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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 86 92
Rank change year-on-year -57 +6 -25
Contract jobs citing Ansible 293 404 432
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 2.97% 2.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.71% 19.88% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 269 327
10th Percentile £350 £462 £410
25th Percentile £431 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +9.33% -13.46%
75th Percentile £663 £730 £688
90th Percentile £775 £815 £798
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £39.25 -
Median hourly rate - £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £82.00 £74.44 £68.63
% change year-on-year +10.16% +8.46% -5.98%

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 2,306 2,032 2,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.51% 14.92% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,580 1,340 1,799
10th Percentile £350 £365 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -11.65%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £661
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 35
10th Percentile £20.76 £22.04 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £50.00 £44.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% +39.06% +24.47%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.99 £105.20 £67.00
England median hourly rate £47.75 £26.50 £44.97
% change year-on-year +80.19% -41.07% -3.93%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -15 52 £600 - 25
South London -11 7 £530 -26.90%
West London -19 4 £688 +34.15%
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 14 (4.78%) Confluence
2 6 (2.05%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Appian
3 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.02%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.02%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 133 (45.39%) AWS
2 85 (29.01%) Azure
3 73 (24.91%) GitHub
4 57 (19.45%) GCP
5 36 (12.29%) Amazon S3
6 33 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (9.56%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (9.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (9.56%) OpenShift
8 26 (8.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (8.53%) Serverless
10 23 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (6.83%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (4.10%) IaaS
15 8 (2.73%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.73%) Amazon ELB
15 8 (2.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 53 (18.09%) Firewall
2 34 (11.60%) VPN
3 33 (11.26%) DNS
4 24 (8.19%) Network Security
5 22 (7.51%) TCP/IP
6 17 (5.80%) WAN
7 15 (5.12%) BGP
7 15 (5.12%) SD-WAN
8 11 (3.75%) DHCP
8 11 (3.75%) OSPF
9 10 (3.41%) LAN
9 10 (3.41%) SSL
10 7 (2.39%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (2.39%) Multicast
10 7 (2.39%) SAN
10 7 (2.39%) VXLAN
11 6 (2.05%) HTTP
11 6 (2.05%) NetScaler
12 4 (1.37%) SMTP
12 4 (1.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.10%) MySQL
2 12 (4.10%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.39%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.05%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.05%) Redis
6 5 (1.71%) Hadoop
6 5 (1.71%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.02%) Apache Hive
7 3 (1.02%) Impala
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.68%) Big Data
8 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (28.33%) Jenkins
2 60 (20.48%) GitLab
3 49 (16.72%) Git
4 19 (6.48%) JIRA
5 12 (4.10%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.39%) TeamCity
8 6 (2.05%) JUnit
8 6 (2.05%) Terragrunt
9 5 (1.71%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.37%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.37%) JMeter
10 4 (1.37%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.37%) RStudio
11 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.02%) Gradle
11 3 (1.02%) Maven
11 3 (1.02%) Selenium
11 3 (1.02%) Subversion
General
1 76 (25.94%) Social Skills
2 67 (22.87%) Finance
3 31 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.83%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.14%) Banking
6 12 (4.10%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.39%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Social Science
10 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.02%) Military
10 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) International Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (23.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (12.63%) Senior
3 33 (11.26%) Architect
4 32 (10.92%) Network Engineer
5 31 (10.58%) Developer
6 26 (8.87%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (7.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 17 (5.80%) Automation Engineer
8 17 (5.80%) Site Engineer
9 15 (5.12%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.75%) AWS Architect
12 11 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.41%) Lead
13 10 (3.41%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.14%) Kafka
