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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 62 72
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Ansible 26 24 30
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.63% 2.13% 1.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.45% 20.87% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 18
10th Percentile £356 £363 £398
25th Percentile £453 £403 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £431 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.46% -19.77% +6.17%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £594
90th Percentile £681 £650 £644
England median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -9.64%
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 £79.00 £74.44 £67.27
% change year-on-year +6.13% +10.67% -7.86%

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 149 115 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.31% 10.19% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 59 94
10th Percentile £213 £238 £263
25th Percentile £281 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £619 £513 £669
90th Percentile £681 £580 £738
England median daily rate £513 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.67% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 24
10th Percentile £20.09 £27.38 -
25th Percentile £20.64 £29.06 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.25 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% +100.00% -65.22%
75th Percentile £67.00 £54.69 £49.00
90th Percentile - £63.13 £77.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.85% -42.62% +31.94%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 -2 13 £475 -7.32% 29
Hertfordshire - 9 £496 - 49
Suffolk -1 2 - - 12
Bedfordshire -8 1 - - 19
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 12
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 4 (15.38%) Apache
1 4 (15.38%) IIS
2 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
2 3 (11.54%) Mimecast
2 3 (11.54%) Nutanix
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.85%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Route 53
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) Firewall
2 4 (15.38%) DNS
3 3 (11.54%) DHCP
3 3 (11.54%) VPN
4 2 (7.69%) 802.11
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 2 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (7.69%) WAN
4 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.85%) InfiniBand
5 1 (3.85%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) GitLab
3 4 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.85%) JMeter
5 1 (3.85%) Locust
5 1 (3.85%) Newman
5 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (3.85%) Robot Framework
5 1 (3.85%) Selenium
5 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.85%) TestCafe
General
1 3 (11.54%) Aerospace
1 3 (11.54%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
1 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
3 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (26.92%) Network Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Senior
3 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Switch Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Consultant
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) LDAP
2 2 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
2 2 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (3.85%) Django
3 1 (3.85%) JWT
3 1 (3.85%) NETCONF
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) RESTCONF
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) SAML
3 1 (3.85%) Taurus
3 1 (3.85%) WCF
3 1 (3.85%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (11.54%) Acoustics
2 3 (11.54%) Derivative
2 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Grid Computing
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Windows
3 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Windows Server
4 4 (15.38%) Debian
4 4 (15.38%) Ubuntu
5 3 (11.54%) VMS
6 2 (7.69%) CentOS
7 1 (3.85%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
2 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (19.23%) Agile
3 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
3 5 (19.23%) ITIL
4 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
4 4 (15.38%) Server Building
5 3 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (7.69%) Incident Response
6 2 (7.69%) Information Management
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (7.69%) Network Architecture
6 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.85%) SIEM
7 1 (3.85%) Software Architecture
7 1 (3.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) Bash
3 3 (11.54%) MATLAB
3 3 (11.54%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) C++
4 1 (3.85%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) Korn
4 1 (3.85%) Perl
4 1 (3.85%) R
4 1 (3.85%) Ruby
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) CCIE
1 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.69%) CCNP
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) SANS
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 5 (19.23%) Docker
3 4 (15.38%) Lustre
3 4 (15.38%) QEMU
3 4 (15.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 3 (11.54%) GPFS
4 3 (11.54%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Terraform
2 6 (23.08%) Podman
3 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
4 4 (15.38%) Puppet
5 3 (11.54%) Salt
6 2 (7.69%) Check_MK
6 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (3.85%) Consul
7 1 (3.85%) Istio
7 1 (3.85%) Nagios
7 1 (3.85%) Packer
7 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
7 1 (3.85%) SCCM
7 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (3.85%) WSUS
7 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Cisco
1 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
2 4 (15.38%) SolarWinds
3 3 (11.54%) NVIDIA
3 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
3 3 (11.54%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) Meraki
5 1 (3.85%) Clearswift
5 1 (3.85%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) Progress
5 1 (3.85%) Qualys
5 1 (3.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.85%) SaltStack
5 1 (3.85%) Tenable