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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 115 106
Rank change year-on-year -33 -9 -27
Contract jobs citing Ansible 401 346 409
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 2.56% 2.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.88% 19.29% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 215 269
10th Percentile £425 £408 £405
25th Percentile £475 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £758 £750 £778
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £49.78 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £57.44 £49.50 -
90th Percentile £59.13 £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.43 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +20.56% -19.93% -3.27%

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 2,243 1,794 1,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.04% 13.29% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,497 1,164 1,375
10th Percentile £319 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -3.67% -9.17%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £725 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 23
10th Percentile £31.18 £24.00 £21.16
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.34 £23.80
Median hourly rate £62.75 £33.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.93% +25.00% -55.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.81 £63.50
90th Percentile - £64.41 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.47 £40.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +68.68% +1.91% -23.41%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -23 41 £563 -6.25% 18
South London -4 11 £568 -8.47% 4
West London -16 7 £500 +20.48% 8
East London +3 5 £525 -22.22% 10
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 (4.99%) Confluence
2 9 (2.24%) Apache
3 7 (1.75%) nginx
4 5 (1.25%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.25%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.00%) WordPress
6 3 (0.75%) CMS
7 2 (0.50%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.50%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.50%) Mule
7 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) MTS
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 189 (47.13%) AWS
2 152 (37.91%) Azure
3 91 (22.69%) GitHub
4 53 (13.22%) GCP
5 50 (12.47%) Azure DevOps
6 47 (11.72%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (9.48%) OpenShift
8 35 (8.73%) Datadog
9 31 (7.73%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (7.23%) Serverless
11 27 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (6.73%) Amazon S3
11 27 (6.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 19 (4.74%) Azure AKS
15 18 (4.49%) Entra ID
16 17 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (2.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (17.46%) Firewall
2 45 (11.22%) BGP
3 39 (9.73%) DNS
3 39 (9.73%) VPN
4 30 (7.48%) Network Security
5 27 (6.73%) TCP/IP
5 27 (6.73%) WAN
6 21 (5.24%) OSPF
7 20 (4.99%) SSL
8 19 (4.74%) DHCP
9 18 (4.49%) VLAN
10 13 (3.24%) VXLAN
11 12 (2.99%) NX-OS
12 11 (2.74%) SSH
12 11 (2.74%) Wireless
13 10 (2.49%) SD-WAN
14 9 (2.24%) MPLS
15 8 (2.00%) Ethernet VPN
15 8 (2.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 8 (2.00%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.49%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.24%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.74%) Oracle Database
6 10 (2.49%) MySQL
7 9 (2.24%) Power BI
8 8 (2.00%) Redis
9 7 (1.75%) Big Data
10 5 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.25%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.25%) ObjectStore
10 5 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.00%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.00%) Metadata
11 4 (1.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 94 (23.44%) Jenkins
2 86 (21.45%) Git
3 81 (20.20%) GitLab
4 25 (6.23%) JIRA
5 11 (2.74%) SonarQube
6 10 (2.49%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.24%) Artifactory
7 9 (2.24%) Snyk
8 7 (1.75%) JMeter
8 7 (1.75%) Postman
8 7 (1.75%) Selenium
9 6 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.25%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.00%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.75%) JUnit
12 3 (0.75%) Mockito
12 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.50%) Gradle
General
1 94 (23.44%) Finance
2 77 (19.20%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.48%) Banking
5 26 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.24%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.75%) Law
8 7 (1.75%) Retail
8 7 (1.75%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.50%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.50%) Police
10 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.25%) Publishing
11 4 (1.00%) Automotive
11 4 (1.00%) Front Office
11 4 (1.00%) Military
12 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
14 1 (0.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (14.46%) Senior
3 48 (11.97%) Network Engineer
4 40 (9.98%) Architect
5 38 (9.48%) Lead
6 31 (7.73%) Automation Engineer
7 29 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (6.73%) Developer
8 27 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (6.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (5.74%) Linux Engineer
10 23 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.74%) Site Engineer
14 14 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