2 15 (5.12%) REST
3 11 (3.75%) Node.js
4 9 (3.07%) JSON
4 9 (3.07%) OAuth
4 9 (3.07%) Spring
5 8 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.73%) YAML
6 7 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.05%) JWT
7 6 (2.05%) Web Services
7 6 (2.05%) ZK
8 5 (1.71%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.71%) Hibernate
8 5 (1.71%) Keycloak
8 5 (1.71%) Middleware
8 5 (1.71%) XML
9 4 (1.37%) Jinja
9 4 (1.37%) OpenID
10 3 (1.02%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.26%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (6.14%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.46%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (4.44%) Hedge funds
6 8 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (2.73%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.39%) Clustering
7 7 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.39%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.71%) PKI
9 5 (1.71%) Replication
9 5 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.37%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 95 (32.42%) Linux
2 34 (11.60%) Windows
3 30 (10.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (5.46%) Unix
5 13 (4.44%) VMS
5 13 (4.44%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.39%) CentOS
6 7 (2.39%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.71%) Solaris
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.68%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (52.56%) CI/CD
2 141 (48.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 140 (47.78%) DevOps
4 73 (24.91%) Containerisation
5 54 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (17.75%) Agile
7 43 (14.68%) Infrastructure Automation
8 42 (14.33%) Observability
9 41 (13.99%) Migration
10 39 (13.31%) High Availability
11 36 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (12.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 31 (10.58%) Configuration Management
13 27 (9.22%) Test Automation
14 26 (8.87%) Load Balancing
14 26 (8.87%) Project Delivery
15 24 (8.19%) Performance Tuning
16 23 (7.85%) DevSecOps
16 23 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 22 (7.51%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 144 (49.15%) Python
2 77 (26.28%) Bash
3 34 (11.60%) Java
3 34 (11.60%) PowerShell
4 22 (7.51%) SQL
5 12 (4.10%) Go
6 9 (3.07%) Shell Script
7 7 (2.39%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.39%) Perl
8 5 (1.71%) C++
9 3 (1.02%) C#
9 3 (1.02%) PHP
9 3 (1.02%) Rust
9 3 (1.02%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.34%) R
10 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.53%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.83%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.44%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.75%) CCNP
5 11 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.07%) Degree
7 8 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.05%) CCIE
8 6 (2.05%) RHCE
9 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.02%) CCNA
11 3 (1.02%) CCSE
11 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.02%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.02%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.07%) GDPR
2 6 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.05%) NIST
3 5 (1.71%) QA
4 4 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.68%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) PSD2
5 2 (0.68%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (27.30%) Docker
2 27 (9.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.14%) Active Directory
4 12 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.41%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.39%) KVM
6 7 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.39%) vSphere
7 5 (1.71%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.37%) NFS
9 3 (1.02%) BitLocker
9 3 (1.02%) HDFS
9 3 (1.02%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.02%) Veritas File System
9 3 (1.02%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.68%) Ceph
10 2 (0.68%) Lustre
10 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 172 (58.70%) Terraform
2 102 (34.81%) Kubernetes
3 36 (12.29%) Grafana
3 36 (12.29%) Prometheus
4 21 (7.17%) Progress Chef
5 20 (6.83%) Puppet
6 11 (3.75%) Argo
6 11 (3.75%) Red Hat Satellite
7 9 (3.07%) Kibana
8 8 (2.73%) SCCM
8 8 (2.73%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.05%) Rancher
9 6 (2.05%) SCOM
10 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.37%) Nagios
11 4 (1.37%) vRealize
12 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
12 3 (1.02%) Packer
12 3 (1.02%) QRadar
12 3 (1.02%) vMotion
Vendors
1 36 (12.29%) VMware
2 31 (10.58%) Splunk
3 28 (9.56%) Red Hat
4 26 (8.87%) Microsoft
5 24 (8.19%) Cisco
6 22 (7.51%) Arista
7 21 (7.17%) Google
8 14 (4.78%) F5
9 13 (4.44%) CheckPoint
9 13 (4.44%) ServiceNow
10 12 (4.10%) Oracle
10 12 (4.10%) Palo Alto
11 9 (3.07%) Aruba
11 9 (3.07%) Citrix
11 9 (3.07%) Fortinet
11 9 (3.07%) Zscaler
12 8 (2.73%) CyberArk
13 7 (2.39%) Dynatrace
14 6 (2.05%) PagerDuty
15 5 (1.71%) BMC