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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 69 91
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing Ansible 40 47 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.74% 2.69% 1.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.87% 15.56% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 26
10th Percentile £350 £420 £469
25th Percentile £453 £503 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £648
Median % change year-on-year - -15.06% -7.50%
75th Percentile £649 £688 £731
90th Percentile £776 £725 £919
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £641
% change year-on-year -2.22% -12.28% -5.00%

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 252 302 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.95% 17.29% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 203 196
10th Percentile £350 £281 £325
25th Percentile £441 £442 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -9.17%
75th Percentile £643 £673 £664
90th Percentile £733 £735 £748
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £27.82 - -
25th Percentile £38.32 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £57.77 - £20.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.92%
75th Percentile £67.36 - £32.81
90th Percentile £71.94 - £43.28
Central London median hourly rate £57.77 £26.45 £20.25
% change year-on-year +118.39% +30.62% -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 18 May 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 (7.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.50%) Apache
3 1 (2.50%) JBoss
3 1 (2.50%) nginx
3 1 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (20.00%) Azure
3 7 (17.50%) OpenShift
4 6 (15.00%) GCP
5 4 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (5.00%) Serverless
7 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.50%) Datadog
8 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.50%) SaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) DNS
3 2 (5.00%) BGP
3 2 (5.00%) Network Security
3 2 (5.00%) OSPF
3 2 (5.00%) SAN
4 1 (2.50%) EIGRP
4 1 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.50%) IPFIX
4 1 (2.50%) IPsec
4 1 (2.50%) LAN
4 1 (2.50%) NAS
4 1 (2.50%) SNMP
4 1 (2.50%) SSH
4 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.50%) VPN
4 1 (2.50%) VSAN
4 1 (2.50%) WAN
4 1 (2.50%) Wireless
4 1 (2.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Hazelcast
1 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.00%) Redis
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.50%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.00%) Git
3 5 (12.50%) GitLab
4 4 (10.00%) JIRA
4 4 (10.00%) JMeter
4 4 (10.00%) Postman
5 3 (7.50%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.00%) Ant
6 2 (5.00%) Gatling
6 2 (5.00%) Liquibase
7 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.50%) JUnit
7 1 (2.50%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (27.50%) Finance
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 3 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (2.50%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Police
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Java Developer
2 6 (15.00%) Senior
3 4 (10.00%) Tester
4 3 (7.50%) Architect
4 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Principal Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) REST
2 4 (10.00%) Swagger
2 4 (10.00%) Web Services
3 3 (7.50%) Spring
3 3 (7.50%) ZK
4 2 (5.00%) Apache Avro
4 2 (5.00%) JSON
4 2 (5.00%) Kafka
4 2 (5.00%) Micronaut
4 2 (5.00%) OAuth
4 2 (5.00%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.00%) OpenID
4 2 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (5.00%) Quarkus
4 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.00%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.50%) J2EE
5 1 (2.50%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) Derivative
2 2 (5.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.50%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.50%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Windows
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Unix
4 1 (2.50%) CentOS
4 1 (2.50%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.50%) VMS
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (52.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 18 (45.00%) DevOps
3 15 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
4 9 (22.50%) Observability
5 7 (17.50%) Agile
5 7 (17.50%) Test Automation
6 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (15.00%) Performance Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) Scrum
7 5 (12.50%) Cloud Security
7 5 (12.50%) High Availability
7 5 (12.50%) Low Latency
7 5 (12.50%) Validation
8 4 (10.00%) Manual Testing
8 4 (10.00%) Performance Testing
8 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (10.00%) Process Improvement
8 4 (10.00%) Resilience Testing
8 4 (10.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) Bash
3 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
3 7 (17.50%) SQL
4 6 (15.00%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) Perl
6 1 (2.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) CCNA
4 2 (5.00%) CCNP
5 1 (2.50%) CISSP
5 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) CWNA
5 1 (2.50%) MCSE
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.50%) RHCE
5 1 (2.50%) VCAP
5 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.00%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.00%) PSD2
2 2 (5.00%) SEPA
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.00%) Firmware
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.00%) vSphere
4 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Terraform
2 14 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.00%) Grafana
3 8 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.00%) Argo
4 2 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (2.50%) Consul
5 1 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) Packer
5 1 (2.50%) Podman
5 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.50%) QRadar
5 1 (2.50%) Salt
5 1 (2.50%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.50%) vRealize
5 1 (2.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Splunk
1 5 (12.50%) VMware
2 3 (7.50%) Google
2 3 (7.50%) IBM
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (5.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco
3 2 (5.00%) Confluent
3 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.00%) MarketAxess
3 2 (5.00%) Tradeweb
4 1 (2.50%) Brocade
4 1 (2.50%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.50%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) SevOne