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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 85 117
Rank change year-on-year -78 +32 -43
Contract jobs citing Ansible 289 395 365
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 3.14% 2.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.61% 19.86% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 257 247
10th Percentile £400 £446 £392
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £692
90th Percentile £768 £881 £763
England median daily rate £511 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.13% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £36.85 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £37.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -42.86% -4.44%
75th Percentile £60.25 £44.88 -
90th Percentile - £47.80 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £54.75 £66.25
% change year-on-year +32.42% -17.36% -9.25%

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 2,489 1,989 2,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.98% 15.82% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 1,377 1,567
10th Percentile £350 £363 £325
25th Percentile £430 £440 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £631 £673 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 41
10th Percentile £22.37 £26.45 £17.78
25th Percentile £29.82 £27.73 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.41% +60.00% -62.12%
75th Percentile £63.32 £53.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £70.60 £63.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £28.00 £25.77
% change year-on-year +105.36% +8.67% -55.19%

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 5 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 5 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 -35 43 £525 -9.48% 30
South London -16 9 £530 -11.67%
East London -3 2 £551 -12.62% 4
West London -25 2 £500 - 5
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 12 (4.15%) Confluence
2 5 (1.73%) Apache
3 4 (1.38%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.04%) JBoss
4 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) nginx
5 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) Appian
6 1 (0.35%) FileNet
6 1 (0.35%) MTS
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 130 (44.98%) AWS
2 101 (34.95%) Azure
3 69 (23.88%) GitHub
4 42 (14.53%) GCP
5 38 (13.15%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (10.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 29 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (10.03%) OpenShift
8 25 (8.65%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (8.30%) Amazon S3
10 22 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
11 21 (7.27%) Serverless
12 19 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (5.19%) IaaS
14 14 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
16 12 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.81%) Azure AKS
18 10 (3.46%) Entra ID
18 10 (3.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (22.84%) Firewall
2 34 (11.76%) BGP
2 34 (11.76%) VPN
3 29 (10.03%) WAN
4 27 (9.34%) DNS
5 22 (7.61%) OSPF
6 21 (7.27%) Network Security
7 15 (5.19%) VXLAN
8 14 (4.84%) TCP/IP
9 13 (4.50%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (4.15%) MPLS
10 12 (4.15%) Multicast
10 12 (4.15%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.46%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (3.46%) DHCP
11 10 (3.46%) Wireless
12 9 (3.11%) LAN
13 8 (2.77%) Ethernet
13 8 (2.77%) SAN
13 8 (2.77%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (4.15%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.42%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (1.73%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.38%) MySQL
6 4 (1.38%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.04%) Redis
8 2 (0.69%) Big Data
8 2 (0.69%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.69%) ImageNet
8 2 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.35%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.35%) Flink
9 1 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 79 (27.34%) Jenkins
2 62 (21.45%) GitLab
3 54 (18.69%) Git
4 21 (7.27%) JIRA
5 7 (2.42%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.08%) Snyk
6 6 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.73%) JUnit
8 4 (1.38%) Ant
8 4 (1.38%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.38%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.04%) Postman
10 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.69%) JMeter
10 2 (0.69%) Mockito
10 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (16.61%) Finance
2 44 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.03%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.50%) Banking
5 13 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.77%) Financial Institution
7 6 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.38%) Law
8 4 (1.38%) Military
8 4 (1.38%) Police
9 3 (1.04%) Front Office
10 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Retail
10 2 (0.69%) Social Science
11 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (13.15%) Senior
3 34 (11.76%) Architect
4 31 (10.73%) Network Engineer
5 30 (10.38%) Developer
6 26 (9.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 21 (7.27%) Site Engineer
8 20 (6.92%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (6.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (6.23%) Lead
10 17 (5.88%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.84%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (4.84%) Senior Network Engineer
12 13 (4.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.46%) Linux Engineer
