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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 100 101
Rank change year-on-year -46 +1 -25
Contract jobs citing Ansible 398 357 406
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.97% 2.67% 2.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.84% 20.11% 20.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 222 264
10th Percentile £425 £408 £400
25th Percentile £475 £475 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.16%
75th Percentile £650 £667 £675
90th Percentile £777 £750 £767
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £49.78 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £57.44 £49.50 -
90th Percentile £59.13 £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +19.83% -19.93% -0.67%

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 2,231 1,775 1,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.07% 13.28% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 1,161 1,381
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £435 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £725 £750
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 27
10th Percentile £25.35 £23.60 £20.30
25th Percentile £35.00 £26.23 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +95.00% +24.07% -61.31%
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.85 £71.25
England median hourly rate £66.35 £51.00 £36.17
% change year-on-year +30.09% +41.02% -27.67%

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 28 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 28 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 -30 42 £550 -8.33% 18
South London -7 10 £600 -1.64% 6
West London -17 7 £500 +20.48% 13
East London +4 5 £525 -22.22% 7
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 20 (5.03%) Confluence
2 9 (2.26%) Apache
3 7 (1.76%) nginx
4 5 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.26%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.01%) WordPress
6 3 (0.75%) CMS
6 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.50%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.50%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.50%) Mule
7 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) JBoss
8 1 (0.25%) MTS
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 187 (46.98%) AWS
2 148 (37.19%) Azure
3 89 (22.36%) GitHub
4 53 (13.32%) GCP
5 51 (12.81%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (9.05%) OpenShift
8 34 (8.54%) Datadog
9 30 (7.54%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (7.29%) Serverless
11 27 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
11 27 (6.78%) Amazon S3
11 27 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (4.52%) Entra ID
15 17 (4.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (4.27%) Azure AKS
16 12 (3.02%) PaaS
17 11 (2.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (17.59%) Firewall
2 47 (11.81%) BGP
3 40 (10.05%) DNS
4 38 (9.55%) VPN
5 28 (7.04%) WAN
6 27 (6.78%) TCP/IP
7 26 (6.53%) Network Security
8 22 (5.53%) OSPF
9 20 (5.03%) DHCP
9 20 (5.03%) SSL
10 18 (4.52%) VLAN
11 16 (4.02%) VXLAN
12 14 (3.52%) NX-OS
13 11 (2.76%) SSH
13 11 (2.76%) Wireless
14 10 (2.51%) Cisco IOS
14 10 (2.51%) SD-WAN
15 9 (2.26%) Ethernet VPN
15 9 (2.26%) IOS XR
15 9 (2.26%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.77%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.27%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.76%) Oracle Database
6 10 (2.51%) MySQL
7 9 (2.26%) Power BI
8 8 (2.01%) Redis
9 7 (1.76%) Big Data
10 5 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.26%) ObjectStore
11 4 (1.01%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.01%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.01%) Metadata
11 4 (1.01%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 96 (24.12%) Jenkins
2 88 (22.11%) Git
3 80 (20.10%) GitLab
4 26 (6.53%) JIRA
5 10 (2.51%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.26%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.01%) Artifactory
7 8 (2.01%) Snyk
8 7 (1.76%) JMeter
8 7 (1.76%) Postman
8 7 (1.76%) Selenium
8 7 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.26%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.01%) JUnit
10 4 (1.01%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.75%) Mockito
11 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.50%) Gradle
12 2 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 90 (22.61%) Finance
2 74 (18.59%) Social Skills
3 45 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.29%) Banking
5 26 (6.53%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.26%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.76%) Law
8 7 (1.76%) Retail
9 6 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.51%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.51%) Police
9 6 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.26%) Publishing
11 4 (1.01%) Automotive
11 4 (1.01%) Front Office
11 4 (1.01%) Military
12 3 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 81 (20.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (14.07%) Senior
3 48 (12.06%) Network Engineer
4 42 (10.55%) Architect
5 37 (9.30%) Lead
6 31 (7.79%) Automation Engineer
7 30 (7.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 29 (7.29%) Developer
9 28 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (5.78%) Linux Engineer
11 23 (5.78%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (3.77%) Java Developer
14 15 (3.77%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (3.02%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (57.54%) Terraform
