Ansible Contract Job Trends in London

Ansible
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Ansible skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 88 117
Rank change year-on-year -59 +29 -36
Contract jobs citing Ansible 354 379 387
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 2.94% 2.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.09% 18.78% 16.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 232 264
10th Percentile £400 £425 £383
25th Percentile £463 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £700
90th Percentile £725 £775 £784
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.85 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £37.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £44.88 -
90th Percentile - £47.80 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £53.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.01% -27.70% +0.88%

All Systems Management Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,705 2,018 2,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.04% 15.65% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,881 1,335 1,682
10th Percentile £356 £350 £335
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 36
10th Percentile £25.65 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £34.50 £26.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.72 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% +60.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £76.56 £53.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.10 £69.13
England median hourly rate £62.00 £48.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +27.84% +55.20% -43.18%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Ansible job vacancy trend in London

Ansible
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ansible.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ansible

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in London

Ansible
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ansible.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Ansible

Ansible
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. 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
Central London -25 42 £550 - 25
South London -9 4 £505 -15.83%
West London -16 4 £500 +20.48% 8
East London -1 2 £551 -18.44% 4
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 13 (3.67%) Confluence
2 8 (2.26%) Apache
3 4 (1.13%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.13%) WordPress
4 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.85%) JBoss
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.85%) nginx
5 2 (0.56%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.56%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.56%) CMS
5 2 (0.56%) Mule
5 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) MTS
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 171 (48.31%) AWS
2 120 (33.90%) Azure
3 73 (20.62%) GitHub
4 40 (11.30%) GCP
5 37 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (7.91%) Amazon S3
7 28 (7.91%) OpenShift
8 25 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (7.06%) Datadog
8 25 (7.06%) Serverless
9 24 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (6.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 22 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (6.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (5.65%) Entra ID
14 18 (5.08%) Azure AKS
15 15 (4.24%) PaaS
16 14 (3.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (19.77%) Firewall
2 40 (11.30%) VPN
3 38 (10.73%) BGP
4 33 (9.32%) WAN
5 31 (8.76%) DNS
6 23 (6.50%) Network Security
7 22 (6.21%) OSPF
8 17 (4.80%) TCP/IP
9 14 (3.95%) VXLAN
10 13 (3.67%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (3.67%) MPLS
10 13 (3.67%) Wireless
11 11 (3.11%) DHCP
11 11 (3.11%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.11%) Multicast
11 11 (3.11%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.82%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (2.82%) NX-OS
12 10 (2.82%) SSL
12 10 (2.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.52%) MongoDB
1 16 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.24%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.82%) Redis
5 7 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (1.98%) MySQL
6 6 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (1.69%) Big Data
6 6 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.41%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.41%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.85%) Power BI
9 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.28%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.28%) KDB
Development Applications
1 89 (25.14%) Jenkins
2 72 (20.34%) GitLab
3 66 (18.64%) Git
4 25 (7.06%) JIRA
5 9 (2.54%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.26%) Snyk
6 8 (2.26%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.98%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.98%) Postman
8 6 (1.69%) JMeter
8 6 (1.69%) JUnit
9 5 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.13%) Ant
10 4 (1.13%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.85%) Gradle
11 3 (0.85%) Mockito
12 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 71 (20.06%) Finance
2 56 (15.82%) Social Skills
3 33 (9.32%) Public Sector
4 28 (7.91%) Banking
5 22 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.54%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.98%) Law
9 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.41%) Police
10 5 (1.41%) Retail
11 4 (1.13%) Front Office
11 4 (1.13%) Military
11 4 (1.13%) Publishing
12 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Legal
13 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (25.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (12.99%) Architect
3 41 (11.58%) Senior
4 37 (10.45%) Network Engineer
5 30 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (7.91%) Developer
7 24 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (6.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (5.93%) Lead
9 21 (5.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 20 (5.65%) Automation Engineer
10 20 (5.65%) AWS DevOps
10 20 (5.65%) Linux Engineer
11 19 (5.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.80%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.52%) Site Engineer
14 14 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
15 13 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
17 11 (3.11%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.06%) Kafka
2 24 (6.78%) REST
3 16 (4.52%) YAML
4 12 (3.39%) Middleware
4 12 (3.39%) Spring
5 11 (3.11%) .NET
6 10 (2.82%) JSON
7 9 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.26%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.26%) cloud-init
8 8 (2.26%) React
8 8 (2.26%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.98%) Swagger
10 6 (1.69%) OAuth
10 6 (1.69%) RESTful
10 6 (1.69%) SAML
10 6 (1.69%) Web Services
11 5 (1.41%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.97%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.86%) Data Centre
3 20 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.80%) PKI
5 15 (4.24%) Security Posture
6 14 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.11%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (2.54%) Clustering
10 7 (1.98%) CMDB
10 7 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.98%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.41%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.41%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.13%) Cloud Security Posture
12 4 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 126 (35.59%) Linux
2 52 (14.69%) Windows
3 34 (9.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (7.06%) Unix
5 23 (6.50%) Ubuntu
6 21 (5.93%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.13%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.13%) VMS
8 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.56%) CentOS
9 2 (0.56%) Debian
9 2 (0.56%) Solaris
10 1 (0.28%) AIX
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Rocky
10 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (56.78%) DevOps
2 177 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 171 (48.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (25.14%) Containerisation
5 76 (21.47%) Configuration Management
6 69 (19.49%) Observability
7 68 (19.21%) Agile
8 53 (14.97%) Platform Engineering
9 46 (12.99%) Migration
10 45 (12.71%) AI
10 45 (12.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 37 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 35 (9.89%) Infrastructure Automation
14 35 (9.89%) Mentoring
15 32 (9.04%) Cloud Security
16 29 (8.19%) High Availability
16 29 (8.19%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (8.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 177 (50.00%) Python
2 100 (28.25%) Bash
3 64 (18.08%) PowerShell
4 44 (12.43%) Java
5 23 (6.50%) SQL
6 13 (3.67%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.39%) Bicep
8 11 (3.11%) JavaScript
9 10 (2.82%) Go
10 7 (1.98%) Ruby
11 5 (1.41%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.13%) C
12 4 (1.13%) C#
13 3 (0.85%) C++
13 3 (0.85%) Groovy
13 3 (0.85%) Perl
14 2 (0.56%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.56%) Scala
15 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 120 (33.90%) Security Cleared
2 101 (28.53%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.63%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (7.34%) Degree
5 23 (6.50%) CCNP
6 19 (5.37%) DV Cleared
7 15 (4.24%) AWS Certification
7 15 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.67%) Azure Certification
9 12 (3.39%) CCIE
10 9 (2.54%) CISSP
11 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.13%) CCNA
13 4 (1.13%) ISSAP
14 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.85%) CISM
14 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.85%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.39%) QA
2 9 (2.54%) NIST
3 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.85%) GDPR
4 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.56%) NCSC
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.28%) PSD2
6 1 (0.28%) SEPA
6 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 85 (24.01%) Docker
2 29 (8.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.21%) Active Directory
4 17 (4.80%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.95%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.11%) Hyper-V
7 10 (2.82%) vSphere
8 9 (2.54%) VMware NSX
9 8 (2.26%) BitLocker
9 8 (2.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.69%) NFS
11 4 (1.13%) Postfix
11 4 (1.13%) Varnish
12 3 (0.85%) IAG
12 3 (0.85%) KVM
12 3 (0.85%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.85%) Squid
12 3 (0.85%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.56%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.56%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 200 (56.50%) Terraform
2 151 (42.66%) Kubernetes
3 76 (21.47%) Prometheus
4 68 (19.21%) Grafana
5 39 (11.02%) Puppet
6 16 (4.52%) Progress Chef
7 14 (3.95%) vCenter Server
8 13 (3.67%) Packer
9 9 (2.54%) Salt
10 8 (2.26%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.26%) vMotion
11 7 (1.98%) systemd
12 6 (1.69%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (1.69%) vRealize
13 5 (1.41%) Data Guard
13 5 (1.41%) Nagios
14 4 (1.13%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.85%) Consul
15 3 (0.85%) yum
15 3 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (14.12%) Cisco
2 42 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 39 (11.02%) VMware
4 34 (9.60%) Splunk
5 31 (8.76%) Palo Alto
6 28 (7.91%) Arista
7 22 (6.21%) Fortinet
8 19 (5.37%) F5
9 16 (4.52%) Red Hat
10 15 (4.24%) Oracle
11 14 (3.95%) ServiceNow
12 12 (3.39%) Google
13 11 (3.11%) Juniper
14 10 (2.82%) Aruba
14 10 (2.82%) NetApp
14 10 (2.82%) Okta
14 10 (2.82%) Zscaler
15 9 (2.54%) IBM
16 8 (2.26%) Citrix
16 8 (2.26%) Dynatrace