15 8 (2.77%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.54%) Kafka
2 15 (5.19%) REST
3 12 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (3.81%) YAML
5 9 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (2.77%) Spring
7 7 (2.42%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.08%) Web Services
9 5 (1.73%) .NET
9 5 (1.73%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.73%) OAuth
9 5 (1.73%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.38%) Jinja
10 4 (1.38%) JSON
10 4 (1.38%) Node.js
10 4 (1.38%) React
10 4 (1.38%) RESTful
10 4 (1.38%) WebSphere MQ
11 3 (1.04%) J2EE
11 3 (1.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.07%) Data Centre
2 30 (10.38%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.50%) PKI
5 12 (4.15%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (4.15%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.77%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.42%) Clustering
9 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.73%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (1.38%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.38%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.04%) CMDB
12 3 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.69%) Celerra
13 2 (0.69%) IBM XIV
13 2 (0.69%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 97 (33.56%) Linux
2 38 (13.15%) Windows
3 22 (7.61%) Unix
4 16 (5.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.19%) Windows Server
6 14 (4.84%) VMS
7 8 (2.77%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.42%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.69%) CentOS
9 2 (0.69%) Debian
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Rocky
10 1 (0.35%) Solaris
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (49.13%) DevOps
2 139 (48.10%) CI/CD
3 133 (46.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (23.88%) Containerisation
5 61 (21.11%) Agile
6 49 (16.96%) Configuration Management
7 46 (15.92%) Observability
8 44 (15.22%) Migration
9 42 (14.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (12.46%) Mentoring
12 32 (11.07%) Load Balancing
13 31 (10.73%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (9.69%) Infrastructure Automation
16 27 (9.34%) AI
16 27 (9.34%) Incident Management
17 26 (9.00%) High Availability
17 26 (9.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 25 (8.65%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 128 (44.29%) Python
2 78 (26.99%) Bash
3 40 (13.84%) PowerShell
4 33 (11.42%) Java
5 22 (7.61%) SQL
6 11 (3.81%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.46%) Go
8 7 (2.42%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.73%) Bicep
9 5 (1.73%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.73%) Ruby
10 4 (1.38%) Perl
11 3 (1.04%) PHP
12 2 (0.69%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.69%) C
12 2 (0.69%) C++
12 2 (0.69%) Scala
13 1 (0.35%) Groovy
13 1 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (33.56%) Security Cleared
2 84 (29.07%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (6.57%) CCNP
4 19 (6.57%) Degree
5 18 (6.23%) Azure Certification
6 15 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.84%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.50%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.11%) CCIE
10 5 (1.73%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.38%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.38%) VCAP
12 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.04%) CCSE
12 3 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.04%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.46%) QA
2 6 (2.08%) NIST
3 5 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.38%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.69%) NCSC
5 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.69%) PSD2
5 2 (0.69%) SEPA
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.35%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 73 (25.26%) Docker
2 21 (7.27%) Active Directory
3 19 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.46%) Hyper-V
5 10 (3.46%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (3.11%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.77%) vSphere
8 7 (2.42%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.42%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.04%) KVM
9 3 (1.04%) NFS
10 2 (0.69%) Ceph
10 2 (0.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.69%) Firmware
10 2 (0.69%) IAG
10 2 (0.69%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.69%) Postfix
10 2 (0.69%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.69%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 170 (58.82%) Terraform
2 121 (41.87%) Kubernetes
3 57 (19.72%) Grafana
4 54 (18.69%) Prometheus
5 30 (10.38%) Puppet
6 14 (4.84%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.50%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.46%) Argo
9 9 (3.11%) Salt
10 7 (2.42%) vMotion
11 5 (1.73%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.73%) Kibana
11 5 (1.73%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.73%) Packer
12 4 (1.38%) Rancher
13 3 (1.04%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.04%) HAProxy
13 3 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.04%) Karpenter
13 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 42 (14.53%) Cisco
2 38 (13.15%) Microsoft
3 32 (11.07%) Splunk
4 29 (10.03%) Arista
5 27 (9.34%) VMware
6 26 (9.00%) Palo Alto
7 20 (6.92%) F5
8 18 (6.23%) Fortinet
9 14 (4.84%) Google
9 14 (4.84%) ServiceNow
10 13 (4.50%) Red Hat
11 12 (4.15%) Oracle
12 11 (3.81%) CheckPoint
12 11 (3.81%) Juniper
12 11 (3.81%) NetApp
13 10 (3.46%) Aruba
13 10 (3.46%) Zscaler
14 9 (3.11%) IBM
15 8 (2.77%) Citrix
15 8 (2.77%) Dynatrace