2 33 (8.29%) REST
3 32 (8.04%) Kafka
4 24 (6.03%) YAML
5 20 (5.03%) .NET
6 17 (4.27%) React
7 15 (3.77%) JSON
8 14 (3.52%) Spring
9 13 (3.27%) Middleware
10 12 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (2.76%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.01%) cloud-init
12 8 (2.01%) JMS
13 7 (1.76%) 802.1X
13 7 (1.76%) Jakarta EE
13 7 (1.76%) Playwright
13 7 (1.76%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.76%) Swagger
14 6 (1.51%) boto
14 6 (1.51%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.07%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.31%) Cloud Native
3 31 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.28%) PKI
5 19 (4.77%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.52%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.02%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (3.02%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.51%) Clustering
9 10 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.01%) CMDB
10 8 (2.01%) Distributed Applications
10 8 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (2.01%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.51%) Enterprise Storage
12 6 (1.51%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.51%) Spread Betting
12 6 (1.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 148 (37.19%) Linux
2 65 (16.33%) Windows
3 48 (12.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (8.04%) Ubuntu
5 27 (6.78%) Windows Server
6 26 (6.53%) Unix
7 7 (1.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.01%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.75%) CentOS
9 3 (0.75%) VMS
9 3 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.50%) Debian
10 2 (0.50%) Solaris
11 1 (0.25%) AIX
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Rocky
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (55.28%) DevOps
2 198 (49.75%) CI/CD
3 189 (47.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (23.87%) Containerisation
5 84 (21.11%) Configuration Management
6 79 (19.85%) Agile
7 69 (17.34%) Platform Engineering
8 66 (16.58%) Observability
9 64 (16.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 60 (15.08%) AI
11 59 (14.82%) Migration
12 57 (14.32%) Infrastructure Automation
13 51 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
14 49 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (11.06%) Test Automation
16 43 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (10.30%) Validation
18 37 (9.30%) Microservices
19 36 (9.05%) Runbook
19 36 (9.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 232 (58.29%) Python
2 110 (27.64%) Bash
3 88 (22.11%) PowerShell
4 53 (13.32%) Java
5 34 (8.54%) SQL
6 23 (5.78%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.03%) Shell Script
8 19 (4.77%) Go
9 14 (3.52%) C#
10 13 (3.27%) Bicep
11 11 (2.76%) Perl
11 11 (2.76%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.51%) C++
12 6 (1.51%) Ruby
13 4 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.01%) Groovy
14 2 (0.50%) C
14 2 (0.50%) R
14 2 (0.50%) Scala
14 2 (0.50%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 123 (30.90%) Security Cleared
2 99 (24.87%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.29%) Degree
4 25 (6.28%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.28%) CCNP
6 20 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 17 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.02%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.01%) CISSP
10 7 (1.76%) CCIE
10 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.01%) CCNA
12 4 (1.01%) ISSAP
12 4 (1.01%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.01%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.01%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.53%) QA
2 10 (2.51%) NIST
3 7 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.75%) GDPR
5 3 (0.75%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) SEPA
7 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 102 (25.63%) Docker
2 41 (10.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.03%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.52%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (3.27%) vSphere
7 8 (2.01%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.51%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.51%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.26%) NFS
10 3 (0.75%) Ceph
10 3 (0.75%) IAG
10 3 (0.75%) KVM
10 3 (0.75%) Postfix
10 3 (0.75%) Squid
10 3 (0.75%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.75%) Varnish
11 2 (0.50%) HDFS
11 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 158 (39.70%) Kubernetes
2 73 (18.34%) Prometheus
3 69 (17.34%) Grafana
4 42 (10.55%) Puppet
5 17 (4.27%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.77%) Packer
7 12 (3.02%) systemd
8 11 (2.76%) FortiGate
8 11 (2.76%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.76%) SCCM
10 6 (1.51%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (1.51%) vMotion
11 5 (1.26%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.26%) Nagios
11 5 (1.26%) SELinux
11 5 (1.26%) vRealize
12 4 (1.01%) Consul
12 4 (1.01%) Salt
12 4 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.07%) Cisco
2 56 (14.07%) VMware
3 30 (7.54%) Red Hat
4 29 (7.29%) Oracle
4 29 (7.29%) Splunk
5 26 (6.53%) Fortinet
5 26 (6.53%) Palo Alto
6 23 (5.78%) Arista
7 22 (5.53%) ServiceNow
8 21 (5.28%) Google
9 18 (4.52%) F5
10 15 (3.77%) Juniper
11 12 (3.02%) Dynatrace
12 11 (2.76%) Zscaler
13 8 (2.01%) NetApp
14 7 (1.76%) CyberArk
14 7 (1.76%) Okta
15 6 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (1.51%) Hitachi