15 13 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (58.60%) Terraform
2 32 (7.98%) Kafka
2 32 (7.98%) REST
3 25 (6.23%) YAML
4 20 (4.99%) .NET
5 16 (3.99%) React
6 15 (3.74%) JSON
6 15 (3.74%) Middleware
7 13 (3.24%) Spring
8 12 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (2.74%) ARM Templates
10 8 (2.00%) cloud-init
11 7 (1.75%) 802.1X
11 7 (1.75%) boto
11 7 (1.75%) JMS
11 7 (1.75%) Keycloak
11 7 (1.75%) Playwright
11 7 (1.75%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.75%) Swagger
12 6 (1.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.97%) Data Centre
2 47 (11.72%) Cloud Native
3 35 (8.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.24%) PKI
5 19 (4.74%) Security Posture
6 18 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.49%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.99%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (2.99%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.24%) Clustering
11 8 (2.00%) CMDB
11 8 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
11 8 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (2.00%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.50%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 152 (37.91%) Linux
2 65 (16.21%) Windows
3 49 (12.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (7.73%) Ubuntu
5 28 (6.98%) Unix
6 26 (6.48%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.00%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.75%) CentOS
9 3 (0.75%) VMS
9 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.50%) Debian
10 2 (0.50%) 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
11 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (55.11%) DevOps
2 202 (50.37%) CI/CD
3 193 (48.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (23.69%) Containerisation
5 85 (21.20%) Configuration Management
6 75 (18.70%) Agile
7 71 (17.71%) Observability
8 68 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
9 66 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 62 (15.46%) Infrastructure Automation
10 62 (15.46%) Migration
11 60 (14.96%) AI
12 54 (13.47%) Problem-Solving
13 51 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (10.72%) Test Automation
16 40 (9.98%) Validation
17 38 (9.48%) Runbook
17 38 (9.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 36 (8.98%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 235 (58.60%) Python
2 115 (28.68%) Bash
3 91 (22.69%) PowerShell
4 51 (12.72%) Java
5 33 (8.23%) SQL
6 22 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.49%) Shell Script
7 20 (4.99%) Go
8 14 (3.49%) Bicep
8 14 (3.49%) C#
9 11 (2.74%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.49%) Perl
11 6 (1.50%) C++
11 6 (1.50%) Ruby
12 4 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.00%) Groovy
13 2 (0.50%) C
13 2 (0.50%) R
13 2 (0.50%) Scala
13 2 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 123 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 100 (24.94%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.23%) Degree
4 24 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.74%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (5.24%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.74%) CCNP
8 17 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (3.99%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.00%) CISSP
11 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (1.25%) CCIE
14 4 (1.00%) CCNA
14 4 (1.00%) ISSAP
14 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
14 4 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.00%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.00%) JNCIS
14 4 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.48%) QA
2 10 (2.49%) NIST
3 7 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.75%) GDPR
5 3 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) SEPA
7 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 102 (25.44%) Docker
2 39 (9.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.99%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.24%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (3.24%) vSphere
6 8 (2.00%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.25%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.25%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (1.25%) NFS
8 3 (0.75%) Ceph
8 3 (0.75%) IAG
8 3 (0.75%) KVM
8 3 (0.75%) Postfix
8 3 (0.75%) Squid
8 3 (0.75%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.75%) Varnish
9 2 (0.50%) HDFS
9 2 (0.50%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 158 (39.40%) Kubernetes
2 73 (18.20%) Prometheus
3 69 (17.21%) Grafana
4 41 (10.22%) Puppet
5 17 (4.24%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.74%) Packer
7 12 (2.99%) FortiGate
7 12 (2.99%) systemd
8 10 (2.49%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.00%) SCCM
10 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.50%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.25%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.25%) Nagios
11 5 (1.25%) SELinux
11 5 (1.25%) vMotion
11 5 (1.25%) vRealize
12 4 (1.00%) Consul
12 4 (1.00%) Podman
12 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 56 (13.97%) VMware
3 55 (13.72%) Cisco
4 34 (8.48%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.48%) Splunk
6 29 (7.23%) Fortinet
7 28 (6.98%) Oracle
8 27 (6.73%) Palo Alto
9 22 (5.49%) Google
9 22 (5.49%) ServiceNow
10 20 (4.99%) Arista
11 16 (3.99%) F5
12 14 (3.49%) Juniper
13 13 (3.24%) Dynatrace
14 12 (2.99%) Zscaler
15 7 (1.75%) CyberArk
15 7 (1.75%) NetApp
15 7 (1.75%) Okta
16 6 (1.50%) Hitachi
16 6 (1.50%) IBM