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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 76 70
Rank change year-on-year +34 -6 +3
Contract jobs citing Ansible 48 20 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.73% 1.32% 2.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.57% 16.53% 17.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 9 31
10th Percentile £340 £330 £273
25th Percentile £500 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile - £638 £625
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.41%

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 157 121 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.20% 8.01% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 77 152
10th Percentile £213 £220 £273
25th Percentile £406 £325 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £639
90th Percentile £691 £581 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.43% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 17
10th Percentile £53.74 £32.00 -
25th Percentile £61.06 £35.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £40.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.25% -18.37% -32.88%
75th Percentile £67.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £48.00 £76.00
England median hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% -23.81% +119.57%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible 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 15 September 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 15 September 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
Hertfordshire +23 25 £550 - 1
Cambridgeshire +17 20 £441 -4.59% 2
Suffolk -2 1 - -
Bedfordshire -9 1 - - 1
Essex - 1 £575 -
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.42%) OpenStack
2 3 (6.25%) Confluence
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) Cohesity
2 14 (29.17%) AWS
3 8 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (14.58%) Azure
5 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.08%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 30 (62.50%) DNS
2 25 (52.08%) SAN
3 6 (12.50%) Firewall
4 5 (10.42%) iSCSI
5 3 (6.25%) VLAN
5 3 (6.25%) VPN
6 2 (4.17%) 802.11
6 2 (4.17%) BGP
6 2 (4.17%) Network Security
6 2 (4.17%) OSPF
6 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
6 2 (4.17%) WAN
6 2 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.08%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (2.08%) Multicast
7 1 (2.08%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.08%) Wireless Security
7 1 (2.08%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) JIRA
2 9 (18.75%) GitLab
3 8 (16.67%) TeamCity
4 3 (6.25%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.17%) Git
6 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (2.08%) Legal
2 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Administrator
2 6 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (10.42%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (10.42%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (4.17%) Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) Developer
5 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Network Administrator
5 2 (4.17%) Senior
6 1 (2.08%) Analyst
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Administrator
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Administrator
6 1 (2.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Linux Developer
6 1 (2.08%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 2 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (2.08%) Django
2 1 (2.08%) JWT
2 1 (2.08%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.08%) Next.js
2 1 (2.08%) OAuth
2 1 (2.08%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.08%) PySpark
2 1 (2.08%) React
2 1 (2.08%) RESTCONF
2 1 (2.08%) SAML
2 1 (2.08%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Data Centre
1 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (10.42%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.08%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 22 (45.83%) Windows
1 22 (45.83%) Windows Server
2 20 (41.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 20 (41.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 11 (22.92%) Linux
4 5 (10.42%) CentOS
4 5 (10.42%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.08%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) SIEM
2 20 (41.67%) Build Automation
2 20 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (41.67%) Operations Management
3 11 (22.92%) Containerisation
4 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (18.75%) ITSM
6 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 8 (16.67%) DevOps
7 7 (14.58%) Computer Science
8 4 (8.33%) Agile
8 4 (8.33%) Data Science
8 4 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (8.33%) Task Automation
9 3 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (6.25%) Security Patching
9 3 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (6.25%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) Python
2 21 (43.75%) PowerShell
3 10 (20.83%) Shell Script
4 6 (12.50%) Bash
5 3 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (2.08%) Korn
6 1 (2.08%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.08%) R
6 1 (2.08%) Scala
6 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (47.92%) DV Cleared
1 23 (47.92%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) Degree
3 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.17%) CCIE
4 2 (4.17%) CCNP
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (54.17%) Active Directory
2 20 (41.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 20 (41.67%) Virtual Servers
2 20 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (8.33%) Docker
5 1 (2.08%) Firmware
5 1 (2.08%) Lustre
5 1 (2.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (43.75%) SCCM
1 21 (43.75%) WSUS
2 16 (33.33%) Terraform
3 6 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.42%) Puppet
5 4 (8.33%) Progress Chef
5 4 (8.33%) Salt
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (2.08%) Istio
6 1 (2.08%) Nagios
6 1 (2.08%) Packer
6 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (56.25%) VMware
2 25 (52.08%) Microsoft
3 20 (41.67%) NetApp
3 20 (41.67%) Splunk
4 9 (18.75%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.33%) IBM
6 3 (6.25%) Cisco
6 3 (6.25%) Google
6 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.17%) Clearswift
7 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.17%) Huawei
7 2 (4.17%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.17%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.08%) AirMagnet
8 1 (2.08%) Ekahau
8 1 (2.08%) Meraki
8 1 (2.08%) Qualys
8 1 (2.08%) Rapid7
8 1 (2.08%) Tenable