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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 95 99
Rank change year-on-year -56 +4 -21
Contract jobs citing Ansible 383 395 402
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 2.89% 2.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.83% 18.64% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 243 259
10th Percentile £425 £413 £381
25th Percentile £475 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £758 £750 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -10.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £70.50 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.99% -19.93% +0.39%

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 2,769 2,119 2,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.67% 15.50% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,920 1,405 1,627
10th Percentile £360 £331 £335
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% -4.11% -8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 26
10th Percentile £31.18 £26.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.45 £21.33
Median hourly rate £62.75 £40.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +56.88% +62.67% -60.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.00 £58.75
90th Percentile - £62.80 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.45 £54.50 £36.83
% change year-on-year +20.09% +47.97% -26.14%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -36 43 £550 -5.17% 15
South London -11 10 £535 -12.30% 3
West London -15 7 £500 +20.48% 3
East London 0 3 £551 -18.44% 6
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 22 (5.74%) Confluence
2 10 (2.61%) Apache
3 8 (2.09%) nginx
4 5 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.04%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.04%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.04%) WordPress
6 3 (0.78%) JBoss
6 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.52%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
7 2 (0.52%) Mule
7 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) MTS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 176 (45.95%) AWS
2 142 (37.08%) Azure
3 81 (21.15%) GitHub
4 51 (13.32%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (11.75%) GCP
6 40 (10.44%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (8.62%) Datadog
8 31 (8.09%) OpenShift
9 29 (7.57%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (7.05%) Amazon S3
10 27 (7.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (6.53%) Serverless
12 23 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (5.74%) Entra ID
14 18 (4.70%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (4.70%) Azure AKS
15 13 (3.39%) PaaS
16 12 (3.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (19.06%) Firewall
2 44 (11.49%) BGP
3 43 (11.23%) DNS
4 42 (10.97%) VPN
5 30 (7.83%) WAN
6 27 (7.05%) TCP/IP
7 23 (6.01%) Network Security
7 23 (6.01%) OSPF
8 19 (4.96%) DHCP
8 19 (4.96%) SSL
9 18 (4.70%) VLAN
10 16 (4.18%) VXLAN
11 13 (3.39%) Cisco IOS
11 13 (3.39%) MPLS
11 13 (3.39%) Wireless
12 12 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (3.13%) NX-OS
13 11 (2.87%) IOS XR
14 10 (2.61%) SD-WAN
14 10 (2.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.92%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (2.61%) Oracle Database
5 9 (2.35%) Redis
6 8 (2.09%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.83%) Big Data
7 7 (1.83%) MySQL
7 7 (1.83%) Power BI
8 6 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (1.31%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.04%) ObjectStore
11 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.52%) Metadata
12 2 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 98 (25.59%) Jenkins
2 87 (22.72%) Git
3 75 (19.58%) GitLab
4 31 (8.09%) JIRA
5 10 (2.61%) Artifactory
5 10 (2.61%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.35%) Snyk
7 8 (2.09%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.83%) Postman
9 6 (1.57%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.57%) JMeter
9 6 (1.57%) JUnit
10 4 (1.04%) Ant
10 4 (1.04%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.78%) Mockito
12 2 (0.52%) Gradle
12 2 (0.52%) Maven
12 2 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 80 (20.89%) Finance
2 66 (17.23%) Social Skills
3 39 (10.18%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.83%) Banking
4 30 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.35%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.83%) Law
7 7 (1.83%) Retail
8 6 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.31%) Police
9 5 (1.31%) Publishing
10 4 (1.04%) Automotive
10 4 (1.04%) Military
11 3 (0.78%) Front Office
11 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 84 (21.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (14.62%) Senior
3 44 (11.49%) Network Engineer
4 43 (11.23%) Architect
5 33 (8.62%) Developer
6 28 (7.31%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 27 (7.05%) Lead
8 24 (6.27%) Automation Engineer
9 23 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (5.74%) Linux Engineer
11 21 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.70%) Java Developer
13 17 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (4.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 15 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (3.66%) Site Engineer
17 13 (3.39%) Senior Network Engineer
