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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing Ansible 41 46 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.71% 2.69% 1.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.36% 16.43% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 26
10th Percentile £350 £405 £481
25th Percentile £444 £500 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £606 £688 £784
90th Percentile £678 £755 £938
Central London median daily rate £525 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -6.67% -13.46% -

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 267 280 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.14% 16.35% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 192 213
10th Percentile £320 £275 £350
25th Percentile £444 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -0.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £632 £675 £657
90th Percentile £695 £750 £756
Central London median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £27.82 - -
25th Percentile £38.32 £26.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 £28.50 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +102.68% +40.74% -75.92%
75th Percentile £67.36 £30.25 £32.81
90th Percentile £71.94 - £43.28
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £27.48 £20.25
% change year-on-year +110.25% +35.68% -75.92%

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 13 June 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 (7.32%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) JBoss
3 1 (2.44%) nginx
3 1 (2.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (48.78%) AWS
2 9 (21.95%) OpenShift
3 6 (14.63%) Azure
3 6 (14.63%) GCP
4 3 (7.32%) GitHub
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.88%) IaaS
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.44%) Datadog
6 1 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.44%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.44%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.51%) Firewall
2 4 (9.76%) DNS
3 3 (7.32%) Network Security
3 3 (7.32%) VPN
4 2 (4.88%) BGP
4 2 (4.88%) DHCP
4 2 (4.88%) OSPF
4 2 (4.88%) SAN
4 2 (4.88%) SMTP
4 2 (4.88%) VSAN
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (2.44%) EIGRP
5 1 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.44%) IPFIX
5 1 (2.44%) IPsec
5 1 (2.44%) Multicast
5 1 (2.44%) NAS
5 1 (2.44%) SSL
5 1 (2.44%) TACACS
5 1 (2.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.88%) Big Data
1 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (4.88%) Hazelcast
1 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
1 2 (4.88%) Redis
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.44%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.51%) Git
3 6 (14.63%) GitLab
4 4 (9.76%) JIRA
4 4 (9.76%) JMeter
4 4 (9.76%) Postman
5 3 (7.32%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.88%) Ant
6 2 (4.88%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.88%) Gatling
6 2 (4.88%) Liquibase
7 1 (2.44%) JUnit
General
1 10 (24.39%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Banking
3 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.88%) Military
4 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Law
5 1 (2.44%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (24.39%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Senior
3 6 (14.63%) Java Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Tester
6 3 (7.32%) Network Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Support Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (4.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Architect
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) VMware Engineer
8 1 (2.44%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.07%) REST
2 4 (9.76%) Swagger
2 4 (9.76%) Web Services
3 3 (7.32%) Spring
3 3 (7.32%) ZK
4 2 (4.88%) Apache Avro
4 2 (4.88%) JSON
4 2 (4.88%) Kafka
4 2 (4.88%) Micronaut
4 2 (4.88%) OAuth
4 2 (4.88%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.88%) OpenID
4 2 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (4.88%) Quarkus
4 2 (4.88%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.88%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.44%) .NET
5 1 (2.44%) 802.1X
5 1 (2.44%) J2EE
5 1 (2.44%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) Clustering
3 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) PKI
3 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.44%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (21.95%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Windows
3 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.44%) CentOS
5 1 (2.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.44%) VMS
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (43.90%) DevOps
3 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
4 9 (21.95%) Containerisation
5 8 (19.51%) Observability
6 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
7 6 (14.63%) Performance Engineering
7 6 (14.63%) Scrum
8 5 (12.20%) Agile
8 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (12.20%) Validation
9 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (9.76%) High Availability
9 4 (9.76%) Low Latency
9 4 (9.76%) Migration
9 4 (9.76%) Proactive Monitoring
9 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
9 4 (9.76%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (53.66%) Python
2 10 (24.39%) Bash
3 9 (21.95%) PowerShell
4 7 (17.07%) Java
5 6 (14.63%) SQL
6 1 (2.44%) C++
6 1 (2.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (39.02%) Security Cleared
2 14 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (9.76%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) CCNP
5 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.44%) CCIE
6 1 (2.44%) CCNA
6 1 (2.44%) CISSP
6 1 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) CWNA
6 1 (2.44%) MCSE
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.44%) RHCE
6 1 (2.44%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.88%) ISO 8583
2 2 (4.88%) PSD2
2 2 (4.88%) SEPA
3 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (21.95%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (12.20%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.20%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.32%) vSphere
5 2 (4.88%) BitLocker
5 2 (4.88%) Firmware
5 2 (4.88%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (4.88%) Terminal Services
5 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (46.34%) Terraform
2 16 (39.02%) Kubernetes
3 8 (19.51%) Grafana
3 8 (19.51%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.76%) Puppet
4 4 (9.76%) vCenter Server
5 2 (4.88%) Argo
5 2 (4.88%) Nagios
5 2 (4.88%) PowerCLI
5 2 (4.88%) vMotion
6 1 (2.44%) Consul
6 1 (2.44%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (2.44%) Packer
6 1 (2.44%) Podman
6 1 (2.44%) QRadar
6 1 (2.44%) Salt
6 1 (2.44%) TrustSec
6 1 (2.44%) vRealize
6 1 (2.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) VMware
2 4 (9.76%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.32%) Cisco
3 3 (7.32%) IBM
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) Palo Alto
3 3 (7.32%) Splunk
4 2 (4.88%) Citrix
4 2 (4.88%) Confluent
4 2 (4.88%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.88%) HP
4 2 (4.88%) Symantec
5 1 (2.44%) Brocade
5 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.44%) EMC
5 1 (2.44%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (2.44%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.44%) SevOne