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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 80 75
Rank change year-on-year +37 -5 -8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Ansible 53 16 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.17% 1.03% 2.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.54% 13.68% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 8 27
10th Percentile £355 £313 £273
25th Percentile £519 £363 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile - £669 £628
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 158 117 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.44% 7.55% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 82 154
10th Percentile £213 £214 £273
25th Percentile £438 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £597
90th Percentile £700 £599 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 14
10th Percentile £53.74 £32.00 -
25th Percentile £61.06 £35.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £66.50 £40.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.25% +8.11% -26.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 £45.00 £73.75
90th Percentile - £48.00 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £36.17 £49.87
% change year-on-year +45.17% -27.47% +116.80%

Ansible
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

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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +24 26 £550 - 4
Cambridgeshire +26 25 £528 +5.50% 4
Bedfordshire -5 1 - - 1
Essex - 1 £575 -
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 7 (13.21%) 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 11 (20.75%) Firewall
4 6 (11.32%) Network Security
5 5 (9.43%) iSCSI
5 5 (9.43%) VSAN
6 3 (5.66%) VLAN
6 3 (5.66%) VPN
7 2 (3.77%) 802.11
7 2 (3.77%) BGP
7 2 (3.77%) OSPF
7 2 (3.77%) SD-WAN
7 2 (3.77%) WAN
7 2 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.89%) Cisco Wireless
8 1 (1.89%) Multicast
8 1 (1.89%) Skype
8 1 (1.89%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) JIRA
2 10 (18.87%) GitLab
3 8 (15.09%) TeamCity
4 3 (5.66%) Artifactory
5 2 (3.77%) Git
6 1 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Administrator
2 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (11.32%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (9.43%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (9.43%) Network Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (5.66%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Consultant
5 2 (3.77%) Developer
5 2 (3.77%) Network Administrator
5 2 (3.77%) Senior
6 1 (1.89%) Architect
6 1 (1.89%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (1.89%) Security Consultant
6 1 (1.89%) Security Engineer
6 1 (1.89%) Senior Developer
6 1 (1.89%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.77%) REST
2 1 (1.89%) Django
2 1 (1.89%) JWT
2 1 (1.89%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.89%) Next.js
2 1 (1.89%) OAuth
2 1 (1.89%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.89%) PySpark
2 1 (1.89%) React
2 1 (1.89%) RESTCONF
2 1 (1.89%) SAML
2 1 (1.89%) YANG
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%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.77%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.89%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) PKI
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 10 (18.87%) Linux
4 5 (9.43%) CentOS
4 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) SIEM
2 20 (37.74%) Build Automation
2 20 (37.74%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (37.74%) Operations Management
3 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
4 11 (20.75%) Containerisation
4 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (18.87%) ITSM
6 8 (15.09%) Agile
6 8 (15.09%) DevOps
6 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (13.21%) Computer Science
7 7 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.43%) Task Automation
9 4 (7.55%) Data Science
9 4 (7.55%) Network Architecture
9 4 (7.55%) Network Virtualisation
9 4 (7.55%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (7.55%) Project Delivery
9 4 (7.55%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.94%) PowerShell
2 26 (49.06%) Python
3 9 (16.98%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.43%) Bash
5 3 (5.66%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.89%) R
6 1 (1.89%) Scala
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (54.72%) DV Cleared
1 29 (54.72%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.21%) Degree
3 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.66%) VCAP
4 3 (5.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.77%) CCIE
5 2 (3.77%) CCNP
5 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.89%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (52.83%) Active Directory
2 25 (47.17%) 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 4 (7.55%) Docker
7 1 (1.89%) Firmware
7 1 (1.89%) Lustre
7 1 (1.89%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (41.51%) WSUS
2 21 (39.62%) SCCM
3 20 (37.74%) Terraform
4 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
4 6 (11.32%) Puppet
5 5 (9.43%) Progress Chef
5 5 (9.43%) VxRail
6 4 (7.55%) PowerCLI
6 4 (7.55%) Salt
6 4 (7.55%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.89%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.89%) Istio
7 1 (1.89%) Nagios
7 1 (1.89%) Packer
7 1 (1.89%) SCOM
7 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.89%) vRealize
Vendors
1 33 (62.26%) VMware
2 26 (49.06%) Microsoft
3 21 (39.62%) NetApp
3 21 (39.62%) Splunk
4 10 (18.87%) ServiceNow
5 5 (9.43%) Dell
6 4 (7.55%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.66%) Cisco
7 3 (5.66%) Google
7 3 (5.66%) IBM
7 3 (5.66%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.77%) Clearswift
8 2 (3.77%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.77%) Huawei
8 2 (3.77%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.89%) Ekahau
9 1 (1.89%) HP
9 1 (1.89%) LogRhythm
9 1 (1.89%) Meraki
9 1 (1.89%) Tenable