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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 67 69
Rank change year-on-year -33 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 956 1,842 2,989
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.25% 3.22% 3.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.76% 20.20% 21.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 1,355 2,098
10th Percentile £425 £450 £438
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £725 £798 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 29 4
10th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £36.50
25th Percentile £50.94 £56.25 £38.75
Median hourly rate £62.25 £72.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +48.72% +10.80%
75th Percentile £74.44 £76.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.36 £79.00 £61.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.25 £64.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -2.73% +31.28% +21.88%

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 5,096 9,119 14,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.98% 15.92% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,684 6,541 10,109
10th Percentile £263 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -1.24% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 201 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.76 £22.41 £15.56
Median hourly rate £26.38 £52.50 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +139.84% -45.28%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £44.46
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.00 £58.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.05 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +100.25% -13.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
England -20 817 £550 -11.65% 337
UK excluding London -14 477 £550 - 218
London -40 362 £575 -12.88% 168
Work from Home -28 326 £564 -6.00% 186
South East +19 167 £543 -1.00% 68
North of England +6 121 £515 -12.32% 44
South West -10 104 £558 -7.08% 44
Yorkshire +66 73 £485 -19.17% 9
Scotland -29 48 £525 +2.34% 11
North West -44 40 £533 -9.36% 28
Midlands -16 24 £520 +4.00% 25
West Midlands -12 13 £638 +21.43% 18
East Midlands +15 11 £417 -9.95% 7
East of England -10 11 £625 +20.19% 18
North East -6 8 £550 -15.38% 7
Wales -3 6 £645 +22.76% 5

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 75 (7.85%) Confluence
2 36 (3.77%) OpenStack
3 27 (2.82%) Apache
4 25 (2.62%) nginx
5 9 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.73%) IIS
8 6 (0.63%) Anypoint
8 6 (0.63%) Apache Solr
8 6 (0.63%) JBoss
9 4 (0.42%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.42%) Drupal
9 4 (0.42%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.42%) Tomcat
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 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.10%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.10%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 376 (39.33%) AWS
2 243 (25.42%) Azure
3 115 (12.03%) GitHub
4 99 (10.36%) GCP
5 74 (7.74%) OpenShift
6 64 (6.69%) Amazon EC2
7 63 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (6.49%) Amazon S3
9 60 (6.28%) Serverless
10 54 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (4.71%) PaaS
13 40 (4.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 39 (4.08%) IaaS
15 31 (3.24%) Amazon EKS
15 31 (3.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (3.03%) SaaS
17 27 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
18 19 (1.99%) Apigee
19 17 (1.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 118 (12.34%) Firewall
2 67 (7.01%) DNS
3 49 (5.13%) TCP/IP
4 41 (4.29%) VPN
5 32 (3.35%) SAN
6 30 (3.14%) SSL
7 29 (3.03%) BGP
7 29 (3.03%) VLAN
8 27 (2.82%) DHCP
8 27 (2.82%) Network Security
9 24 (2.51%) OSPF
10 22 (2.30%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (2.09%) Cisco ASA
12 19 (1.99%) IPsec
12 19 (1.99%) SNMP
12 19 (1.99%) WAN
13 18 (1.88%) NAS
14 17 (1.78%) Cisco Nexus
14 17 (1.78%) HSRP
14 17 (1.78%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 69 (7.22%) Elasticsearch
3 56 (5.86%) MySQL
4 48 (5.02%) SQL Server
5 37 (3.87%) Relational Database
6 36 (3.77%) MongoDB
7 33 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
8 32 (3.35%) NoSQL
9 20 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (2.09%) Big Data
10 19 (1.99%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
12 15 (1.57%) RDBMS
13 14 (1.46%) InfluxDB
14 12 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (1.05%) Oracle Database
16 9 (0.94%) Couchbase
16 9 (0.94%) DynamoDB
17 8 (0.84%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 357 (37.34%) Jenkins
2 180 (18.83%) Git
3 150 (15.69%) GitLab
4 114 (11.92%) JIRA
5 68 (7.11%) SonarQube
6 58 (6.07%) Bitbucket
7 53 (5.54%) Artifactory
8 48 (5.02%) Cucumber
9 43 (4.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 42 (4.39%) Selenium
11 39 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
12 26 (2.72%) TeamCity
13 24 (2.51%) REST Assured
14 22 (2.30%) Maven
15 20 (2.09%) Robot Framework
16 19 (1.99%) Subversion
17 16 (1.67%) CircleCI
18 14 (1.46%) Visual Studio
19 13 (1.36%) Travis CI
20 11 (1.15%) Postman
General
1 205 (21.44%) Social Skills
2 116 (12.13%) Finance
3 100 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 63 (6.59%) Banking
6 28 (2.93%) Law
7 27 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.88%) Aerospace
8 18 (1.88%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.57%) Legal
10 13 (1.36%) Police
10 13 (1.36%) Retail
11 11 (1.15%) Financial Institution
12 6 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.42%) Marketing
14 3 (0.31%) German Language
Job Titles
1 203 (21.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 95 (9.94%) Developer
3 88 (9.21%) Senior
4 79 (8.26%) Architect
5 68 (7.11%) Network Engineer
6 67 (7.01%) AWS Engineer
7 53 (5.54%) AWS DevOps
