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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 105 106
Rank change year-on-year -38 +1 -29
Contract jobs citing Ansible 393 362 411
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 2.69% 2.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.76% 20.33% 20.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 226 265
10th Percentile £425 £408 £397
25th Percentile £478 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £756 £766
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +19.83% -19.93% +0.39%

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 2,213 1,781 1,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 13.26% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 1,173 1,387
10th Percentile £326 £313 £325
25th Percentile £447 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 27
10th Percentile £30.75 £23.60 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.38 £26.23 £22.15
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% +20.00% -60.32%
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.85 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.24 £55.00 £36.83
% change year-on-year +22.25% +49.32% -25.78%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -27 41 £550 -6.78% 13
South London -3 9 £535 -12.30% 2
West London -18 7 £500 +20.48% 2
East London +4 5 £525 -22.22% 6
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 20 (5.09%) Confluence
2 10 (2.54%) Apache
3 7 (1.78%) nginx
4 5 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.27%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.02%) WordPress
6 3 (0.76%) CMS
6 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.51%) Mule
7 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) JBoss
8 1 (0.25%) MTS
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 182 (46.31%) AWS
2 148 (37.66%) Azure
3 86 (21.88%) GitHub
4 52 (13.23%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (12.47%) GCP
6 42 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (8.65%) Datadog
8 33 (8.40%) OpenShift
9 30 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (7.12%) Serverless
11 27 (6.87%) Amazon S3
11 27 (6.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (5.60%) Entra ID
16 19 (4.83%) Azure AKS
17 18 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 13 (3.31%) PaaS
19 12 (3.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (18.32%) Firewall
2 46 (11.70%) BGP
3 40 (10.18%) DNS
4 37 (9.41%) VPN
5 29 (7.38%) WAN
6 26 (6.62%) TCP/IP
7 24 (6.11%) Network Security
8 23 (5.85%) OSPF
9 20 (5.09%) SSL
10 19 (4.83%) DHCP
11 18 (4.58%) VLAN
11 18 (4.58%) VXLAN
12 16 (4.07%) NX-OS
13 12 (3.05%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (2.80%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (2.80%) IOS XR
14 11 (2.80%) SD-WAN
14 11 (2.80%) SSH
14 11 (2.80%) Wireless
15 9 (2.29%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.56%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.31%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (3.05%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.54%) Oracle Database
6 9 (2.29%) MySQL
7 8 (2.04%) Power BI
7 8 (2.04%) Redis
8 7 (1.78%) Big Data
9 6 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.27%) ObjectStore
11 4 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.76%) Metadata
12 3 (0.76%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.51%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 97 (24.68%) Jenkins
2 88 (22.39%) Git
3 80 (20.36%) GitLab
4 28 (7.12%) JIRA
5 10 (2.54%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.29%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.29%) Snyk
7 8 (2.04%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.78%) JMeter
8 7 (1.78%) Postman
8 7 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.53%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.02%) JUnit
10 4 (1.02%) Selenium
11 3 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.76%) Mockito
11 3 (0.76%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.51%) GoCD
12 2 (0.51%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (22.14%) Finance
2 73 (18.58%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.14%) Banking
5 29 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.78%) Law
8 7 (1.78%) Retail
9 6 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.53%) Police
10 5 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.27%) Publishing
10 5 (1.27%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.02%) Automotive
11 4 (1.02%) Front Office
11 4 (1.02%) Military
12 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (20.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (13.99%) Senior
3 46 (11.70%) Network Engineer
4 45 (11.45%) Architect
5 33 (8.40%) Lead
6 31 (7.89%) Developer
7 29 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (7.12%) Automation Engineer
8 28 (7.12%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (5.60%) Linux Engineer
10 22 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (4.33%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (3.56%) Site Engineer
13 14 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.31%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (57.25%) Terraform
2 34 (8.65%) REST
3 28 (7.12%) Kafka
4 23 (5.85%) YAML
5 18 (4.58%) .NET
6 15 (3.82%) JSON
7 14 (3.56%) React
7 14 (3.56%) Spring
8 13 (3.31%) Middleware
