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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 51 104
Rank change year-on-year -8 +53 -13
Contract jobs citing Ansible 53 31 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.38% 3.25% 0.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.36% 27.43% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 6
10th Percentile £356 £341 £361
25th Percentile £425 £414 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £540 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -16.92% +21.50%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £706
90th Percentile £681 £593 £800
England median daily rate £512 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.00% +4.50% -11.61%

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 169 113 100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.60% 11.84% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 81 62
10th Percentile £213 £225 £185
25th Percentile £406 £338 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% -2.56% -5.48%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £575
90th Percentile £638 £600 £636
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 15
10th Percentile £18.83 - -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £20.09 £26.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +89.29% -21.74%
75th Percentile - £26.75 £19.00
90th Percentile - - £33.69
England median hourly rate £57.63 £28.00 £25.77
% change year-on-year +105.83% +8.67% -55.19%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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
Hertfordshire +2 30 £500 -9.09% 5
Cambridgeshire +2 15 £475 -7.32% 9
Suffolk +3 7 £473 +8.00% 3
Bedfordshire - 2 £300 - 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 5 (9.43%) Apache
1 5 (9.43%) IIS
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) AWS
2 9 (16.98%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) GCP
3 6 (11.32%) Entra ID
3 6 (11.32%) GitHub
3 6 (11.32%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (9.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (7.55%) Route 53
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (5.66%) Mimecast
6 3 (5.66%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.77%) Apple Pay
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (1.89%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (1.89%) Google Ads
8 1 (1.89%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) DNS
2 6 (11.32%) DHCP
2 6 (11.32%) Firewall
2 6 (11.32%) VPN
3 4 (7.55%) SNMP
4 3 (5.66%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (5.66%) SAN
5 2 (3.77%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.77%) NAS
5 2 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.89%) InfiniBand
6 1 (1.89%) LAN
6 1 (1.89%) Network Security
6 1 (1.89%) SSL
6 1 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.89%) WAN
Development Applications
1 25 (47.17%) Git
2 19 (35.85%) GitLab
3 10 (18.87%) Jenkins
4 7 (13.21%) Gradle
General
1 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Aerospace
2 9 (16.98%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.77%) Advertising
4 2 (3.77%) Banking
4 2 (3.77%) Finance
5 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (26.42%) Administrator
2 9 (16.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Linux Administrator
2 9 (16.98%) Senior
3 7 (13.21%) Network Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Developer
4 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.43%) Senior DevOps
4 5 (9.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Switch Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Java Software Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Network Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Service Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) LDAP
1 9 (16.98%) Middleware
2 7 (13.21%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.55%) eBPF
3 4 (7.55%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (7.55%) Spring
4 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.66%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Cloud Native
1 9 (16.98%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.09%) Management Information System
3 6 (11.32%) Private Cloud
4 5 (9.43%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.66%) Acoustics
5 3 (5.66%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (5.66%) Derivative
5 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.66%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (5.66%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Clustering
7 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.89%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (35.85%) Linux
2 12 (22.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (20.75%) Windows
4 9 (16.98%) CentOS
5 7 (13.21%) Windows Server
6 5 (9.43%) Debian
6 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
7 3 (5.66%) VMS
8 1 (1.89%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.89%) Solaris
8 1 (1.89%) Unix
8 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.74%) DevOps
2 18 (33.96%) CI/CD
3 14 (26.42%) Agile
3 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
5 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (18.87%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (18.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (16.98%) Information Management
7 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (13.21%) Configuration Management
9 7 (13.21%) ITIL
9 7 (13.21%) SIEM
10 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.32%) Use Case
11 5 (9.43%) GitOps
11 5 (9.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) Python
2 9 (16.98%) MATLAB
2 9 (16.98%) Shell Script
3 8 (15.09%) Bash
3 8 (15.09%) Java
4 6 (11.32%) SQL
5 3 (5.66%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (5.66%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.89%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) Perl
7 1 (1.89%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (35.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) Degree
5 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.89%) CCIE
6 1 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) SLA
2 2 (3.77%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.43%) QEMU
4 3 (5.66%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.77%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.89%) Docker
6 1 (1.89%) GPFS
6 1 (1.89%) Lustre
6 1 (1.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (39.62%) Terraform
2 14 (26.42%) Podman
3 9 (16.98%) Check_MK
3 9 (16.98%) Red Hat Satellite
4 7 (13.21%) Kubernetes
5 5 (9.43%) Argo
6 4 (7.55%) Grafana
6 4 (7.55%) Prometheus
7 3 (5.66%) HAProxy
7 3 (5.66%) Puppet
7 3 (5.66%) Stealthwatch
7 3 (5.66%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.89%) Consul
8 1 (1.89%) Salt
8 1 (1.89%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) VMware
2 11 (20.75%) Red Hat
3 8 (15.09%) Cisco
4 7 (13.21%) Splunk
5 5 (9.43%) Palo Alto
5 5 (9.43%) SolarWinds
6 4 (7.55%) Cribl.io
6 4 (7.55%) Dynatrace
6 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
7 3 (5.66%) Infoblox
7 3 (5.66%) NVIDIA
8 1 (1.89%) Dell
8 1 (1.89%) Forcepoint
8 1 (1.89%) Google
8 1 (1.89%) jetNEXUS
8 1 (1.89%) NetApp
8 1 (1.89%) Oracle
8 1 (1.89%) TOWER Software