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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 76 92
Rank change year-on-year -17 +16 +1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 38 46 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.63% 2.70% 1.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.90% 16.14% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 28 24
10th Percentile £350 £404 £479
25th Percentile £441 £495 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £539 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% -17.15% -5.45%
75th Percentile £575 £674 £778
90th Percentile £695 £733 £938
Central London median daily rate £513 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -6.82% -15.38% -

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 255 285 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.95% 16.74% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 196 199
10th Percentile £350 £275 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £657
90th Percentile £713 £750 £739
Central London median daily rate £525 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -3.45% -1.14% -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 1 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 (7.89%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.63%) JBoss
3 1 (2.63%) nginx
3 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) OpenShift
3 5 (13.16%) GCP
4 4 (10.53%) GitHub
5 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.26%) Serverless
6 2 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (2.63%) Datadog
7 1 (2.63%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.63%) SaaS
7 1 (2.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) Network Security
3 2 (5.26%) BGP
3 2 (5.26%) OSPF
3 2 (5.26%) SAN
3 2 (5.26%) VSAN
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (2.63%) EIGRP
4 1 (2.63%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.63%) IPFIX
4 1 (2.63%) IPsec
4 1 (2.63%) LAN
4 1 (2.63%) SNMP
4 1 (2.63%) SSL
4 1 (2.63%) TACACS
4 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.63%) WAN
4 1 (2.63%) Wireless
4 1 (2.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Hazelcast
1 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.26%) Redis
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.63%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 7 (18.42%) Git
3 6 (15.79%) GitLab
4 4 (10.53%) JIRA
4 4 (10.53%) JMeter
4 4 (10.53%) Postman
5 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
6 2 (5.26%) Ant
6 2 (5.26%) Gatling
6 2 (5.26%) Liquibase
7 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.63%) JUnit
7 1 (2.63%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (23.68%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Law
5 1 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.63%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Police
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Developer
2 6 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (15.79%) Java Developer
2 6 (15.79%) Senior
3 4 (10.53%) Tester
4 3 (7.89%) Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Architect
6 1 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (2.63%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) REST
2 4 (10.53%) Swagger
2 4 (10.53%) Web Services
3 3 (7.89%) Spring
3 3 (7.89%) ZK
4 2 (5.26%) Apache Avro
4 2 (5.26%) JSON
4 2 (5.26%) Kafka
4 2 (5.26%) Micronaut
4 2 (5.26%) OAuth
4 2 (5.26%) OAuth2
4 2 (5.26%) OpenID
4 2 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (5.26%) Quarkus
4 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 2 (5.26%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
5 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.63%) J2EE
5 1 (2.63%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.63%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.63%) Anti-Spyware
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) CentOS
3 1 (2.63%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.63%) VMS
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (39.47%) DevOps
3 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
4 9 (23.68%) Observability
5 8 (21.05%) Containerisation
6 7 (18.42%) Test Automation
7 6 (15.79%) Performance Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) Scrum
8 5 (13.16%) Agile
8 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (13.16%) Validation
9 4 (10.53%) Cloud Security
9 4 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (10.53%) Manual Testing
9 4 (10.53%) Migration
9 4 (10.53%) Performance Testing
9 4 (10.53%) Proactive Monitoring
9 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
9 4 (10.53%) Test Strategy
10 3 (7.89%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) Bash
3 6 (15.79%) Java
3 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
4 5 (13.16%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (34.21%) SC Cleared
1 13 (34.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.89%) CCNP
4 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.63%) CCIE
5 1 (2.63%) CCNA
5 1 (2.63%) CISSP
5 1 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.63%) CWNA
5 1 (2.63%) MCSE
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.63%) RHCE
5 1 (2.63%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 20022
2 2 (5.26%) ISO 8583
2 2 (5.26%) PSD2
2 2 (5.26%) SEPA
3 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.89%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (7.89%) vSphere
4 2 (5.26%) Firmware
4 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 19 (50.00%) Terraform
2 14 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 8 (21.05%) Grafana
3 8 (21.05%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.26%) Argo
4 2 (5.26%) PowerCLI
4 2 (5.26%) Puppet
4 2 (5.26%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.63%) Consul
5 1 (2.63%) Kibana
5 1 (2.63%) Packer
5 1 (2.63%) Podman
5 1 (2.63%) QRadar
5 1 (2.63%) Salt
5 1 (2.63%) TrustSec
5 1 (2.63%) vRealize
5 1 (2.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) VMware
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco
2 3 (7.89%) IBM
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
3 2 (5.26%) Confluent
3 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Brocade
4 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.63%) EMC
4 1 (2.63%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) SevOne