17 13 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.79%) REST
2 24 (6.27%) Kafka
3 19 (4.96%) YAML
4 17 (4.44%) .NET
5 16 (4.18%) Spring
6 13 (3.39%) Middleware
6 13 (3.39%) React
7 12 (3.13%) ARM Templates
8 11 (2.87%) JSON
9 10 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (2.35%) JMS
11 8 (2.09%) cloud-init
11 8 (2.09%) Jakarta EE
11 8 (2.09%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.83%) SAML
12 7 (1.83%) Swagger
13 6 (1.57%) OAuth
13 6 (1.57%) RESTful
13 6 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.79%) Cloud Native
2 48 (12.53%) Data Centre
3 27 (7.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.96%) PKI
5 17 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.44%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.18%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.39%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.35%) Clustering
9 9 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.09%) CMDB
11 7 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.31%) Distributed Applications
13 5 (1.31%) Low-Code
13 5 (1.31%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.31%) Robotics
13 5 (1.31%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 141 (36.81%) Linux
2 60 (15.67%) Windows
3 43 (11.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (7.83%) Ubuntu
5 26 (6.79%) Unix
5 26 (6.79%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.04%) Alpine Linux
7 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.52%) CentOS
8 2 (0.52%) Debian
8 2 (0.52%) Solaris
8 2 (0.52%) VMS
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.26%) AIX
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.26%) Rocky
9 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (56.66%) DevOps
2 186 (48.56%) CI/CD
3 173 (45.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (22.72%) Containerisation
5 80 (20.89%) Agile
5 80 (20.89%) Configuration Management
6 61 (15.93%) Observability
7 60 (15.67%) AI
8 59 (15.40%) Platform Engineering
9 58 (15.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 53 (13.84%) Migration
11 45 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (11.75%) Infrastructure Automation
12 44 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (9.66%) Test Automation
14 35 (9.14%) Mentoring
14 35 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (8.88%) Cloud Security
15 34 (8.88%) Validation
16 33 (8.62%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 206 (53.79%) Python
2 109 (28.46%) Bash
3 82 (21.41%) PowerShell
4 53 (13.84%) Java
5 28 (7.31%) SQL
6 18 (4.70%) JavaScript
7 16 (4.18%) Shell Script
8 12 (3.13%) Bicep
8 12 (3.13%) Go
9 11 (2.87%) C#
10 10 (2.61%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.83%) Perl
12 6 (1.57%) Ruby
13 5 (1.31%) Groovy
14 4 (1.04%) C
14 4 (1.04%) C++
15 2 (0.52%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.52%) R
15 2 (0.52%) Scala
16 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 124 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 102 (26.63%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.31%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (7.31%) Degree
4 24 (6.27%) CCNP
5 21 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.70%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.66%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.35%) CCIE
9 9 (2.35%) CISSP
10 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.04%) CCNA
12 4 (1.04%) ISSAP
12 4 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.04%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.04%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.70%) QA
2 9 (2.35%) NIST
3 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.78%) GDPR
4 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.52%) NCSC
5 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
6 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 94 (24.54%) Docker
2 35 (9.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.79%) Active Directory
4 17 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.66%) Hyper-V
6 13 (3.39%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (2.87%) vSphere
8 7 (1.83%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.57%) BitLocker
9 6 (1.57%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.57%) NFS
10 4 (1.04%) IAG
10 4 (1.04%) Postfix
10 4 (1.04%) Varnish
11 3 (0.78%) Ceph
11 3 (0.78%) KVM
11 3 (0.78%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.78%) Squid
11 3 (0.78%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 220 (57.44%) Terraform
2 153 (39.95%) Kubernetes
3 74 (19.32%) Prometheus
4 70 (18.28%) Grafana
5 40 (10.44%) Puppet
6 16 (4.18%) Packer
7 15 (3.92%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.13%) systemd
9 11 (2.87%) FortiGate
9 11 (2.87%) vCenter Server
10 8 (2.09%) Salt
11 7 (1.83%) SCCM
12 6 (1.57%) Oracle RMAN
12 6 (1.57%) vMotion
13 5 (1.31%) Data Guard
13 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.31%) Nagios
13 5 (1.31%) SELinux
13 5 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (14.88%) Cisco
2 56 (14.62%) Microsoft
3 48 (12.53%) VMware
4 34 (8.88%) Palo Alto
5 29 (7.57%) Arista
5 29 (7.57%) Splunk
6 27 (7.05%) Fortinet
7 23 (6.01%) Oracle
7 23 (6.01%) Red Hat
7 23 (6.01%) ServiceNow
8 22 (5.74%) F5
9 16 (4.18%) Google
10 15 (3.92%) Juniper
11 12 (3.13%) Zscaler
12 10 (2.61%) Dynatrace
12 10 (2.61%) Okta
13 9 (2.35%) Aruba
13 9 (2.35%) NetApp
14 8 (2.09%) IBM
15 6 (1.57%) Citrix