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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 47 83
Rank change year-on-year -10 +36 -4
Contract jobs citing Ansible 62 54 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.82% 4.27% 1.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.51% 33.54% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 41 8
10th Percentile £425 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £500 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £609
90th Percentile £748 - £765
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.50 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.99% -19.93% +0.39%

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 185 161 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.42% 12.74% 6.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 101 79
10th Percentile £163 £225 £223
25th Percentile £405 £425 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -1.04% +6.10%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £605
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 4
10th Percentile £17.73 £53.74 £20.90
25th Percentile £19.74 £61.06 £26.75
Median hourly rate £20.09 £66.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.79% +90.00% +40.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £67.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £55.15 - £45.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £54.75 £36.83
% change year-on-year +18.72% +48.65% -26.34%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -6 36 £552 +0.36% 4
Suffolk - 11 £495 - 2
Cambridgeshire -8 10 £538 +16.85% 5
Bedfordshire +5 2 £300 - 2
Essex -18 2 £325 -43.48%
Norfolk - 2 £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 6 (9.68%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
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 16 (25.81%) Azure
2 14 (22.58%) AWS
3 13 (20.97%) GCP
4 6 (9.68%) GitHub
4 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (8.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (6.45%) Apple Pay
6 4 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.84%) Google Ads
7 3 (4.84%) OpenShift
8 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.61%) AWS Control Tower
9 1 (1.61%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (1.61%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.61%) Datadog
9 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (17.74%) DNS
1 11 (17.74%) SAN
2 8 (12.90%) Firewall
3 7 (11.29%) SNMP
4 6 (9.68%) VLAN
4 6 (9.68%) VPN
4 6 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (6.45%) WAN
6 3 (4.84%) LAN
6 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
7 2 (3.23%) BGP
7 2 (3.23%) DHCP
7 2 (3.23%) iSCSI
7 2 (3.23%) MPLS
7 2 (3.23%) NAS
7 2 (3.23%) Network Security
7 2 (3.23%) SSL
7 2 (3.23%) TACACS
8 1 (1.61%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) MySQL
1 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (3.23%) Redis
1 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (38.71%) Git
2 18 (29.03%) GitLab
3 11 (17.74%) Gradle
4 6 (9.68%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.61%) JIRA
General
1 15 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.84%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Finance
5 2 (3.23%) Retail
5 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Senior
2 9 (14.52%) Developer
2 9 (14.52%) Java Developer
3 8 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Administrator
4 7 (11.29%) Storage Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (9.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Backup Specialist
6 5 (8.06%) Consultant
6 5 (8.06%) Java Software Developer
6 5 (8.06%) NetApp Specialist
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%) Software Developer
6 5 (8.06%) Technical Specialist
7 4 (6.45%) Linux Administrator
7 4 (6.45%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) Spring Boot
2 6 (9.68%) Spring
3 5 (8.06%) eBPF
3 5 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.06%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (6.45%) Kafka
4 4 (6.45%) LDAP
4 4 (6.45%) Middleware
5 3 (4.84%) REST
6 2 (3.23%) Celery
6 2 (3.23%) Django
6 2 (3.23%) JWT
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 12 (19.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.52%) Replication
3 8 (12.90%) Private Cloud
4 6 (9.68%) Data Centre
5 4 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 4 (6.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (6.45%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.84%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (3.23%) Clustering
8 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.61%) Grid Computing
8 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (40.32%) Linux
2 17 (27.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 14 (22.58%) CentOS
3 14 (22.58%) Windows
4 13 (20.97%) Windows Server
5 10 (16.13%) Rocky
6 2 (3.23%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.61%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.61%) Solaris
7 1 (1.61%) Unix
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (53.23%) CI/CD
2 21 (33.87%) DevOps
3 19 (30.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (27.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (25.81%) Agile
6 15 (24.19%) Containerisation
7 14 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (20.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (19.35%) Software Engineering
10 11 (17.74%) SIEM
10 11 (17.74%) Test Automation
11 9 (14.52%) Microservices
11 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (12.90%) Anomaly Detection
12 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (12.90%) Observability
12 8 (12.90%) TDD
12 8 (12.90%) User Stories
13 7 (11.29%) AI
13 7 (11.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (30.65%) Python
2 15 (24.19%) PowerShell
3 13 (20.97%) Bash
4 12 (19.35%) Java
5 8 (12.90%) SQL
6 5 (8.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (8.06%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (6.45%) MATLAB
7 4 (6.45%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.61%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) Groovy
8 1 (1.61%) Perl
8 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (51.61%) Security Cleared
2 24 (38.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (16.13%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.06%) Degree
5 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.23%) CCIE
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.23%) JNCIE
6 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) SLA
2 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 7 (11.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.84%) Docker
3 3 (4.84%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.61%) GPFS
4 1 (1.61%) Lustre
4 1 (1.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.61%) Squid
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (48.39%) Terraform
2 10 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 10 (16.13%) NetBackup
3 5 (8.06%) Argo
3 5 (8.06%) Grafana
3 5 (8.06%) Prometheus
3 5 (8.06%) Puppet
4 4 (6.45%) Check_MK
4 4 (6.45%) Podman
4 4 (6.45%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (6.45%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.61%) Consul
5 1 (1.61%) Packer
5 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.61%) Salt
5 1 (1.61%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) NetApp
2 12 (19.35%) VMware
3 10 (16.13%) Splunk
3 10 (16.13%) Veeam
4 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.68%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.06%) Cribl.io
5 5 (8.06%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco
6 2 (3.23%) F5
6 2 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.23%) Google
6 2 (3.23%) Infoblox
6 2 (3.23%) Juniper
6 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.61%) Dell
7 1 (1.61%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.61%) TOWER Software