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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 60 87
Rank change year-on-year -15 +27 -7
Contract jobs citing Ansible 52 62 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.83% 3.18% 1.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.72% 19.02% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 41 36
10th Percentile £350 £488 £409
25th Percentile £421 £519 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% +22.50% -25.93%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £543
90th Percentile £775 £738 £713
Central London median daily rate £588 £613 £510
% change year-on-year -4.08% +20.10% -25.82%

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 251 326 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.67% 16.71% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 214 262
10th Percentile £356 £357 £363
25th Percentile £416 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £583 £545
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +6.88% -9.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £683
90th Percentile £737 £729 £759
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £20.24 - -
25th Percentile £20.34 - -
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% - -
75th Percentile £22.91 - -
90th Percentile £23.39 - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.87 £112.00 -
% change year-on-year -78.69% - -

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 6 January 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 2 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.69%) AWS
2 16 (30.77%) Azure
3 11 (21.15%) GitHub
4 9 (17.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (17.31%) GCP
5 8 (15.38%) Amazon S3
5 8 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (11.54%) OpenShift
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (7.69%) Apigee
9 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (7.69%) Serverless
10 3 (5.77%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (5.77%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.54%) DNS
2 5 (9.62%) Firewall
2 5 (9.62%) SSL
2 5 (9.62%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.77%) VPN
4 2 (3.85%) BGP
4 2 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (3.85%) DHCP
4 2 (3.85%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (3.85%) HTTP
4 2 (3.85%) MPLS
4 2 (3.85%) NX-OS
4 2 (3.85%) OSPF
4 2 (3.85%) SAN
4 2 (3.85%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.92%) Multicast
5 1 (1.92%) NAS
5 1 (1.92%) SSH
5 1 (1.92%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) DynamoDB
1 3 (5.77%) Redis
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.85%) Hazelcast
2 2 (3.85%) MySQL
2 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.92%) CouchDB
3 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.92%) Impala
3 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Jenkins
2 14 (26.92%) Git
3 7 (13.46%) GitLab
4 4 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.77%) Gradle
5 3 (5.77%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.85%) Gatling
6 2 (3.85%) JIRA
6 2 (3.85%) Maven
6 2 (3.85%) Robot Framework
6 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.92%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.92%) jMock
7 1 (1.92%) JUnit
7 1 (1.92%) Mockito
7 1 (1.92%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.92%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 19 (36.54%) Finance
3 8 (15.38%) Banking
4 6 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Financial Institution
6 4 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.85%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Developer
2 10 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (17.31%) Senior
4 8 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Network Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Lead
7 3 (5.77%) Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.85%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) REST
2 5 (9.62%) OAuth
2 5 (9.62%) Web Services
2 5 (9.62%) ZK
3 4 (7.69%) Node.js
3 4 (7.69%) Spring
4 3 (5.77%) JSON
4 3 (5.77%) JWT
4 3 (5.77%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.85%) .NET
5 2 (3.85%) Apache Avro
5 2 (3.85%) Jinja
5 2 (3.85%) Kafka
5 2 (3.85%) Micronaut
5 2 (3.85%) OAuth2
5 2 (3.85%) OpenID
5 2 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (3.85%) Quarkus
6 1 (1.92%) Memcached
6 1 (1.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Derivative
3 2 (3.85%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.85%) Replication
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) IVR
4 1 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.92%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.00%) Linux
2 8 (15.38%) Windows
3 4 (7.69%) Unix
4 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (51.92%) DevOps
2 19 (36.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 18 (34.62%) CI/CD
4 14 (26.92%) Containerisation
5 10 (19.23%) Agile
5 10 (19.23%) High Availability
6 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (13.46%) Low Latency
9 6 (11.54%) Configuration Management
9 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (11.54%) Kanban
9 6 (11.54%) Observability
9 6 (11.54%) Project Delivery
9 6 (11.54%) Scrum
9 6 (11.54%) TDD
10 5 (9.62%) BDD
10 5 (9.62%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 30 (57.69%) Python
2 13 (25.00%) SQL
3 12 (23.08%) Java
4 8 (15.38%) Bash
5 7 (13.46%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.69%) Perl
7 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.85%) Rust
9 1 (1.92%) Go
9 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.85%) CCIE
4 2 (3.85%) CCNP
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) VCAP
4 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) CCNA
5 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) RHCE
5 1 (1.92%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) GDPR
1 3 (5.77%) QA
2 2 (3.85%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.85%) ISO 8583
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) PSD2
2 2 (3.85%) SEPA
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (36.54%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) vSphere
3 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.85%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.92%) Firmware
4 1 (1.92%) HDFS
4 1 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (53.85%) Terraform
2 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.77%) Grafana
3 3 (5.77%) ITRS Geneos
3 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.85%) Argo
4 2 (3.85%) Istio
4 2 (3.85%) Kibana
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.85%) PowerCLI
4 2 (3.85%) Puppet
5 1 (1.92%) Packer
5 1 (1.92%) Podman
5 1 (1.92%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.92%) vRealize
5 1 (1.92%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Oracle
2 5 (9.62%) F5
2 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.69%) Google
3 4 (7.69%) Splunk
3 4 (7.69%) VMware
4 3 (5.77%) CheckPoint
4 3 (5.77%) Cisco
4 3 (5.77%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.85%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.85%) Arista
5 2 (3.85%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.85%) Confluent
5 2 (3.85%) MarketAxess
5 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.85%) Tradeweb
6 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Veeam