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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 86 116
Rank change year-on-year -75 +30 -38
Contract jobs citing Ansible 299 389 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.66% 3.13% 2.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.12% 20.02% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 248 252
10th Percentile £400 £440 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -12.21%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £690
90th Percentile £750 £850 £763
England median daily rate £513 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.50% -11.65%
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 £66.57 £44.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +49.59% -28.51% -14.43%

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 2,468 1,943 2,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.72% 15.64% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,708 1,325 1,586
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £432 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +0.47% -10.42%
75th Percentile £630 £661 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
England median daily rate £507 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.43% +0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 34
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £18.45
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.73 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £40.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +44.41% +62.67% -61.88%
75th Percentile £63.32 £53.75 £53.81
90th Percentile £67.19 £63.25 £69.98
England median hourly rate £56.50 £28.00 £25.77
% change year-on-year +101.79% +8.67% -50.75%

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 May 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 May 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 -26 42 £550 -2.22% 29
South London -15 6 £530 -11.67%
West London -22 3 £500 - 5
East London -5 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 (4.01%) Confluence
2 7 (2.34%) Apache
3 4 (1.34%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.00%) JBoss
4 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.67%) nginx
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) Appian
6 1 (0.33%) CloudStack
6 1 (0.33%) CMS
6 1 (0.33%) FileNet
6 1 (0.33%) MTS
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 128 (42.81%) AWS
2 104 (34.78%) Azure
3 70 (23.41%) GitHub
4 40 (13.38%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (13.04%) GCP
6 31 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (9.03%) OpenShift
8 23 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (6.35%) Amazon S3
11 19 (6.35%) Serverless
12 18 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 13 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (4.35%) Azure AKS
14 11 (3.68%) IaaS
14 11 (3.68%) PaaS
15 10 (3.34%) Entra ID
16 8 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (21.40%) Firewall
2 36 (12.04%) BGP
3 32 (10.70%) VPN
4 28 (9.36%) WAN
5 25 (8.36%) DNS
6 22 (7.36%) OSPF
7 20 (6.69%) Network Security
8 16 (5.35%) VXLAN
9 15 (5.02%) TCP/IP
10 13 (4.35%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (4.01%) MPLS
11 12 (4.01%) Multicast
12 11 (3.68%) SD-WAN
13 10 (3.34%) Cisco IOS
13 10 (3.34%) Wireless
14 9 (3.01%) DHCP
14 9 (3.01%) LAN
14 9 (3.01%) VLAN
15 8 (2.68%) Ethernet
15 8 (2.68%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.34%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 6 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (1.67%) MySQL
6 5 (1.67%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.67%) Redis
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.67%) Big Data
9 2 (0.67%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.67%) ImageNet
9 2 (0.67%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.33%) Flink
10 1 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 83 (27.76%) Jenkins
2 63 (21.07%) GitLab
3 54 (18.06%) Git
4 21 (7.02%) JIRA
5 7 (2.34%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.34%) Postman
6 6 (2.01%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.01%) JMeter
6 6 (2.01%) Snyk
6 6 (2.01%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.67%) JUnit
8 4 (1.34%) Ant
8 4 (1.34%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.34%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.67%) Mockito
10 2 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 50 (16.72%) Finance
2 42 (14.05%) Social Skills
3 30 (10.03%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.02%) Banking
6 13 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.34%) Law
9 4 (1.34%) Military
9 4 (1.34%) Police
10 3 (1.00%) Front Office
11 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 67 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (12.71%) Senior
3 33 (11.04%) Architect
3 33 (11.04%) Network Engineer
4 28 (9.36%) Developer
5 26 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 20 (6.69%) AWS Engineer
7 18 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (6.02%) Lead
7 18 (6.02%) Site Engineer
8 17 (5.69%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.02%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (4.68%) Linux Engineer
10 14 (4.68%) Senior Network Engineer
11 13 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.34%) Cloud Engineer
15 8 (2.68%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.35%) Kafka
2 15 (5.02%) REST
3 14 (4.68%) YAML
4 12 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.68%) ARM Templates
