Ansible Contracts in the East of England

Ansible
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 100 86
Rank change year-on-year +42 -14 -40
Contract jobs citing Ansible 24 12 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.56% 0.63% 1.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.64% 12.37% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 22
10th Percentile £392 £361 £273
25th Percentile £426 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £650 £535
Median % change year-on-year -18.46% +21.50% -2.73%
75th Percentile £575 £706 £628
90th Percentile £600 £800 £676
England median daily rate £575 £550 £623
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.65% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £71.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.08% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £74.88
90th Percentile - - £75.55
England median hourly rate £71.85 £62.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +14.96% -14.38% +26.96%

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 106 97 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.30% 5.08% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 58 201
10th Percentile £215 £188 £225
25th Percentile £338 £258 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £638
90th Percentile £600 £641 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 22
10th Percentile £30.25 - £14.25
25th Percentile £36.25 - £14.56
Median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £18.78
Median % change year-on-year +235.71% -25.45% +29.52%
75th Percentile £58.25 £20.19 £65.75
90th Percentile £64.55 £44.16 £74.50
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the East of England

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in the East of England

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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 1 May 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
Cambridgeshire - 18 £528 - 31
Hertfordshire +25 4 £550 -18.52% 10
Essex +11 1 £600 - 4
Suffolk -7 1 £438 +103.49% 4
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England

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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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
1 5 (20.83%) GitHub
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Cohesity
3 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) Firewall
2 5 (20.83%) DNS
2 5 (20.83%) Network Security
2 5 (20.83%) VSAN
3 2 (8.33%) SAN
4 1 (4.17%) 802.11
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (4.17%) DHCP
4 1 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.17%) LAN
4 1 (4.17%) Multicast
4 1 (4.17%) SNA
4 1 (4.17%) SNMP
4 1 (4.17%) VLAN
4 1 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.17%) Wireless
4 1 (4.17%) Wireless Security
4 1 (4.17%) WLAN
4 1 (4.17%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Architect
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Lead
4 1 (4.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) VMware Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.17%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.17%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.17%) Clustering
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.17%) FMCG
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) DevOps
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 4 (16.67%) Zero Trust
7 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
7 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 3 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (12.50%) GitOps
7 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (12.50%) Workload Management
8 2 (8.33%) Computer Science
8 2 (8.33%) ITIL
8 2 (8.33%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
3 6 (25.00%) Bash
4 3 (12.50%) Perl
5 1 (4.17%) C-shell
5 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) VCAP
4 3 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (8.33%) Degree
6 1 (4.17%) CCNP
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 5 (20.83%) Docker
3 5 (20.83%) vSphere
4 2 (8.33%) Firmware
4 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) vCenter Server
2 5 (20.83%) VxRail
3 4 (16.67%) PowerCLI
4 3 (12.50%) Consul
4 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (12.50%) WSUS
5 2 (8.33%) Puppet
5 2 (8.33%) SCCM
6 1 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (4.17%) Grafana
6 1 (4.17%) HAProxy
6 1 (4.17%) Nagios
6 1 (4.17%) Podman
6 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (4.17%) SCOM
6 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) VMware
2 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 6 (25.00%) Dell
4 3 (12.50%) Google
4 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) NetApp
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) HP
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 2 (8.33%) Splunk
6 1 (4.17%) AirMagnet
6 1 (4.17%) Ekahau
6 1 (4.17%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.17%) LogRhythm
6 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.17%) Sun
6 1 (4.17%) Tenable