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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 61 75
Rank change year-on-year -17 +14 -5
Contract jobs citing Ansible 22 26 37
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.40% 2.13% 2.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.67% 19.70% 19.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 23
10th Percentile £356 £363 £413
25th Percentile £463 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -22.73% +6.02%
75th Percentile £617 £600 £600
90th Percentile £625 £655 £635
England median daily rate £525 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% -8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £74.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% -4.11%

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 150 132 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.57% 10.79% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 71 113
10th Percentile £203 £243 £275
25th Percentile £220 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £571 £638
90th Percentile £645 £581 £725
England median daily rate £513 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 29
10th Percentile £21.24 £27.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.11 £30.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £64.75 £40.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.88% +77.78% -65.65%
75th Percentile £67.00 £50.00 £72.50
90th Percentile - £61.25 £77.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +21.54% -29.62% +34.83%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 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
Cambridgeshire -4 14 £494 +6.76% 20
Hertfordshire -15 3 £488 - 32
Suffolk 0 2 - - 7
Essex -4 1 £575 -4.17% 19
Bedfordshire -6 1 - - 18
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 6
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 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) IIS
1 2 (9.09%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
4 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.09%) Mimecast
4 2 (9.09%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Route 53
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
2 5 (22.73%) Firewall
3 3 (13.64%) VPN
4 2 (9.09%) 802.11
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (9.09%) DHCP
4 2 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 2 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (9.09%) WAN
4 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (4.55%) Ethernet
5 1 (4.55%) InfiniBand
5 1 (4.55%) iSCSI
5 1 (4.55%) Kerberos
5 1 (4.55%) SAN
5 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) GitLab
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) TeamCity
3 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.55%) JMeter
4 1 (4.55%) Locust
4 1 (4.55%) Newman
4 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) TestCafe
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.55%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Network Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Administrator
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Switch Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Performance Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
1 2 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (4.55%) Django
2 1 (4.55%) JWT
2 1 (4.55%) LDAP
2 1 (4.55%) NETCONF
2 1 (4.55%) Next.js
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.55%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) RESTCONF
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) SAML
2 1 (4.55%) Taurus
2 1 (4.55%) WCF
2 1 (4.55%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.55%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Windows
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) CentOS
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) DevOps
2 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
4 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Agile
5 3 (13.64%) ITIL
5 3 (13.64%) ITSM
5 3 (13.64%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (9.09%) Incident Response
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Network Architecture
6 2 (9.09%) PRINCE2
6 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.09%) Server Building
7 1 (4.55%) Security Architecture
7 1 (4.55%) Software Architecture
7 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 4 (18.18%) Bash
2 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.55%) C++
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) Korn
3 1 (4.55%) MATLAB
3 1 (4.55%) Perl
3 1 (4.55%) R
3 1 (4.55%) Ruby
3 1 (4.55%) Scala
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) CCIE
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.09%) CCNP
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) SANS
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (18.18%) Lustre
2 4 (18.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 3 (13.64%) GPFS
3 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Puppet
3 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 5 (22.73%) Salt
4 3 (13.64%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.55%) Consul
5 1 (4.55%) Istio
5 1 (4.55%) Nagios
5 1 (4.55%) Packer
5 1 (4.55%) SCCM
5 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.55%) WSUS
5 1 (4.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco
1 4 (18.18%) Palo Alto
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) Meraki
3 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
3 2 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (4.55%) Clearswift
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Progress
4 1 (4.55%) Qualys
4 1 (4.55%) Rapid7
4 1 (4.55%) SaltStack
4 1 (4.55%) Tenable