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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 97 77
Rank change year-on-year -16 -20 -7
Contract jobs citing Ansible 330 408 658
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.46% 2.53% 3.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.00% 17.62% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 270 502
10th Percentile £400 £412 £469
25th Percentile £475 £510 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.02% -7.98% -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £775
90th Percentile £763 £801 £810
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -0.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £37.00 - £58.70
25th Percentile £38.13 - £68.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile £49.50 - £86.50
90th Percentile £55.20 - £90.00
England median hourly rate £48.00 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -35.14% -3.31% +4.84%

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 2,063 2,315 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.36% 14.34% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,352 1,572 2,624
10th Percentile £344 £332 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -1.23%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £700
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.60% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 39
10th Percentile £25.20 £21.16 £25.12
25th Percentile £26.45 £23.80 £26.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £60.63 £63.50 £76.13
90th Percentile £63.71 £71.25 £90.00
England median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -8.13% -20.00% +109.12%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible 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 17 September 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in London over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in London

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 17 September 2025. 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 -3 43 £600 -3.03% 18
West London -4 6 £415 -24.55% 7
South London -5 5 £620 -14.48%
East London +11 4 £675 +50.00% 2
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (2.73%) Confluence
2 8 (2.42%) Apache
3 4 (1.21%) nginx
4 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.91%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.61%) Appian
5 2 (0.61%) JBoss
5 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.30%) IIS
6 1 (0.30%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.30%) Mule
6 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Endur
1 3 (0.91%) ION MarketView
2 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 157 (47.58%) AWS
2 84 (25.45%) Azure
3 50 (15.15%) GCP
4 43 (13.03%) GitHub
5 33 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (7.88%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (6.97%) Amazon S3
9 22 (6.67%) OpenShift
10 20 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (3.94%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (3.64%) IaaS
13 12 (3.64%) Serverless
14 11 (3.33%) Entra ID
15 9 (2.73%) Amazon ELB
15 9 (2.73%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.73%) PaaS
15 9 (2.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (25.15%) Firewall
2 51 (15.45%) BGP
3 45 (13.64%) OSPF
4 40 (12.12%) VPN
5 37 (11.21%) TCP/IP
6 36 (10.91%) DNS
7 31 (9.39%) SSL
8 27 (8.18%) Network Security
9 19 (5.76%) HTTP
9 19 (5.76%) MPLS
10 18 (5.45%) VXLAN
11 17 (5.15%) Ethernet VPN
11 17 (5.15%) Multicast
11 17 (5.15%) WAN
12 12 (3.64%) IPsec
13 10 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (3.03%) LAN
14 8 (2.42%) Internet
15 7 (2.12%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (2.12%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.94%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (1.82%) MySQL
3 6 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.21%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.21%) Redis
6 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
6 3 (0.91%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.61%) Apache Hive
7 2 (0.61%) Big Data
7 2 (0.61%) Impala
7 2 (0.61%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.30%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 87 (26.36%) Jenkins
2 69 (20.91%) Git
3 50 (15.15%) GitLab
4 18 (5.45%) Artifactory
5 17 (5.15%) JIRA
6 14 (4.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (3.03%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.73%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.42%) Bitbucket
10 7 (2.12%) Robot Framework
10 7 (2.12%) Subversion
10 7 (2.12%) TeamCity
11 6 (1.82%) Maven
12 5 (1.52%) Gradle
13 3 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.91%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.91%) JMeter
13 3 (0.91%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.61%) git-flow
General
1 104 (31.52%) Finance
2 79 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 33 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.18%) Banking
6 23 (6.97%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.64%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.12%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.21%) Retail
10 3 (0.91%) Automotive
10 3 (0.91%) Back Office
10 3 (0.91%) Front Office
10 3 (0.91%) Military
10 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Electronics
11 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.61%) Marketing
12 1 (0.30%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (21.82%) Network Engineer
2 60 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (12.12%) Senior
4 39 (11.82%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (10.91%) Python Engineer
