Ansible Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Ansible
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Ansible skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 51 45
Rank change year-on-year +23 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Ansible 25 6 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.51% 1.01% 4.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.88% 11.32% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 3 25
10th Percentile £474 £530 -
25th Percentile £525 £538 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +18.28% -18.06%
75th Percentile £575 £731 £550
90th Percentile - £825 £629
East of England median daily rate £550 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -9.09%

All Systems Management Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 66 53 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 14.54% 8.94% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 79
10th Percentile £400 £296 £273
25th Percentile £489 £513 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £688 £625 £738
East of England median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile £63.63 - £24.63
25th Percentile £65.88 - £49.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £71.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.40%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £73.88
East of England median hourly rate £63.50 £40.00 £59.50
% change year-on-year +58.75% -32.77% -18.49%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in Hertfordshire

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 27 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in Hertfordshire

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Ansible.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 September 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
Stevenage +23 21 £550 -
Watford +5 1 £475 -45.71% 2
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
Ansible
East of England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (80.00%) Cohesity
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (80.00%) DNS
1 20 (80.00%) SAN
2 2 (8.00%) BGP
2 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 2 (8.00%) OSPF
2 2 (8.00%) VLAN
2 2 (8.00%) VPN
3 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.00%) Network Security
3 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (4.00%) Retail
1 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (8.00%) Administrator
1 2 (8.00%) Developer
1 2 (8.00%) Network Administrator
1 2 (8.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (4.00%) Linux Developer
2 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (4.00%) Senior
2 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) Django
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.00%) React
1 1 (4.00%) REST
1 1 (4.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Windows
1 20 (80.00%) Windows Server
1 20 (80.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 20 (80.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) Build Automation
1 20 (80.00%) Deployment Automation
1 20 (80.00%) Operations Management
1 20 (80.00%) SIEM
2 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (12.00%) DevOps
2 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (8.00%) Network Management
3 2 (8.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (4.00%) Biotechnology
4 1 (4.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (4.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (4.00%) Network Architecture
4 1 (4.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (4.00%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (4.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) Bash
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Korn
3 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
3 1 (4.00%) R
3 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 20 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 20 (80.00%) Active Directory
1 20 (80.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 20 (80.00%) Virtual Servers
1 20 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.00%) Docker
3 1 (4.00%) Lustre
3 1 (4.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (80.00%) SCCM
1 20 (80.00%) WSUS
2 4 (16.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) Nagios
4 1 (4.00%) Packer
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (84.00%) VMware
2 20 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (80.00%) NetApp
2 20 (80.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (8.00%) Huawei
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds