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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 87 120
Rank change year-on-year -70 +33 -42
Contract jobs citing Ansible 305 376 363
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.67% 3.10% 2.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.15% 19.80% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 241 253
10th Percentile £400 £440 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% -12.21%
75th Percentile £638 £690 £688
90th Percentile £750 £850 £763
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -11.65%
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 £44.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +41.88% -28.51% -14.73%

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 2,510 1,899 2,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.78% 15.66% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,728 1,295 1,603
10th Percentile £350 £363 £319
25th Percentile £437 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -10.42%
75th Percentile £626 £656 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
England median daily rate £507 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 32
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.19 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.09 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.75 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% +57.58% -61.88%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £51.44
90th Percentile £67.19 £54.70 £70.83
England median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £25.77
% change year-on-year +94.83% +12.56% -50.92%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -20 43 £550 -2.22% 41
South London -19 6 £530 -3.20%
West London -26 3 £500 - 6
East London -5 2 £551 -18.44% 3
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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 9 (2.95%) Apache
3 4 (1.31%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.98%) JBoss
4 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.66%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.66%) nginx
5 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Appian
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) FileNet
6 1 (0.33%) MTS
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 132 (43.28%) AWS
2 107 (35.08%) Azure
3 72 (23.61%) GitHub
4 41 (13.44%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (12.79%) GCP
6 32 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (8.85%) OpenShift
8 23 (7.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (6.23%) Amazon S3
11 19 (6.23%) Serverless
11 19 (6.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (4.59%) Azure AKS
13 13 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (3.93%) IaaS
14 12 (3.93%) PaaS
15 11 (3.61%) Entra ID
16 9 (2.95%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 66 (21.64%) Firewall
2 36 (11.80%) BGP
3 33 (10.82%) VPN
4 28 (9.18%) WAN
5 26 (8.52%) DNS
6 22 (7.21%) Network Security
6 22 (7.21%) OSPF
7 17 (5.57%) VXLAN
8 16 (5.25%) TCP/IP
9 13 (4.26%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (3.93%) MPLS
10 12 (3.93%) Multicast
11 11 (3.61%) SD-WAN
11 11 (3.61%) Wireless
12 10 (3.28%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (3.28%) VLAN
13 9 (2.95%) DHCP
13 9 (2.95%) LAN
14 8 (2.62%) Ethernet
14 8 (2.62%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.61%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (1.97%) Redis
6 5 (1.64%) MySQL
6 5 (1.64%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.66%) Big Data
9 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.66%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.66%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.33%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.33%) Impala
10 1 (0.33%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 85 (27.87%) Jenkins
2 63 (20.66%) GitLab
3 55 (18.03%) Git
4 22 (7.21%) JIRA
5 7 (2.30%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.30%) Postman
6 6 (1.97%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.97%) JMeter
6 6 (1.97%) Snyk
6 6 (1.97%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.64%) JUnit
8 4 (1.31%) Ant
8 4 (1.31%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.31%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.98%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.66%) Mockito
10 2 (0.66%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (17.05%) Finance
2 43 (14.10%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.16%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.90%) Banking
6 13 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.62%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.97%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.31%) Law
9 4 (1.31%) Military
9 4 (1.31%) Police
10 3 (0.98%) Front Office
11 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 69 (22.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (12.46%) Senior
3 36 (11.80%) Architect
4 34 (11.15%) Network Engineer
5 28 (9.18%) Developer
6 27 (8.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 21 (6.89%) AWS Engineer
8 19 (6.23%) Site Engineer
9 18 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.90%) Lead
10 17 (5.57%) Java Developer
11 16 (5.25%) Automation Engineer
12 15 (4.92%) AWS DevOps
12 15 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
13 14 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.59%) Senior Network Engineer
14 11 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.21%) Kafka
2 16 (5.25%) REST
3 13 (4.26%) YAML
