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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 91 120
Rank change year-on-year -56 +29 -40
Contract jobs citing Ansible 343 371 389
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 3.01% 2.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.13% 19.40% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 230 266
10th Percentile £400 £425 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £631 £688 £693
90th Percentile £720 £775 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -10.20%
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 £72.00
% change year-on-year +41.88% -38.19% -2.32%

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 2,612 1,912 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.81% 15.51% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,791 1,283 1,668
10th Percentile £356 £356 £325
25th Percentile £430 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.97% +60.26% -62.22%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £58.94 £42.25 £30.75
% change year-on-year +39.49% +37.40% -43.24%

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 June 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 15 June 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 -26 45 £538 -4.44% 12
South London -12 4 £505 -15.83%
West London -19 3 £500 - 5
East London -2 2 £551 -18.44% 2
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 12 (3.50%) Confluence
2 8 (2.33%) Apache
3 4 (1.17%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.87%) JBoss
4 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.87%) nginx
4 3 (0.87%) WordPress
5 2 (0.58%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.58%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.58%) CMS
5 2 (0.58%) Mule
5 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) MTS
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 160 (46.65%) AWS
2 119 (34.69%) Azure
3 76 (22.16%) GitHub
4 42 (12.24%) GCP
5 41 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (10.79%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (8.45%) OpenShift
8 24 (7.00%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (7.00%) Amazon S3
9 23 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (6.71%) Serverless
9 23 (6.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 21 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (6.12%) Datadog
11 19 (5.54%) Entra ID
12 18 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (4.66%) Azure AKS
13 16 (4.66%) PaaS
14 15 (4.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (22.16%) Firewall
2 42 (12.24%) VPN
3 37 (10.79%) BGP
4 31 (9.04%) WAN
5 30 (8.75%) DNS
6 24 (7.00%) Network Security
7 21 (6.12%) OSPF
8 15 (4.37%) TCP/IP
8 15 (4.37%) Wireless
9 14 (4.08%) VXLAN
10 13 (3.79%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (3.79%) MPLS
11 11 (3.21%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.21%) Multicast
11 11 (3.21%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.92%) DHCP
12 10 (2.92%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (2.92%) NX-OS
12 10 (2.92%) SSL
12 10 (2.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.66%) MongoDB
2 15 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.92%) Redis
5 6 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.46%) Big Data
6 5 (1.46%) MySQL
6 5 (1.46%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.17%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (1.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.87%) Power BI
9 2 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.58%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.58%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.29%) Flink
10 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (25.66%) Jenkins
2 66 (19.24%) GitLab
3 63 (18.37%) Git
4 23 (6.71%) JIRA
5 8 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 8 (2.33%) Snyk
5 8 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.04%) CircleCI
6 7 (2.04%) Postman
7 6 (1.75%) JMeter
7 6 (1.75%) JUnit
8 5 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.17%) Ant
9 4 (1.17%) Liquibase
10 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.87%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.87%) Gradle
10 3 (0.87%) Mockito
11 2 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.58%) Gatling
General
1 65 (18.95%) Finance
2 52 (15.16%) Social Skills
3 34 (9.91%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.29%) Banking
5 21 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.04%) Law
9 6 (1.75%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.46%) Military
10 5 (1.46%) Police
11 4 (1.17%) Publishing
11 4 (1.17%) Retail
12 3 (0.87%) Front Office
12 3 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.58%) Legal
13 2 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (25.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (13.12%) Architect
3 38 (11.08%) Senior
4 36 (10.50%) Network Engineer
5 29 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
5 29 (8.45%) Developer
6 24 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (7.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 21 (6.12%) Lead
8 20 (5.83%) Linux Engineer
9 19 (5.54%) Automation Engineer
9 19 (5.54%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (5.54%) Java Developer
10 18 (5.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
11 17 (4.96%) Site Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
12 13 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.50%) Network Architect
