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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 86 77
Rank change year-on-year -29 -9 -9
Contract jobs citing Ansible 341 450 600
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.45% 2.87% 2.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.42% 19.64% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 291 465
10th Percentile £357 £450 £430
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £772 £810 £810
England median daily rate £543 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -4.82% -0.87% -5.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £53.00 - £61.75
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £68.50
75th Percentile £59.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £59.25 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -19.93% -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 2,211 2,291 3,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.90% 14.62% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,452 1,503 2,340
10th Percentile £354 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £763 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 34
10th Percentile £21.64 £22.81 £23.64
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £28.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.88 £69.25
90th Percentile £63.71 £103.60 £86.09
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +96.00%

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 8 November 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
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 8 November 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 -6 52 £581 -8.82% 194
West London -9 7 £415 -24.55% 3
South London -5 4 £623 -14.14% 7
East London +7 3 - - 2
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 16 (4.69%) Confluence
2 9 (2.64%) Apache
3 5 (1.47%) nginx
4 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.88%) Appian
5 3 (0.88%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.88%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.88%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.59%) JBoss
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.59%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.29%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.29%) Mule
7 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Endur
2 3 (0.88%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 153 (44.87%) AWS
2 94 (27.57%) Azure
3 63 (18.48%) GitHub
4 53 (15.54%) GCP
5 37 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 28 (8.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (8.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 25 (7.33%) OpenShift
9 24 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (5.57%) Serverless
12 14 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (3.52%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (3.23%) Apigee
15 10 (2.93%) Amazon EKS
15 10 (2.93%) Amazon ELB
15 10 (2.93%) Azure AKS
15 10 (2.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 79 (23.17%) Firewall
2 37 (10.85%) BGP
3 36 (10.56%) DNS
4 35 (10.26%) VPN
5 34 (9.97%) TCP/IP
6 32 (9.38%) OSPF
7 30 (8.80%) SSL
8 24 (7.04%) Network Security
9 19 (5.57%) WAN
10 16 (4.69%) VXLAN
11 15 (4.40%) Ethernet VPN
11 15 (4.40%) SD-WAN
12 14 (4.11%) Multicast
13 12 (3.52%) HTTP
14 11 (3.23%) DHCP
15 10 (2.93%) LAN
15 10 (2.93%) MPLS
16 8 (2.35%) IPsec
17 7 (2.05%) Cisco Nexus
18 6 (1.76%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.81%) MySQL
3 9 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.35%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.05%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.76%) Redis
7 5 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.17%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.17%) SQL Server
9 3 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.88%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.88%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.59%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.59%) Impala
10 2 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.59%) Tableau
11 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 98 (28.74%) Jenkins
2 70 (20.53%) Git
3 59 (17.30%) GitLab
4 25 (7.33%) JIRA
5 17 (4.99%) Artifactory
6 16 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (3.52%) Cucumber
8 10 (2.93%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.35%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.35%) Robot Framework
9 8 (2.35%) TeamCity
10 7 (2.05%) Maven
10 7 (2.05%) Subversion
11 6 (1.76%) Gradle
11 6 (1.76%) JUnit
12 4 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.17%) JMeter
13 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.88%) Selenium
14 2 (0.59%) Mercurial
General
1 110 (32.26%) Finance
2 102 (29.91%) Social Skills
3 42 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.38%) Banking
5 23 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.57%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.11%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.05%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.17%) Back Office
12 3 (0.88%) Automotive
12 3 (0.88%) Military
12 3 (0.88%) Retail
13 2 (0.59%) Electronics
13 2 (0.59%) Front Office
13 2 (0.59%) International Banking
13 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (20.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (18.48%) Network Engineer
3 39 (11.44%) AWS Engineer
4 37 (10.85%) Architect
4 37 (10.85%) Senior
5 33 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
5 33 (9.68%) Python Engineer
6 31 (9.09%) Developer
7 20 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.28%) IP Network Engineer
8 18 (5.28%) Switch Engineer
9 16 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.11%) Consultant
11 13 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.52%) Cisco Engineer
13 11 (3.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 11 (3.23%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.04%) Kafka
2 23 (6.74%) REST
3 17 (4.99%) Node.js
4 15 (4.40%) JSON
5 14 (4.11%) YAML
6 13 (3.81%) OAuth
6 13 (3.81%) Spring
7 10 (2.93%) Jinja
7 10 (2.93%) XML
8 9 (2.64%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (2.64%) Middleware
8 9 (2.64%) RESTful
9 7 (2.05%) JWT
9 7 (2.05%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.05%) OpenID
9 7 (2.05%) Spring Boot
9 7 (2.05%) Swagger
10 6 (1.76%) Keycloak
11 5 (1.47%) NETCONF
11 5 (1.47%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.80%) Data Centre
2 28 (8.21%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.45%) Hedge funds
4 17 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.40%) Private Cloud
6 14 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (4.11%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (3.23%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.35%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.05%) Management Information System
11 7 (2.05%) Replication
12 6 (1.76%) Clustering
13 5 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.47%) Security Posture
14 4 (1.17%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 102 (29.91%) Linux
2 32 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 32 (9.38%) Windows
3 24 (7.04%) Unix
4 14 (4.11%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.64%) CentOS
6 8 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.76%) Solaris
8 2 (0.59%) AIX
8 2 (0.59%) Debian
9 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (51.32%) DevOps
2 159 (46.63%) CI/CD
3 140 (41.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (23.75%) Containerisation
5 68 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (17.01%) Infrastructure Automation
7 56 (16.42%) Agile
8 50 (14.66%) High Availability
9 47 (13.78%) Configuration Management
10 35 (10.26%) Migration
10 35 (10.26%) Observability
11 34 (9.97%) Test Automation
12 29 (8.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (8.21%) DevSecOps
13 28 (8.21%) Microservices
14 26 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (7.04%) Cloud Security
16 23 (6.74%) Low Latency
17 21 (6.16%) Incident Response
18 20 (5.87%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 201 (58.94%) Python
2 67 (19.65%) Bash
3 43 (12.61%) PowerShell
4 33 (9.68%) Java
5 26 (7.62%) Go
6 21 (6.16%) SQL
7 15 (4.40%) JavaScript
8 14 (4.11%) C++
9 13 (3.81%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.52%) Perl
11 11 (3.23%) C#
12 10 (2.93%) Groovy
13 4 (1.17%) PHP
13 4 (1.17%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.88%) Bicep
15 2 (0.59%) Ruby
15 2 (0.59%) Rust
16 1 (0.29%) C
16 1 (0.29%) R
16 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.06%) SC Cleared
3 31 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (7.04%) CCNP
5 15 (4.40%) CCIE
6 14 (4.11%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.93%) Degree
8 9 (2.64%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.05%) RHCE
10 5 (1.47%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.47%) CCNA
10 5 (1.47%) JNCIE
11 4 (1.17%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.17%) RHCSA
12 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.88%) CCSE
12 3 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.35%) GDPR
2 7 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.76%) QA
4 5 (1.47%) NIST
5 4 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.59%) NCSC
7 2 (0.59%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 96 (28.15%) Docker
2 27 (7.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.64%) VMware NSX
5 8 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.47%) KVM
6 5 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.17%) NFS
7 4 (1.17%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (0.88%) Firmware
8 3 (0.88%) vSphere
9 2 (0.59%) HDFS
9 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.29%) iptables
10 1 (0.29%) Squid
10 1 (0.29%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 185 (54.25%) Terraform
2 102 (29.91%) Kubernetes
3 29 (8.50%) Prometheus
3 29 (8.50%) Puppet
4 26 (7.62%) Grafana
5 25 (7.33%) Progress Chef
6 10 (2.93%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (2.35%) SCCM
8 6 (1.76%) Kibana
9 5 (1.47%) Istio
9 5 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.47%) Packer
9 5 (1.47%) SCOM
9 5 (1.47%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.17%) Argo
10 4 (1.17%) Nagios
10 4 (1.17%) Podman
10 4 (1.17%) QRadar
10 4 (1.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (12.61%) Arista
2 42 (12.32%) Cisco
3 34 (9.97%) VMware
4 31 (9.09%) F5
5 29 (8.50%) Splunk
6 27 (7.92%) Palo Alto
6 27 (7.92%) Red Hat
7 20 (5.87%) CheckPoint
8 18 (5.28%) Microsoft
9 17 (4.99%) Oracle
10 15 (4.40%) Google
11 14 (4.11%) Fortinet
12 13 (3.81%) Juniper
13 11 (3.23%) CyberArk
13 11 (3.23%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.64%) Dynatrace
15 8 (2.35%) MuleSoft
15 8 (2.35%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.05%) Citrix
17 5 (1.47%) Qualys