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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 92 78
Rank change year-on-year -25 -14 -11
Contract jobs citing Ansible 333 442 608
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.49% 2.75% 2.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.73% 18.91% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 291 468
10th Percentile £363 £438 £463
25th Percentile £464 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £767 £810 £810
England median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £37.00 - £68.20
25th Percentile £38.13 - £70.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile £49.50 - £90.00
90th Percentile £55.20 - -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -35.14% -3.31% +4.84%

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 2,117 2,337 3,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.82% 14.54% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,566 2,413
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.94% -6.19%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £700
90th Percentile £716 £750 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 36
10th Percentile £21.45 - £25.71
25th Percentile £26.19 £23.80 £26.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.04% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £61.44 £61.25 £71.25
90th Percentile £63.95 £102.40 £87.03
England median hourly rate £34.00 £36.83 £52.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% -29.84% +119.57%

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 15 October 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in London

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 15 October 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
Central London -2 45 £600 -5.88% 21
South London -2 5 £620 -14.48% 3
West London -2 5 £415 -24.55% 5
East London +7 4 £675 +50.00% 1
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 15 (4.50%) Confluence
2 9 (2.70%) Apache
3 5 (1.50%) nginx
4 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.90%) Appian
5 3 (0.90%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.90%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.60%) JBoss
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.30%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.30%) Mule
7 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Endur
2 3 (0.90%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 151 (45.35%) AWS
2 87 (26.13%) Azure
3 57 (17.12%) GitHub
4 51 (15.32%) GCP
5 29 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (8.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (7.51%) OpenShift
8 23 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (6.91%) Amazon S3
9 22 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 12 (3.60%) Serverless
12 11 (3.30%) Entra ID
13 10 (3.00%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (3.00%) IaaS
14 9 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (2.70%) Stackdriver
15 8 (2.40%) Azure AKS
15 8 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 81 (24.32%) Firewall
2 45 (13.51%) BGP
3 39 (11.71%) OSPF
3 39 (11.71%) VPN
4 38 (11.41%) DNS
4 38 (11.41%) TCP/IP
5 31 (9.31%) SSL
6 28 (8.41%) Network Security
7 22 (6.61%) WAN
8 19 (5.71%) VXLAN
9 18 (5.41%) Ethernet VPN
10 15 (4.50%) HTTP
10 15 (4.50%) MPLS
10 15 (4.50%) Multicast
10 15 (4.50%) SD-WAN
11 11 (3.30%) LAN
12 10 (3.00%) Cisco Nexus
12 10 (3.00%) DHCP
13 9 (2.70%) IPsec
14 6 (1.80%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.40%) MySQL
4 6 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 6 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 6 (1.80%) Redis
5 4 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.90%) MariaDB
6 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.60%) Big Data
7 2 (0.60%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.60%) Impala
7 2 (0.60%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 93 (27.93%) Jenkins
2 69 (20.72%) Git
3 58 (17.42%) GitLab
4 24 (7.21%) JIRA
5 19 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (5.41%) Artifactory
7 14 (4.20%) Cucumber
8 10 (3.00%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.40%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.40%) Robot Framework
9 8 (2.40%) TeamCity
10 7 (2.10%) Gradle
10 7 (2.10%) Subversion
11 6 (1.80%) Maven
12 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.20%) JMeter
12 4 (1.20%) JUnit
13 3 (0.90%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.90%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 108 (32.43%) Finance
2 93 (27.93%) Social Skills
3 35 (10.51%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.01%) Banking
5 25 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.31%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.90%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.80%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.20%) Back Office
12 3 (0.90%) Automotive
12 3 (0.90%) Front Office
12 3 (0.90%) Military
12 3 (0.90%) Retail
13 2 (0.60%) International Banking
13 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.60%) Marketing
13 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.60%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 71 (21.32%) Network Engineer
2 65 (19.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (11.71%) Senior
4 36 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (10.51%) Python Engineer
6 34 (10.21%) Developer
7 33 (9.91%) Automation Engineer
8 32 (9.61%) Architect
9 21 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.41%) IP Network Engineer
10 18 (5.41%) Switch Engineer