13 12 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.29%) Kafka
2 23 (6.71%) REST
3 16 (4.66%) YAML
4 12 (3.50%) Spring
5 11 (3.21%) .NET
5 11 (3.21%) JSON
5 11 (3.21%) Middleware
6 10 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.62%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.33%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (2.04%) cloud-init
9 7 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.04%) React
9 7 (2.04%) Web Services
10 6 (1.75%) OAuth
10 6 (1.75%) RESTful
10 6 (1.75%) SAML
10 6 (1.75%) Swagger
11 5 (1.46%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 42 (12.24%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (5.25%) PKI
5 16 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.79%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.21%) Enterprise Storage
8 10 (2.92%) Clustering
9 8 (2.33%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.75%) CMDB
11 6 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.46%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.17%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.17%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (34.40%) Linux
2 50 (14.58%) Windows
3 31 (9.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (7.00%) Unix
5 22 (6.41%) Ubuntu
5 22 (6.41%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.33%) VMS
7 7 (2.04%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.17%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.58%) CentOS
10 2 (0.58%) Debian
10 2 (0.58%) Solaris
11 1 (0.29%) AIX
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.29%) Rocky
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (55.39%) DevOps
2 172 (50.15%) CI/CD
3 163 (47.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (25.07%) Containerisation
5 69 (20.12%) Configuration Management
6 65 (18.95%) Observability
7 63 (18.37%) Agile
8 50 (14.58%) Migration
9 45 (13.12%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 40 (11.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 38 (11.08%) AI
12 38 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 37 (10.79%) Mentoring
14 35 (10.20%) Infrastructure Automation
15 33 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
16 30 (8.75%) Load Balancing
17 29 (8.45%) Incident Management
18 28 (8.16%) Test Automation
19 27 (7.87%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 156 (45.48%) Python
2 92 (26.82%) Bash
3 60 (17.49%) PowerShell
4 38 (11.08%) Java
5 24 (7.00%) SQL
6 13 (3.79%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.50%) Bicep
8 10 (2.92%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.62%) Go
10 7 (2.04%) Ruby
11 5 (1.46%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.17%) C
13 3 (0.87%) Groovy
13 3 (0.87%) Perl
14 2 (0.58%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.58%) C#
14 2 (0.58%) C++
14 2 (0.58%) Scala
15 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 114 (33.24%) Security Cleared
2 100 (29.15%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.58%) Degree
4 25 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (6.12%) CCNP
6 17 (4.96%) AWS Certification
7 15 (4.37%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (4.08%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.92%) CCIE
10 7 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.75%) CISSP
12 5 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.17%) CCNA
14 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.87%) CISM
14 3 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.87%) JNCIP
14 3 (0.87%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.21%) QA
2 10 (2.92%) NIST
3 6 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.17%) GDPR
5 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.58%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.58%) NCSC
6 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.58%) PSD2
6 2 (0.58%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 80 (23.32%) Docker
2 28 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.41%) Active Directory
4 18 (5.25%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (3.50%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.62%) BitLocker
7 9 (2.62%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (2.62%) vSphere
8 8 (2.33%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.46%) NFS
10 4 (1.17%) Postfix
10 4 (1.17%) Varnish
11 3 (0.87%) KVM
11 3 (0.87%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.87%) Squid
11 3 (0.87%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.58%) Ceph
12 2 (0.58%) IAG
12 2 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 195 (56.85%) Terraform
2 145 (42.27%) Kubernetes
3 73 (21.28%) Prometheus
4 66 (19.24%) Grafana
5 34 (9.91%) Puppet
6 15 (4.37%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.79%) vCenter Server
8 11 (3.21%) Packer
9 9 (2.62%) Salt
9 9 (2.62%) vMotion
10 6 (1.75%) FortiGate
10 6 (1.75%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (1.75%) systemd
10 6 (1.75%) vRealize
11 5 (1.46%) Data Guard
12 4 (1.17%) Argo
12 4 (1.17%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.17%) Nagios
13 3 (0.87%) Consul
13 3 (0.87%) Podman
Vendors
1 53 (15.45%) Cisco
2 44 (12.83%) Microsoft
3 38 (11.08%) VMware
4 34 (9.91%) Splunk
5 33 (9.62%) Palo Alto
6 31 (9.04%) Arista
7 23 (6.71%) Fortinet
8 20 (5.83%) F5
9 17 (4.96%) Google
10 15 (4.37%) Oracle
11 14 (4.08%) Red Hat
12 13 (3.79%) Aruba
13 12 (3.50%) ServiceNow
14 11 (3.21%) Juniper
15 10 (2.92%) CheckPoint
15 10 (2.92%) IBM
15 10 (2.92%) NetApp
15 10 (2.92%) Okta
16 9 (2.62%) Citrix
16 9 (2.62%) Zscaler