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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 87 112
Rank change year-on-year -72 +25 -40
Contract jobs citing Ansible 285 401 377
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 3.16% 2.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.48% 19.84% 17.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 260 263
10th Percentile £358 £449 £396
25th Percentile £453 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% -11.92%
75th Percentile £648 £688 £677
90th Percentile £762 £853 £763
England median daily rate £511 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.22% +4.55% -11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -25.83% -17.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +20.97% -15.07%

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 2,483 2,021 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.28% 15.90% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 1,399 1,564
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.04% -10.17%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 43
10th Percentile £22.72 £23.33 £14.08
25th Percentile £26.32 £24.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £27.73 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +93.87% +7.84% -63.27%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £69.33 £66.43 £69.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.34% -9.17% -47.83%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -37 40 £518 -10.00% 30
South London -17 9 £530 -11.67%
West London -23 3 £588 - 2
East London -2 2 £551 -12.62% 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 11 (3.86%) Confluence
2 5 (1.75%) Apache
3 4 (1.40%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.05%) JBoss
4 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Appian
6 1 (0.35%) FileNet
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 130 (45.61%) AWS
2 101 (35.44%) Azure
3 68 (23.86%) GitHub
4 43 (15.09%) GCP
5 38 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (11.58%) Amazon S3
6 33 (11.58%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.47%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (9.12%) Serverless
10 25 (8.77%) OpenShift
11 23 (8.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (5.26%) IaaS
17 11 (3.86%) Azure AKS
18 10 (3.51%) Entra ID
18 10 (3.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (21.75%) Firewall
2 33 (11.58%) VPN
3 31 (10.88%) BGP
4 27 (9.47%) DNS
4 27 (9.47%) WAN
5 20 (7.02%) Network Security
5 20 (7.02%) OSPF
6 15 (5.26%) VXLAN
7 14 (4.91%) TCP/IP
8 13 (4.56%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (4.21%) MPLS
9 12 (4.21%) Multicast
9 12 (4.21%) SD-WAN
10 10 (3.51%) DHCP
11 9 (3.16%) Cisco IOS
12 8 (2.81%) Ethernet
12 8 (2.81%) LAN
12 8 (2.81%) SAN
12 8 (2.81%) Wireless
13 7 (2.46%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.21%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.51%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (2.81%) MongoDB
5 8 (2.81%) MySQL
6 6 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.40%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.05%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.05%) Redis
9 2 (0.70%) Big Data
9 2 (0.70%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.70%) ImageNet
9 2 (0.70%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 76 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 59 (20.70%) GitLab
3 54 (18.95%) Git
4 19 (6.67%) JIRA
5 8 (2.81%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.11%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.75%) Snyk
7 5 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.75%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.40%) Ant
8 4 (1.40%) JUnit
8 4 (1.40%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.70%) Gatling
10 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.70%) RStudio
11 1 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 51 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.14%) Finance
3 27 (9.47%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.91%) Banking
6 13 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.40%) Military
10 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.05%) Law
10 3 (1.05%) Police
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Social Science
12 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (22.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (13.33%) Senior
3 34 (11.93%) Architect
4 29 (10.18%) Developer
4 29 (10.18%) Network Engineer
5 26 (9.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 24 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (7.37%) Site Engineer
8 16 (5.61%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (5.61%) Java Developer
8 16 (5.61%) Lead
9 15 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.91%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.56%) Senior Network Engineer
12 12 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.16%) Linux Engineer
15 8 (2.81%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.96%) Kafka
2 14 (4.91%) REST
3 11 (3.86%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (3.51%) OAuth
4 10 (3.51%) YAML
5 8 (2.81%) Node.js
5 8 (2.81%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (2.46%) ARM Templates
6 7 (2.46%) Spring
7 6 (2.11%) JWT
7 6 (2.11%) Web Services
8 5 (1.75%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.40%) Jinja
9 4 (1.40%) JSON
9 4 (1.40%) Middleware
9 4 (1.40%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.40%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (1.05%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.05%) OpenID
10 3 (1.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.12%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.56%) PKI
5 12 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.21%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (4.21%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.81%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.46%) Clustering
8 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.75%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.75%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.75%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.40%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.05%) CMDB
11 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 95 (33.33%) Linux
2 38 (13.33%) Windows
3 21 (7.37%) Unix
4 17 (5.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (5.96%) Windows Server
5 14 (4.91%) VMS
6 8 (2.81%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.46%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.70%) AIX
8 2 (0.70%) CentOS
8 2 (0.70%) Debian
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Rocky
9 1 (0.35%) Solaris
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (48.77%) CI/CD
2 137 (48.07%) DevOps
3 132 (46.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (22.11%) Containerisation
5 56 (19.65%) Agile
6 45 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 43 (15.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 41 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (14.39%) Migration
8 41 (14.39%) Observability
9 33 (11.58%) Mentoring
10 32 (11.23%) Load Balancing
10 32 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
11 28 (9.82%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (9.47%) Infrastructure Automation
13 26 (9.12%) High Availability
13 26 (9.12%) Performance Tuning
14 24 (8.42%) Incident Management
14 24 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 126 (44.21%) Python
2 78 (27.37%) Bash
3 37 (12.98%) PowerShell
4 29 (10.18%) Java
5 21 (7.37%) SQL
6 11 (3.86%) Go
6 11 (3.86%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.75%) Bicep
7 5 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.75%) Ruby
8 4 (1.40%) Perl
8 4 (1.40%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.70%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.70%) C
9 2 (0.70%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) C++
10 1 (0.35%) Groovy
10 1 (0.35%) RPG
10 1 (0.35%) Rust
10 1 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 82 (28.77%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (6.32%) Azure Certification
5 17 (5.96%) CCNP
6 16 (5.61%) Degree
7 14 (4.91%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.56%) DV Cleared
9 12 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (3.16%) CCIE
11 4 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.40%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.40%) VCAP
12 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.05%) CCSE
12 3 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.05%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.16%) QA
2 6 (2.11%) NIST
3 5 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.40%) GDPR
5 3 (1.05%) NCSC
6 2 (0.70%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.70%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.70%) PSD2
6 2 (0.70%) SEPA
7 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (27.37%) Docker
2 21 (7.37%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.61%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.51%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (3.16%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.81%) vSphere
7 7 (2.46%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.46%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.05%) KVM
8 3 (1.05%) NFS
9 2 (0.70%) Ceph
9 2 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.70%) IAG
9 2 (0.70%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.70%) Postfix
9 2 (0.70%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.70%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 169 (59.30%) Terraform
2 111 (38.95%) Kubernetes
3 51 (17.89%) Grafana
4 50 (17.54%) Prometheus
5 31 (10.88%) Puppet
6 14 (4.91%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.56%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.51%) Argo
9 9 (3.16%) Salt
10 7 (2.46%) vMotion
11 6 (2.11%) Kibana
11 6 (2.11%) SCCM
11 6 (2.11%) SCOM
12 4 (1.40%) Data Guard
12 4 (1.40%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.40%) Rancher
13 3 (1.05%) HAProxy
13 3 (1.05%) Karpenter
13 3 (1.05%) Packer
13 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 38 (13.33%) Cisco
2 35 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 30 (10.53%) Arista
4 29 (10.18%) Splunk
5 28 (9.82%) VMware
6 22 (7.72%) Palo Alto
7 19 (6.67%) F5
8 17 (5.96%) Red Hat
9 15 (5.26%) Fortinet
9 15 (5.26%) Google
10 14 (4.91%) ServiceNow
11 11 (3.86%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.86%) NetApp
11 11 (3.86%) Oracle
12 10 (3.51%) Aruba
12 10 (3.51%) Juniper
13 9 (3.16%) IBM
13 9 (3.16%) Zscaler
14 8 (2.81%) Citrix
14 8 (2.81%) Dynatrace