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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 82 108
Rank change year-on-year -73 +26 -42
Contract jobs citing Ansible 293 421 389
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 3.15% 2.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.17% 20.59% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 274 283
10th Percentile £350 £452 £408
25th Percentile £425 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +9.33% -13.46%
75th Percentile £650 £709 £688
90th Percentile £761 £839 £763
England median daily rate £517 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.83% +9.09% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £39.25 -
Median hourly rate - £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.14% +19.10% -14.38%

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 2,408 2,045 2,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.24% 15.30% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,657 1,367 1,690
10th Percentile £350 £367 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% +3.18% -9.84%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 34
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.63 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £44.50 £26.11
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% +70.47% +1.54%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £58.56
90th Percentile £64.65 £108.60 £61.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -25 48 £550 -8.33% 19
South London -16 8 £530 -26.90% 1
West London -19 4 £688 - 1
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 17 (5.80%) Confluence
2 6 (2.05%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Appian
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.02%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.02%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.02%) nginx
4 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.68%) JBoss
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 139 (47.44%) AWS
2 88 (30.03%) Azure
3 72 (24.57%) GitHub
4 59 (20.14%) GCP
5 37 (12.63%) Amazon S3
6 32 (10.92%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (9.90%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (9.56%) OpenShift
9 27 (9.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (8.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (8.53%) Serverless
11 22 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.75%) IaaS
15 8 (2.73%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.73%) Amazon ELB
16 7 (2.39%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 57 (19.45%) Firewall
2 38 (12.97%) DNS
2 38 (12.97%) VPN
3 26 (8.87%) Network Security
4 24 (8.19%) TCP/IP
5 20 (6.83%) WAN
6 15 (5.12%) SD-WAN
7 13 (4.44%) BGP
8 12 (4.10%) DHCP
9 11 (3.75%) LAN
10 10 (3.41%) NetScaler
10 10 (3.41%) SSL
11 9 (3.07%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (3.07%) OSPF
11 9 (3.07%) SAN
12 7 (2.39%) Ethernet
12 7 (2.39%) InfiniBand
12 7 (2.39%) Multicast
12 7 (2.39%) Wireless
13 6 (2.05%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.17%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.10%) MySQL
2 12 (4.10%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.39%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.39%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.39%) Redis
4 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.68%) Big Data
6 2 (0.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
6 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
6 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (29.35%) Jenkins
2 66 (22.53%) GitLab
3 50 (17.06%) Git
4 23 (7.85%) JIRA
5 11 (3.75%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.73%) JUnit
8 6 (2.05%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.37%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.37%) JMeter
9 4 (1.37%) RStudio
9 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.37%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.02%) Ant
10 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.02%) Gradle
10 3 (1.02%) Maven
10 3 (1.02%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 74 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.80%) Finance
3 27 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.14%) Banking
6 11 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.73%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.39%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Social Science
10 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.02%) Military
10 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) International Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (23.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (12.97%) Senior
3 36 (12.29%) Architect
4 30 (10.24%) Developer
5 28 (9.56%) Network Engineer
6 25 (8.53%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (7.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (6.48%) Site Engineer
9 16 (5.46%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (4.78%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (4.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.10%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.75%) AWS Architect
12 11 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.41%) Consultant
13 10 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.14%) Kafka
2 12 (4.10%) REST
3 10 (3.41%) Node.js
3 10 (3.41%) Spring
4 9 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (3.07%) OAuth
5 8 (2.73%) JSON
6 7 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.05%) JWT
7 6 (2.05%) Middleware
7 6 (2.05%) Web Services
7 6 (2.05%) YAML
8 5 (1.71%) XML
9 4 (1.37%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.37%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.37%) OpenID
9 4 (1.37%) ZK
10 3 (1.02%) Jinja
10 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.58%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (6.14%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.12%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.07%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.07%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.39%) Clustering
8 7 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.39%) PKI
8 7 (2.39%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.37%) Replication
10 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 101 (34.47%) Linux
2 34 (11.60%) Windows
3 28 (9.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (7.17%) Unix
5 13 (4.44%) VMS
6 11 (3.75%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.39%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.05%) CentOS
9 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.02%) Solaris
11 2 (0.68%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (51.54%) CI/CD
2 137 (46.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (45.73%) DevOps
4 68 (23.21%) Containerisation
5 49 (16.72%) Agile
6 47 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (15.36%) Observability
8 41 (13.99%) Migration
8 41 (13.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 40 (13.65%) Infrastructure Automation
10 37 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (12.63%) High Availability
11 34 (11.60%) Configuration Management
12 27 (9.22%) Load Balancing
13 26 (8.87%) Incident Response
13 26 (8.87%) Test Automation
14 23 (7.85%) Project Delivery
14 23 (7.85%) Technical Leadership
15 22 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 22 (7.51%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (46.42%) Python
2 81 (27.65%) Bash
3 33 (11.26%) Java
4 32 (10.92%) PowerShell
5 19 (6.48%) SQL
6 12 (4.10%) Go
7 8 (2.73%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.71%) C++
9 5 (1.71%) Perl
10 3 (1.02%) C#
10 3 (1.02%) PHP
10 3 (1.02%) Rust
11 2 (0.68%) C
11 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.34%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.34%) Bicep
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) R
12 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 80 (27.30%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.53%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.83%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (4.10%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.75%) CCNP
6 9 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.07%) Degree
7 8 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.71%) RHCE
9 4 (1.37%) CCIE
9 4 (1.37%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.02%) CCNA
10 3 (1.02%) CCSE
10 3 (1.02%) CISSP
10 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.73%) GDPR
2 6 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.05%) NIST
3 5 (1.71%) QA
4 3 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.68%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) PSD2
5 2 (0.68%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (28.67%) Docker
2 23 (7.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.80%) Active Directory
4 15 (5.12%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.73%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.39%) vSphere
7 4 (1.37%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.02%) KVM
8 3 (1.02%) NFS
9 2 (0.68%) Ceph
9 2 (0.68%) Lustre
9 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.68%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.68%) Xen
10 1 (0.34%) Firmware
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 173 (59.04%) Terraform
2 101 (34.47%) Kubernetes
3 45 (15.36%) Grafana
4 44 (15.02%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.17%) Puppet
6 16 (5.46%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.75%) Argo
8 9 (3.07%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.07%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.73%) SCCM
10 7 (2.39%) Kibana
10 7 (2.39%) Salt
11 6 (2.05%) Rancher
11 6 (2.05%) SCOM
12 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.37%) Nagios
13 4 (1.37%) Packer
13 4 (1.37%) vMotion
14 3 (1.02%) FortiGate
14 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 34 (11.60%) Splunk
2 32 (10.92%) VMware
3 29 (9.90%) Cisco
4 26 (8.87%) Microsoft
5 25 (8.53%) Red Hat
6 21 (7.17%) Arista
7 19 (6.48%) F5
7 19 (6.48%) Google
7 19 (6.48%) Palo Alto
8 17 (5.80%) CheckPoint
8 17 (5.80%) ServiceNow
9 15 (5.12%) Aruba
10 10 (3.41%) Citrix
10 10 (3.41%) Fortinet
10 10 (3.41%) Oracle
11 9 (3.07%) Zscaler
12 8 (2.73%) Dynatrace
13 7 (2.39%) Pure Storage
14 6 (2.05%) BigPanda
14 6 (2.05%) PagerDuty