Ansible Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Ansible
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 43 66
Rank change year-on-year -18 +23 +4
Contract jobs citing Ansible 62 49 27
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.58% 3.66% 1.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.68% 31.01% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 35 10
10th Percentile £420 £369 £363
25th Percentile £469 £513 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +18.92% -7.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £569
90th Percentile £758 £598 £876
England median daily rate £569 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -6.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £71.43 £48.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +48.81% -35.14% -3.31%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 224 158 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.32% 11.79% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 99 73
10th Percentile £183 £210 £226
25th Percentile £395 £403 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £650 £580
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 3
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.29 £32.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £33.23 £35.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £63.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +58.75% -18.37%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.00 £45.00
90th Percentile - - £48.00
England median hourly rate £65.45 £34.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +92.50% -10.53% -27.62%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in the East of England

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the East of England

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ansible.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Hertfordshire -15 32 £552 +0.36% 3
Cambridgeshire 0 14 £600 +14.29% 22
Suffolk -11 11 £495 - 3
Essex -18 2 £325 -43.48%
Norfolk - 2 £400 - 2
Bedfordshire -4 1 £300 - 2
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (12.90%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.61%) CMS
2 1 (1.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.42%) AWS
1 17 (27.42%) Azure
2 13 (20.97%) GCP
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (8.06%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.45%) Apple Pay
4 4 (6.45%) GitHub
5 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.84%) Google Ads
5 3 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (4.84%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.61%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) SAN
2 9 (14.52%) DNS
3 7 (11.29%) Firewall
3 7 (11.29%) SNMP
3 7 (11.29%) VLAN
4 6 (9.68%) WAN
4 6 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (8.06%) BGP
5 5 (8.06%) TCP/IP
6 4 (6.45%) VPN
7 3 (4.84%) DHCP
7 3 (4.84%) InfiniBand
7 3 (4.84%) LAN
7 3 (4.84%) MPLS
7 3 (4.84%) SD-WAN
7 3 (4.84%) SSL
8 2 (3.23%) Network Security
8 2 (3.23%) TACACS
9 1 (1.61%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.61%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) MySQL
1 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.23%) Redis
1 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 21 (33.87%) Git
2 14 (22.58%) GitLab
3 10 (16.13%) Gradle
4 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.23%) JIRA
6 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.23%) Retail
4 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.61%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Senior
2 10 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (14.52%) Storage Engineer
4 8 (12.90%) Developer
4 8 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 6 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) NetApp Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Backup Specialist
6 5 (8.06%) Consultant
6 5 (8.06%) NetApp Specialist
6 5 (8.06%) Network Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Technical Specialist
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
6 5 (8.06%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (6.45%) Java Software Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) SOC Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (48.39%) Terraform
2 10 (16.13%) Spring Boot
3 5 (8.06%) eBPF
3 5 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.06%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (8.06%) Spring
4 4 (6.45%) Kafka
4 4 (6.45%) REST
5 3 (4.84%) LDAP
6 2 (3.23%) Celery
6 2 (3.23%) Django
6 2 (3.23%) JWT
6 2 (3.23%) Middleware
6 2 (3.23%) NETCONF
6 2 (3.23%) OAuth
6 2 (3.23%) OpenConfig
6 2 (3.23%) React
6 2 (3.23%) RESTCONF
6 2 (3.23%) Vue
6 2 (3.23%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Replication
2 10 (16.13%) Cloud Native
3 7 (11.29%) Private Cloud
4 6 (9.68%) Data Centre
5 5 (8.06%) Public Cloud
6 4 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (6.45%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
7 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.23%) CUDA
8 1 (1.61%) CCTV
8 1 (1.61%) Clustering
8 1 (1.61%) CMDB
8 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (45.16%) Linux
2 20 (32.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (22.58%) CentOS
4 13 (20.97%) Windows
4 13 (20.97%) Windows Server
5 12 (19.35%) Rocky
6 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.61%) Solaris
7 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 21 (33.87%) DevOps
3 20 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (32.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 15 (24.19%) Agile
5 14 (22.58%) Containerisation
6 12 (19.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (17.74%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (17.74%) SIEM
7 11 (17.74%) Software Engineering
8 10 (16.13%) Root Cause Analysis
8 10 (16.13%) Test Automation
9 9 (14.52%) Observability
10 8 (12.90%) Anomaly Detection
10 8 (12.90%) Configuration Management
10 8 (12.90%) ITSM
10 8 (12.90%) Microservices
11 7 (11.29%) AI
11 7 (11.29%) TDD
11 7 (11.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) Python
2 17 (27.42%) PowerShell
3 13 (20.97%) Bash
4 11 (17.74%) Java
5 7 (11.29%) SQL
6 5 (8.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (8.06%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (3.23%) MATLAB
7 2 (3.23%) Perl
7 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.61%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) Groovy
8 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (46.77%) Security Cleared
2 21 (33.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) Degree
5 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.84%) CCIE
6 3 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.84%) RHCE
7 2 (3.23%) JNCIE
7 2 (3.23%) RHCSA
8 1 (1.61%) CCNP
8 1 (1.61%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.61%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Active Directory
1 5 (8.06%) Docker
2 4 (6.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.61%) GPFS
4 1 (1.61%) Lustre
4 1 (1.61%) NFS
4 1 (1.61%) Squid
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (19.35%) NetBackup
2 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.68%) Grafana
3 6 (9.68%) Puppet
4 5 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.84%) Argo
6 2 (3.23%) Check_MK
6 2 (3.23%) Podman
6 2 (3.23%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (3.23%) Salt
7 1 (1.61%) Consul
7 1 (1.61%) Packer
7 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (25.81%) NetApp
2 12 (19.35%) Veeam
3 10 (16.13%) Splunk
4 8 (12.90%) Red Hat
5 6 (9.68%) Dynatrace
5 6 (9.68%) VMware
6 5 (8.06%) Cisco
6 5 (8.06%) Cribl.io
6 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
7 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
8 3 (4.84%) Google
8 3 (4.84%) Infoblox
8 3 (4.84%) Juniper
9 2 (3.23%) Dell
9 2 (3.23%) F5
9 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.61%) Cadence
10 1 (1.61%) IBM
10 1 (1.61%) Oracle
10 1 (1.61%) Trend Micro