Ansible Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Ansible
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 60 85
Rank change year-on-year -34 +25 -5
Contract jobs citing Ansible 39 62 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.77% 3.55% 1.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.77% 18.45% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 31
10th Percentile £350 £413 £449
25th Percentile £356 £503 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +1.77% -19.29%
75th Percentile £645 £684 £701
90th Percentile £775 £715 £938
Central London median daily rate £510 £563 £545
% change year-on-year -9.33% +3.21% -22.14%

All Systems Management Skills
City of London

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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 264 336 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.01% 19.24% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 229 205
10th Percentile £350 £312 £350
25th Percentile £413 £454 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £650
90th Percentile £716 £728 £753
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £27.82 - -
25th Percentile £38.32 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 - £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -83.95%
75th Percentile £67.36 - £32.25
90th Percentile £71.94 - £43.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £13.50
% change year-on-year -3.71% +95.93% -83.95%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Ansible job vacancy trend in the City of London

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the City of London

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.56%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) AWS
2 13 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) GCP
3 7 (17.95%) GitHub
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (15.38%) OpenShift
5 5 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (12.82%) Serverless
6 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.69%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (7.69%) Apigee
7 3 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (5.13%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) Firewall
2 3 (7.69%) DNS
3 2 (5.13%) SAN
3 2 (5.13%) VPN
4 1 (2.56%) BGP
4 1 (2.56%) DHCP
4 1 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.56%) IPsec
4 1 (2.56%) NAS
4 1 (2.56%) Network Security
4 1 (2.56%) OSPF
4 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.56%) SSL
4 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.13%) Hazelcast
2 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Redis
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Git
1 11 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.26%) JIRA
3 3 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.69%) GitLab
4 2 (5.13%) Ant
4 2 (5.13%) Gatling
4 2 (5.13%) JUnit
4 2 (5.13%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.56%) jMock
5 1 (2.56%) Maven
5 1 (2.56%) Mockito
5 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.56%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Finance
3 5 (12.82%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 3 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Law
7 1 (2.56%) Military
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Police
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.95%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Apigee Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) GCP DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) OAuth
1 5 (12.82%) REST
2 4 (10.26%) Spring
2 4 (10.26%) Web Services
3 3 (7.69%) JSON
3 3 (7.69%) JWT
3 3 (7.69%) Node.js
3 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 3 (7.69%) ZK
4 2 (5.13%) Apache Avro
4 2 (5.13%) Kafka
4 2 (5.13%) Micronaut
4 2 (5.13%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.13%) OpenID
4 2 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (5.13%) Quarkus
4 2 (5.13%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.56%) CSS
5 1 (2.56%) J2EE
5 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Derivative
2 2 (5.13%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.56%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Replication
3 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
2 4 (10.26%) Windows
3 2 (5.13%) Unix
3 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (46.15%) DevOps
3 17 (43.59%) CI/CD
4 7 (17.95%) Agile
4 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (15.38%) Scrum
6 5 (12.82%) High Availability
6 5 (12.82%) Observability
6 5 (12.82%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (10.26%) Cloud Security
7 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (10.26%) ITIL
7 4 (10.26%) Low Latency
7 4 (10.26%) Process Improvement
7 4 (10.26%) Resilience Testing
8 3 (7.69%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (43.59%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) Bash
3 7 (17.95%) Java
3 7 (17.95%) SQL
4 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.13%) Perl
6 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.13%) VCAP
2 2 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.56%) CCNA
3 1 (2.56%) CCNP
3 1 (2.56%) CISSP
3 1 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) GDPR
1 3 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.13%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) PSD2
2 2 (5.13%) SEPA
3 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.56%) NCSC
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (35.90%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.13%) vSphere
4 1 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (66.67%) Terraform
2 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.69%) Grafana
5 2 (5.13%) Argo
5 2 (5.13%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.13%) PowerCLI
5 2 (5.13%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.56%) Consul
6 1 (2.56%) Kibana
6 1 (2.56%) Packer
6 1 (2.56%) Podman
6 1 (2.56%) Puppet
6 1 (2.56%) QRadar
6 1 (2.56%) Salt
6 1 (2.56%) vRealize
6 1 (2.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Google
1 4 (10.26%) Splunk
1 4 (10.26%) VMware
2 3 (7.69%) IBM
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.13%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.13%) Confluent
3 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.13%) MarketAxess
3 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.13%) Tradeweb
4 1 (2.56%) Brocade
4 1 (2.56%) Datto
4 1 (2.56%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Veeam