8 48 (5.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 44 (4.60%) Linux Engineer
9 44 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
10 40 (4.18%) Automation Engineer
11 39 (4.08%) Lead
12 38 (3.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 35 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 30 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
15 30 (3.14%) Security Engineer
16 28 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
17 27 (2.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 26 (2.72%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (8.68%) Elastic Stack
2 71 (7.43%) REST
3 62 (6.49%) .NET
4 58 (6.07%) YAML
5 46 (4.81%) JSON
6 35 (3.66%) Kafka
6 35 (3.66%) Node.js
7 31 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
8 25 (2.62%) ARM Templates
9 24 (2.51%) Java EE
10 23 (2.41%) .NET Core
10 23 (2.41%) XML
11 21 (2.20%) RESTful
12 19 (1.99%) OpenID
12 19 (1.99%) Spring
13 17 (1.78%) Jinja
13 17 (1.78%) LDAP
14 16 (1.67%) SAML
15 15 (1.57%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 63 (6.59%) PKI
2 51 (5.33%) Public Cloud
3 48 (5.02%) Data Centre
4 46 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
5 41 (4.29%) Replication
6 31 (3.24%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.14%) Cloud Native
8 27 (2.82%) Clustering
8 27 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 26 (2.72%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 15 (1.57%) Private Cloud
12 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.36%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 414 (43.31%) Linux
2 174 (18.20%) Windows
3 89 (9.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 88 (9.21%) Unix
5 64 (6.69%) Windows Server
6 33 (3.45%) CentOS
7 28 (2.93%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 20 (2.09%) zOS
9 19 (1.99%) Solaris
10 18 (1.88%) VMS
11 13 (1.36%) Android
12 12 (1.26%) Apple iOS
12 12 (1.26%) Oracle Linux
13 6 (0.63%) Debian
14 3 (0.31%) Windows 2000
14 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.31%) Windows XP
15 2 (0.21%) Windows 10
15 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (46.03%) DevOps
2 370 (38.70%) CI/CD
3 255 (26.67%) Agile
4 226 (23.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 191 (19.98%) Configuration Management
6 168 (17.57%) Containerisation
7 161 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
8 146 (15.27%) Continuous Integration
9 126 (13.18%) Test Automation
10 105 (10.98%) Scrum
11 79 (8.26%) Deployment Automation
12 78 (8.16%) ITIL
13 76 (7.95%) Software Engineering
14 71 (7.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 70 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 69 (7.22%) Task Automation
17 65 (6.80%) Platform Engineering
18 61 (6.38%) Infrastructure Automation
19 60 (6.28%) Cybersecurity
20 59 (6.17%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 507 (53.03%) Python
2 232 (24.27%) PowerShell
3 186 (19.46%) Bash
4 117 (12.24%) Java
5 85 (8.89%) Shell Script
5 85 (8.89%) SQL
6 64 (6.69%) Go
7 53 (5.54%) JavaScript
7 53 (5.54%) Perl
8 43 (4.50%) C#
9 35 (3.66%) Ruby
10 28 (2.93%) C
11 26 (2.72%) Groovy
12 21 (2.20%) Scala
13 20 (2.09%) C++
14 19 (1.99%) JCL
14 19 (1.99%) REXX
15 16 (1.67%) TypeScript
16 12 (1.26%) Tcl
17 6 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 367 (38.39%) Security Cleared
2 257 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 114 (11.92%) DV Cleared
4 45 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
5 42 (4.39%) Degree
6 36 (3.77%) CCNP
7 24 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 23 (2.41%) CCNA
9 18 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.46%) CCIE
11 9 (0.94%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.52%) RHCE
13 4 (0.42%) SANS
14 3 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.31%) RHCSA
15 2 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.21%) CISSP
15 2 (0.21%) GIAC
15 2 (0.21%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.71%) QA
2 17 (1.78%) NCSC
3 14 (1.46%) GDPR
4 13 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.15%) NIST
6 8 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.73%) RMADS
8 6 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.42%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.42%) SLA
10 3 (0.31%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 277 (28.97%) Docker
2 90 (9.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (5.86%) Active Directory
4 39 (4.08%) vSphere
5 33 (3.45%) VMware NSX
6 31 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
8 23 (2.41%) NFS
9 22 (2.30%) Hyper-V
10 19 (1.99%) Time Sharing Option
11 18 (1.88%) Firmware
12 6 (0.63%) KVM
13 5 (0.52%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 5 (0.52%) vCloud
14 4 (0.42%) Ceph
14 4 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
15 3 (0.31%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.21%) Varnish
16 2 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 1 (0.10%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 483 (50.52%) Terraform
2 346 (36.19%) Kubernetes
3 154 (16.11%) Puppet
4 128 (13.39%) Grafana
5 118 (12.34%) Prometheus
6 86 (9.00%) Progress Chef
7 40 (4.18%) Kibana
8 34 (3.56%) Docker Swarm
8 34 (3.56%) Packer
9 31 (3.24%) logstash
10 25 (2.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 24 (2.51%) PowerCLI
12 22 (2.30%) Nagios
13 21 (2.20%) NetBackup
14 19 (1.99%) Red Hat Satellite
15 17 (1.78%) Graylog
15 17 (1.78%) Podman
16 16 (1.67%) vRealize
17 15 (1.57%) ZABBIX
18 12 (1.26%) Nessus
Vendors
1 137 (14.33%) VMware
2 93 (9.73%) Red Hat
3 82 (8.58%) Cisco
4 76 (7.95%) Microsoft
5 72 (7.53%) Splunk
6 65 (6.80%) Oracle
7 64 (6.69%) Dell
8 63 (6.59%) IBM
9 39 (4.08%) Atlassian
10 35 (3.66%) HP
11 34 (3.56%) Google
11 34 (3.56%) SolarWinds
12 31 (3.24%) Citrix
13 30 (3.14%) F5
13 30 (3.14%) ServiceNow
14 28 (2.93%) Veritas
15 24 (2.51%) Palo Alto
16 22 (2.30%) CA
17 20 (2.09%) Brocade
17 20 (2.09%) Fortinet