Ansible Contracts in the North West

Ansible
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 98 57 64
Rank change year-on-year -41 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing Ansible 40 119 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.50% 3.86% 3.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.34% 22.20% 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 91 109
10th Percentile £451 £450 £443
25th Percentile £512 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -9.36% +4.91% +12.00%
75th Percentile £575 £647 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
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 West

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 West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 279 536 612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 10.45% 17.41% 15.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 372 472
10th Percentile £213 £325 £250
25th Percentile £375 £445 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £620 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £520 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.57% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 45 10
10th Percentile £16.67 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile - £22.13 £17.19
Median hourly rate £17.72 £30.00 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year -40.93% +43.61% -63.67%
75th Percentile £58.44 £48.00 £49.14
90th Percentile £91.25 £52.13 £54.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.32 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.75% +143.33% -11.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the North West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester -35 22 £550 -8.33% 23
Cumbria -13 12 £515 +14.44%
Merseyside +15 2 - -
Cheshire -14 2 £552 +19.41% 3
Lancashire -6 1 £540 -10.00% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (5.00%) Confluence
1 2 (5.00%) nginx
1 2 (5.00%) Traefik
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) AWS
2 12 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (22.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 8 (20.00%) Azure
5 7 (17.50%) Amazon S3
5 7 (17.50%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (17.50%) Serverless
6 6 (15.00%) Amazon ELB
6 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
6 6 (15.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (12.50%) GCP
8 3 (7.50%) GitHub
9 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.50%) Azure Batch
10 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.50%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.00%) Firewall
2 13 (32.50%) Wi-Fi
3 12 (30.00%) BGP
3 12 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
3 12 (30.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 12 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
3 12 (30.00%) EIGRP
3 12 (30.00%) HSRP
3 12 (30.00%) IPsec
3 12 (30.00%) NetScaler
3 12 (30.00%) OSPF
3 12 (30.00%) SNMP
3 12 (30.00%) Spanning Tree
4 4 (10.00%) DNS
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.50%) DSL
6 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Data Lake
1 6 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (7.50%) MySQL
3 3 (7.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Flink
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
2 10 (25.00%) GitLab
3 6 (15.00%) SonarQube
4 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (7.50%) JIRA
6 2 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.50%) CircleCI
General
1 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Retail
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Senior
4 8 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) AWS DevOps
6 6 (15.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 4 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (5.00%) Developer
10 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
11 1 (2.50%) Automation Developer
11 1 (2.50%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.00%) Jinja
2 2 (5.00%) cloud-init
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) SAML
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) Ember.js
3 1 (2.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) HTML5
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.00%) Clustering
2 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (5.00%) PKI
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Unix
3 2 (5.00%) CentOS
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (82.50%) DevOps
2 17 (42.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (30.00%) Change Management
3 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (30.00%) ITIL
3 12 (30.00%) Network Management
4 11 (27.50%) ITSM
5 10 (25.00%) Agile
5 10 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (17.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (12.50%) Kanban
9 5 (12.50%) Scrum
9 5 (12.50%) Software Testing
10 4 (10.00%) Configuration Management
10 4 (10.00%) Migration
10 4 (10.00%) Refactoring
10 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (82.50%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) Bash
3 12 (30.00%) Perl
3 12 (30.00%) Tcl
4 10 (25.00%) Go
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
6 3 (7.50%) C
6 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (7.50%) Ruby
7 2 (5.00%) Java
7 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) C++
8 1 (2.50%) Fortran
8 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (42.50%) SC Cleared
3 15 (37.50%) CCNA
3 15 (37.50%) CCNP
3 15 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (7.50%) CCIE
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) ISO 22301
1 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.00%) NCSC
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (40.00%) Docker
2 12 (30.00%) Firmware
3 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (57.50%) Terraform
2 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.00%) HP Fortify
4 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.50%) Puppet
5 2 (5.00%) Consul
5 2 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (5.00%) Graphite
5 2 (5.00%) HAProxy
5 2 (5.00%) Istio
5 2 (5.00%) linkerd
5 2 (5.00%) Packer
5 2 (5.00%) Podman
5 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.00%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.50%) CFEngine
6 1 (2.50%) Grafana
6 1 (2.50%) PowerBroker
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Cisco
2 12 (30.00%) Citrix
2 12 (30.00%) Palo Alto
2 12 (30.00%) SolarWinds
3 9 (22.50%) Splunk
4 5 (12.50%) VMware
5 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
5 3 (7.50%) PagerDuty
5 3 (7.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.50%) Brocade
7 1 (2.50%) Juniper
7 1 (2.50%) Tufin
7 1 (2.50%) Zscaler