5 8 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (2.68%) Spring
6 7 (2.34%) .NET
6 7 (2.34%) Web Services
7 6 (2.01%) JSON
7 6 (2.01%) Swagger
8 5 (1.67%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (1.67%) RESTful
8 5 (1.67%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.34%) Jinja
9 4 (1.34%) Middleware
9 4 (1.34%) OAuth
9 4 (1.34%) React
9 4 (1.34%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.04%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.70%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (5.02%) PKI
4 13 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.01%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (3.34%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.34%) Clustering
7 7 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.67%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.34%) CMDB
10 4 (1.34%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.00%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 98 (32.78%) Linux
2 38 (12.71%) Windows
3 23 (7.69%) Unix
4 17 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.68%) VMS
5 14 (4.68%) Windows Server
6 11 (3.68%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.34%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.67%) CentOS
8 2 (0.67%) Debian
9 1 (0.33%) AIX
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.33%) Rocky
9 1 (0.33%) Solaris
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (50.50%) DevOps
2 147 (49.16%) CI/CD
3 136 (45.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 58 (19.40%) Agile
6 54 (18.06%) Observability
7 51 (17.06%) Configuration Management
8 45 (15.05%) Migration
9 40 (13.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 37 (12.37%) Mentoring
11 36 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (11.71%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (10.37%) Load Balancing
14 29 (9.70%) Incident Management
15 28 (9.36%) AI
16 27 (9.03%) Infrastructure Automation
17 26 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
17 26 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (8.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 24 (8.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (44.15%) Python
2 79 (26.42%) Bash
3 44 (14.72%) PowerShell
4 35 (11.71%) Java
5 22 (7.36%) SQL
6 12 (4.01%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.68%) Go
8 8 (2.68%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.01%) Bicep
9 6 (2.01%) Ruby
10 5 (1.67%) Perl
10 5 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.00%) PHP
12 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.67%) C
12 2 (0.67%) C#
12 2 (0.67%) Groovy
12 2 (0.67%) Scala
13 1 (0.33%) Rust
13 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 107 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 94 (31.44%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.02%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (6.35%) CCNP
5 17 (5.69%) Degree
6 16 (5.35%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.35%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.34%) AWS Certification
9 9 (3.01%) CCIE
10 5 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.34%) JNCIP
12 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.00%) CCSE
12 3 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.00%) JNCIE
12 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.00%) VCAP
13 2 (0.67%) CISSP
13 2 (0.67%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.68%) QA
2 6 (2.01%) NIST
3 3 (1.00%) GDPR
3 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.67%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.67%) NCSC
4 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.67%) PSD2
4 2 (0.67%) SEPA
5 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 69 (23.08%) Docker
2 19 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 18 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (5.02%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.34%) Hyper-V
6 9 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.34%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.34%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (2.01%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.67%) NFS
9 5 (1.67%) vSphere
10 4 (1.34%) KVM
11 3 (1.00%) Ceph
11 3 (1.00%) Postfix
11 3 (1.00%) Sendmail
11 3 (1.00%) Varnish
12 2 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.67%) Firmware
12 2 (0.67%) IAG
12 2 (0.67%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 164 (54.85%) Terraform
2 132 (44.15%) Kubernetes
3 63 (21.07%) Prometheus
4 59 (19.73%) Grafana
5 25 (8.36%) Puppet
6 13 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.34%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.68%) Salt
9 7 (2.34%) vMotion
10 6 (2.01%) Argo
11 5 (1.67%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.67%) Kibana
11 5 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.67%) Packer
12 4 (1.34%) HAProxy
13 3 (1.00%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.00%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.00%) Nagios
13 3 (1.00%) Rancher
13 3 (1.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (14.72%) Cisco
2 36 (12.04%) Microsoft
3 32 (10.70%) Splunk
4 31 (10.37%) Arista
5 26 (8.70%) Palo Alto
5 26 (8.70%) VMware
6 20 (6.69%) F5
7 18 (6.02%) Fortinet
8 14 (4.68%) ServiceNow
9 13 (4.35%) Google
9 13 (4.35%) Red Hat
10 12 (4.01%) Oracle
11 11 (3.68%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.68%) Juniper
11 11 (3.68%) NetApp
12 10 (3.34%) Aruba
12 10 (3.34%) Zscaler
13 9 (3.01%) IBM
14 8 (2.68%) Dynatrace
15 7 (2.34%) Citrix