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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 78 88
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing Ansible 37 49 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.51% 2.64% 1.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.89% 16.96% 12.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 31 27
10th Percentile £395 £406 £491
25th Percentile £463 £498 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% -
75th Percentile £638 £681 £781
90th Percentile £730 £775 £938
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -2.22% -13.46% +0.78%

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 287 289 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.69% 15.57% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 197 220
10th Percentile £313 £275 £350
25th Percentile £453 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £648 £675 £652
90th Percentile £725 £761 £751
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £56.73 £30.26 -
25th Percentile £58.11 £35.53 £12.75
Median hourly rate £63.88 £46.11 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.55% +70.77% -67.89%
75th Percentile £71.18 £56.74 -
90th Percentile £73.47 £62.04 £40.95
Central London median hourly rate £63.88 £28.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +124.15% +5.56% -59.73%

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 10 July 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 (8.11%) Confluence
1 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.70%) Apache
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) JBoss
3 1 (2.70%) nginx
3 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) AWS
2 5 (13.51%) GCP
2 5 (13.51%) OpenShift
3 4 (10.81%) Azure
4 3 (8.11%) IaaS
4 3 (8.11%) PaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.70%) Datadog
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) Firewall
2 5 (13.51%) DNS
3 4 (10.81%) VPN
4 3 (8.11%) DHCP
4 3 (8.11%) Network Security
4 3 (8.11%) SMTP
5 2 (5.41%) BGP
5 2 (5.41%) OSPF
5 2 (5.41%) VSAN
6 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (2.70%) EIGRP
6 1 (2.70%) IPFIX
6 1 (2.70%) LAN
6 1 (2.70%) Multicast
6 1 (2.70%) SAN
6 1 (2.70%) SNMP
6 1 (2.70%) TACACS
6 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.70%) WAN
6 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (8.11%) Big Data
1 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.70%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Jenkins
2 8 (21.62%) Git
2 8 (21.62%) GitLab
3 4 (10.81%) JIRA
3 4 (10.81%) JMeter
3 4 (10.81%) Postman
4 2 (5.41%) Ant
4 2 (5.41%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.41%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.70%) JUnit
5 1 (2.70%) Maven
5 1 (2.70%) Subversion
General
1 10 (27.03%) Finance
2 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Banking
3 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Financial Institution
3 2 (5.41%) Military
3 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.70%) Law
4 1 (2.70%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (2.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Senior
3 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Tester
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) REST
2 4 (10.81%) Swagger
3 3 (8.11%) Web Services
4 2 (5.41%) Spring
4 2 (5.41%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (5.41%) ZK
5 1 (2.70%) .NET
5 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
5 1 (2.70%) J2EE
5 1 (2.70%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.51%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.11%) Clustering
3 3 (8.11%) PKI
4 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.70%) Anti-Spyware
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Linux
2 7 (18.92%) Windows
3 4 (10.81%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.41%) Unix
5 1 (2.70%) CentOS
5 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.70%) VMS
5 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) DevOps
2 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
4 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
4 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
5 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (16.22%) Observability
6 5 (13.51%) AI
6 5 (13.51%) Scrum
6 5 (13.51%) Validation
7 4 (10.81%) Agile
7 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security
7 4 (10.81%) High Availability
7 4 (10.81%) Manual Testing
7 4 (10.81%) Performance Engineering
7 4 (10.81%) Performance Testing
7 4 (10.81%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (10.81%) Software Deployment
7 4 (10.81%) Test Strategy
8 3 (8.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (62.16%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) Bash
2 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
3 7 (18.92%) Java
4 4 (10.81%) SQL
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.51%) Degree
4 4 (10.81%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
5 3 (8.11%) CCNP
6 2 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.70%) CCIE
7 1 (2.70%) CCNA
7 1 (2.70%) CISSP
7 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.70%) CWNA
7 1 (2.70%) MCSE
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.70%) RHCE
7 1 (2.70%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (18.92%) Docker
2 7 (18.92%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
4 3 (8.11%) BitLocker
4 3 (8.11%) Hyper-V
4 3 (8.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (8.11%) Terminal Services
4 3 (8.11%) vSphere
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (45.95%) Terraform
2 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
3 7 (18.92%) Puppet
4 6 (16.22%) Grafana
4 6 (16.22%) Prometheus
4 6 (16.22%) vCenter Server
5 3 (8.11%) Nagios
5 3 (8.11%) vMotion
6 2 (5.41%) PowerCLI
7 1 (2.70%) Consul
7 1 (2.70%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (2.70%) Packer
7 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.70%) QRadar
7 1 (2.70%) Salt
7 1 (2.70%) TrustSec
7 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) VMware
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) Cisco
4 3 (8.11%) Citrix
4 3 (8.11%) HP
4 3 (8.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.11%) Splunk
4 3 (8.11%) Symantec
5 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.41%) IBM
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle
5 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.70%) EMC
6 1 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.70%) ION Trading
6 1 (2.70%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.70%) SevOne