Ansible Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Ansible
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 21 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Ansible 18 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 9.00% 5.45% 0.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.73% 64.71% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £239 - -
25th Percentile £250 £413 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £495
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -14.14% -5.71%
75th Percentile £586 £656 £518
90th Percentile £621 £788 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £463 £523
% change year-on-year +13.51% -11.48% -0.48%

All Systems Management Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 49 17 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 24.50% 8.42% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 6
10th Percentile £188 £225 £263
25th Percentile £266 £319 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £510
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -16.67% -7.27%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile £663 £710 £656
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile - - £33.13
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - - £20.00

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Ansible job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Cambridge over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Cambridge

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) OpenStack
2 3 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) iSCSI
2 5 (27.78%) SAN
3 2 (11.11%) 802.11
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall
3 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 2 (11.11%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.56%) InfiniBand
4 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) JIRA
2 8 (44.44%) GitLab
2 8 (44.44%) TeamCity
3 3 (16.67%) Artifactory
4 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Administrator
2 6 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (27.78%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior
6 2 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Administrator
7 1 (5.56%) Cloud Administrator
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
1 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (27.78%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.56%) Grid Computing
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) CentOS
2 5 (27.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 9 (50.00%) ITSM
3 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Data Science
5 4 (22.22%) DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (16.67%) Workload Management
7 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Security Patching
7 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
7 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
8 1 (5.56%) AI
8 1 (5.56%) Configuration Management
8 1 (5.56%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 5 (27.78%) Bash
4 4 (22.22%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) CCIE
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
1 5 (27.78%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) GPFS
2 2 (11.11%) Lustre
2 2 (11.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Puppet
2 6 (33.33%) Salt
3 4 (22.22%) Progress Chef
4 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.56%) Consul
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) Google
4 3 (16.67%) IBM
4 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 2 (11.11%) Meraki
5 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto