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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 71 91
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -12
Contract jobs citing Ansible 46 56 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.72% 2.67% 1.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.01% 16.23% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 35 44
10th Percentile £361 £496 £414
25th Percentile £439 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £613 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +13.43% -17.08%
75th Percentile £675 £734 £641
90th Percentile £775 £835 £688
Central London median daily rate £569 £606 £540
% change year-on-year -6.19% +12.27% -17.08%

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 242 345 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.33% 16.47% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 223 316
10th Percentile £283 £350 £381
25th Percentile £417 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £777
Central London median daily rate £525 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £21.49 £44.00 £23.88
25th Percentile £23.46 £69.50 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +208.97% +85.90%
75th Percentile £47.91 - £45.31
90th Percentile £58.51 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +85.90%

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 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the City of London

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the City of London region over the 6 months to 3 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Ansible
Central 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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.09%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) GitHub
3 7 (15.22%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) GCP
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
4 5 (10.87%) Apigee
5 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.52%) Stackdriver
6 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) BGP
1 8 (17.39%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) Multicast
2 7 (15.22%) OSPF
3 6 (13.04%) TCP/IP
4 5 (10.87%) DNS
4 5 (10.87%) SSL
5 4 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
5 4 (8.70%) Unicast
5 4 (8.70%) VXLAN
6 2 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (4.35%) HTTP
6 2 (4.35%) IGMP
6 2 (4.35%) Internet
6 2 (4.35%) MPLS
6 2 (4.35%) NX-OS
6 2 (4.35%) SSH
6 2 (4.35%) tcpdump
6 2 (4.35%) VPN
7 1 (2.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
2 1 (2.17%) CouchDB
2 1 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.17%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.17%) Impala
2 1 (2.17%) MySQL
2 1 (2.17%) Redis
2 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (28.26%) Git
2 12 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.39%) GitLab
4 5 (10.87%) Gradle
5 4 (8.70%) Maven
6 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.52%) TeamCity
7 2 (4.35%) JIRA
7 2 (4.35%) Robot Framework
7 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (2.17%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.17%) jMock
8 1 (2.17%) JUnit
8 1 (2.17%) Mockito
General
1 16 (34.78%) Finance
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Banking
4 4 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Developer
1 11 (23.91%) Network Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Architect
6 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Network Specialist
6 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) REST
2 5 (10.87%) Node.js
3 4 (8.70%) Web Services
3 4 (8.70%) ZK
4 3 (6.52%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.35%) .NET
5 2 (4.35%) Jinja
5 2 (4.35%) JWT
5 2 (4.35%) OAuth
5 2 (4.35%) RESTful
5 2 (4.35%) Spring
6 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.17%) CSS
6 1 (2.17%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.17%) HTML
6 1 (2.17%) jQuery
6 1 (2.17%) JSON
6 1 (2.17%) JSP
6 1 (2.17%) SOAP
6 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.52%) IVR
2 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.35%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.17%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.17%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.91%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Windows
3 3 (6.52%) Unix
4 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) DevOps
2 13 (28.26%) CI/CD
3 12 (26.09%) Containerisation
4 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (19.57%) High Availability
5 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (17.39%) Agile
7 7 (15.22%) Configuration Management
7 7 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
8 6 (13.04%) Kanban
8 6 (13.04%) Scrum
8 6 (13.04%) TDD
9 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (10.87%) Low Latency
9 5 (10.87%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
10 4 (8.70%) Design Patterns
10 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Python
2 9 (19.57%) Java
3 8 (17.39%) SQL
4 6 (13.04%) Bash
5 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.35%) Perl
7 2 (4.35%) Rust
8 1 (2.17%) Assembly Language
8 1 (2.17%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.17%) PHP
8 1 (2.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 9 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) CCIE
3 6 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.52%) CCNP
5 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.35%) Degree
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.17%) RHCE
6 1 (2.17%) RHCSA
6 1 (2.17%) VCAP
6 1 (2.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) NCSC
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) vSphere
3 1 (2.17%) HDFS
3 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Terraform
2 9 (19.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.70%) Istio
3 4 (8.70%) Puppet
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) Icinga
5 1 (2.17%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (2.17%) Kibana
5 1 (2.17%) Nagios
5 1 (2.17%) Observium
5 1 (2.17%) Packer
5 1 (2.17%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) vRealize
5 1 (2.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (2.17%) yum
5 1 (2.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Arista
2 6 (13.04%) F5
3 5 (10.87%) Cisco
3 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle
3 5 (10.87%) Palo Alto
4 4 (8.70%) Google
5 3 (6.52%) CheckPoint
5 3 (6.52%) MuleSoft
5 3 (6.52%) Splunk
6 2 (4.35%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.35%) VMware
7 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.17%) Calypso
7 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.17%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.17%) Sonatype