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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 100 71
Rank change year-on-year +62 -29 -18
Contract jobs citing Ansible 53 14 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.62% 0.74% 2.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.64% 12.73% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 6 36
10th Percentile £363 £349 £273
25th Percentile £500 £506 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% -9.33%
75th Percentile £575 £678 £606
90th Percentile - £800 £674
England median daily rate £550 £550 £603
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

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 153 110 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.33% 5.79% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 77 189
10th Percentile £227 £203 £270
25th Percentile £399 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £43.21 £14.90 -
25th Percentile £45.84 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £50.23 £28.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.23% -59.29% +351.61%
75th Percentile £54.61 £42.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £45.60 -
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +53.97% -45.22% +161.36%

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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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +43 26 £550 -10.20% 13
Cambridgeshire +39 26 £460 -8.00% 13
Essex +12 1 £575 - 2
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 (9.43%) OpenStack
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) IIS
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.89%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) Cohesity
2 14 (26.42%) AWS
3 8 (15.09%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (11.32%) Azure
5 5 (9.43%) GitHub
6 4 (7.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (7.55%) GCP
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.89%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.89%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 31 (58.49%) DNS
2 26 (49.06%) SAN
3 9 (16.98%) Firewall
4 6 (11.32%) Network Security
5 5 (9.43%) iSCSI
5 5 (9.43%) VSAN
6 3 (5.66%) VLAN
7 2 (3.77%) BGP
7 2 (3.77%) OSPF
7 2 (3.77%) VPN
8 1 (1.89%) 802.11
8 1 (1.89%) DHCP
8 1 (1.89%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.89%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (1.89%) LAN
8 1 (1.89%) SNA
8 1 (1.89%) WAN
8 1 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.89%) Wireless
8 1 (1.89%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) JIRA
2 9 (16.98%) GitLab
3 8 (15.09%) TeamCity
4 3 (5.66%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.89%) Git
5 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (1.89%) Legal
2 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Administrator
2 6 (11.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (9.43%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (7.55%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.66%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Network Administrator
6 2 (3.77%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Architect
7 1 (1.89%) Developer
7 1 (1.89%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) Python Developer
7 1 (1.89%) Security Engineer
7 1 (1.89%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.89%) Django
1 1 (1.89%) Next.js
1 1 (1.89%) OAuth
1 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.89%) PySpark
1 1 (1.89%) React
1 1 (1.89%) REST
1 1 (1.89%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Data Centre
1 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Storage
1 5 (9.43%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (5.66%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.89%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) PKI
5 1 (1.89%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.89%) RSA SecurID
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 23 (43.40%) Windows
1 23 (43.40%) Windows Server
2 21 (39.62%) Windows Server 2016
2 21 (39.62%) Windows Server 2019
3 11 (20.75%) Linux
4 5 (9.43%) CentOS
4 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) SIEM
2 20 (37.74%) Build Automation
2 20 (37.74%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (37.74%) Operations Management
3 13 (24.53%) CI/CD
3 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
4 10 (18.87%) DevOps
4 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (18.87%) ITSM
5 8 (15.09%) Agile
5 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (13.21%) Computer Science
7 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.32%) Task Automation
8 4 (7.55%) Data Science
8 4 (7.55%) Network Virtualisation
8 4 (7.55%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (7.55%) Project Delivery
8 4 (7.55%) Waterfall
8 4 (7.55%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.94%) PowerShell
2 25 (47.17%) Python
3 9 (16.98%) Shell Script
4 6 (11.32%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) Scala
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (54.72%) Security Cleared
2 28 (52.83%) DV Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.66%) VCAP
5 3 (5.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.89%) CCNP
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.89%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (52.83%) Active Directory
2 26 (49.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (37.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (37.74%) Virtual Servers
4 6 (11.32%) Hyper-V
5 5 (9.43%) VMware NSX
5 5 (9.43%) vSphere
6 3 (5.66%) Docker
7 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (41.51%) WSUS
2 21 (39.62%) SCCM
2 21 (39.62%) Terraform
3 6 (11.32%) Puppet
4 5 (9.43%) Kubernetes
4 5 (9.43%) Progress Chef
4 5 (9.43%) VxRail
5 4 (7.55%) PowerCLI
5 4 (7.55%) Salt
5 4 (7.55%) vCenter Server
6 3 (5.66%) Consul
6 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.89%) Grafana
7 1 (1.89%) Nagios
7 1 (1.89%) SCOM
7 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.89%) vRealize
Vendors
1 34 (64.15%) VMware
2 26 (49.06%) Microsoft
3 22 (41.51%) NetApp
4 21 (39.62%) Splunk
5 10 (18.87%) ServiceNow
6 5 (9.43%) Dell
6 5 (9.43%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.66%) Google
7 3 (5.66%) IBM
7 3 (5.66%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.77%) Cisco
8 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.77%) Huawei
9 1 (1.89%) AirMagnet
9 1 (1.89%) Clearswift
9 1 (1.89%) Ekahau
9 1 (1.89%) HP
9 1 (1.89%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.89%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.89%) Tenable