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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 59 91
Rank change year-on-year -16 +32 -32
Contract jobs citing Ansible 32 23 23
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.76% 2.18% 1.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.13% 21.30% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 14
10th Percentile £356 £413 £381
25th Percentile £460 £420 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -9.09% -0.90%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £609
90th Percentile £681 £675 £669
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -9.02%
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 £80.50 £74.44 £68.63
% change year-on-year +8.14% +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 159 108 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.75% 10.22% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 59 84
10th Percentile £190 £240 £225
25th Percentile £300 £311 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -16.00% -
75th Percentile £592 £525 £628
90th Percentile £638 £600 £738
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 22
10th Percentile - £30.25 -
25th Percentile - £36.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £47.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.26% +147.37% -68.98%
75th Percentile £20.99 £58.25 £46.83
90th Percentile £23.85 £64.55 £77.50
England median hourly rate £52.50 £26.00 £42.03
% change year-on-year +101.92% -38.14% -16.88%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +3 16 £495 +16.47% 1
Hertfordshire -9 13 £478 -4.40% 2
Suffolk 0 2 - -
Norfolk - 1 £475 -
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 (15.63%) Apache
1 5 (15.63%) IIS
2 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
1 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
2 4 (12.50%) Route 53
3 3 (9.38%) Mimecast
3 3 (9.38%) Nutanix
4 2 (6.25%) Azure
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) DNS
1 7 (21.88%) Firewall
2 6 (18.75%) DHCP
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (6.25%) VPN
5 1 (3.13%) 802.11
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.13%) InfiniBand
5 1 (3.13%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.13%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.13%) VoIP
5 1 (3.13%) WAN
5 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 13 (40.63%) Git
2 9 (28.13%) GitLab
2 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) JMeter
3 1 (3.13%) Locust
3 1 (3.13%) Newman
3 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.13%) Robot Framework
3 1 (3.13%) Selenium
3 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (3.13%) TestCafe
General
1 7 (21.88%) Aerospace
1 7 (21.88%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.25%) Advertising
4 2 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Administrator
2 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (21.88%) Network Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Switch Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Network Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Network Services Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Service Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Network Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Network Support Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Support Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) LDAP
2 7 (21.88%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.13%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.13%) JWT
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
3 1 (3.13%) Taurus
3 1 (3.13%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Data Centre
2 6 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 5 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (9.38%) Acoustics
4 3 (9.38%) Derivative
4 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team
5 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.13%) Grid Computing
6 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (53.13%) Linux
2 11 (34.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (34.38%) Windows
3 7 (21.88%) CentOS
3 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (15.63%) Debian
4 5 (15.63%) Ubuntu
5 3 (9.38%) VMS
6 1 (3.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (31.25%) DevOps
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (21.88%) Information Management
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 6 (18.75%) Agile
4 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
4 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 6 (18.75%) ITIL
5 5 (15.63%) PRINCE2
5 5 (15.63%) Server Building
6 3 (9.38%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (9.38%) Incident Response
6 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (9.38%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (9.38%) Load Balancing
6 3 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (9.38%) Virtual Team Management
7 2 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 7 (21.88%) MATLAB
4 4 (12.50%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) Korn
5 1 (3.13%) Perl
5 1 (3.13%) Ruby
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.25%) CCIE
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (34.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) QEMU
3 3 (9.38%) GPFS
3 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.38%) Lustre
3 3 (9.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Docker
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Podman
2 8 (25.00%) Terraform
3 7 (21.88%) Check_MK
3 7 (21.88%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (12.50%) Puppet
5 3 (9.38%) HAProxy
5 3 (9.38%) Salt
5 3 (9.38%) Stealthwatch
6 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
7 1 (3.13%) Consul
7 1 (3.13%) Istio
7 1 (3.13%) Nagios
7 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.13%) SCCM
7 1 (3.13%) WSUS
7 1 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Cisco
2 8 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 8 (25.00%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Palo Alto
4 5 (15.63%) SolarWinds
5 3 (9.38%) Infoblox
5 3 (9.38%) NVIDIA
6 1 (3.13%) Clearswift
6 1 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (3.13%) jetNEXUS
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) Progress
6 1 (3.13%) Qualys
6 1 (3.13%) Rapid7
6 1 (3.13%) SaltStack
6 1 (3.13%) Tenable