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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 58 89
Rank change year-on-year -16 +31 -11
Contract jobs citing Ansible 49 64 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.59% 3.44% 1.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.42% 19.75% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 33
10th Percentile £350 £490 £408
25th Percentile £388 £508 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +21.21% -25.98%
75th Percentile £700 £684 £619
90th Percentile £775 £736 £733
Central London median daily rate £594 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% +19.94% -25.89%

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 240 324 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.71% 17.41% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 216 236
10th Percentile £350 £359 £350
25th Percentile £413 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +11.43% -12.54%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £751
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £20.24 - -
25th Percentile £20.34 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% +729.63% -34.80%
75th Percentile £22.91 - £32.25
90th Percentile £23.39 - £43.05
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year -78.69% +729.63% -36.78%

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 5 February 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 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 15 (30.61%) Azure
3 9 (18.37%) GCP
3 9 (18.37%) GitHub
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 6 (12.24%) Amazon S3
5 6 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.16%) Serverless
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.12%) Apigee
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (6.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.08%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) DNS
2 2 (4.08%) DHCP
2 2 (4.08%) Firewall
2 2 (4.08%) SAN
2 2 (4.08%) SSL
2 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.04%) HTTP
3 1 (2.04%) HTTPS
3 1 (2.04%) Internet
3 1 (2.04%) NAS
3 1 (2.04%) SSH
3 1 (2.04%) tcpdump
3 1 (2.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
1 3 (6.12%) Redis
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.08%) Hazelcast
2 2 (4.08%) MySQL
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
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%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.41%) Git
3 5 (10.20%) Cucumber
3 5 (10.20%) GitLab
4 3 (6.12%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.08%) Gatling
5 2 (4.08%) Gradle
5 2 (4.08%) JIRA
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.04%) jMock
6 1 (2.04%) JUnit
6 1 (2.04%) Maven
6 1 (2.04%) Mockito
6 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.04%) Robot Framework
6 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.69%) Finance
3 8 (16.33%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Developer
2 11 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Java Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Lead
6 4 (8.16%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.08%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) REST
2 5 (10.20%) OAuth
2 5 (10.20%) Web Services
2 5 (10.20%) ZK
3 3 (6.12%) JSON
3 3 (6.12%) JWT
3 3 (6.12%) Node.js
3 3 (6.12%) Spring
3 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.08%) .NET
4 2 (4.08%) Apache Avro
4 2 (4.08%) Kafka
4 2 (4.08%) Micronaut
4 2 (4.08%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.08%) OpenID
4 2 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (4.08%) Quarkus
5 1 (2.04%) CSS
5 1 (2.04%) HTML
5 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.08%) Derivative
3 2 (4.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Linux
2 8 (16.33%) Windows
3 3 (6.12%) Unix
3 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) DevOps
1 22 (44.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
3 11 (22.45%) Containerisation
4 8 (16.33%) Agile
4 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
5 7 (14.29%) Observability
6 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (12.24%) High Availability
6 6 (12.24%) Kanban
6 6 (12.24%) Project Delivery
6 6 (12.24%) Scrum
6 6 (12.24%) TDD
7 5 (10.20%) BDD
7 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.20%) Infrastructure Management
7 5 (10.20%) Low Latency
7 5 (10.20%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (51.02%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) Java
2 12 (24.49%) SQL
3 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
4 7 (14.29%) Bash
5 3 (6.12%) Perl
6 2 (4.08%) Rust
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.08%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) VCAP
3 2 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) CCNA
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) RHCE
4 1 (2.04%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.08%) ISO 8583
2 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.08%) PSD2
2 2 (4.08%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) SEPA
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.04%) NCSC
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
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%) Firmware
4 1 (2.04%) HDFS
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (55.10%) Terraform
2 10 (20.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.08%) Argo
3 2 (4.08%) Grafana
3 2 (4.08%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (4.08%) Kibana
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.08%) PowerCLI
3 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.08%) vRealize
3 2 (4.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (2.04%) Packer
4 1 (2.04%) Podman
4 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Oracle
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) VMware
3 4 (8.16%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) Splunk
5 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.08%) Bloomberg
5 2 (4.08%) Confluent
5 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.08%) F5
5 2 (4.08%) MarketAxess
5 2 (4.08%) Tradeweb
6 1 (2.04%) Calypso
6 1 (2.04%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.04%) Cisco
6 1 (2.04%) Datto
6 1 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (2.04%) Pure Storage
6 1 (2.04%) Red Hat