Ansible Contracts in the North of England

Ansible
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 76 62
Rank change year-on-year +2 -14 +18
Contract jobs citing Ansible 121 145 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.50% 2.66% 3.90%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.50% 17.84% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 110 205
10th Percentile £423 £450 £438
25th Percentile £460 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% +11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £578 £656 £625
90th Percentile £645 £730 £675
England median daily rate £550 £605 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.83% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 £73.71 £58.75
% change year-on-year -2.32% +25.46% +25.67%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

Ansible falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 515 813 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 10.63% 14.94% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 571 825
10th Percentile £235 £319 £250
25th Percentile £394 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +3.81% +13.51%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 46 20
10th Percentile £17.26 £16.25 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.47 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.84 £31.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.89% +56.25% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.94 £45.76 £22.69
90th Percentile £71.88 £50.83 £51.68
England median hourly rate £30.75 £52.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -41.90% +146.16% -12.07%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the North of England

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the North of England

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the North of England

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the North of England

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +54 71 £514 -17.76% 10
North West -33 40 £525 -8.70% 21
North East -6 10 £550 -15.38% 2
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (12.40%) Confluence
2 5 (4.13%) nginx
3 4 (3.31%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.48%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.71%) AWS
2 28 (23.14%) Azure
3 27 (22.31%) GitHub
4 18 (14.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (14.88%) GCP
5 11 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (8.26%) Kong
7 9 (7.44%) Apigee
8 8 (6.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.79%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.79%) Serverless
10 6 (4.96%) Amazon ELB
10 6 (4.96%) CloudBees
10 6 (4.96%) Snowflake
11 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.65%) Google Compute Engine
13 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (24.79%) Firewall
2 15 (12.40%) VLAN
3 13 (10.74%) DNS
3 13 (10.74%) Wi-Fi
4 12 (9.92%) BGP
4 12 (9.92%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (9.92%) Cisco Firepower
4 12 (9.92%) Cisco ISE
4 12 (9.92%) EIGRP
4 12 (9.92%) HSRP
4 12 (9.92%) IPsec
4 12 (9.92%) NetScaler
4 12 (9.92%) OSPF
4 12 (9.92%) SNMP
4 12 (9.92%) Spanning Tree
4 12 (9.92%) SSL
5 10 (8.26%) TCP/IP
6 9 (7.44%) HTTP
6 9 (7.44%) VPN
7 4 (3.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.57%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (9.92%) MySQL
3 8 (6.61%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.79%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (4.96%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.96%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.96%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.96%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.48%) ClickHouse
9 2 (1.65%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.83%) Flink
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.83%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (37.19%) Jenkins
2 31 (25.62%) GitLab
3 30 (24.79%) Git
4 17 (14.05%) JIRA
5 12 (9.92%) SonarQube
6 10 (8.26%) CircleCI
7 9 (7.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (7.44%) Travis CI
8 6 (4.96%) Maven
9 5 (4.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (3.31%) AppScan
10 4 (3.31%) Burp Suite
11 3 (2.48%) Bitbucket
11 3 (2.48%) gulp
12 2 (1.65%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.83%) Gradle
13 1 (0.83%) Liquibase
13 1 (0.83%) Postman
General
1 37 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 36 (29.75%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (11.57%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.92%) Finance
