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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 66 86
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -15
Contract jobs citing Ansible 34 24 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.03% 2.19% 1.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.13% 22.22% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 17
10th Percentile £356 £363 £397
25th Percentile £460 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £431 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -21.59% +2.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £681 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -10.20%
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 £82.00 £74.44 £68.63
% change year-on-year +10.16% +8.46% -5.98%

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 147 108 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.76% 9.84% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 55 90
10th Percentile £210 £231 £257
25th Percentile £356 £275 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £595 £500 £634
90th Percentile £638 £590 £738
England median daily rate £501 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -5.88% +1.43% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 23
10th Percentile £19.32 £31.00 -
25th Percentile - £38.13 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.82% +150.00% -67.35%
75th Percentile £23.71 £59.38 £49.00
90th Percentile £24.09 £65.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +87.38% -43.70% +8.66%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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
Cambridgeshire +1 17 £495 -3.41% 6
Hertfordshire - 13 £478 - 7
Suffolk -2 2 - - 2
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 2
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 2
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 5 (14.71%) Apache
1 5 (14.71%) IIS
2 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) AWS
1 5 (14.71%) Entra ID
2 4 (11.76%) Route 53
3 3 (8.82%) Mimecast
3 3 (8.82%) Nutanix
4 2 (5.88%) Azure
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.94%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Firewall
2 7 (20.59%) DNS
3 6 (17.65%) DHCP
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (8.82%) VPN
5 2 (5.88%) 802.11
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
5 2 (5.88%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (5.88%) WAN
5 2 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.94%) InfiniBand
6 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
6 1 (2.94%) SAN
6 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Git
2 10 (29.41%) GitLab
3 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.94%) JMeter
5 1 (2.94%) Locust
5 1 (2.94%) Newman
5 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.94%) Robot Framework
5 1 (2.94%) Selenium
5 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.94%) TestCafe
General
1 7 (20.59%) Aerospace
1 7 (20.59%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.88%) Advertising
4 2 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Administrator
2 8 (23.53%) Network Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (20.59%) Linux Administrator
4 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Senior
4 5 (14.71%) Switch Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Network Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Network Services Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Network Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Network Support Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) LDAP
2 7 (20.59%) Middleware
3 2 (5.88%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.94%) JWT
4 1 (2.94%) NETCONF
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) RESTCONF
4 1 (2.94%) RESTful
4 1 (2.94%) Taurus
4 1 (2.94%) WCF
4 1 (2.94%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 6 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.82%) Acoustics
4 3 (8.82%) Derivative
4 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (8.82%) Security Posture
4 3 (8.82%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.94%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Linux
2 11 (32.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (32.35%) Windows
3 7 (20.59%) CentOS
3 7 (20.59%) Windows Server
4 5 (14.71%) Debian
4 5 (14.71%) Ubuntu
5 3 (8.82%) VMS
6 1 (2.94%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) DevOps
2 8 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (20.59%) Information Management
3 7 (20.59%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 6 (17.65%) Agile
4 6 (17.65%) Configuration Management
4 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
4 6 (17.65%) ITIL
5 5 (14.71%) PRINCE2
5 5 (14.71%) Server Building
6 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (8.82%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
7 3 (8.82%) Incident Response
7 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (8.82%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (8.82%) Load Balancing
7 3 (8.82%) Virtual Team Management
8 2 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) Shell Script
3 7 (20.59%) MATLAB
4 4 (11.76%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) C++
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) Korn
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (2.94%) Ruby
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) CCIE
3 4 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.88%) CCNP
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (32.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) QEMU
3 3 (8.82%) Docker
3 3 (8.82%) GPFS
3 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.82%) Lustre
3 3 (8.82%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Podman
2 9 (26.47%) Terraform
3 7 (20.59%) Check_MK
3 7 (20.59%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (11.76%) Puppet
5 3 (8.82%) HAProxy
5 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
5 3 (8.82%) Salt
5 3 (8.82%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (2.94%) Consul
6 1 (2.94%) Istio
6 1 (2.94%) Nagios
6 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.94%) SCCM
6 1 (2.94%) WSUS
6 1 (2.94%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Cisco
2 8 (23.53%) Red Hat
2 8 (23.53%) VMware
3 7 (20.59%) Palo Alto
4 5 (14.71%) SolarWinds
5 3 (8.82%) Infoblox
5 3 (8.82%) NVIDIA
6 2 (5.88%) Meraki
7 1 (2.94%) Clearswift
7 1 (2.94%) IBM
7 1 (2.94%) jetNEXUS
7 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.94%) Progress
7 1 (2.94%) Qualys
7 1 (2.94%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.94%) SaltStack
7 1 (2.94%) Tenable