Ansible Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Ansible
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 52 61
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing Ansible 5 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.55% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.88% 7.14% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £514 £193 -
25th Percentile £516 £211 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £244 £335
Median % change year-on-year +115.16% -27.16% -30.93%
75th Percentile £534 £279 £353
90th Percentile £536 £298 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £558
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.62% -10.44%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 85 42 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.37% 7.50% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 28 67
10th Percentile £176 £184 £187
25th Percentile £213 £290 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £393 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% -11.80% -
75th Percentile £458 £500 £625
90th Percentile £553 £550 £750
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.57% -2.78% -8.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.05
25th Percentile £16.25 - £15.49
Median hourly rate £16.50 - £16.36
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.50%
75th Percentile £16.75 - £17.10
90th Percentile - - £17.47
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +98.11% -42.62% +21.53%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire -9 2 £525 - 5
Derbyshire - 2 - - 5
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 3
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) NAS
1 2 (40.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Architect
1 2 (40.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 1 (20.00%) GitOps
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Istio
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat