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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 74 105
Rank change year-on-year -78 +31 -39
Contract jobs citing Ansible 293 429 397
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 3.36% 2.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.03% 21.00% 17.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 272 270
10th Percentile £356 £441 £387
25th Percentile £447 £507 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -13.85%
75th Percentile £650 £691 £675
90th Percentile £766 £878 £763
England median daily rate £520 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -10.54% +5.68% -11.65%
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% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £75.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.33% +20.00% -9.09%

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 2,435 2,043 2,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.76% 16.01% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,665 1,392 1,609
10th Percentile £350 £369 £313
25th Percentile £429 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% -8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.71% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 37
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £36.75 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +42.94% -55.29%
75th Percentile £63.32 £71.19 £58.00
90th Percentile - £110.30 £61.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £31.75
% change year-on-year +107.55% -16.54% -41.39%

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 March 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 March 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 -33 50 £550 -2.22% 14
South London -17 9 £530 -20.00% 1
West London -16 2 £688 - 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 19 (6.48%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.02%) Ethereum
3 3 (1.02%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.02%) JBoss
3 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.68%) Appian
4 2 (0.68%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) FileNet
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
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
1 131 (44.71%) AWS
2 92 (31.40%) Azure
3 72 (24.57%) GitHub
4 55 (18.77%) GCP
5 35 (11.95%) Amazon S3
6 32 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (9.22%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (9.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (8.87%) Serverless
10 25 (8.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (7.51%) OpenShift
13 19 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (4.44%) IaaS
16 7 (2.39%) Akamai
16 7 (2.39%) AWS Control Tower
16 7 (2.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (20.48%) Firewall
2 37 (12.63%) VPN
3 31 (10.58%) DNS
4 26 (8.87%) WAN
5 23 (7.85%) BGP
5 23 (7.85%) Network Security
6 19 (6.48%) SD-WAN
7 17 (5.80%) TCP/IP
8 16 (5.46%) OSPF
9 15 (5.12%) VXLAN
10 14 (4.78%) Ethernet VPN
11 13 (4.44%) DHCP
12 11 (3.75%) LAN
12 11 (3.75%) MPLS
13 10 (3.41%) NetScaler
14 9 (3.07%) Multicast
15 8 (2.73%) SAN
16 7 (2.39%) Ethernet
16 7 (2.39%) InfiniBand
16 7 (2.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.10%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.75%) MySQL
4 10 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.39%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.71%) Redis
8 4 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
10 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
10 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.68%) Tableau
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 84 (28.67%) Jenkins
2 59 (20.14%) GitLab
3 54 (18.43%) Git
4 26 (8.87%) JIRA
5 8 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.05%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.05%) JUnit
7 5 (1.71%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.71%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.37%) Ant
8 4 (1.37%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.37%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.02%) Gradle
9 3 (1.02%) Maven
9 3 (1.02%) RStudio
9 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.68%) Gatling
10 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.68%) Snyk
General
1 66 (22.53%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.75%) Finance
3 27 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.51%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.48%) Banking
6 13 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.71%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Social Science
11 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Military
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%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (22.87%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (13.65%) Architect
2 40 (13.65%) Senior
3 31 (10.58%) Developer
4 30 (10.24%) Network Engineer
5 23 (7.85%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (7.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (6.48%) Site Engineer
7 18 (6.14%) Java Developer
8 16 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (5.12%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (4.78%) Lead
