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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 89 122
Rank change year-on-year -75 +33 -44
Contract jobs citing Ansible 307 374 362
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 3.10% 2.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.24% 19.52% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 238 252
10th Percentile £400 £436 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% - -14.18%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £819 £763
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.45% - -10.57%
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 £62.50
% change year-on-year +49.59% -28.80% -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 2,509 1,916 2,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.71% 15.86% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,727 1,301 1,603
10th Percentile £350 £363 £319
25th Percentile £438 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -10.42%
75th Percentile £626 £656 £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 18 11 32
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £32.00 £26.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.13 £37.50 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +55.02% +52.50% -61.88%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £51.44
90th Percentile £73.60 £53.75 £70.83
England median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +94.83% +7.41% -48.39%

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 27 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 27 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 -29 42 £550 - 26
South London -16 5 £528 -3.65%
West London -28 3 £500 - 6
East London -4 2 £551 -18.44% 4
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 13 (4.23%) Confluence
2 8 (2.61%) Apache
3 4 (1.30%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.98%) JBoss
4 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.65%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.65%) CMS
5 2 (0.65%) nginx
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.33%) Appian
6 1 (0.33%) MTS
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 133 (43.32%) AWS
2 110 (35.83%) Azure
3 72 (23.45%) GitHub
4 41 (13.36%) GitHub Actions
5 39 (12.70%) GCP
6 34 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (8.79%) OpenShift
8 23 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (6.51%) Amazon S3
9 20 (6.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 19 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (6.19%) Serverless
11 15 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (4.56%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.56%) Azure AKS
13 12 (3.91%) PaaS
14 11 (3.58%) Entra ID
14 11 (3.58%) IaaS
15 10 (3.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (21.82%) Firewall
2 35 (11.40%) BGP
3 34 (11.07%) VPN
4 29 (9.45%) WAN
5 27 (8.79%) DNS
6 22 (7.17%) Network Security
7 20 (6.51%) OSPF
8 15 (4.89%) VXLAN
9 13 (4.23%) TCP/IP
10 12 (3.91%) MPLS
11 11 (3.58%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (3.58%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (3.58%) SD-WAN
11 11 (3.58%) Wireless
12 10 (3.26%) Multicast
13 9 (2.93%) IOS XR
13 9 (2.93%) NX-OS
13 9 (2.93%) SAN
13 9 (2.93%) VLAN
14 8 (2.61%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (3.91%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (1.95%) Redis
3 6 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.63%) MySQL
4 5 (1.63%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.65%) Big Data
7 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.65%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.65%) Power BI
7 2 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.33%) Impala
8 1 (0.33%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 86 (28.01%) Jenkins
2 61 (19.87%) GitLab
3 56 (18.24%) Git
4 22 (7.17%) JIRA
5 7 (2.28%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.28%) Postman
6 6 (1.95%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.95%) JMeter
6 6 (1.95%) Snyk
6 6 (1.95%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.63%) JUnit
8 4 (1.30%) Ant
8 4 (1.30%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.30%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.98%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.65%) Mockito
10 2 (0.65%) REST Assured
General
1 54 (17.59%) Finance
2 46 (14.98%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.10%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.19%) Banking
6 14 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.30%) Law
9 4 (1.30%) Military
9 4 (1.30%) Police
10 3 (0.98%) Front Office
11 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.33%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 71 (23.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (12.38%) Architect
3 36 (11.73%) Senior
4 35 (11.40%) Network Engineer
5 26 (8.47%) Developer
5 26 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 24 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (6.19%) Lead
9 18 (5.86%) Automation Engineer
9 18 (5.86%) Site Engineer
10 17 (5.54%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.21%) Java Developer
11 16 (5.21%) Linux Engineer
12 14 (4.56%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (2.93%) Network Architect
15 9 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.17%) Kafka
2 17 (5.54%) REST
3 14 (4.56%) YAML
4 12 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.93%) .NET
6 8 (2.61%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.61%) JSON
