Ansible Contracts in the South East

Ansible
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 56 88 66
Rank change year-on-year +32 -22 +1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 166 143 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.04% 2.55% 3.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.18% 18.72% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 94 165
10th Percentile - £413 £425
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.64% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £676 £698 £700
England median daily rate £550 £623 £593
% change year-on-year -11.65% +5.06% +12.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile - £54.25 -
25th Percentile £46.25 £56.41 -
Median hourly rate £47.50 £58.67 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.04% - -
75th Percentile £48.75 £67.93 -
90th Percentile - £74.10 -
England median hourly rate £62.25 £72.75 £58.75
% change year-on-year -14.43% +23.83% +46.88%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 716 764 1,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.13% 13.64% 14.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 561 738
10th Percentile £213 £300 £250
25th Percentile £378 £425 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +7.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £606 £624 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.57% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 28
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.50 £12.19
25th Percentile £17.91 £48.50 £15.83
Median hourly rate £43.00 £58.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.81% +173.26% -37.23%
75th Percentile £48.75 £73.71 £29.81
90th Percentile £55.25 £75.75 £67.88
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 South East

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the South East 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
Hampshire +7 67 £450 -10.00% 16
Thames Valley +12 62 £613 +11.36% 8
Berkshire 0 46 £625 +13.64% 5
Surrey +14 16 £613 - 1
West Sussex +13 14 £550 -5.17%
Oxfordshire +12 9 £500 +5.26% 1
Buckinghamshire +15 7 £550 -15.38% 2
East Sussex +10 7 £538 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (1.81%) Confluence
1 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.20%) Apache
2 2 (1.20%) nginx
3 1 (0.60%) JBoss
3 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (4.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 41 (24.70%) AWS
2 39 (23.49%) Azure
3 12 (7.23%) GitHub
4 10 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.82%) Datadog
6 6 (3.61%) IaaS
7 5 (3.01%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.41%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (2.41%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.81%) CloudFront
9 3 (1.81%) GCP
9 3 (1.81%) PaaS
9 3 (1.81%) Route 53
9 3 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.20%) Fastly
10 2 (1.20%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.20%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.04%) DNS
2 9 (5.42%) Firewall
3 8 (4.82%) DHCP
3 8 (4.82%) SAN
4 6 (3.61%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (2.41%) NAS
5 4 (2.41%) VPN
6 3 (1.81%) BGP
6 3 (1.81%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (1.81%) IOS XR
6 3 (1.81%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.60%) InfiniBand
7 1 (0.60%) Junos
7 1 (0.60%) MPLS
7 1 (0.60%) Network Security
7 1 (0.60%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.60%) VSAN
7 1 (0.60%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.05%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.63%) MySQL
2 11 (6.63%) SQL Server
3 10 (6.02%) MongoDB
3 10 (6.02%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.61%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.60%) Big Data
8 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (32.53%) Jenkins
2 35 (21.08%) GitLab
3 29 (17.47%) Git
4 25 (15.06%) Selenium
4 25 (15.06%) SonarQube
5 24 (14.46%) Cucumber
5 24 (14.46%) REST Assured
6 16 (9.64%) JIRA
7 15 (9.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (8.43%) Robot Framework
8 14 (8.43%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.81%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.20%) Subversion
12 1 (0.60%) JUnit
12 1 (0.60%) Maven
12 1 (0.60%) MSI
12 1 (0.60%) NUnit
12 1 (0.60%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (11.45%) Law
4 13 (7.83%) Police
5 10 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.61%) Finance
7 5 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (16.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 24 (14.46%) Security Engineer
3 22 (13.25%) Linux Engineer
4 19 (11.45%) Developer
4 19 (11.45%) Senior
5 17 (10.24%) Architect
6 16 (9.64%) Java Engineer
7 14 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (7.23%) Security Architect
9 9 (5.42%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.42%) Platform Specialist