4 12 (3.93%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.62%) .NET
5 8 (2.62%) ARM Templates
5 8 (2.62%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (2.62%) Spring
6 7 (2.30%) JSON
6 7 (2.30%) Web Services
7 6 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.97%) Swagger
8 5 (1.64%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.64%) Middleware
8 5 (1.64%) React
8 5 (1.64%) RESTful
8 5 (1.64%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.31%) Node.js
9 4 (1.31%) OAuth
9 4 (1.31%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.48%) Data Centre
2 34 (11.15%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (4.92%) PKI
4 14 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.93%) Enterprise Storage
7 11 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 8 (2.62%) Clustering
9 7 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.64%) CMDB
12 4 (1.31%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (1.31%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.31%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 2 (0.66%) EMC VMAX
14 2 (0.66%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 98 (32.13%) Linux
2 38 (12.46%) Windows
3 23 (7.54%) Unix
4 17 (5.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.59%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.26%) VMS
7 12 (3.93%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.30%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.66%) CentOS
9 2 (0.66%) Debian
10 1 (0.33%) AIX
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.33%) Rocky
10 1 (0.33%) Solaris
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (51.15%) DevOps
2 151 (49.51%) CI/CD
3 138 (45.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (22.95%) Containerisation
5 58 (19.02%) Agile
6 56 (18.36%) Observability
7 53 (17.38%) Configuration Management
8 47 (15.41%) Migration
9 41 (13.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 37 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (11.48%) Mentoring
12 34 (11.15%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (10.16%) Load Balancing
14 29 (9.51%) Incident Management
15 28 (9.18%) AI
16 27 (8.85%) Infrastructure Automation
17 26 (8.52%) Performance Tuning
17 26 (8.52%) Technical Leadership
18 25 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 25 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 138 (45.25%) Python
2 79 (25.90%) Bash
3 44 (14.43%) PowerShell
4 32 (10.49%) Java
5 22 (7.21%) SQL
6 12 (3.93%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.61%) Go
8 9 (2.95%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.30%) Ruby
10 6 (1.97%) Bicep
11 5 (1.64%) Perl
11 5 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.66%) C
12 2 (0.66%) C#
12 2 (0.66%) Groovy
12 2 (0.66%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) Rust
13 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 108 (35.41%) Security Cleared
2 96 (31.48%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.21%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (6.56%) CCNP
5 17 (5.57%) Degree
6 16 (5.25%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.93%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.28%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.28%) CCIE
10 5 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.31%) JNCIP
12 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.98%) CCSE
12 3 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.98%) JNCIE
12 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.98%) VCAP
13 2 (0.66%) CISSP
13 2 (0.66%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.61%) QA
2 6 (1.97%) NIST
3 4 (1.31%) GDPR
4 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.66%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.66%) NCSC
5 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.66%) PSD2
5 2 (0.66%) SEPA
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 69 (22.62%) Docker
2 18 (5.90%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.28%) Hyper-V
5 9 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.30%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.30%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.97%) NFS
7 6 (1.97%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.64%) KVM
8 5 (1.64%) vSphere
9 4 (1.31%) Ceph
9 4 (1.31%) Postfix
9 4 (1.31%) Varnish
10 3 (0.98%) Sendmail
11 2 (0.66%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.66%) Firmware
11 2 (0.66%) IAG
11 2 (0.66%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 169 (55.41%) Terraform
2 133 (43.61%) Kubernetes
3 64 (20.98%) Prometheus
4 59 (19.34%) Grafana
5 25 (8.20%) Puppet
6 14 (4.59%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.28%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.62%) Salt
9 7 (2.30%) vMotion
10 6 (1.97%) Packer
11 5 (1.64%) Argo
11 5 (1.64%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.64%) HAProxy
11 5 (1.64%) Kibana
11 5 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.31%) vRealize
13 3 (0.98%) Consul
13 3 (0.98%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.98%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.98%) SELinux
Vendors
1 46 (15.08%) Cisco
2 34 (11.15%) Microsoft
3 31 (10.16%) Arista
3 31 (10.16%) Splunk
4 28 (9.18%) Palo Alto
5 27 (8.85%) VMware
6 20 (6.56%) F5
7 19 (6.23%) Fortinet
8 14 (4.59%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.26%) Google
9 13 (4.26%) Red Hat
10 12 (3.93%) Oracle
11 11 (3.61%) Aruba
11 11 (3.61%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.61%) Juniper
11 11 (3.61%) NetApp
12 10 (3.28%) Zscaler
13 9 (2.95%) IBM
14 8 (2.62%) Dynatrace
15 7 (2.30%) Citrix