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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 79 75
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +22
Contract jobs citing Ansible 39 45 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.67% 2.46% 2.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.12% 19.23% 15.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 32
10th Percentile £458 £406 £510
25th Percentile £502 £495 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £766
90th Percentile £758 £775 £898
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 258 234 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.02% 12.81% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 167 201
10th Percentile £288 £281 £375
25th Percentile £458 £430 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -4.16%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £729 £775 £763
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -2.27% -2.65% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £30.26 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £35.53 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.82% +70.77% -25.52%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.74 -
90th Percentile - £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.50 £27.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +91.08% +1.76% -25.52%

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 22 August 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%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) nginx
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.56%) CMS
3 1 (2.56%) JBoss
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) AWS
2 9 (23.08%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) GCP
3 6 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (10.26%) GitHub
6 3 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 3 (7.69%) IaaS
6 3 (7.69%) PaaS
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.13%) SaaS
7 2 (5.13%) Serverless
7 2 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Control Tower
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.56%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) Firewall
2 8 (20.51%) DNS
3 4 (10.26%) DHCP
4 3 (7.69%) BGP
4 3 (7.69%) Network Security
4 3 (7.69%) SMTP
4 3 (7.69%) VPN
5 2 (5.13%) Multicast
5 2 (5.13%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (5.13%) SSH
5 2 (5.13%) TACACS
5 2 (5.13%) VSAN
6 1 (2.56%) EIGRP
6 1 (2.56%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (2.56%) Internet
6 1 (2.56%) IPFIX
6 1 (2.56%) OSPF
6 1 (2.56%) SAN
6 1 (2.56%) VLAN
6 1 (2.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.69%) Big Data
1 3 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.56%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) GitLab
2 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
3 6 (15.38%) Git
4 4 (10.26%) JMeter
4 4 (10.26%) Postman
5 2 (5.13%) Artifactory
5 2 (5.13%) JIRA
6 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.56%) JUnit
6 1 (2.56%) Maven
6 1 (2.56%) Subversion
General
1 11 (28.21%) Finance
2 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Military
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (17.95%) Senior
2 5 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Tester
4 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Lead
5 2 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (43.59%) Terraform
2 5 (12.82%) REST
3 4 (10.26%) Swagger
4 2 (5.13%) .NET
4 2 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (5.13%) Spring
4 2 (5.13%) Web Services
5 1 (2.56%) 802.1X
5 1 (2.56%) boto
5 1 (2.56%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (2.56%) JMS
5 1 (2.56%) JSON
5 1 (2.56%) OpenTofu
5 1 (2.56%) YAML
5 1 (2.56%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.26%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.69%) Clustering
4 3 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (7.69%) PKI
5 2 (5.13%) AI Agents
5 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.56%) CCTV
6 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (38.46%) Linux
2 10 (25.64%) Windows
3 7 (17.95%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.69%) Unix
5 1 (2.56%) CentOS
5 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.56%) VMS
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) DevOps
2 14 (35.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
6 7 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 7 (17.95%) Observability
6 7 (17.95%) Validation
7 6 (15.38%) Migration
8 5 (12.82%) AI
8 5 (12.82%) High Availability
8 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
9 4 (10.26%) Configuration Management
9 4 (10.26%) Manual Testing
9 4 (10.26%) Performance Engineering
9 4 (10.26%) Performance Testing
9 4 (10.26%) Proactive Monitoring
9 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.26%) Software Deployment
9 4 (10.26%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) Python
2 14 (35.90%) PowerShell
3 11 (28.21%) Bash
4 7 (17.95%) Java
5 4 (10.26%) SQL
6 1 (2.56%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) C++
6 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) Degree
3 5 (12.82%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (5.13%) CCNP
5 2 (5.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.56%) CCIE
6 1 (2.56%) CCNA
6 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) CWNA
6 1 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.56%) MCSE
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.56%) RHCE
6 1 (2.56%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (20.51%) Docker
3 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (17.95%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (10.26%) Hyper-V
5 3 (7.69%) BitLocker
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (7.69%) Terminal Services
5 3 (7.69%) VMware NSX
5 3 (7.69%) vSphere
6 1 (2.56%) Firmware
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (43.59%) Kubernetes
2 8 (20.51%) Puppet
3 6 (15.38%) Grafana
3 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 6 (15.38%) vCenter Server
4 3 (7.69%) Nagios
4 3 (7.69%) vMotion
5 2 (5.13%) PowerCLI
5 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.56%) Consul
6 1 (2.56%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.56%) Packer
6 1 (2.56%) Salt
6 1 (2.56%) SCCM
6 1 (2.56%) SELinux
6 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.56%) TrustSec
6 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) VMware
2 10 (25.64%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) Cisco
3 5 (12.82%) Google
3 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.69%) Citrix
5 3 (7.69%) HP
5 3 (7.69%) Symantec
6 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.13%) Oracle
6 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
6 2 (5.13%) SaltStack
6 2 (5.13%) Splunk
7 1 (2.56%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.56%) EMC
7 1 (2.56%) ION Trading
7 1 (2.56%) Reuters
7 1 (2.56%) SevOne