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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 83 101
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 -21
Contract jobs citing Ansible 37 47 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.10% 2.24% 1.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.48% 13.86% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 33 42
10th Percentile £421 £511 £478
25th Percentile £496 £519 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £725 £750 £666
90th Percentile £775 £858 £735
Central London median daily rate £600 £619 £600
% change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -7.69%

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 239 339 498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.56% 16.16% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 230 341
10th Percentile £281 £375 £400
25th Percentile £430 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £585
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -3.85% -0.43%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £30.26 - £23.88
25th Percentile £35.53 - £27.81
Median hourly rate £46.11 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +70.77% -25.52% +81.25%
75th Percentile £56.74 - £45.31
90th Percentile £62.04 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £27.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year +1.76% -25.52% +81.25%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible 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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the City of London

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the City of London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Ansible
Central London

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 11 (29.73%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) GitHub
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.11%) Apigee
4 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (8.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 3 (8.11%) Stackdriver
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.41%) Azure
5 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
6 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) BGP
1 8 (21.62%) Firewall
2 7 (18.92%) Multicast
2 7 (18.92%) OSPF
3 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
4 4 (10.81%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (10.81%) SSL
4 4 (10.81%) Unicast
4 4 (10.81%) VXLAN
5 3 (8.11%) DNS
6 2 (5.41%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (5.41%) HTTP
6 2 (5.41%) IGMP
6 2 (5.41%) MPLS
6 2 (5.41%) NX-OS
6 2 (5.41%) SSH
6 2 (5.41%) tcpdump
6 2 (5.41%) VPN
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.70%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.70%) Impala
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Git
2 10 (27.03%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.22%) GitLab
4 3 (8.11%) Gradle
4 3 (8.11%) Maven
5 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.41%) Robot Framework
5 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (37.84%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Investment Banking
4 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Developer
2 10 (27.03%) Network Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Senior
4 6 (16.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Java Developer
6 3 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Network Specialist
7 2 (5.41%) Python Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) REST
2 4 (10.81%) Node.js
2 4 (10.81%) Web Services
2 4 (10.81%) ZK
3 3 (8.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (5.41%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.41%) Jinja
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
4 2 (5.41%) Spring
5 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.70%) Kafka
5 1 (2.70%) Middleware
5 1 (2.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) IVR
3 2 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.41%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.70%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (29.73%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Unix
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.41%) Windows
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) DevOps
2 11 (29.73%) Containerisation
3 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
5 8 (21.62%) Agile
5 8 (21.62%) High Availability
6 7 (18.92%) Configuration Management
7 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (16.22%) Kanban
7 6 (16.22%) Low Latency
7 6 (16.22%) Scrum
7 6 (16.22%) TDD
8 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Management
8 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (10.81%) BDD
9 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (10.81%) Project Delivery
9 4 (10.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) Bash
2 6 (16.22%) Java
2 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 2 (5.41%) Go
3 2 (5.41%) Perl
3 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.70%) Assembly Language
4 1 (2.70%) Bicep
4 1 (2.70%) C++
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.70%) REXX
4 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) CCIE
1 6 (16.22%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.11%) CCNP
4 3 (8.11%) Degree
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) RHCE
6 1 (2.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 9 (24.32%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (48.65%) Terraform
2 12 (32.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (13.51%) Puppet
4 4 (10.81%) Grafana
4 4 (10.81%) Istio
5 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.70%) Argo
7 1 (2.70%) Icinga
7 1 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (2.70%) Kibana
7 1 (2.70%) Nagios
7 1 (2.70%) Observium
7 1 (2.70%) Packer
7 1 (2.70%) Podman
7 1 (2.70%) yum
7 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Arista
2 5 (13.51%) F5
3 4 (10.81%) Cisco
3 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 4 (10.81%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.11%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.11%) MuleSoft
4 3 (8.11%) Splunk
5 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.70%) Calypso
6 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.70%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.70%) Tenable