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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 60 92
Rank change year-on-year -8 +32 -14
Contract jobs citing Ansible 56 63 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.97% 3.38% 1.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.88% 19.57% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 36
10th Percentile £350 £489 £409
25th Percentile £419 £512 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £606 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +21.19% -25.89%
75th Percentile £700 £686 £567
90th Percentile £775 £737 £725
Central London median daily rate £600 £606 £520
% change year-on-year -1.03% +16.59% -22.96%

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 256 322 331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.58% 17.26% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 211 247
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £469 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £580 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% -12.57%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £738 £711 £741
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 2
10th Percentile £20.24 - £16.15
25th Percentile £20.34 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% +261.29% +50.47%
75th Percentile £22.91 - £41.25
90th Percentile £23.39 - £46.65
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -78.69% +261.29% +49.72%

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 28 January 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 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.93%) AWS
2 16 (28.57%) Azure
3 11 (19.64%) GitHub
4 10 (17.86%) GCP
5 9 (16.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 8 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (12.50%) OpenShift
8 5 (8.93%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (7.14%) Apigee
9 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (7.14%) Serverless
10 3 (5.36%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (5.36%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) DNS
2 5 (8.93%) SSL
2 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
3 4 (7.14%) Firewall
4 3 (5.36%) VPN
5 2 (3.57%) DHCP
5 2 (3.57%) HTTP
5 2 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (1.79%) BGP
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.79%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.79%) Internet
6 1 (1.79%) MPLS
6 1 (1.79%) NAS
6 1 (1.79%) NX-OS
6 1 (1.79%) OSPF
6 1 (1.79%) SSH
6 1 (1.79%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.79%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) DynamoDB
1 3 (5.36%) Redis
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.57%) Hazelcast
2 2 (3.57%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.79%) CouchDB
3 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.79%) Impala
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 14 (25.00%) Git
3 7 (12.50%) GitLab
4 5 (8.93%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.36%) Gradle
5 3 (5.36%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.57%) Gatling
6 2 (3.57%) JIRA
6 2 (3.57%) Maven
6 2 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.79%) jMock
7 1 (1.79%) JUnit
7 1 (1.79%) Mockito
7 1 (1.79%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (33.93%) Finance
3 8 (14.29%) Banking
4 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Financial Institution
5 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Developer
2 12 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Java Developer
3 9 (16.07%) Senior
4 5 (8.93%) Architect
4 5 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Consultant
5 4 (7.14%) Lead
5 4 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) VMware Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Lead Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.57%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.29%) REST
2 6 (10.71%) Web Services
2 6 (10.71%) ZK
3 5 (8.93%) OAuth
4 4 (7.14%) Node.js
4 4 (7.14%) Spring
5 3 (5.36%) JSON
5 3 (5.36%) JWT
5 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.57%) .NET
6 2 (3.57%) Apache Avro
6 2 (3.57%) Kafka
6 2 (3.57%) Micronaut
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
6 2 (3.57%) OpenID
6 2 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (3.57%) Quarkus
7 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.79%) Jinja
7 1 (1.79%) MyBatis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.57%) Derivative
3 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.57%) Replication
4 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) IVR
4 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.21%) Linux
2 8 (14.29%) Windows
3 4 (7.14%) Unix
4 3 (5.36%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) DevOps
2 23 (41.07%) Infrastructure as Code
3 19 (33.93%) CI/CD
4 14 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 10 (17.86%) Agile
6 9 (16.07%) High Availability
6 9 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
7 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (12.50%) Kanban
8 7 (12.50%) Observability
8 7 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 7 (12.50%) Scrum
8 7 (12.50%) TDD
9 6 (10.71%) BDD
9 6 (10.71%) Configuration Management
9 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (10.71%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 30 (53.57%) Python
2 13 (23.21%) Java
2 13 (23.21%) SQL
3 8 (14.29%) Bash
3 8 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.14%) Perl
5 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.57%) Rust
7 1 (1.79%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (26.79%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.57%) Degree
3 2 (3.57%) VCAP
3 2 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.79%) CCIE
4 1 (1.79%) CCNA
4 1 (1.79%) CCNP
4 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.79%) RHCE
4 1 (1.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) GDPR
1 3 (5.36%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.57%) ISO 8583
2 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.57%) PSD2
2 2 (3.57%) SEPA
3 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.79%) NCSC
3 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (33.93%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) vSphere
3 2 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.79%) Firmware
4 1 (1.79%) HDFS
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (57.14%) Terraform
2 13 (23.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.36%) Grafana
3 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.57%) Argo
4 2 (3.57%) Istio
4 2 (3.57%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (3.57%) Kibana
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.57%) PowerCLI
4 2 (3.57%) Puppet
4 2 (3.57%) vRealize
4 2 (3.57%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (1.79%) Packer
5 1 (1.79%) Podman
5 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) Oracle
2 5 (8.93%) F5
2 5 (8.93%) Google
2 5 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) VMware
3 4 (7.14%) Splunk
4 3 (5.36%) CheckPoint
4 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.57%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.57%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.57%) Cisco
5 2 (3.57%) Confluent
5 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.57%) MarketAxess
5 2 (3.57%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.79%) Datto
6 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.79%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.79%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.79%) Tenable