10 14 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.10%) Senior Network Engineer
12 11 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.41%) AWS Architect
14 9 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.44%) Kafka
1 13 (4.44%) REST
2 10 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.41%) Node.js
3 9 (3.07%) OAuth
3 9 (3.07%) Spring
4 7 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (2.39%) Web Services
5 6 (2.05%) JSON
5 6 (2.05%) JWT
6 5 (1.71%) Jinja
7 4 (1.37%) .NET
7 4 (1.37%) AWS CDK
7 4 (1.37%) Middleware
7 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.37%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (1.37%) ZK
8 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.02%) OpenID
8 3 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.22%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.53%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.46%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.75%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (3.41%) PKI
7 8 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.05%) Clustering
9 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.05%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.71%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.02%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.02%) CMDB
12 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 94 (32.08%) Linux
2 36 (12.29%) Windows
3 20 (6.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (6.83%) Unix
4 16 (5.46%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.44%) VMS
6 6 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.05%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.68%) AIX
7 2 (0.68%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Rocky
8 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (48.81%) CI/CD
2 137 (46.76%) DevOps
3 135 (46.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (21.16%) Containerisation
5 56 (19.11%) Agile
6 44 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (13.99%) Observability
8 41 (13.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 37 (12.63%) Configuration Management
9 37 (12.63%) Migration
10 33 (11.26%) Infrastructure Automation
11 32 (10.92%) High Availability
12 28 (9.56%) Load Balancing
13 27 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (8.87%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (8.19%) Mentoring
15 24 (8.19%) Platform Engineering
16 23 (7.85%) ITIL
17 22 (7.51%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.37%) Python
2 72 (24.57%) Bash
3 34 (11.60%) Java
3 34 (11.60%) PowerShell
4 20 (6.83%) SQL
5 9 (3.07%) Go
6 6 (2.05%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.71%) C++
8 4 (1.37%) Perl
9 3 (1.02%) PHP
9 3 (1.02%) Rust
10 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.68%) C
10 2 (0.68%) C#
10 2 (0.68%) Ruby
10 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 88 (30.03%) Security Cleared
2 73 (24.91%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.80%) AWS Certification
4 16 (5.46%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (5.12%) CCNP
6 14 (4.78%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.44%) Degree
8 11 (3.75%) Azure Certification
9 9 (3.07%) CCIE
9 9 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.71%) VCAP
12 4 (1.37%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.02%) CCSE
13 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.68%) CCNA
14 2 (0.68%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.05%) NIST
1 6 (2.05%) QA
2 5 (1.71%) GDPR
2 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.02%) NCSC
4 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.68%) PSD2
4 2 (0.68%) SEPA
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (28.33%) Docker
2 22 (7.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.14%) Active Directory
4 14 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.75%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.07%) vSphere
7 8 (2.73%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.05%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.05%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.68%) Ceph
9 2 (0.68%) KVM
9 2 (0.68%) Lustre
9 2 (0.68%) NFS
9 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.68%) Xen
10 1 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.34%) GPFS
10 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 176 (60.07%) Terraform
2 103 (35.15%) Kubernetes
3 48 (16.38%) Grafana
4 44 (15.02%) Prometheus
5 22 (7.51%) Puppet
6 12 (4.10%) vCenter Server
7 11 (3.75%) Progress Chef
8 10 (3.41%) Argo
9 8 (2.73%) SCCM
10 7 (2.39%) Kibana
10 7 (2.39%) Salt
11 6 (2.05%) SCOM
11 6 (2.05%) vMotion
12 5 (1.71%) Rancher
12 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
14 3 (1.02%) Packer
14 3 (1.02%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 35 (11.95%) Cisco
2 32 (10.92%) Microsoft
3 30 (10.24%) Splunk
3 30 (10.24%) VMware
4 26 (8.87%) Arista
5 20 (6.83%) Palo Alto
6 19 (6.48%) F5
6 19 (6.48%) Google
7 18 (6.14%) Red Hat
8 15 (5.12%) Aruba
9 13 (4.44%) CheckPoint
9 13 (4.44%) ServiceNow
10 11 (3.75%) Citrix
11 10 (3.41%) Fortinet
12 9 (3.07%) Dynatrace
13 8 (2.73%) Juniper
13 8 (2.73%) NetApp
13 8 (2.73%) Oracle
13 8 (2.73%) Zscaler
14 7 (2.39%) IBM