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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 44 70
Rank change year-on-year -10 +26 -2
Contract jobs citing Ansible 68 49 24
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.87% 3.76% 1.56%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.08% 32.03% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 10
10th Percentile £425 £340 £346
25th Percentile £463 £500 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £538
90th Percentile £738 - £606
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
England median hourly rate £71.22 £48.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +48.36% -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 212 153 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.95% 11.73% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 96 68
10th Percentile £163 £206 £210
25th Percentile £400 £395 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £694 £577
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 3
10th Percentile £17.20 £53.74 £32.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £61.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.81 £66.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.56% +66.25% -18.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £68.75 - £48.00
England median hourly rate £67.47 £34.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +98.44% -13.38% -21.50%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -10 38 £552 +0.36% 10
Cambridgeshire -3 14 £556 +26.06% 23
Suffolk -7 11 £495 - 1
Bedfordshire +3 2 £300 -
Essex -15 2 £325 -43.48% 2
Norfolk - 2 £400 -
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 7 (10.29%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.47%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 18 (26.47%) Azure
2 17 (25.00%) AWS
3 15 (22.06%) GCP
4 7 (10.29%) GitHub
5 6 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (7.35%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (7.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (5.88%) Apple Pay
8 3 (4.41%) Google Ads
8 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.94%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudTrail
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (1.47%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.47%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (19.12%) SAN
2 11 (16.18%) DNS
3 7 (10.29%) Firewall
3 7 (10.29%) SNMP
3 7 (10.29%) VLAN
4 6 (8.82%) VPN
4 6 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (7.35%) TCP/IP
5 5 (7.35%) WAN
6 4 (5.88%) BGP
7 3 (4.41%) DHCP
7 3 (4.41%) LAN
7 3 (4.41%) MPLS
7 3 (4.41%) Network Security
8 2 (2.94%) InfiniBand
8 2 (2.94%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.94%) NAS
8 2 (2.94%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.94%) SSL
8 2 (2.94%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) MySQL
1 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.94%) Redis
1 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (36.76%) Git
2 18 (26.47%) GitLab
3 11 (16.18%) Gradle
4 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.94%) JIRA
6 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
General
1 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.41%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.94%) Banking
5 2 (2.94%) Finance
5 2 (2.94%) Retail
5 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Senior
2 9 (13.24%) Developer
2 9 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (13.24%) Java Developer
2 9 (13.24%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (10.29%) Administrator
4 6 (8.82%) NetApp Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Network Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (8.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Backup Specialist
5 5 (7.35%) Consultant
5 5 (7.35%) Java Software Developer
5 5 (7.35%) NetApp Specialist
5 5 (7.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 5 (7.35%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 5 (7.35%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
5 5 (7.35%) Software Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (47.06%) Terraform
2 11 (16.18%) Spring Boot
3 6 (8.82%) Spring
4 5 (7.35%) eBPF
4 5 (7.35%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (7.35%) LDAP
4 5 (7.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (5.88%) Kafka
5 4 (5.88%) Middleware
5 4 (5.88%) REST
6 2 (2.94%) Celery
6 2 (2.94%) Django
6 2 (2.94%) JWT
6 2 (2.94%) NETCONF
6 2 (2.94%) OAuth
6 2 (2.94%) OpenConfig
6 2 (2.94%) React
6 2 (2.94%) RESTCONF
6 2 (2.94%) Vue
6 2 (2.94%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 11 (16.18%) Replication
3 8 (11.76%) Private Cloud
4 7 (10.29%) Data Centre
5 5 (7.35%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (5.88%) Security Posture
7 3 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.47%) Clustering
9 1 (1.47%) CMDB
9 1 (1.47%) CUDA
9 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.47%) Grid Computing
9 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.47%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (44.12%) Linux
2 21 (30.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (23.53%) CentOS
3 16 (23.53%) Windows
4 15 (22.06%) Windows Server
5 12 (17.65%) Rocky
6 2 (2.94%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.47%) Solaris
7 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (48.53%) CI/CD
2 23 (33.82%) DevOps
3 22 (32.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 21 (30.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (25.00%) Agile
6 15 (22.06%) Containerisation
7 14 (20.59%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 11 (16.18%) SIEM
9 11 (16.18%) Test Automation
10 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (13.24%) Microservices
11 9 (13.24%) Observability
11 9 (13.24%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (11.76%) Anomaly Detection
12 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
12 8 (11.76%) TDD
12 8 (11.76%) User Stories
13 7 (10.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) Python
2 17 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 14 (20.59%) Bash
4 12 (17.65%) Java
5 7 (10.29%) SQL
6 5 (7.35%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (7.35%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (5.88%) MATLAB
7 4 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.94%) Perl
9 1 (1.47%) C++
9 1 (1.47%) Groovy
9 1 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (48.53%) Security Cleared
2 25 (36.76%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.24%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.35%) Degree
5 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.41%) CCIE
6 3 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (2.94%) JNCIE
7 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.94%) RHCE
7 2 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.47%) CCNP
8 1 (1.47%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.47%) JNCIS
8 1 (1.47%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) SLA
2 4 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (13.24%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.88%) Docker
4 3 (4.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (4.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.47%) GPFS
5 1 (1.47%) Lustre
5 1 (1.47%) NFS
5 1 (1.47%) Squid
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (17.65%) NetBackup
2 10 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.82%) Grafana
3 6 (8.82%) Puppet
4 5 (7.35%) Argo
4 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.88%) Check_MK
5 4 (5.88%) Podman
5 4 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (4.41%) vCenter Server
7 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.94%) Salt
8 1 (1.47%) Consul
8 1 (1.47%) Packer
8 1 (1.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) NetApp
2 12 (17.65%) Veeam
3 11 (16.18%) VMware
4 10 (14.71%) Splunk
5 9 (13.24%) Red Hat
6 6 (8.82%) Dynatrace
7 5 (7.35%) Cribl.io
7 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
8 4 (5.88%) Cisco
8 4 (5.88%) ServiceNow
9 3 (4.41%) Google
9 3 (4.41%) Infoblox
9 3 (4.41%) Juniper
10 2 (2.94%) Dell
10 2 (2.94%) F5
10 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.47%) Cadence
11 1 (1.47%) Forcepoint
11 1 (1.47%) IBM
11 1 (1.47%) Oracle