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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 89 116
Rank change year-on-year -66 +27 -40
Contract jobs citing Ansible 331 371 382
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 3.03% 2.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.90% 19.35% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 230 261
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 £626 £688 £688
90th Percentile £718 £776 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -9.95%
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% -1.85%

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 2,565 1,917 2,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.77% 15.66% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,759 1,290 1,667
10th Percentile £356 £362 £325
25th Percentile £431 £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 £717 £750 £750
England median daily rate £510 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.91% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 33
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £32.00 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.13 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.02% +60.26% -61.92%
75th Percentile £70.58 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £57.00 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +42.50% +33.33% -43.32%

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 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 10 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 -27 42 £525 -4.55% 21
South London -16 4 £505 -15.83%
West London -21 3 £500 - 6
East London -1 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 12 (3.63%) Confluence
2 8 (2.42%) Apache
3 4 (1.21%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.91%) JBoss
4 3 (0.91%) nginx
5 2 (0.60%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.60%) CMS
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.60%) WordPress
6 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
6 1 (0.30%) MTS
6 1 (0.30%) Mule
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 150 (45.32%) AWS
2 116 (35.05%) Azure
3 74 (22.36%) GitHub
4 44 (13.29%) GCP
5 43 (12.99%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (8.76%) OpenShift
8 23 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (6.65%) Amazon S3
10 21 (6.34%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (6.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (6.34%) Serverless
11 19 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (5.44%) Datadog
13 16 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (4.83%) Entra ID
14 14 (4.23%) Azure AKS
14 14 (4.23%) PaaS
15 13 (3.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (22.36%) Firewall
2 38 (11.48%) VPN
3 36 (10.88%) BGP
4 30 (9.06%) WAN
5 28 (8.46%) DNS
6 24 (7.25%) Network Security
7 20 (6.04%) OSPF
8 14 (4.23%) TCP/IP
8 14 (4.23%) VXLAN
9 13 (3.93%) Cisco IOS
9 13 (3.93%) MPLS
10 12 (3.63%) Wireless
11 11 (3.32%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.32%) SD-WAN
12 10 (3.02%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (3.02%) Multicast
12 10 (3.02%) NX-OS
12 10 (3.02%) VLAN
13 9 (2.72%) DHCP
13 9 (2.72%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
1 14 (4.23%) MongoDB
2 13 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.42%) Redis
4 6 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.51%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.21%) MySQL
7 3 (0.91%) Big Data
7 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.91%) Power BI
8 2 (0.60%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.60%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.30%) GIS
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 87 (26.28%) Jenkins
2 63 (19.03%) GitLab
3 59 (17.82%) Git
4 22 (6.65%) JIRA
5 7 (2.11%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.11%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.11%) Postman
5 7 (2.11%) Snyk
5 7 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.81%) JMeter
7 5 (1.51%) JUnit
7 5 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.21%) Ant
8 4 (1.21%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.60%) Gatling
10 2 (0.60%) Gradle
10 2 (0.60%) Mockito
General
1 62 (18.73%) Finance
2 47 (14.20%) Social Skills
3 33 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.95%) Banking
5 20 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.81%) Law
9 6 (1.81%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.51%) Military
11 4 (1.21%) Police
12 3 (0.91%) Front Office
12 3 (0.91%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.91%) Publishing
13 2 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Retail
14 1 (0.30%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 83 (25.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (12.39%) Architect
3 37 (11.18%) Senior
4 35 (10.57%) Network Engineer
5 27 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (8.16%) Developer
5 27 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 23 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (6.34%) Lead
8 19 (5.74%) Automation Engineer
8 19 (5.74%) Linux Engineer
8 19 (5.74%) Site Engineer
9 18 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (5.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.14%) Java Developer
11 16 (4.83%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.32%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (3.32%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.32%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.65%) Kafka
2 20 (6.04%) REST
3 14 (4.23%) YAML
4 10 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (3.02%) Spring
5 9 (2.72%) .NET
5 9 (2.72%) JSON
5 9 (2.72%) Middleware
6 8 (2.42%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.42%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (2.11%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.11%) Web Services
8 6 (1.81%) cloud-init
8 6 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.81%) Swagger
9 5 (1.51%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.51%) React
9 5 (1.51%) RESTful
10 4 (1.21%) JMS
10 4 (1.21%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 38 (11.48%) Data Centre
3 20 (6.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.14%) PKI
5 14 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.93%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.63%) Onboarding
8 11 (3.32%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (2.72%) Clustering
10 7 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.11%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.81%) CMDB
12 5 (1.51%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.51%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.51%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.21%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.91%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 112 (33.84%) Linux
2 47 (14.20%) Windows
3 28 (8.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (6.95%) Unix
5 20 (6.04%) Windows Server
6 19 (5.74%) Ubuntu
7 13 (3.93%) VMS
8 7 (2.11%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.21%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.60%) Debian
10 2 (0.60%) Solaris
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.30%) AIX
11 1 (0.30%) CentOS
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Rocky
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (55.29%) DevOps
2 164 (49.55%) CI/CD
3 157 (47.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (23.87%) Containerisation
5 67 (20.24%) Configuration Management
6 63 (19.03%) Observability
7 60 (18.13%) Agile
8 51 (15.41%) Migration
9 42 (12.69%) Platform Engineering
9 42 (12.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 39 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (11.78%) Mentoring
11 36 (10.88%) AI
12 35 (10.57%) Infrastructure Automation
12 35 (10.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 33 (9.97%) Load Balancing
14 31 (9.37%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (8.76%) Incident Management
16 26 (7.85%) Runbook
16 26 (7.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 148 (44.71%) Python
2 89 (26.89%) Bash
3 57 (17.22%) PowerShell
4 35 (10.57%) Java
5 22 (6.65%) SQL
6 12 (3.63%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.32%) Bicep
8 10 (3.02%) Go
9 9 (2.72%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.11%) Ruby
11 5 (1.51%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.21%) C
13 3 (0.91%) Groovy
13 3 (0.91%) Perl
14 2 (0.60%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.60%) C#
14 2 (0.60%) Scala
15 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.30%) VB
15 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 116 (35.05%) Security Cleared
2 103 (31.12%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.55%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (6.95%) Degree
5 21 (6.34%) CCNP
6 17 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.83%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (3.93%) DV Cleared
10 10 (3.02%) CCIE
11 6 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.51%) CISSP
12 5 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (1.21%) CCNA
14 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.91%) ISSAP
14 3 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.91%) JNCIP
14 3 (0.91%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.32%) QA
2 8 (2.42%) NIST
3 5 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.91%) GDPR
5 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.60%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.60%) NCSC
5 2 (0.60%) PSD2
5 2 (0.60%) SEPA
5 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 72 (21.75%) Docker
2 27 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.34%) Active Directory
4 19 (5.74%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.63%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.32%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.42%) BitLocker
7 8 (2.42%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (2.42%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.42%) vSphere
8 5 (1.51%) NFS
9 4 (1.21%) KVM
9 4 (1.21%) Postfix
9 4 (1.21%) Varnish
10 3 (0.91%) Ceph
10 3 (0.91%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.91%) Squid
11 2 (0.60%) Firmware
11 2 (0.60%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 189 (57.10%) Terraform
2 141 (42.60%) Kubernetes
3 70 (21.15%) Prometheus
4 63 (19.03%) Grafana
5 31 (9.37%) Puppet
6 15 (4.53%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.63%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.02%) Packer
9 9 (2.72%) Salt
10 8 (2.42%) vMotion
11 6 (1.81%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.51%) Data Guard
12 5 (1.51%) FortiGate
12 5 (1.51%) vRealize
13 4 (1.21%) Argo
13 4 (1.21%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.21%) systemd
14 3 (0.91%) Consul
14 3 (0.91%) Nagios
14 3 (0.91%) Podman
Vendors
1 50 (15.11%) Cisco
2 42 (12.69%) Microsoft
3 36 (10.88%) VMware
4 32 (9.67%) Splunk
5 31 (9.37%) Arista
6 30 (9.06%) Palo Alto
7 22 (6.65%) Fortinet
8 19 (5.74%) F5
8 19 (5.74%) Google
9 14 (4.23%) Oracle
9 14 (4.23%) Red Hat
10 11 (3.32%) Aruba
10 11 (3.32%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.02%) CheckPoint
11 10 (3.02%) IBM
11 10 (3.02%) Juniper
11 10 (3.02%) NetApp
12 9 (2.72%) Okta
13 8 (2.42%) Citrix
13 8 (2.42%) Zscaler