5 5 (4.13%) Banking
5 5 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.48%) Retail
7 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (23.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (14.05%) Network Engineer
3 12 (9.92%) Automation Engineer
3 12 (9.92%) Senior
4 10 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 10 (8.26%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (6.61%) Senior Network Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (5.79%) Developer
6 7 (5.79%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Operations Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Site Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Storage Manager
7 6 (4.96%) Data Protection Engineer
7 6 (4.96%) Lead
7 6 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.88%) Elastic Stack
1 18 (14.88%) JSON
2 17 (14.05%) YAML
3 12 (9.92%) Jinja
4 11 (9.09%) Kafka
5 9 (7.44%) XML
6 8 (6.61%) REST
7 6 (4.96%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (4.13%) FastAPI
8 5 (4.13%) Node.js
8 5 (4.13%) OAuth
8 5 (4.13%) SAML
9 4 (3.31%) Keycloak
9 4 (3.31%) RESTful
10 3 (2.48%) .NET
10 3 (2.48%) Apache Beam
10 3 (2.48%) OpenID
11 2 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (1.65%) React
11 2 (1.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Replication
2 9 (7.44%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.79%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.79%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.79%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.83%) Clustering
7 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.83%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) Mashup
7 1 (0.83%) PKI
7 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 57 (47.11%) Linux
2 25 (20.66%) Windows
3 8 (6.61%) Unix
4 7 (5.79%) zOS
5 4 (3.31%) Oracle Linux
6 3 (2.48%) Android
6 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.83%) CentOS
7 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (62.81%) DevOps
2 62 (51.24%) CI/CD
3 42 (34.71%) Agile
4 33 (27.27%) Change Management
4 33 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (26.45%) Containerisation
6 30 (24.79%) Continuous Integration
6 30 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.18%) ITIL
7 22 (18.18%) Scrum
8 20 (16.53%) Configuration Management
9 17 (14.05%) ITSM
9 17 (14.05%) Migration
10 16 (13.22%) Project Management
11 13 (10.74%) Service Delivery
12 12 (9.92%) DevSecOps
12 12 (9.92%) Network Management
13 11 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
13 11 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (57.02%) Python
2 31 (25.62%) Bash
3 25 (20.66%) PowerShell
4 17 (14.05%) Perl
5 13 (10.74%) Go
6 12 (9.92%) Java
6 12 (9.92%) Tcl
7 11 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 11 (9.09%) SQL
8 10 (8.26%) Shell Script
9 7 (5.79%) Groovy
9 7 (5.79%) JCL
9 7 (5.79%) REXX
10 5 (4.13%) Ruby
11 4 (3.31%) ActionScript
11 4 (3.31%) Scala
12 3 (2.48%) C
13 1 (0.83%) C++
13 1 (0.83%) Fortran
13 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (19.83%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.40%) CCNA
3 15 (12.40%) CCNP
3 15 (12.40%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.48%) CCIE
4 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.88%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.65%) NIST
3 2 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 49 (40.50%) Docker
2 12 (9.92%) Firmware
3 7 (5.79%) NFS
3 7 (5.79%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (2.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (44.63%) Terraform
2 47 (38.84%) Kubernetes
3 37 (30.58%) Puppet
4 27 (22.31%) Prometheus
5 26 (21.49%) Grafana
6 18 (14.88%) Progress Chef
7 14 (11.57%) NetBackup
8 11 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
9 10 (8.26%) HP Fortify
9 10 (8.26%) Kibana
10 9 (7.44%) logstash
11 8 (6.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 4 (3.31%) Graylog
12 4 (3.31%) Nessus
12 4 (3.31%) WebInspect
12 4 (3.31%) yum
13 2 (1.65%) Istio
13 2 (1.65%) Kiali
13 2 (1.65%) Packer
13 2 (1.65%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (20.66%) Splunk
2 16 (13.22%) Cisco
3 14 (11.57%) IBM
3 14 (11.57%) Veritas
4 13 (10.74%) Citrix
5 12 (9.92%) Palo Alto
5 12 (9.92%) SolarWinds
6 8 (6.61%) Broadcom
6 8 (6.61%) Brocade
6 8 (6.61%) Dell
6 8 (6.61%) Oracle
7 7 (5.79%) CA
7 7 (5.79%) PagerDuty
8 6 (4.96%) Microsoft
8 6 (4.96%) ServiceNow
8 6 (4.96%) Solace
8 6 (4.96%) VMware
9 5 (4.13%) EMC
9 5 (4.13%) Google
10 4 (3.31%) F5