11 14 (4.20%) Cisco Engineer
11 14 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 12 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.60%) Consultant
14 10 (3.00%) Administrator
14 10 (3.00%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.61%) Kafka
2 21 (6.31%) REST
3 14 (4.20%) JSON
3 14 (4.20%) YAML
4 13 (3.90%) Spring
5 11 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (3.30%) Jinja
5 11 (3.30%) Node.js
6 10 (3.00%) RESTful
7 9 (2.70%) XML
8 8 (2.40%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.10%) Middleware
9 7 (2.10%) OAuth
9 7 (2.10%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.10%) OpenID
9 7 (2.10%) Swagger
10 6 (1.80%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.80%) React
10 6 (1.80%) Web Services
11 5 (1.50%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 32 (9.61%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.61%) Hedge funds
4 15 (4.50%) Private Cloud
5 14 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (3.60%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 7 (2.10%) Clustering
11 7 (2.10%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.80%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.80%) Replication
13 5 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.50%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
14 4 (1.20%) Fixed Income
14 4 (1.20%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 104 (31.23%) Linux
2 28 (8.41%) Windows
3 26 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (7.21%) Unix
5 10 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.40%) CentOS
7 7 (2.10%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.80%) Solaris
9 2 (0.60%) Debian
9 2 (0.60%) SUSE
10 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (50.15%) DevOps
2 151 (45.35%) CI/CD
3 132 (39.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (23.12%) Containerisation
5 61 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (18.02%) Agile
7 57 (17.12%) Infrastructure Automation
8 49 (14.71%) Configuration Management
9 47 (14.11%) High Availability
10 37 (11.11%) Migration
11 35 (10.51%) Test Automation
12 31 (9.31%) Observability
13 28 (8.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (7.51%) DevSecOps
15 24 (7.21%) Low Latency
15 24 (7.21%) Microservices
16 22 (6.61%) Cloud Security
17 20 (6.01%) Root Cause Analysis
17 20 (6.01%) Scrum
18 19 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 206 (61.86%) Python
2 62 (18.62%) Bash
3 40 (12.01%) PowerShell
4 33 (9.91%) Java
5 25 (7.51%) Go
6 19 (5.71%) SQL
7 16 (4.80%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.90%) C++
8 13 (3.90%) Perl
8 13 (3.90%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.30%) Groovy
10 10 (3.00%) C#
11 4 (1.20%) Bicep
11 4 (1.20%) PHP
11 4 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.60%) Ruby
12 2 (0.60%) Rust
13 1 (0.30%) DataWeave
13 1 (0.30%) PromQL
13 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 62 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.61%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (7.21%) CCNP
5 17 (5.11%) Degree
6 16 (4.80%) CCIE
7 12 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (3.00%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.00%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.10%) RHCE
10 6 (1.80%) JNCIE
11 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.20%) CCNA
11 4 (1.20%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.20%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.90%) CCSE
12 3 (0.90%) CISSP
13 2 (0.60%) JNCIA
13 2 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.80%) GDPR
1 6 (1.80%) QA
2 5 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.50%) NIST
3 4 (1.20%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.60%) SLA
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.30%) NCSC
5 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (27.33%) Docker
2 26 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.40%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.50%) Firmware
6 5 (1.50%) KVM
6 5 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.20%) NFS
7 4 (1.20%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.20%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (0.90%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.60%) HDFS
9 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.60%) vSphere
10 1 (0.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.30%) iptables
10 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.30%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 177 (53.15%) Terraform
2 110 (33.03%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.91%) Puppet
4 28 (8.41%) Prometheus
5 27 (8.11%) Progress Chef
6 26 (7.81%) Grafana
7 9 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (2.10%) Rancher
9 5 (1.50%) Istio
9 5 (1.50%) Nagios
9 5 (1.50%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.20%) Argo
10 4 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.20%) Packer
10 4 (1.20%) Podman
10 4 (1.20%) QRadar
10 4 (1.20%) vRealize
11 3 (0.90%) BladeLogic
11 3 (0.90%) Kibana
12 2 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (14.71%) Cisco
2 47 (14.11%) Arista
3 34 (10.21%) F5
4 32 (9.61%) VMware
5 26 (7.81%) Palo Alto
6 25 (7.51%) Splunk
7 24 (7.21%) Red Hat
8 22 (6.61%) CheckPoint
9 19 (5.71%) Microsoft
10 18 (5.41%) Oracle
11 16 (4.80%) Fortinet
12 15 (4.50%) Google
13 14 (4.20%) Juniper
14 11 (3.30%) CyberArk
14 11 (3.30%) ServiceNow
15 8 (2.40%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.10%) Dynatrace
17 6 (1.80%) Citrix
17 6 (1.80%) Infoblox
17 6 (1.80%) MuleSoft