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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 77 106
Rank change year-on-year -87 +29 -39
Contract jobs citing Ansible 288 418 397
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.70% 3.31% 2.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.63% 20.59% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 268 271
10th Percentile £369 £440 £395
25th Percentile £463 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £643 £688 £671
90th Percentile £764 £881 £763
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.65% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -25.83% -17.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +20.97% -14.48%

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 2,477 2,030 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.66% 16.08% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,688 1,400 1,612
10th Percentile £350 £365 £325
25th Percentile £427 £449 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £790 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 41
10th Percentile £22.39 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.73 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +71.33% +7.84% -60.45%
75th Percentile £63.32 £55.00 £58.00
90th Percentile - £62.80 £62.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
% change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -50.43%

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 April 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 April 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 -39 40 £563 +2.27% 19
South London -16 10 £530 -20.00% 1
West London - 3 £688 - 2
East London +3 2 £551 -12.62%
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 (5.21%) Confluence
2 5 (1.74%) Apache
3 4 (1.39%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.04%) JBoss
4 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
5 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Appian
6 1 (0.35%) FileNet
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 131 (45.49%) AWS
2 102 (35.42%) Azure
3 74 (25.69%) GitHub
4 50 (17.36%) GCP
5 38 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 29 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (9.03%) Serverless
10 25 (8.68%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (7.99%) OpenShift
11 23 (7.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (7.64%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (5.21%) IaaS
16 11 (3.82%) Azure AKS
17 9 (3.13%) PaaS
18 7 (2.43%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 65 (22.57%) Firewall
2 39 (13.54%) VPN
3 32 (11.11%) WAN
4 31 (10.76%) BGP
4 31 (10.76%) DNS
5 20 (6.94%) Network Security
5 20 (6.94%) OSPF
6 18 (6.25%) SD-WAN
7 16 (5.56%) TCP/IP
8 15 (5.21%) VXLAN
9 13 (4.51%) DHCP
9 13 (4.51%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (4.17%) MPLS
10 12 (4.17%) Multicast
11 10 (3.47%) LAN
12 8 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
12 8 (2.78%) Ethernet
12 8 (2.78%) NetScaler
12 8 (2.78%) SAN
12 8 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.13%) MySQL
5 6 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.04%) Redis
8 2 (0.69%) Big Data
8 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.69%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.69%) ImageNet
8 2 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (0.69%) Tableau
9 1 (0.35%) Impala
9 1 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 80 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 57 (19.79%) GitLab
3 53 (18.40%) Git
4 21 (7.29%) JIRA
5 7 (2.43%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.43%) JUnit
5 7 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.74%) Terragrunt
7 4 (1.39%) Ant
7 4 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.39%) Liquibase
7 4 (1.39%) Snyk
7 4 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.04%) Maven
9 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.69%) Gatling
9 2 (0.69%) Mockito
9 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.69%) RStudio
General
1 55 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.63%) Finance
3 24 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.99%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.21%) Banking
6 11 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Front Office
11 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.69%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Social Science
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Military
12 1 (0.35%) Police
12 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (13.54%) Senior
3 37 (12.85%) Architect
4 32 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 31 (10.76%) Developer
6 25 (8.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 21 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (7.29%) Site Engineer
8 19 (6.60%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.90%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (4.86%) Lead
12 13 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.51%) Senior Network Engineer
13 11 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.47%) AWS Architect
15 8 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (2.78%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.56%) Kafka
1 16 (5.56%) REST
2 11 (3.82%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (3.47%) Node.js
3 10 (3.47%) Spring
4 9 (3.13%) OAuth
5 8 (2.78%) YAML
6 7 (2.43%) ARM Templates
6 7 (2.43%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.08%) JWT
7 6 (2.08%) Middleware
7 6 (2.08%) Web Services
8 5 (1.74%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.74%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.39%) Jinja
9 4 (1.39%) JSON
9 4 (1.39%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (1.04%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.04%) RESTful
10 3 (1.04%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.68%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.90%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (3.47%) PKI
8 7 (2.43%) Clustering
8 7 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.04%) CMDB
12 3 (1.04%) Hedge funds
12 3 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.69%) Celerra
13 2 (0.69%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 95 (32.99%) Linux
2 34 (11.81%) Windows
3 22 (7.64%) Unix
4 18 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.21%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.51%) VMS
7 7 (2.43%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (2.08%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.69%) AIX
9 2 (0.69%) CentOS
10 1 (0.35%) Debian
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Rocky
10 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 136 (47.22%) CI/CD
2 136 (47.22%) DevOps
3 60 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 57 (19.79%) Agile
5 42 (14.58%) Configuration Management
5 42 (14.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 41 (14.24%) Migration
7 40 (13.89%) Observability
8 38 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (10.42%) Infrastructure Automation
10 30 (10.42%) Load Balancing
11 29 (10.07%) High Availability
11 29 (10.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (9.38%) Mentoring
13 25 (8.68%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (8.33%) ITIL
15 23 (7.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 129 (44.79%) Python
2 72 (25.00%) Bash
3 36 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 32 (11.11%) Java
5 18 (6.25%) SQL
6 10 (3.47%) Go
7 9 (3.13%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.74%) Bicep
8 5 (1.74%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.74%) Ruby
9 4 (1.39%) Perl
10 3 (1.04%) C++
11 2 (0.69%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.69%) C
11 2 (0.69%) PHP
12 1 (0.35%) C#
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) Rust
12 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (30.90%) Security Cleared
2 75 (26.04%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 18 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (5.90%) CCNP
5 16 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.51%) Degree
6 13 (4.51%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.13%) CCIE
9 7 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.39%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.39%) VCAP
11 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.04%) CCSE
11 3 (1.04%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.43%) QA
2 4 (1.39%) GDPR
2 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.39%) NIST
3 3 (1.04%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.69%) PSD2
4 2 (0.69%) SEPA
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (27.78%) Docker
2 20 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 15 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.47%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.13%) Hyper-V
6 9 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.78%) vSphere
8 7 (2.43%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.43%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.04%) NFS
10 2 (0.69%) Ceph
10 2 (0.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.69%) IAG
10 2 (0.69%) KVM
10 2 (0.69%) Postfix
10 2 (0.69%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.69%) Varnish
10 2 (0.69%) Xen
Systems Management
1 173 (60.07%) Terraform
2 105 (36.46%) Kubernetes
3 50 (17.36%) Grafana
4 46 (15.97%) Prometheus
5 27 (9.38%) Puppet
6 15 (5.21%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.51%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.47%) Argo
9 8 (2.78%) Kibana
10 7 (2.43%) Salt
10 7 (2.43%) SCCM
10 7 (2.43%) vMotion
11 6 (2.08%) SCOM
12 4 (1.39%) Rancher
12 4 (1.39%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (1.04%) HAProxy
13 3 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.04%) Karpenter
13 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.04%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (13.89%) Cisco
2 31 (10.76%) Arista
3 30 (10.42%) Microsoft
4 29 (10.07%) Splunk
5 28 (9.72%) VMware
6 21 (7.29%) Palo Alto
7 19 (6.60%) F5
8 16 (5.56%) Google
8 16 (5.56%) Red Hat
9 15 (5.21%) Aruba
10 14 (4.86%) Fortinet
10 14 (4.86%) ServiceNow
11 11 (3.82%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.82%) NetApp
12 10 (3.47%) Citrix
12 10 (3.47%) Juniper
13 9 (3.13%) Dynatrace
13 9 (3.13%) IBM
14 8 (2.78%) Oracle
14 8 (2.78%) Zscaler