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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 102 99
Rank change year-on-year -42 -3 -22
Contract jobs citing Ansible 387 373 410
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 2.75% 2.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.97% 17.83% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 229 266
10th Percentile £425 £408 £398
25th Percentile £483 £475 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £772
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.22 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +20.19% -19.93% +0.39%

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 2,771 2,092 2,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.80% 15.43% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,917 1,383 1,615
10th Percentile £362 £332 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £737 £756
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 27
10th Percentile £31.18 £24.80 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.45 £22.15
Median hourly rate £62.75 £38.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.94% +55.00% -60.16%
75th Percentile £81.25 £57.69 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.73 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £36.83
% change year-on-year +22.94% +47.97% -25.78%

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 17 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 17 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 -27 41 £550 -6.78% 8
South London -6 9 £535 -12.30% 3
West London -15 7 £500 +20.48% 2
East London 0 5 £525 -22.22% 6
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 (5.17%) Confluence
2 10 (2.58%) Apache
3 7 (1.81%) nginx
4 5 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.29%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.03%) WordPress
6 3 (0.78%) CMS
6 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.52%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.52%) Mule
7 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) MTS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 178 (45.99%) AWS
2 145 (37.47%) Azure
3 85 (21.96%) GitHub
4 50 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (12.14%) GCP
6 41 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (8.79%) Datadog
8 33 (8.53%) OpenShift
9 29 (7.49%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (6.72%) Amazon S3
11 26 (6.72%) Serverless
12 25 (6.46%) Amazon EKS
13 24 (6.20%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (5.68%) Entra ID
15 18 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (4.65%) Azure AKS
16 13 (3.36%) PaaS
17 12 (3.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (18.60%) Firewall
2 45 (11.63%) BGP
3 40 (10.34%) DNS
4 38 (9.82%) VPN
5 28 (7.24%) WAN
6 26 (6.72%) TCP/IP
7 25 (6.46%) Network Security
8 22 (5.68%) OSPF
9 20 (5.17%) SSL
10 19 (4.91%) DHCP
11 18 (4.65%) VLAN
11 18 (4.65%) VXLAN
12 15 (3.88%) NX-OS
13 12 (3.10%) Cisco IOS
13 12 (3.10%) Ethernet VPN
13 12 (3.10%) Wireless
14 11 (2.84%) IOS XR
15 10 (2.58%) MPLS
15 10 (2.58%) SD-WAN
15 10 (2.58%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.62%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (2.58%) Oracle Database
4 10 (2.58%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.33%) MySQL
6 8 (2.07%) Power BI
6 8 (2.07%) Redis
7 7 (1.81%) Big Data
8 6 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (1.29%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.29%) ObjectStore
10 4 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.03%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.78%) Metadata
11 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 94 (24.29%) Jenkins
2 85 (21.96%) Git
3 78 (20.16%) GitLab
4 28 (7.24%) JIRA
5 9 (2.33%) Artifactory
5 9 (2.33%) Snyk
5 9 (2.33%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.81%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.81%) Postman
6 7 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.55%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.55%) JMeter
8 4 (1.03%) JUnit
9 3 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.78%) Mockito
9 3 (0.78%) Selenium
10 2 (0.52%) Gradle
10 2 (0.52%) Maven
10 2 (0.52%) Subversion
10 2 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (21.71%) Finance
2 73 (18.86%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.75%) Banking
5 28 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.81%) Law
8 7 (1.81%) Retail
9 6 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.29%) Police
10 5 (1.29%) Publishing
10 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.03%) Automotive
11 4 (1.03%) Front Office
11 4 (1.03%) Military
12 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 79 (20.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (13.95%) Senior
3 44 (11.37%) Architect
3 44 (11.37%) Network Engineer
4 32 (8.27%) Developer
5 31 (8.01%) Lead
6 29 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 28 (7.24%) AWS Engineer
8 26 (6.72%) Automation Engineer
9 24 (6.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (5.94%) Linux Engineer
11 22 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (4.39%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (3.62%) Site Engineer
15 13 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (3.10%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.01%) REST
