Ansible Contracts in the City of London

Ansible
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 91 92
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing Ansible 49 39 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.70% 1.82% 2.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.84% 12.15% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 26 56
10th Percentile £406 £490 £550
25th Percentile £498 £553 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - +3.92%
75th Percentile £681 £784 £768
90th Percentile £775 £938 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £650 £645
% change year-on-year -13.46% +0.78% +3.20%

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 291 321 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.02% 15.01% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 223 375
10th Percentile £275 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.56%
75th Percentile £675 £657 £700
90th Percentile £761 £756 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £30.26 - £20.84
25th Percentile £35.53 £12.75 £34.38
Median hourly rate £46.11 £27.00 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +70.77% -67.89% +217.32%
75th Percentile £56.74 - £88.30
90th Percentile £62.04 £40.95 -
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £67.05
% change year-on-year +5.56% -59.73% +153.00%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the City of London

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the City of London

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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 5 July 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.08%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) nginx
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.86%) AWS
2 14 (28.57%) Azure
3 11 (22.45%) GitHub
4 8 (16.33%) GCP
5 5 (10.20%) OpenShift
5 5 (10.20%) Serverless
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.12%) PaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Apigee
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (4.08%) Stackdriver
7 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.04%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (2.04%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.33%) Firewall
2 6 (12.24%) BGP
2 6 (12.24%) Multicast
3 5 (10.20%) OSPF
4 4 (8.16%) Unicast
5 3 (6.12%) DNS
6 2 (4.08%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (4.08%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (4.08%) IGMP
6 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.08%) VXLAN
7 1 (2.04%) NAS
7 1 (2.04%) Network Security
7 1 (2.04%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.04%) SSH
7 1 (2.04%) tcpdump
7 1 (2.04%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.04%) VLAN
7 1 (2.04%) VPN
7 1 (2.04%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.16%) MySQL
1 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.08%) CockroachDB
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (26.53%) GitLab
2 10 (20.41%) Git
3 9 (18.37%) Jenkins
4 6 (12.24%) JIRA
5 2 (4.08%) Gradle
5 2 (4.08%) Maven
5 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.04%) Subversion
6 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.04%) Travis CI
General
1 11 (22.45%) Finance
2 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Banking
3 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.04%) Military
6 1 (2.04%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Developer
2 8 (16.33%) Network Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Senior
4 5 (10.20%) Architect
5 4 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Database Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Network Specialist
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) REST
2 3 (6.12%) Node.js
3 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.08%) GraphQL
3 2 (4.08%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.08%) Kafka
3 2 (4.08%) Spring
3 2 (4.08%) Web Services
3 2 (4.08%) ZK
4 1 (2.04%) LDAP
4 1 (2.04%) Middleware
4 1 (2.04%) OAuth
4 1 (2.04%) OpenID
4 1 (2.04%) React
4 1 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Data Centre
1 5 (10.20%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) IVR
3 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) Clustering
4 1 (2.04%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Unix
3 4 (8.16%) Windows
4 3 (6.12%) Rocky
4 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.04%) Solaris
6 1 (2.04%) VMS
6 1 (2.04%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) DevOps
2 26 (53.06%) CI/CD
3 18 (36.73%) Configuration Management
4 17 (34.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (32.65%) Containerisation
6 9 (18.37%) Agile
6 9 (18.37%) High Availability
6 9 (18.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 8 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (16.33%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.24%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.20%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (10.20%) TDD
10 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Management
10 4 (8.16%) Low Latency
10 4 (8.16%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (8.16%) SDLC
10 4 (8.16%) Task Automation
11 3 (6.12%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 28 (57.14%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) Bash
3 5 (10.20%) Java
3 5 (10.20%) SQL
4 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.16%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.12%) Go
6 2 (4.08%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) C
7 1 (2.04%) C++
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) Perl
7 1 (2.04%) REXX
7 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.16%) CCIE
5 3 (6.12%) Degree
5 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.08%) CCNP
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.04%) Firmware
3 1 (2.04%) NFS
3 1 (2.04%) Veritas File System
3 1 (2.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (57.14%) Terraform
2 20 (40.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.20%) Progress Chef
3 5 (10.20%) Puppet
4 4 (8.16%) Grafana
5 3 (6.12%) Consul
5 3 (6.12%) Istio
5 3 (6.12%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Podman
7 1 (2.04%) Argo
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (2.04%) Control-M
7 1 (2.04%) Icinga
7 1 (2.04%) Nagios
7 1 (2.04%) Netcool
7 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.04%) Tivoli
7 1 (2.04%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 7 (14.29%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Arista
3 5 (10.20%) Cisco
4 3 (6.12%) Palo Alto
4 3 (6.12%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.12%) Splunk
4 3 (6.12%) VMware
5 2 (4.08%) F5
5 2 (4.08%) Google
5 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.04%) BMC
6 1 (2.04%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.04%) IBM
6 1 (2.04%) Juniper
6 1 (2.04%) NetScout
6 1 (2.04%) Pega
6 1 (2.04%) Qualys
6 1 (2.04%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.04%) TOWER Software