6 34 (10.30%) Architect
6 34 (10.30%) Developer
7 27 (8.18%) Automation Engineer
8 20 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.15%) Cisco Engineer
10 16 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (4.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 15 (4.55%) IP Network Engineer
11 15 (4.55%) Switch Engineer
12 14 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.64%) Linux Engineer
13 12 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.33%) Consultant
14 11 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.36%) REST
2 20 (6.06%) Kafka
3 17 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
4 15 (4.55%) YAML
5 12 (3.64%) JSON
5 12 (3.64%) RESTful
5 12 (3.64%) Spring
6 11 (3.33%) Node.js
6 11 (3.33%) OAuth
6 11 (3.33%) OpenID
7 10 (3.03%) Jinja
8 9 (2.73%) OAuth2
9 8 (2.42%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.42%) XML
10 7 (2.12%) Middleware
10 7 (2.12%) React
11 6 (1.82%) Keycloak
11 6 (1.82%) Swagger
11 6 (1.82%) Web Services
12 5 (1.52%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.52%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.39%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.67%) Hedge funds
4 14 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
5 13 (3.94%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.12%) Clustering
7 7 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.12%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.52%) Replication
9 5 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.21%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.91%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 114 (34.55%) Linux
2 25 (7.58%) Unix
2 25 (7.58%) Windows
3 23 (6.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (2.73%) CentOS
4 9 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.82%) Solaris
5 6 (1.82%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.61%) Debian
6 2 (0.61%) SUSE
7 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.30%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (49.09%) DevOps
2 139 (42.12%) CI/CD
3 128 (38.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (23.64%) Containerisation
5 60 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (17.27%) Agile
6 57 (17.27%) Configuration Management
7 49 (14.85%) High Availability
8 47 (14.24%) Infrastructure Automation
9 41 (12.42%) Migration
10 31 (9.39%) Observability
11 25 (7.58%) Low Latency
11 25 (7.58%) Test Automation
12 24 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 23 (6.97%) Cloud Security
14 22 (6.67%) DevSecOps
14 22 (6.67%) Scrum
15 21 (6.36%) Microservices
15 21 (6.36%) Performance Tuning
16 20 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 215 (65.15%) Python
2 67 (20.30%) Bash
3 36 (10.91%) PowerShell
4 29 (8.79%) Go
5 26 (7.88%) Java
6 17 (5.15%) SQL
7 15 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 15 (4.55%) Shell Script
8 14 (4.24%) Perl
9 11 (3.33%) Groovy
10 10 (3.03%) C#
10 10 (3.03%) C++
11 6 (1.82%) Ruby
12 5 (1.52%) Bicep
13 3 (0.91%) PHP
13 3 (0.91%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.61%) PromQL
15 1 (0.30%) C
15 1 (0.30%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 74 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 66 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.30%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (7.58%) CCNP
5 19 (5.76%) Degree
6 18 (5.45%) CCIE
7 12 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.42%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.82%) JNCIE
10 6 (1.82%) RHCE
11 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.21%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.21%) CCNA
12 4 (1.21%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.21%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.91%) CCSE
13 3 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.61%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.33%) QA
2 6 (1.82%) GDPR
3 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.91%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.30%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (27.58%) Docker
2 22 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.12%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.52%) Firmware
5 5 (1.52%) KVM
6 4 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.21%) NFS
6 4 (1.21%) Veritas File System
6 4 (1.21%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.61%) HDFS
7 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.30%) Ceph
8 1 (0.30%) iptables
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.30%) Squid
8 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 174 (52.73%) Terraform
2 117 (35.45%) Kubernetes
3 44 (13.33%) Puppet
4 33 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 30 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 28 (8.48%) Grafana
7 9 (2.73%) Rancher
8 7 (2.12%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (1.82%) Podman
10 5 (1.52%) Argo
10 5 (1.52%) Istio
10 5 (1.52%) Nagios
10 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
11 4 (1.21%) ITRS Geneos
11 4 (1.21%) Packer
11 4 (1.21%) QRadar
12 3 (0.91%) BladeLogic
12 3 (0.91%) Kibana
12 3 (0.91%) Salt
12 3 (0.91%) vRealize
Vendors
1 50 (15.15%) Arista
2 46 (13.94%) Cisco
3 36 (10.91%) F5
4 28 (8.48%) VMware
5 27 (8.18%) Splunk
6 25 (7.58%) CheckPoint
6 25 (7.58%) Palo Alto
6 25 (7.58%) Red Hat
7 19 (5.76%) Oracle
8 17 (5.15%) Fortinet
8 17 (5.15%) Google
8 17 (5.15%) Microsoft
9 14 (4.24%) Juniper
10 11 (3.33%) ServiceNow
11 8 (2.42%) CyberArk
12 7 (2.12%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.82%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.82%) Zscaler
14 5 (1.52%) Qualys
14 5 (1.52%) SaltStack