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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 82 81
Rank change year-on-year -24 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Ansible 42 35 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.87% 2.00% 2.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.85% 16.75% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 29 33
10th Percentile £460 £419 £511
25th Percentile £503 £495 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £750
90th Percentile £788 £775 £858
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £619
% change year-on-year -8.33% -3.03% +3.13%

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 265 209 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.79% 11.92% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 156 205
10th Percentile £283 £281 £360
25th Percentile £434 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.77% -3.42%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £752
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £28.10 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £34.25 £35.53 -
Median hourly rate £47.00 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +70.77% -25.52%
75th Percentile £62.25 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £69.90 £62.04 -
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +27.39% +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 18 September 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 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) nginx
3 1 (2.38%) Apache
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) CMS
3 1 (2.38%) JBoss
3 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (57.14%) AWS
2 12 (28.57%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) GitHub
4 6 (14.29%) GCP
4 6 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 3 (7.14%) IaaS
7 3 (7.14%) PaaS
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.76%) n8n
8 2 (4.76%) SaaS
8 2 (4.76%) Serverless
8 2 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) Firewall
2 8 (19.05%) DNS
3 4 (9.52%) DHCP
3 4 (9.52%) Network Security
3 4 (9.52%) VPN
4 3 (7.14%) BGP
4 3 (7.14%) SMTP
5 2 (4.76%) Multicast
5 2 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (4.76%) SSH
5 2 (4.76%) TACACS
5 2 (4.76%) WAN
6 1 (2.38%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.38%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.38%) LAN
6 1 (2.38%) NAS
6 1 (2.38%) NX-OS
6 1 (2.38%) OpenVPN
6 1 (2.38%) VLAN
6 1 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.14%) Big Data
1 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.38%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) GitLab
2 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.90%) Git
4 4 (9.52%) JMeter
4 4 (9.52%) Postman
5 3 (7.14%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) Maven
6 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.38%) Subversion
6 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Military
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Senior
2 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Tester
5 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (45.24%) Terraform
2 4 (9.52%) REST
2 4 (9.52%) Swagger
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.76%) Middleware
3 2 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.38%) 802.1X
4 1 (2.38%) boto
4 1 (2.38%) JSON
4 1 (2.38%) OpenTofu
4 1 (2.38%) Spring
4 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.52%) AI Agents
2 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.14%) Clustering
3 3 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.14%) PKI
4 2 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.38%) CCTV
5 1 (2.38%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (42.86%) Linux
2 12 (28.57%) Windows
3 8 (19.05%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.90%) Unix
5 4 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.38%) AIX
6 1 (2.38%) CentOS
6 1 (2.38%) Solaris
6 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.38%) VMS
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) DevOps
2 16 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 16 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (21.43%) Observability
5 8 (19.05%) Validation
6 7 (16.67%) AI
6 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Configuration Management
7 6 (14.29%) Migration
8 5 (11.90%) High Availability
9 4 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (9.52%) Manual Testing
9 4 (9.52%) Mentoring
9 4 (9.52%) Performance Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) Performance Testing
9 4 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (9.52%) Software Deployment
9 4 (9.52%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (66.67%) Python
2 18 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 12 (28.57%) Bash
4 7 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (7.14%) SQL
6 1 (2.38%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) C++
6 1 (2.38%) Korn
6 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (40.48%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.90%) Degree
3 5 (11.90%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.76%) CCNA
5 2 (4.76%) CCNP
6 1 (2.38%) CCIE
6 1 (2.38%) CCSP
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) CWNA
6 1 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.38%) MCSE
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.38%) RHCE
6 1 (2.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (19.05%) Docker
3 7 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 6 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (9.52%) Hyper-V
6 3 (7.14%) BitLocker
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (7.14%) Terminal Services
7 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
7 2 (4.76%) vSphere
8 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (45.24%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.05%) Puppet
3 6 (14.29%) Grafana
3 6 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.90%) vCenter Server
5 3 (7.14%) Nagios
5 3 (7.14%) vMotion
6 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 2 (4.76%) SCCM
7 1 (2.38%) Consul
7 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.38%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (2.38%) Packer
7 1 (2.38%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.38%) Salt
7 1 (2.38%) SELinux
7 1 (2.38%) TrustSec
7 1 (2.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.81%) VMware
3 6 (14.29%) Cisco
3 6 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 5 (11.90%) Google
5 4 (9.52%) ServiceNow
6 3 (7.14%) Citrix
6 3 (7.14%) HP
6 3 (7.14%) Palo Alto
6 3 (7.14%) Symantec
7 2 (4.76%) Dynatrace
7 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle
7 2 (4.76%) SaltStack
7 2 (4.76%) Splunk
8 1 (2.38%) F5
8 1 (2.38%) IBM
8 1 (2.38%) ION Trading
8 1 (2.38%) Reuters
8 1 (2.38%) SevOne