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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 55 82
Rank change year-on-year -21 +27 +7
Contract jobs citing Ansible 49 65 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.41% 3.64% 1.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.22% 19.12% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 31
10th Percentile £349 £413 £419
25th Percentile £361 £503 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £501
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +14.89% -28.50%
75th Percentile £661 £678 £677
90th Percentile £775 £718 £938
Central London median daily rate £550 £578 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.00% -25.00%

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 255 340 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.52% 19.03% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 230 201
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £674 £656
90th Percentile £725 £731 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £20.31 - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +729.63% -74.24%
75th Percentile £41.72 - £32.25
90th Percentile £52.52 - £43.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year -77.26% +729.63% -42.55%

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 12 March 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 (8.16%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.04%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) AWS
2 16 (32.65%) Azure
3 10 (20.41%) GCP
4 9 (18.37%) GitHub
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (14.29%) OpenShift
6 6 (12.24%) Amazon S3
6 6 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (8.16%) Serverless
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (6.12%) Apigee
9 3 (6.12%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (6.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) DNS
2 3 (6.12%) Firewall
3 2 (4.08%) DHCP
3 2 (4.08%) SAN
3 2 (4.08%) SSL
3 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.08%) VPN
4 1 (2.04%) BGP
4 1 (2.04%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.04%) HTTPS
4 1 (2.04%) Internet
4 1 (2.04%) IPsec
4 1 (2.04%) NAS
4 1 (2.04%) Network Security
4 1 (2.04%) OSPF
4 1 (2.04%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
1 3 (6.12%) Redis
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.08%) Hazelcast
2 2 (4.08%) MySQL
2 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) CouchDB
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 11 (22.45%) Git
3 5 (10.20%) GitLab
3 5 (10.20%) JIRA
4 4 (8.16%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.08%) Ant
5 2 (4.08%) Gatling
5 2 (4.08%) Gradle
5 2 (4.08%) JUnit
5 2 (4.08%) Liquibase
5 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.04%) jMock
6 1 (2.04%) Maven
6 1 (2.04%) Mockito
6 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.61%) Finance
3 8 (16.33%) Banking
4 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Developer
2 12 (24.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Java Developer
4 7 (14.29%) Senior
5 5 (10.20%) Architect
6 4 (8.16%) Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Lead
6 4 (8.16%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Apigee Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) GCP DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
8 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) REST
2 5 (10.20%) OAuth
2 5 (10.20%) Web Services
3 4 (8.16%) Spring
3 4 (8.16%) ZK
4 3 (6.12%) JSON
4 3 (6.12%) JWT
4 3 (6.12%) Node.js
4 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.08%) .NET
5 2 (4.08%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.08%) Kafka
5 2 (4.08%) Micronaut
5 2 (4.08%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.08%) OpenID
5 2 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.08%) Quarkus
5 2 (4.08%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (2.04%) Memcached
6 1 (2.04%) MyBatis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.08%) Derivative
3 2 (4.08%) Fixed Income
3 2 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.08%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.04%) Anti-Spyware
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Linux
2 7 (14.29%) Windows
3 2 (4.08%) Unix
3 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) DevOps
1 23 (46.94%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (38.78%) CI/CD
3 9 (18.37%) Containerisation
4 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.29%) Agile
5 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 7 (14.29%) Scrum
6 6 (12.24%) High Availability
6 6 (12.24%) Observability
6 6 (12.24%) Test Automation
7 5 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (10.20%) Process Improvement
7 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
8 4 (8.16%) BDD
8 4 (8.16%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Python
2 11 (22.45%) Java
3 10 (20.41%) SQL
4 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
5 7 (14.29%) Bash
6 2 (4.08%) Perl
6 2 (4.08%) Rust
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) Go
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) VCAP
3 3 (6.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) CCNA
5 1 (2.04%) CCNP
5 1 (2.04%) CISSP
5 1 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) ISO 20022
2 2 (4.08%) ISO 8583
2 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.08%) PSD2
2 2 (4.08%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) SEPA
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.04%) NCSC
3 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (32.65%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) vSphere
3 3 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.12%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (59.18%) Terraform
2 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.12%) PowerCLI
4 2 (4.08%) Argo
4 2 (4.08%) Grafana
4 2 (4.08%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.08%) vCenter Server
4 2 (4.08%) vRealize
4 2 (4.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (2.04%) Kibana
5 1 (2.04%) Packer
5 1 (2.04%) Podman
5 1 (2.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) VMware
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle
3 4 (8.16%) Google
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.16%) Splunk
4 3 (6.12%) IBM
5 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
5 2 (4.08%) Bloomberg
5 2 (4.08%) Confluent
5 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.08%) MarketAxess
5 2 (4.08%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.08%) Tradeweb
6 1 (2.04%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.04%) Datto
6 1 (2.04%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (2.04%) Pure Storage
6 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Sonatype
6 1 (2.04%) Veeam