Ansible Contracts in the City of London

Ansible
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 91 91
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -16
Contract jobs citing Ansible 50 38 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.65% 1.85% 2.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.67% 12.06% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 24 51
10th Percentile £407 £504 £513
25th Percentile £495 £559 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £688 £778 £758
90th Percentile £775 £926 £800
Central London median daily rate £563 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -3.85%

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 283 315 538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.00% 15.31% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 219 360
10th Percentile £281 £350 £400
25th Percentile £423 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £657 £711
90th Percentile £775 £754 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £30.26 - £23.88
25th Percentile £35.53 - £27.81
Median hourly rate £46.11 £27.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +70.77% -25.52% +54.26%
75th Percentile £56.74 - £45.31
90th Percentile £62.04 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +8.00% +6.38%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in the City of London

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 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in the City of London

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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 2 August 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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) AWS
2 11 (22.00%) GitHub
3 10 (20.00%) Azure
4 5 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (10.00%) GCP
4 5 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (10.00%) Serverless
5 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (6.00%) Apigee
6 3 (6.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (6.00%) PaaS
6 3 (6.00%) Stackdriver
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.00%) Firewall
2 7 (14.00%) BGP
2 7 (14.00%) Multicast
3 6 (12.00%) OSPF
4 4 (8.00%) DNS
4 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (8.00%) Unicast
5 3 (6.00%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (6.00%) SSL
5 3 (6.00%) VPN
5 3 (6.00%) VXLAN
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (4.00%) IGMP
7 1 (2.00%) NX-OS
7 1 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.00%) SSH
7 1 (2.00%) tcpdump
7 1 (2.00%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.00%) VLAN
7 1 (2.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.00%) MySQL
1 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) CockroachDB
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git
2 10 (20.00%) GitLab
3 9 (18.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.00%) JIRA
5 3 (6.00%) Gradle
5 3 (6.00%) Maven
6 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.00%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (28.00%) Finance
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.00%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Developer
4 8 (16.00%) Senior
5 5 (10.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Database Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Node.js
1 4 (8.00%) REST
2 3 (6.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (4.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.00%) Kafka
3 2 (4.00%) Spring
3 2 (4.00%) Web Services
3 2 (4.00%) ZK
4 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.00%) Jinja
4 1 (2.00%) Middleware
4 1 (2.00%) OAuth
4 1 (2.00%) OpenID
4 1 (2.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) IVR
3 3 (6.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.00%) Replication
5 1 (2.00%) Digital Signage
5 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.00%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Unix
2 5 (10.00%) Windows
3 3 (6.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
5 1 (2.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) DevOps
2 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
3 17 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 15 (30.00%) Containerisation
5 12 (24.00%) High Availability
6 9 (18.00%) Agile
7 8 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (12.00%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
9 5 (10.00%) Low Latency
9 5 (10.00%) SDLC
9 5 (10.00%) TDD
10 4 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 4 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (56.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) Bash
3 5 (10.00%) SQL
4 4 (8.00%) Java
4 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.00%) Go
6 2 (4.00%) C#
7 1 (2.00%) Assembly Language
7 1 (2.00%) Bicep
7 1 (2.00%) C
7 1 (2.00%) C++
7 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.00%) Perl
7 1 (2.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (10.00%) CCIE
5 3 (6.00%) CCNP
5 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
6 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (56.00%) Terraform
2 17 (34.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (12.00%) Puppet
4 4 (8.00%) Grafana
4 4 (8.00%) Istio
4 4 (8.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (2.00%) Argo
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (2.00%) Icinga
7 1 (2.00%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (2.00%) Nagios
7 1 (2.00%) Observium
7 1 (2.00%) Packer
7 1 (2.00%) Podman
7 1 (2.00%) yum
7 1 (2.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Arista
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Cisco
2 6 (12.00%) Oracle
3 5 (10.00%) F5
3 5 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 3 (6.00%) Google
4 3 (6.00%) MuleSoft
4 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.00%) Splunk
5 2 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (4.00%) VMware
6 1 (2.00%) Confluent
6 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.00%) Juniper
6 1 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (2.00%) NetScout
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.00%) Sun