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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 77 107
Rank change year-on-year -76 +30 -40
Contract jobs citing Ansible 293 430 398
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 3.35% 2.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.10% 20.93% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 279 272
10th Percentile £356 £448 £388
25th Percentile £442 £509 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -13.85%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £675
90th Percentile £772 £881 £763
England median daily rate £523 £580 £550
% change year-on-year -9.91% +5.45% -11.65%
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% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £76.85 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.75% +22.96% -9.09%

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 2,422 2,054 2,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.74% 16.02% 12.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,657 1,401 1,630
10th Percentile £350 £373 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 37
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £36.75 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +42.94% -55.29%
75th Percentile £63.32 £71.19 £58.00
90th Percentile - £110.30 £61.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +107.55% -18.46% -40.01%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -22 50 £550 - 28
South London -18 9 £530 -20.00% 3
West London -16 2 £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 19 (6.48%) Confluence
2 4 (1.37%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.02%) Ethereum
3 3 (1.02%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.02%) JBoss
3 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.68%) Appian
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) FileNet
5 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
1 131 (44.71%) AWS
2 90 (30.72%) Azure
3 72 (24.57%) GitHub
4 55 (18.77%) GCP
5 35 (11.95%) Amazon S3
6 33 (11.26%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (9.56%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (9.22%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (9.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (8.87%) Serverless
10 25 (8.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (7.85%) OpenShift
12 19 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.44%) IaaS
15 7 (2.39%) Akamai
15 7 (2.39%) AWS Control Tower
15 7 (2.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (20.82%) Firewall
2 38 (12.97%) VPN
3 32 (10.92%) DNS
4 26 (8.87%) WAN
5 23 (7.85%) Network Security
6 22 (7.51%) BGP
7 19 (6.48%) SD-WAN
8 17 (5.80%) TCP/IP
9 15 (5.12%) OSPF
9 15 (5.12%) VXLAN
10 14 (4.78%) DHCP
10 14 (4.78%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (3.75%) LAN
12 10 (3.41%) MPLS
12 10 (3.41%) NetScaler
13 9 (3.07%) Multicast
13 9 (3.07%) SAN
14 7 (2.39%) Ethernet
14 7 (2.39%) InfiniBand
14 7 (2.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.14%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.10%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.75%) MySQL
4 10 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.39%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.71%) Redis
8 4 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
10 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
10 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.68%) Tableau
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 85 (29.01%) Jenkins
2 59 (20.14%) GitLab
3 54 (18.43%) Git
4 25 (8.53%) JIRA
5 9 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (2.39%) Cucumber
6 7 (2.39%) JUnit
7 5 (1.71%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.71%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.37%) Ant
8 4 (1.37%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.37%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.02%) Gradle
9 3 (1.02%) Maven
9 3 (1.02%) RStudio
9 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.68%) Gatling
10 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.68%) Snyk
General
1 66 (22.53%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.43%) Finance
3 27 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.48%) Banking
6 13 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.71%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Social Science
10 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (22.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (13.65%) Architect
3 39 (13.31%) Senior
4 31 (10.58%) Developer
5 30 (10.24%) Network Engineer
6 24 (8.19%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (7.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (6.48%) Site Engineer
9 18 (6.14%) Java Developer
10 16 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (5.12%) Automation Engineer
12 14 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (4.44%) Lead
14 12 (4.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Senior Network Engineer
15 10 (3.41%) AWS Architect
15 10 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 9 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.78%) Kafka
2 12 (4.10%) REST
3 10 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (3.41%) Node.js
3 10 (3.41%) Spring
4 9 (3.07%) OAuth
5 7 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (2.39%) Web Services
6 6 (2.05%) JSON
6 6 (2.05%) JWT
7 5 (1.71%) Jinja
8 4 (1.37%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.37%) Middleware
8 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.37%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (1.37%) ZK
9 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.02%) OpenID
9 3 (1.02%) XML
9 3 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.56%) Data Centre
2 26 (8.87%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.46%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.75%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (3.41%) PKI
7 8 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.39%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.05%) Clustering
9 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.05%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.71%) Hedge funds
10 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.02%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.02%) CMDB
12 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 94 (32.08%) Linux
2 36 (12.29%) Windows
3 20 (6.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 20 (6.83%) Unix
4 16 (5.46%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.44%) VMS
6 6 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.05%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.68%) AIX
7 2 (0.68%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Rocky
8 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (49.15%) CI/CD
2 134 (45.73%) DevOps
2 134 (45.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (21.50%) Containerisation
4 54 (18.43%) Agile
5 44 (15.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (14.68%) Observability
6 43 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (13.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 38 (12.97%) Migration
9 37 (12.63%) Configuration Management
10 33 (11.26%) High Availability
10 33 (11.26%) Infrastructure Automation
11 28 (9.56%) Load Balancing
12 27 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 26 (8.87%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (8.19%) Mentoring
14 24 (8.19%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (7.51%) Performance Tuning
15 22 (7.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 130 (44.37%) Python
2 72 (24.57%) Bash
3 35 (11.95%) Java
3 35 (11.95%) PowerShell
4 21 (7.17%) SQL
5 9 (3.07%) Go
6 6 (2.05%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.71%) C++
8 4 (1.37%) Perl
9 3 (1.02%) PHP
9 3 (1.02%) Rust
10 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.68%) C
10 2 (0.68%) C#
10 2 (0.68%) Ruby
10 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 86 (29.35%) Security Cleared
2 71 (24.23%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.80%) AWS Certification
3 17 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (5.46%) CCNP
5 14 (4.78%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.10%) Degree
7 10 (3.41%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.07%) CCIE
9 8 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.71%) VCAP
11 5 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.37%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.02%) CCNA
13 3 (1.02%) CCSE
13 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.68%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.05%) NIST
1 6 (2.05%) QA
2 5 (1.71%) GDPR
2 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.02%) NCSC
4 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.68%) PSD2
4 2 (0.68%) SEPA
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (28.33%) Docker
2 23 (7.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (6.48%) Active Directory
4 14 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.75%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.07%) vSphere
7 8 (2.73%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.05%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.05%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.68%) Ceph
9 2 (0.68%) KVM
9 2 (0.68%) Lustre
9 2 (0.68%) NFS
9 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.68%) Xen
10 1 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.34%) GPFS
10 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 175 (59.73%) Terraform
2 103 (35.15%) Kubernetes
3 49 (16.72%) Grafana
4 45 (15.36%) Prometheus
5 22 (7.51%) Puppet
6 12 (4.10%) Progress Chef
6 12 (4.10%) vCenter Server
7 10 (3.41%) Argo
8 8 (2.73%) SCCM
9 7 (2.39%) Kibana
9 7 (2.39%) Salt
10 6 (2.05%) SCOM
10 6 (2.05%) vMotion
11 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.71%) Rancher
11 5 (1.71%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (1.02%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
12 3 (1.02%) Packer
12 3 (1.02%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 35 (11.95%) Cisco
2 32 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.92%) VMware
3 30 (10.24%) Splunk
4 26 (8.87%) Arista
5 20 (6.83%) Palo Alto
6 19 (6.48%) F5
6 19 (6.48%) Google
7 18 (6.14%) Red Hat
8 15 (5.12%) Aruba
9 13 (4.44%) CheckPoint
9 13 (4.44%) ServiceNow
10 12 (4.10%) Citrix
11 11 (3.75%) Fortinet
12 9 (3.07%) Dynatrace
13 8 (2.73%) Juniper
13 8 (2.73%) NetApp
13 8 (2.73%) Oracle
13 8 (2.73%) Zscaler
14 7 (2.39%) IBM