2 25 (6.46%) Kafka
3 22 (5.68%) YAML
4 18 (4.65%) .NET
5 15 (3.88%) JSON
6 14 (3.62%) React
6 14 (3.62%) Spring
7 12 (3.10%) Middleware
8 10 (2.58%) ARM Templates
8 10 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.07%) cloud-init
9 8 (2.07%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.81%) 802.1X
10 7 (1.81%) JMS
10 7 (1.81%) SAML
10 7 (1.81%) Swagger
11 6 (1.55%) Jakarta EE
11 6 (1.55%) OAuth
11 6 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.92%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.66%) Cloud Native
3 30 (7.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.91%) PKI
5 17 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.39%) Security Posture
6 15 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.36%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.58%) Clustering
8 10 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.07%) CMDB
10 7 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
10 7 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.55%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.55%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 144 (37.21%) Linux
2 64 (16.54%) Windows
3 45 (11.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (7.75%) Ubuntu
5 27 (6.98%) Windows Server
6 25 (6.46%) Unix
7 7 (1.81%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.03%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.03%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.52%) CentOS
10 2 (0.52%) Debian
10 2 (0.52%) Solaris
10 2 (0.52%) VMS
11 1 (0.26%) AIX
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.26%) Rocky
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (56.07%) DevOps
2 192 (49.61%) CI/CD
3 181 (46.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (23.26%) Containerisation
5 82 (21.19%) Configuration Management
6 78 (20.16%) Agile
7 63 (16.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 63 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
8 60 (15.50%) Observability
9 57 (14.73%) Migration
10 56 (14.47%) AI
11 50 (12.92%) Infrastructure Automation
12 49 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (10.34%) Test Automation
15 39 (10.08%) Validation
16 38 (9.82%) Stakeholder Management
17 36 (9.30%) Mentoring
17 36 (9.30%) Runbook
18 33 (8.53%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 215 (55.56%) Python
2 107 (27.65%) Bash
3 83 (21.45%) PowerShell
4 52 (13.44%) Java
5 28 (7.24%) SQL
6 21 (5.43%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.65%) Shell Script
8 14 (3.62%) Go
9 13 (3.36%) C#
10 12 (3.10%) Bicep
11 10 (2.58%) PL/SQL
12 9 (2.33%) Perl
13 6 (1.55%) Ruby
14 5 (1.29%) C++
14 5 (1.29%) Groovy
15 2 (0.52%) C
15 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.52%) R
15 2 (0.52%) Scala
16 1 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 126 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 102 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.24%) Degree
4 27 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
5 24 (6.20%) DV Cleared
6 23 (5.94%) CCNP
7 18 (4.65%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.62%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.33%) CCIE
11 8 (2.07%) CISSP
12 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (1.03%) CCNA
14 4 (1.03%) ISSAP
14 4 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.03%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.03%) JNCIS
14 4 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.78%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.17%) QA
2 10 (2.58%) NIST
3 6 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.78%) GDPR
4 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.52%) NCSC
5 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
6 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 94 (24.29%) Docker
2 39 (10.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.72%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.88%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.62%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (3.10%) vSphere
7 9 (2.33%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.55%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.55%) NFS
9 4 (1.03%) IAG
9 4 (1.03%) Postfix
9 4 (1.03%) Varnish
10 3 (0.78%) Ceph
10 3 (0.78%) KVM
10 3 (0.78%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.78%) Squid
10 3 (0.78%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 223 (57.62%) Terraform
2 156 (40.31%) Kubernetes
3 72 (18.60%) Prometheus
4 67 (17.31%) Grafana
5 41 (10.59%) Puppet
6 17 (4.39%) Progress Chef
7 16 (4.13%) Packer
8 12 (3.10%) systemd
9 11 (2.84%) FortiGate
9 11 (2.84%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.81%) SCCM
11 6 (1.55%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.55%) vMotion
12 5 (1.29%) Data Guard
12 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.29%) Nagios
12 5 (1.29%) Salt
12 5 (1.29%) SELinux
12 5 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (14.99%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.47%) Cisco
3 53 (13.70%) VMware
4 29 (7.49%) Red Hat
5 28 (7.24%) Palo Alto
5 28 (7.24%) Splunk
6 27 (6.98%) Fortinet
7 25 (6.46%) Arista
8 24 (6.20%) Oracle
8 24 (6.20%) ServiceNow
9 19 (4.91%) F5
10 18 (4.65%) Google
11 15 (3.88%) Juniper
12 12 (3.10%) Zscaler
13 11 (2.84%) Dynatrace
14 10 (2.58%) Okta
15 8 (2.07%) NetApp
16 6 (1.55%) Citrix
16 6 (1.55%) CyberArk
16 6 (1.55%) Hitachi