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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 64 85
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 0
Contract jobs citing Ansible 49 67 56
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.77% 3.13% 2.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.14% 18.36% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 43 45
10th Percentile £356 £494 £415
25th Percentile £495 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -20.08%
75th Percentile £729 £700 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £703
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -20.75%

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 256 365 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.45% 17.05% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 240 307
10th Percentile £359 £350 £395
25th Percentile £445 £472 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £730 £793
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £546
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -8.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £24.35 £44.00 -
25th Percentile £30.60 £69.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.04 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.47% +397.78% +15.38%
75th Percentile £54.31 - £23.75
90th Percentile £61.07 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +12.50%

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 1 December 2025.

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 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) AWS
2 13 (26.53%) Azure
3 9 (18.37%) GitHub
4 8 (16.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (12.24%) GCP
6 6 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (8.16%) Apigee
8 4 (8.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (6.12%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (6.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (6.12%) Serverless
10 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudTrail
10 2 (4.08%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) Firewall
2 5 (10.20%) DNS
2 5 (10.20%) SSL
2 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.16%) BGP
3 4 (8.16%) OSPF
4 3 (6.12%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (6.12%) Multicast
4 3 (6.12%) VPN
4 3 (6.12%) VXLAN
5 2 (4.08%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (4.08%) DHCP
5 2 (4.08%) HTTP
5 2 (4.08%) MPLS
5 2 (4.08%) NX-OS
5 2 (4.08%) tcpdump
6 1 (2.04%) IGMP
6 1 (2.04%) Internet
6 1 (2.04%) Network Security
6 1 (2.04%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.04%) CouchDB
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.04%) Impala
3 1 (2.04%) Redis
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (30.61%) Git
1 15 (30.61%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (6.12%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.12%) Gradle
3 3 (6.12%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.08%) JIRA
4 2 (4.08%) Maven
4 2 (4.08%) Robot Framework
4 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.04%) jMock
5 1 (2.04%) JUnit
5 1 (2.04%) Mockito
5 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
General
1 21 (42.86%) Finance
2 20 (40.82%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Banking
4 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Financial Institution
6 4 (8.16%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.08%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (18.37%) Developer
2 9 (18.37%) Senior
3 7 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Java Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Architect
5 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Lead
6 3 (6.12%) Consultant
6 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.08%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) REST
2 4 (8.16%) Node.js
2 4 (8.16%) Web Services
2 4 (8.16%) ZK
3 3 (6.12%) JWT
3 3 (6.12%) OAuth
4 2 (4.08%) .NET
4 2 (4.08%) Jinja
4 2 (4.08%) RESTful
4 2 (4.08%) Spring
5 1 (2.04%) CSS
5 1 (2.04%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.04%) HTML
5 1 (2.04%) jQuery
5 1 (2.04%) JSON
5 1 (2.04%) JSP
5 1 (2.04%) MyBatis
5 1 (2.04%) SOAP
5 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Derivative
3 2 (4.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) IVR
4 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.04%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.57%) Linux
2 8 (16.33%) Windows
3 4 (8.16%) Unix
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.04%) VMS
6 1 (2.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (61.22%) DevOps
2 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
3 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (26.53%) Containerisation
5 12 (24.49%) High Availability
6 10 (20.41%) Agile
7 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (14.29%) Configuration Management
9 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
9 7 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 6 (12.24%) Kanban
10 6 (12.24%) Low Latency
10 6 (12.24%) Scrum
10 6 (12.24%) TDD
11 5 (10.20%) Electronic Trading
11 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
11 5 (10.20%) Software Engineering
12 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 31 (63.27%) Python
2 10 (20.41%) SQL
3 9 (18.37%) Java
4 7 (14.29%) Bash
4 7 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.16%) Perl
6 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.08%) Rust
8 1 (2.04%) Assembly Language
8 1 (2.04%) Go
8 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.04%) PHP
8 1 (2.04%) REXX
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.16%) CCIE
5 3 (6.12%) CCNP
5 3 (6.12%) Degree
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.08%) VCAP
6 2 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.04%) CCNA
7 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.04%) RHCE
7 1 (2.04%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.04%) NCSC
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.04%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) vSphere
3 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.08%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.04%) HDFS
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (48.98%) Terraform
2 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.12%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (4.08%) Grafana
4 2 (4.08%) Istio
4 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.08%) PowerCLI
4 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.08%) Puppet
5 1 (2.04%) Kibana
5 1 (2.04%) Packer
5 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.04%) vRealize
5 1 (2.04%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) F5
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle
3 4 (8.16%) Arista
3 4 (8.16%) Cisco
3 4 (8.16%) Palo Alto
3 4 (8.16%) Splunk
3 4 (8.16%) VMware
4 3 (6.12%) CheckPoint
4 3 (6.12%) Google
5 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.08%) Bloomberg
5 2 (4.08%) Fortinet
5 2 (4.08%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (4.08%) MarketAxess
5 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.08%) Tradeweb
6 1 (2.04%) Datto
6 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.04%) Sonatype