Ansible Contracts in the North of England

Ansible
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 72 81 61
Rank change year-on-year +9 -20 +15
Contract jobs citing Ansible 121 156 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.61% 2.78% 3.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.74% 18.20% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 123 200
10th Percentile £416 £450 £437
25th Percentile £445 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.32% +11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £625
90th Percentile £638 £698 £675
England median daily rate £550 £623 £593
% change year-on-year -11.65% +5.06% +12.86%
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 £62.25 £72.75 £58.75
% change year-on-year -14.43% +23.83% +46.88%

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 532 857 1,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.48% 15.30% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 618 824
10th Percentile £237 £325 £250
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £549 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.44% +4.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £576 £638 £616
90th Percentile £645 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.57% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 51 19
10th Percentile £16.89 £16.25 £15.58
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.27 £16.95
Median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +87.50% -19.03%
75th Percentile £48.75 £49.52 £41.85
90th Percentile £80.38 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.16%

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

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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 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the North of England

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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

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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 18 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
Yorkshire +62 73 £485 -19.17% 8
North West -41 40 £533 -9.36% 25
North East -6 8 £550 -15.38% 5
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 13 (10.74%) Confluence
2 5 (4.13%) nginx
3 4 (3.31%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.48%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.65%) Traefik
6 1 (0.83%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.06%) AWS
2 33 (27.27%) GitHub
3 25 (20.66%) Azure
4 19 (15.70%) GCP
5 17 (14.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (9.92%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (7.44%) Apigee
7 9 (7.44%) Kong
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
10 6 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.65%) Google Compute Engine
13 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (23.14%) Firewall
2 15 (12.40%) VLAN
3 14 (11.57%) DNS
4 13 (10.74%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (9.92%) BGP
5 12 (9.92%) Cisco ASA
5 12 (9.92%) Cisco Firepower
5 12 (9.92%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (9.92%) EIGRP
5 12 (9.92%) HSRP
5 12 (9.92%) IPsec
5 12 (9.92%) NetScaler
5 12 (9.92%) OSPF
5 12 (9.92%) SNMP
5 12 (9.92%) Spanning Tree
5 12 (9.92%) SSL
6 11 (9.09%) TCP/IP
7 9 (7.44%) HTTP
7 9 (7.44%) VPN
8 4 (3.31%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.57%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (9.09%) MySQL
3 8 (6.61%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.79%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (4.96%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.96%) DynamoDB
6 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
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
Development Applications
1 50 (41.32%) Jenkins
2 28 (23.14%) Git
2 28 (23.14%) GitLab
3 15 (12.40%) JIRA
4 11 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 10 (8.26%) CircleCI
6 9 (7.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (7.44%) Travis CI
7 4 (3.31%) AppScan
7 4 (3.31%) Burp Suite
7 4 (3.31%) Maven
7 4 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.48%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.48%) gulp
9 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.83%) Gradle
9 1 (0.83%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.83%) Postman
General
1 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 37 (30.58%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.40%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.92%) Finance
5 4 (3.31%) Banking
6 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.48%) Retail
7 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (19.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (14.05%) Network Engineer
3 14 (11.57%) Storage Manager
4 11 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 11 (9.09%) Senior
5 10 (8.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 10 (8.26%) Storage Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (5.79%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Site Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Data Protection Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Developer
8 6 (4.96%) Lead
8 6 (4.96%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.66%) YAML
2 18 (14.88%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (13.22%) JSON
4 12 (9.92%) Jinja
5 9 (7.44%) Kafka
5 9 (7.44%) XML
6 7 (5.79%) REST
7 6 (4.96%) ActiveMQ
8 5 (4.13%) SAML
9 4 (3.31%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.31%) Keycloak
9 4 (3.31%) Node.js
9 4 (3.31%) OAuth
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%) cloud-init
11 2 (1.65%) React
12 1 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Replication
2 14 (11.57%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.44%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.61%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.79%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.13%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.48%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.65%) Clustering
9 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.65%) PKI
9 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.83%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.83%) Mashup
10 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (48.76%) Linux
2 26 (21.49%) Windows
3 15 (12.40%) zOS
4 6 (4.96%) Unix
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 2 (1.65%) CentOS
8 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (58.68%) DevOps
2 56 (46.28%) CI/CD
3 46 (38.02%) Agile
4 32 (26.45%) Change Management
4 32 (26.45%) Containerisation
5 30 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (23.97%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (19.83%) Project Management
8 22 (18.18%) ITIL
9 19 (15.70%) Scrum
9 19 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (14.88%) Configuration Management
11 17 (14.05%) ITSM
12 16 (13.22%) Software Testing
12 16 (13.22%) Storage Management
13 14 (11.57%) Migration
13 14 (11.57%) Problem Management
14 13 (10.74%) Service Delivery
15 12 (9.92%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (62.81%) Python
2 31 (25.62%) Bash
3 25 (20.66%) PowerShell
4 17 (14.05%) Perl
5 15 (12.40%) JCL
5 15 (12.40%) REXX
6 14 (11.57%) Go
7 12 (9.92%) Tcl
8 11 (9.09%) Java
9 10 (8.26%) JavaScript
10 9 (7.44%) Shell Script
11 8 (6.61%) SQL
12 7 (5.79%) Ruby
13 6 (4.96%) Groovy
14 4 (3.31%) ActionScript
14 4 (3.31%) Scala
15 3 (2.48%) C
16 1 (0.83%) C++
16 1 (0.83%) Fortran
16 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%) NCSC
3 2 (1.65%) NIST
3 2 (1.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (37.19%) Docker
2 15 (12.40%) NFS
2 15 (12.40%) Time Sharing Option
3 12 (9.92%) Firmware
4 3 (2.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (41.32%) Terraform
2 44 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 36 (29.75%) Puppet
4 24 (19.83%) Grafana
4 24 (19.83%) Prometheus
5 16 (13.22%) Progress Chef
5 16 (13.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 14 (11.57%) NetBackup
7 12 (9.92%) Docker Swarm
8 10 (8.26%) HP Fortify
8 10 (8.26%) Kibana
9 9 (7.44%) logstash
10 4 (3.31%) Graylog
10 4 (3.31%) Nessus
10 4 (3.31%) WebInspect
10 4 (3.31%) yum
11 3 (2.48%) Packer
12 2 (1.65%) Consul
12 2 (1.65%) Graphite
12 2 (1.65%) linkerd
Vendors
1 23 (19.01%) Splunk
2 22 (18.18%) IBM
3 16 (13.22%) Broadcom
3 16 (13.22%) Brocade
3 16 (13.22%) Cisco
3 16 (13.22%) Dell
4 15 (12.40%) CA
5 14 (11.57%) Veritas
6 13 (10.74%) Citrix
7 12 (9.92%) Palo Alto
7 12 (9.92%) SolarWinds
8 8 (6.61%) Oracle
9 7 (5.79%) VMware
10 6 (4.96%) Microsoft
10 6 (4.96%) PagerDuty
10 6 (4.96%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.96%) Solace
11 5 (4.13%) EMC
11 5 (4.13%) Google
12 4 (3.31%) Veracode