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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 71 67
Rank change year-on-year +23 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Ansible 51 27 50
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.68% 1.87% 2.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.65% 18.88% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 10 36
10th Percentile £371 £363 £273
25th Percentile £500 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -7.50% -9.91%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £556
90th Percentile £594 £876 £619
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.89%

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 178 143 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.83% 9.91% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 90 142
10th Percentile £203 £239 £273
25th Percentile £402 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.67%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £609
90th Percentile £644 £583 £723
England median daily rate £504 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.05% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 22
10th Percentile £21.29 £32.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £33.23 £35.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £40.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.75% -18.37% -32.88%
75th Percentile £67.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £48.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -29.84% +119.57%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +18 25 £550 -
Cambridgeshire +7 21 £525 +13.51% 7
Suffolk +1 2 - - 1
Bedfordshire -7 1 - -
Essex - 1 £575 -
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 1
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 6 (11.76%) OpenStack
2 3 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Cohesity
2 16 (31.37%) AWS
3 9 (17.65%) Azure
3 9 (17.65%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (9.80%) GCP
5 4 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.92%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (3.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.96%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.96%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.96%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.96%) Route 53
7 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (60.78%) DNS
2 25 (49.02%) SAN
3 7 (13.73%) Firewall
4 5 (9.80%) iSCSI
4 5 (9.80%) VPN
5 3 (5.88%) SD-WAN
5 3 (5.88%) WAN
6 2 (3.92%) 802.11
6 2 (3.92%) BGP
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (3.92%) OSPF
6 2 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.92%) VLAN
6 2 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.96%) DHCP
7 1 (1.96%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.96%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) JIRA
2 11 (21.57%) GitLab
3 8 (15.69%) TeamCity
4 3 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 3 (5.88%) Git
5 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.96%) JMeter
6 1 (1.96%) Locust
6 1 (1.96%) Newman
6 1 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.96%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.96%) Selenium
6 1 (1.96%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.96%) TestCafe
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (1.96%) Legal
3 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Administrator
2 6 (11.76%) Network Engineer
2 6 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (5.88%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (5.88%) Senior
5 2 (3.92%) Consultant
5 2 (3.92%) Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Network Administrator
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) Analyst
6 1 (1.96%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (1.96%) Security Consultant
6 1 (1.96%) Security Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.96%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (1.96%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (1.96%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.92%) REST
2 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.96%) Django
2 1 (1.96%) JWT
2 1 (1.96%) LDAP
2 1 (1.96%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.96%) Next.js
2 1 (1.96%) OAuth
2 1 (1.96%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.96%) PySpark
2 1 (1.96%) React
2 1 (1.96%) RESTCONF
2 1 (1.96%) RESTful
2 1 (1.96%) SAML
2 1 (1.96%) Taurus
2 1 (1.96%) WCF
2 1 (1.96%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (7.84%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.88%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.96%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.96%) Web Conferencing
6 1 (1.96%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 24 (47.06%) Windows
2 23 (45.10%) Windows Server
3 20 (39.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (39.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (27.45%) Linux
5 5 (9.80%) CentOS
5 5 (9.80%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.96%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) SIEM
2 20 (39.22%) Build Automation
2 20 (39.22%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (39.22%) Operations Management
3 12 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 11 (21.57%) DevOps
4 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.65%) ITSM
6 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.80%) Agile
8 4 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (7.84%) Data Science
8 4 (7.84%) Task Automation
9 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (5.88%) Network Architecture
9 3 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (5.88%) Security Patching
9 3 (5.88%) Vulnerability Management
9 3 (5.88%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) Python
2 21 (41.18%) PowerShell
3 10 (19.61%) Shell Script
4 8 (15.69%) Bash
5 4 (7.84%) Perl
6 1 (1.96%) C++
6 1 (1.96%) Java
6 1 (1.96%) Korn
6 1 (1.96%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.96%) R
6 1 (1.96%) Ruby
6 1 (1.96%) Scala
6 1 (1.96%) SQL
6 1 (1.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (45.10%) DV Cleared
1 23 (45.10%) Security Cleared
2 8 (15.69%) Degree
3 3 (5.88%) CCIE
3 3 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.92%) CCNP
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.92%) SANS
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 20 (39.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 20 (39.22%) Virtual Servers
2 20 (39.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (11.76%) Docker
3 6 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.88%) Lustre
4 3 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 2 (3.92%) GPFS
6 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (41.18%) SCCM
1 21 (41.18%) WSUS
2 18 (35.29%) Terraform
3 8 (15.69%) Puppet
4 7 (13.73%) Kubernetes
5 6 (11.76%) Salt
6 5 (9.80%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.92%) Nagios
8 1 (1.96%) Consul
8 1 (1.96%) Istio
8 1 (1.96%) Packer
8 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.96%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (52.94%) VMware
2 25 (49.02%) Microsoft
3 20 (39.22%) NetApp
3 20 (39.22%) Splunk
4 9 (17.65%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.84%) IBM
6 3 (5.88%) Cisco
6 3 (5.88%) Google
6 3 (5.88%) Palo Alto
6 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.92%) Clearswift
7 2 (3.92%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.92%) Huawei
7 2 (3.92%) Meraki
7 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.96%) Progress
8 1 (1.96%) Qualys
8 1 (1.96%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.96%) SaltStack
8 1 (1.96%) Tenable