Ansible Contracts in Scotland

Ansible
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 50 67
Rank change year-on-year -30 +17 0
Contract jobs citing Ansible 47 144 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.19% 5.34% 3.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.43% 27.96% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 87 95
10th Percentile £429 £425 £410
25th Percentile £450 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.43% +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £634 £643 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +9.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £56.25 £40.25
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - +41.98% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.25 £73.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.25% +48.98% +3.16%

All Systems Management Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 255 515 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.89% 19.10% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 346 344
10th Percentile £200 £237 £325
25th Percentile £370 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.84% -7.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £552 £550 £588
90th Percentile £628 £650 £713
UK median daily rate £515 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -6.36% -2.65% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.49 £34.18
25th Percentile £17.37 £21.36 £41.38
Median hourly rate £20.08 £39.59 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% -11.68% -32.60%
75th Percentile £22.35 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £23.45 £59.65 £49.36
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -47.83% +165.71% -45.22%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Scotland

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Scotland

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Scotland

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Edinburgh +2 25 £515 +3.00% 7
Glasgow -25 18 £525 -11.32% 8
Renfrewshire -2 1 £600 +20.80%
Fife - 1 £310 -
Ansible
UK

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 33 (70.21%) AWS
2 26 (55.32%) OpenShift
3 16 (34.04%) Amazon S3
3 16 (34.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (29.79%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (29.79%) Serverless
5 13 (27.66%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (23.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (21.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (10.64%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (10.64%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (8.51%) Azure
11 3 (6.38%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (6.38%) AWS CodeCommit
11 3 (6.38%) AWS CodePipeline
12 2 (4.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 1 (2.13%) Amazon Macie
13 1 (2.13%) AWS KMS
13 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) NAS
2 4 (8.51%) SAN
3 1 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.13%) Network Security
3 1 (2.13%) SNMP
3 1 (2.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (23.40%) MongoDB
3 10 (21.28%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (14.89%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (12.77%) InfluxDB
5 6 (12.77%) Informix
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.13%) Big Data
7 1 (2.13%) NonStop SQL
7 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.15%) Git
3 7 (14.89%) Maven
4 6 (12.77%) Artifactory
4 6 (12.77%) GitLab
4 6 (12.77%) Gradle
5 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 12 (25.53%) Public Sector
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) AWS DevOps
3 5 (10.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Data Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Database Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Site Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Site Reliability Manager
4 4 (8.51%) Python Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Site Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Configuration Management Specialist
7 1 (2.13%) Configuration Specialist
7 1 (2.13%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.17%) AWS CDK
2 3 (6.38%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (4.26%) REST
4 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.89%) Replication
3 5 (10.64%) PKI
4 3 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.13%) Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 22 (46.81%) Linux
2 11 (23.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (17.02%) Windows
4 7 (14.89%) Unix
5 6 (12.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (44.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (40.43%) CI/CD
3 16 (34.04%) DevOps
4 14 (29.79%) Agile
5 13 (27.66%) Observability
6 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (23.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (21.28%) Roadmaps
8 9 (19.15%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (19.15%) Kanban
8 9 (19.15%) Scrum
9 8 (17.02%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (17.02%) Migration
10 7 (14.89%) Change Management
10 7 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
10 7 (14.89%) High Availability
11 6 (12.77%) Application Security
11 6 (12.77%) Data Protection
11 6 (12.77%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 31 (65.96%) Python
2 13 (27.66%) Bash
3 12 (25.53%) Groovy
4 11 (23.40%) TypeScript
5 10 (21.28%) SQL
6 7 (14.89%) Ruby
6 7 (14.89%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.13%) Degree
1 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) KVM
2 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (53.19%) Terraform
2 24 (51.06%) Grafana
3 18 (38.30%) Kubernetes
4 8 (17.02%) Prometheus
5 6 (12.77%) Kibana
6 3 (6.38%) Packer
7 2 (4.26%) Nagios
7 2 (4.26%) NetBackup
7 2 (4.26%) Puppet
8 1 (2.13%) OpenView
8 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.13%) vCenter Server
8 1 (2.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Oracle
2 3 (6.38%) Commvault
2 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.26%) Veritas
4 1 (2.13%) AlienVault
4 1 (2.13%) BMC
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.13%) Remedy
4 1 (2.13%) SaltStack
4 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds
4 1 (2.13%) VMware