9 11 (2.80%) ARM Templates
9 11 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.04%) cloud-init
10 8 (2.04%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.78%) 802.1X
11 7 (1.78%) JMS
11 7 (1.78%) Swagger
12 6 (1.53%) Jakarta EE
12 6 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (1.53%) SAML
13 5 (1.27%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 51 (12.98%) Data Centre
2 50 (12.72%) Cloud Native
3 30 (7.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.83%) PKI
5 18 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.58%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.33%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.31%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.54%) Clustering
9 10 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.04%) CMDB
10 8 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.78%) Distributed Applications
12 6 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.53%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.53%) Private Cloud
12 6 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.27%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 145 (36.90%) Linux
2 67 (17.05%) Windows
3 46 (11.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (7.89%) Ubuntu
5 28 (7.12%) Windows Server
6 26 (6.62%) Unix
7 7 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.02%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.76%) CentOS
9 3 (0.76%) VMS
9 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.51%) Debian
10 2 (0.51%) Solaris
11 1 (0.25%) AIX
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Rocky
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (56.23%) DevOps
2 197 (50.13%) CI/CD
3 186 (47.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (23.66%) Containerisation
5 82 (20.87%) Configuration Management
6 79 (20.10%) Agile
7 64 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
8 63 (16.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 61 (15.52%) Observability
10 59 (15.01%) Migration
11 56 (14.25%) AI
12 52 (13.23%) Infrastructure Automation
13 50 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (11.20%) Test Automation
16 41 (10.43%) Validation
17 40 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
18 37 (9.41%) Mentoring
18 37 (9.41%) Runbook
19 33 (8.40%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 223 (56.74%) Python
2 107 (27.23%) Bash
3 87 (22.14%) PowerShell
4 53 (13.49%) Java
5 31 (7.89%) SQL
6 20 (5.09%) JavaScript
7 19 (4.83%) Shell Script
8 14 (3.56%) Go
9 13 (3.31%) Bicep
9 13 (3.31%) C#
10 10 (2.54%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.29%) Perl
12 6 (1.53%) Ruby
13 5 (1.27%) C++
14 4 (1.02%) Groovy
15 2 (0.51%) C
15 2 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.51%) R
15 2 (0.51%) Scala
16 1 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 128 (32.57%) Security Cleared
2 104 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.12%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (7.12%) Degree
4 25 (6.36%) DV Cleared
5 24 (6.11%) CCNP
6 19 (4.83%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.82%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.54%) CCIE
9 8 (2.04%) CISSP
10 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.02%) CCNA
12 4 (1.02%) ISSAP
12 4 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.02%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.02%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.60%) QA
2 10 (2.54%) NIST
3 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.76%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.76%) GDPR
4 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.51%) NCSC
5 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.25%) PMO
6 1 (0.25%) SEPA
6 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 97 (24.68%) Docker
2 40 (10.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (6.36%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.82%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.56%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (3.31%) vSphere
7 9 (2.29%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.53%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.53%) NFS
9 4 (1.02%) IAG
9 4 (1.02%) Postfix
9 4 (1.02%) Varnish
10 3 (0.76%) Ceph
10 3 (0.76%) KVM
10 3 (0.76%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.76%) Squid
10 3 (0.76%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 159 (40.46%) Kubernetes
2 72 (18.32%) Prometheus
3 68 (17.30%) Grafana
4 42 (10.69%) Puppet
5 17 (4.33%) Progress Chef
6 16 (4.07%) Packer
7 12 (3.05%) systemd
8 11 (2.80%) FortiGate
8 11 (2.80%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.78%) SCCM
10 6 (1.53%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (1.53%) vMotion
11 5 (1.27%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.27%) Nagios
11 5 (1.27%) Salt
11 5 (1.27%) SELinux
11 5 (1.27%) vRealize
12 4 (1.02%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.25%) Cisco
2 56 (14.25%) VMware
3 29 (7.38%) Red Hat
4 28 (7.12%) Splunk
5 27 (6.87%) Fortinet
5 27 (6.87%) Palo Alto
6 26 (6.62%) Oracle
7 24 (6.11%) Arista
8 23 (5.85%) ServiceNow
9 19 (4.83%) Google
10 18 (4.58%) F5
11 15 (3.82%) Juniper
12 12 (3.05%) Dynatrace
12 12 (3.05%) Zscaler
13 10 (2.54%) Okta
14 8 (2.04%) NetApp
15 7 (1.78%) CyberArk
16 6 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
16 6 (1.53%) Tenable