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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 34 102
Rank change year-on-year -18 +68 -16
Contract jobs citing Ansible 61 51 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.73% 5.31% 0.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.67% 38.64% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 41 7
10th Percentile £408 £379 £394
25th Percentile £462 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.00% +20.19%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £700
90th Percentile £681 - £783
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -10.39%

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 171 132 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.65% 13.75% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 99 69
10th Percentile £188 £246 £188
25th Percentile £406 £423 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £643 £603 £628
England median daily rate £507 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -2.59% -0.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 8
10th Percentile £16.98 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £20.09 - £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.65%
75th Percentile - - £14.75
90th Percentile £44.53 - £26.30
England median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year +94.83% +6.42% -47.91%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -12 35 £500 -9.09% 6
Cambridgeshire -6 13 £475 -7.32% 2
Suffolk +3 11 £495 +13.14% 2
Bedfordshire - 2 £300 -
Norfolk - 1 £400 - 1
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 3 (4.92%) Apache
1 3 (4.92%) IIS
2 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.67%) AWS
2 9 (14.75%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) GCP
3 6 (9.84%) GitHub
3 6 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (8.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (6.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.56%) Apple Pay
5 4 (6.56%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.56%) Route 53
6 3 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.92%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.75%) DNS
2 6 (9.84%) DHCP
2 6 (9.84%) VPN
3 5 (8.20%) Firewall
4 4 (6.56%) SNMP
4 4 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.92%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (4.92%) SAN
6 2 (3.28%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.28%) NAS
6 2 (3.28%) Network Security
6 2 (3.28%) SSL
6 2 (3.28%) WAN
7 1 (1.64%) InfiniBand
7 1 (1.64%) LAN
7 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 32 (52.46%) Git
2 25 (40.98%) GitLab
3 13 (21.31%) Jenkins
4 11 (18.03%) Gradle
5 1 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 11 (18.03%) Documentation Skills
1 11 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.39%) Aerospace
3 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.28%) Advertising
5 2 (3.28%) Banking
5 2 (3.28%) Finance
6 1 (1.64%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (26.23%) Administrator
2 11 (18.03%) Linux Administrator
3 9 (14.75%) Developer
3 9 (14.75%) Java Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Senior
5 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Network Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Java Software Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) SOC Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.92%) Consultant
9 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Network Services Manager
9 3 (4.92%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Service Manager
9 3 (4.92%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) LDAP
1 11 (18.03%) Middleware
1 11 (18.03%) Spring Boot
2 6 (9.84%) Spring
3 5 (8.20%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.56%) eBPF
4 4 (6.56%) Kafka
4 4 (6.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.03%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.75%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.75%) Management Information System
3 6 (9.84%) Private Cloud
4 4 (6.56%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (6.56%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (4.92%) Acoustics
5 3 (4.92%) Derivative
5 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.28%) Clustering
6 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.64%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (36.07%) Linux
2 15 (24.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (18.03%) CentOS
4 10 (16.39%) Windows
5 6 (9.84%) Windows Server
6 5 (8.20%) Debian
6 5 (8.20%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.92%) VMS
8 1 (1.64%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.64%) Solaris
8 1 (1.64%) Unix
8 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
2 20 (32.79%) DevOps
3 18 (29.51%) Containerisation
4 17 (27.87%) Agile
5 14 (22.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (18.03%) Information Management
7 11 (18.03%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 10 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) SIEM
8 10 (16.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (16.39%) Software Engineering
9 9 (14.75%) Microservices
9 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (14.75%) Test Automation
10 8 (13.11%) Infrastructure Automation
10 8 (13.11%) TDD
10 8 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (13.11%) User Stories
11 7 (11.48%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.31%) Python
2 12 (19.67%) Java
3 11 (18.03%) Bash
3 11 (18.03%) MATLAB
3 11 (18.03%) Shell Script
4 8 (13.11%) SQL
5 5 (8.20%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (8.20%) Search Processing Language
6 4 (6.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.64%) C++
7 1 (1.64%) Groovy
7 1 (1.64%) Perl
7 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (42.62%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.39%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) Degree
5 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.95%) SLA
2 4 (6.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (29.51%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.20%) QEMU
4 2 (3.28%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.64%) Docker
5 1 (1.64%) GPFS
5 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.64%) Lustre
5 1 (1.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (1.64%) Squid
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (39.34%) Terraform
2 16 (26.23%) Podman
3 11 (18.03%) Check_MK
3 11 (18.03%) Red Hat Satellite
4 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
5 5 (8.20%) Argo
6 4 (6.56%) Grafana
6 4 (6.56%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.56%) Puppet
7 3 (4.92%) HAProxy
7 3 (4.92%) Stealthwatch
7 3 (4.92%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.64%) Consul
8 1 (1.64%) Packer
8 1 (1.64%) Salt
8 1 (1.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (29.51%) VMware
2 14 (22.95%) Red Hat
3 9 (14.75%) Splunk
4 6 (9.84%) Cisco
5 5 (8.20%) Infoblox
5 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
6 4 (6.56%) Cribl.io
6 4 (6.56%) Dynatrace
7 3 (4.92%) NVIDIA
7 3 (4.92%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.92%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.64%) Dell
9 1 (1.64%) Forcepoint
9 1 (1.64%) Google
9 1 (1.64%) jetNEXUS
9 1 (1.64%) NetApp
9 1 (1.64%) Oracle
9 1 (1.64%) PagerDuty
9 1 (1.64%) Trend Micro