10 7 (4.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Database Specialist
11 6 (3.61%) Java Developer
12 5 (3.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (18.67%) REST
2 24 (14.46%) Java EE
3 14 (8.43%) .NET
4 13 (7.83%) ARM Templates
4 13 (7.83%) ASP.NET
5 8 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.01%) Django
7 4 (2.41%) Keycloak
7 4 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.41%) RESTful
8 3 (1.81%) JSON
8 3 (1.81%) OpenID
8 3 (1.81%) YAML
8 3 (1.81%) YANG
9 2 (1.20%) Fluent Bit
9 2 (1.20%) HornetQ
9 2 (1.20%) Loki
9 2 (1.20%) VCL
10 1 (0.60%) Apache Camel
10 1 (0.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 44 (26.51%) PKI
2 21 (12.65%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (5.42%) Clustering
4 8 (4.82%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.82%) Replication
5 6 (3.61%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.41%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.41%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.81%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Smart Meter
8 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.60%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.60%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 62 (37.35%) Linux
2 28 (16.87%) Windows
3 24 (14.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (12.05%) Windows Server
5 18 (10.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (8.43%) Unix
7 9 (5.42%) Solaris
7 9 (5.42%) VMS
8 7 (4.22%) Ubuntu
9 6 (3.61%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (33.13%) DevOps
2 48 (28.92%) Test Automation
3 43 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (24.70%) Agile
5 31 (18.67%) Continuous Integration
5 31 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (18.67%) Technical Leadership
6 29 (17.47%) Containerisation
7 25 (15.06%) Decision-Making
8 24 (14.46%) Software Architecture
8 24 (14.46%) Software Engineering
9 22 (13.25%) Configuration Management
10 21 (12.65%) CI/CD
11 19 (11.45%) Scrum
12 16 (9.64%) High Availability
13 15 (9.04%) Mentoring
14 14 (8.43%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (8.43%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (7.83%) Project Delivery
16 12 (7.23%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 78 (46.99%) Python
2 67 (40.36%) PowerShell
3 36 (21.69%) Bash
4 31 (18.67%) Java
5 14 (8.43%) C#
6 13 (7.83%) Shell Script
7 8 (4.82%) Perl
8 7 (4.22%) C++
8 7 (4.22%) Go
8 7 (4.22%) SQL
9 4 (2.41%) C
9 4 (2.41%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.81%) Ruby
10 3 (1.81%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.20%) AWK
11 2 (1.20%) Bourne shell
11 2 (1.20%) Korn
12 1 (0.60%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 119 (71.69%) Security Cleared
2 71 (42.77%) SC Cleared
3 32 (19.28%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.02%) Degree
5 4 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.81%) CCNP
6 3 (1.81%) RHCE
6 3 (1.81%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.20%) CCIE
7 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) HP ASE
8 1 (0.60%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) RMADS
2 2 (1.20%) GDPR
2 2 (1.20%) QA
3 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (21.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (19.88%) Docker
3 23 (13.86%) Active Directory
4 20 (12.05%) vSphere
5 8 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.22%) Hyper-V
6 7 (4.22%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (3.61%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.81%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.20%) Ceph
9 2 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (1.20%) Varnish
9 2 (1.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.60%) LXC
10 1 (0.60%) NFS
Systems Management
1 87 (52.41%) Terraform
2 51 (30.72%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.43%) Podman
3 14 (8.43%) Red Hat Satellite
4 12 (7.23%) Docker Swarm
5 9 (5.42%) Packer
6 8 (4.82%) Puppet
6 8 (4.82%) vRealize
7 7 (4.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 7 (4.22%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.61%) Nessus
9 5 (3.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (3.01%) Prometheus
9 5 (3.01%) Rancher
9 5 (3.01%) WSUS
10 4 (2.41%) Grafana
10 4 (2.41%) Nagios
10 4 (2.41%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.41%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.81%) SELinux
Vendors
1 52 (31.33%) VMware
2 38 (22.89%) Red Hat
3 18 (10.84%) Oracle
4 13 (7.83%) SolarWinds
5 11 (6.63%) Microsoft
6 9 (5.42%) Cisco
6 9 (5.42%) Veritas
7 6 (3.61%) IBM
8 5 (3.01%) Arqiva
8 5 (3.01%) Dell
9 4 (2.41%) CheckPoint
9 4 (2.41%) Splunk
9 4 (2.41%) Veeam
10 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.81%) EMC
10 3 (1.81%) Infoblox
10 3 (1.81%) New Relic
10 3 (1.81%) Nokia
10 3 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.81%) TOWER Software