate £550 £611 £596
% change year-on-year -9.95% +2.56% +13.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -9.25% +24.26% +21.45%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 204 304 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.49% 13.59% 10.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 198 234
10th Percentile £213 £313 £202
25th Percentile £350 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £572
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.52% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 17
10th Percentile £23.52 £17.25 £10.68
25th Percentile £35.33 £17.72 £12.66
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +197.30% +12.12% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.59 £20.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £66.00 £24.05
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +5 15 £584 +28.24%
Coventry +7 5 £550 +14.58%
Worcestershire +4 2 £475 -26.92% 2
Birmingham +4 1 £638 -7.27% 6
Shropshire -4 1 £523 +10.00% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (12.00%) CMS
1 3 (12.00%) Drupal
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) SAS
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (12.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) Network Security
2 3 (12.00%) SAN
2 3 (12.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.00%) Impala
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
2 1 (4.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) Artifactory
3 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (12.00%) GitLab
4 3 (12.00%) Selenium
4 3 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (12.00%) Subversion
5 2 (8.00%) JIRA
6 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (4.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) YAML
2 2 (8.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (12.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (56.00%) Windows
2 11 (44.00%) Linux
2 11 (44.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (48.00%) Validation
3 11 (44.00%) Configuration Management
3 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 11 (44.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 10 (40.00%) DevOps
5 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (28.00%) Agile
6 7 (28.00%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (28.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
7 4 (16.00%) Kanban
7 4 (16.00%) Scrum
7 4 (16.00%) SDLC
8 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (12.00%) Epics
8 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Bicep
4 1 (4.00%) HiveQL
4 1 (4.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) CCNA
3 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Virtual Machines
2 11 (44.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (84.00%) Terraform
2 13 (52.00%) Progress Chef
3 12 (48.00%) Puppet
4 11 (44.00%) Salt
5 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) Red Hat
1 13 (52.00%) VMware
2 9 (36.00%) SaltStack
3 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (12.00%) CheckPoint
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco
4 3 (12.00%) F5
4 3 (12.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.00%) Denodo
5 1 (4.00%) Guidewire
5 1 (4.00%) Informatica
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Talend