Ansible Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Ansible
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Ansible 18 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.52% - 0.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.00% - 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 1
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £401 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 - £525
90th Percentile £575 - -
East of England median daily rate £530 £650 £535
% change year-on-year -18.46% +21.50% -2.73%

All Systems Management Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 40 23 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 14.49% 4.65% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 46
10th Percentile £295 £182 £229
25th Percentile £353 £213 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £305 £475
Median % change year-on-year +52.95% -35.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £544 £390 £525
90th Percentile £560 £503 £575
East of England median daily rate £477 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -5.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £14.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.29% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £26.75 - £18.50
90th Percentile - £20.80 -
East of England median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £18.78
% change year-on-year +235.71% -25.45% +29.52%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cambridge - 12 £540 - 33
Huntingdon - 2 £383 - 2
Ansible
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) GitHub
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) Network Security
3 4 (22.22%) VSAN
4 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (5.56%) 802.11
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (5.56%) DHCP
5 1 (5.56%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.56%) LAN
5 1 (5.56%) Multicast
5 1 (5.56%) SNA
5 1 (5.56%) SNMP
5 1 (5.56%) VLAN
5 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.56%) Wireless
5 1 (5.56%) Wireless Security
5 1 (5.56%) WLAN
5 1 (5.56%) WPA2
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead
5 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.56%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
4 1 (5.56%) Clustering
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Replication
4 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 4 (22.22%) Task Automation
5 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 4 (22.22%) Zero Trust
6 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (16.67%) GitOps
6 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (16.67%) Workload Management
7 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.11%) ITIL
7 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
7 2 (11.11%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Bash
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (5.56%) C-shell
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) VCAP
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) vSphere
4 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.11%) Docker
4 2 (11.11%) Firmware
4 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (72.22%) Terraform
2 5 (27.78%) vCenter Server
2 5 (27.78%) VxRail
3 4 (22.22%) PowerCLI
4 3 (16.67%) Consul
4 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 2 (11.11%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (5.56%) Grafana
6 1 (5.56%) HAProxy
6 1 (5.56%) Nagios
6 1 (5.56%) Podman
6 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) VMware
2 6 (33.33%) Dell
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
4 3 (16.67%) Google
4 3 (16.67%) IBM
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.56%) AirMagnet
6 1 (5.56%) Ekahau
6 1 (5.56%) HP
6 1 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.56%) LogRhythm
6 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.56%) Sun