6 8 (2.61%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (2.61%) Spring
7 7 (2.28%) Web Services
8 6 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.95%) Swagger
9 5 (1.63%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.63%) Middleware
9 5 (1.63%) React
9 5 (1.63%) RESTful
9 5 (1.63%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.30%) Jinja
10 4 (1.30%) OAuth
10 4 (1.30%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.73%) Cloud Native
1 36 (11.73%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (5.21%) PKI
3 15 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.91%) Enterprise Storage
4 12 (3.91%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.61%) Clustering
7 7 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.63%) CMDB
9 4 (1.30%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.30%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.30%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.65%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.65%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 100 (32.57%) Linux
2 41 (13.36%) Windows
3 22 (7.17%) Unix
4 18 (5.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.56%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.23%) Ubuntu
6 13 (4.23%) VMS
7 7 (2.28%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.65%) CentOS
8 2 (0.65%) Debian
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.33%) AIX
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.33%) Rocky
9 1 (0.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (52.12%) DevOps
2 152 (49.51%) CI/CD
3 139 (45.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (22.15%) Containerisation
5 60 (19.54%) Agile
6 57 (18.57%) Observability
7 54 (17.59%) Configuration Management
8 46 (14.98%) Migration
9 40 (13.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 37 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (11.73%) Mentoring
11 36 (11.73%) Platform Engineering
12 32 (10.42%) Load Balancing
13 31 (10.10%) Infrastructure Automation
14 29 (9.45%) Incident Management
15 28 (9.12%) AI
15 28 (9.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 25 (8.14%) Performance Tuning
16 25 (8.14%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 137 (44.63%) Python
2 78 (25.41%) Bash
3 48 (15.64%) PowerShell
4 31 (10.10%) Java
5 22 (7.17%) SQL
6 12 (3.91%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.58%) Go
8 8 (2.61%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.28%) Ruby
10 6 (1.95%) Bicep
11 5 (1.63%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.30%) C
12 4 (1.30%) Perl
13 3 (0.98%) Groovy
14 2 (0.65%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.65%) C#
14 2 (0.65%) Scala
15 1 (0.33%) C++
15 1 (0.33%) RPG
15 1 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 109 (35.50%) Security Cleared
2 98 (31.92%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.82%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (6.84%) CCNP
5 18 (5.86%) Degree
6 16 (5.21%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.23%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.26%) AWS Certification
8 10 (3.26%) CCIE
9 5 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.30%) JNCIP
11 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.98%) CCNA
11 3 (0.98%) CCSE
11 3 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.98%) JNCIE
11 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.98%) VCAP
12 2 (0.65%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.58%) QA
2 6 (1.95%) NIST
3 4 (1.30%) GDPR
4 3 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.65%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.65%) NCSC
5 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.65%) PSD2
5 2 (0.65%) SEPA
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 68 (22.15%) Docker
2 21 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (6.19%) Active Directory
4 13 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.26%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.28%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.28%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.95%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.63%) NFS
9 5 (1.63%) vSphere
10 4 (1.30%) KVM
10 4 (1.30%) Postfix
10 4 (1.30%) Varnish
11 3 (0.98%) Ceph
11 3 (0.98%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.98%) Squid
12 2 (0.65%) Firmware
12 2 (0.65%) IAG
12 2 (0.65%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 172 (56.03%) Terraform
2 133 (43.32%) Kubernetes
3 64 (20.85%) Prometheus
4 58 (18.89%) Grafana
5 27 (8.79%) Puppet
6 15 (4.89%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.26%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.93%) Packer
9 8 (2.61%) Salt
10 7 (2.28%) vMotion
11 5 (1.63%) Argo
11 5 (1.63%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.63%) Kibana
11 5 (1.63%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.30%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.30%) vRealize
13 3 (0.98%) Consul
13 3 (0.98%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.98%) Karpenter
14 2 (0.65%) Cilium
Vendors
1 48 (15.64%) Cisco
2 34 (11.07%) Microsoft
3 31 (10.10%) Splunk
4 30 (9.77%) Arista
4 30 (9.77%) VMware
5 29 (9.45%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.51%) F5
6 20 (6.51%) Fortinet
7 14 (4.56%) Red Hat
7 14 (4.56%) ServiceNow
8 13 (4.23%) Google
9 11 (3.58%) Aruba
9 11 (3.58%) CheckPoint
9 11 (3.58%) Juniper
9 11 (3.58%) NetApp
9 11 (3.58%) Oracle
10 10 (3.26%) Zscaler
11 9 (2.93%) IBM
12 8 (2.61%) Dynatrace
13 7 (2.28%) Citrix