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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 107 104
Rank change year-on-year -38 -3 -26
Contract jobs citing Ansible 391 360 409
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.95% 2.69% 2.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.68% 20.13% 20.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 225 261
10th Percentile £425 £408 £400
25th Percentile £478 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.85%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £786 £750 £769
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £49.78 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £57.44 £49.50 -
90th Percentile £59.13 £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.22 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +20.19% -19.93% -0.67%

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 2,212 1,788 1,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.02% 13.37% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,484 1,175 1,377
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £437 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 27
10th Percentile £25.35 £23.60 £20.30
25th Percentile £35.00 £26.23 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £30.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +95.00% +24.07% -61.31%
75th Percentile £81.25 £55.13 £60.00
90th Percentile - £62.85 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.00 £51.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +31.37% +36.00% -24.80%

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 26 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 26 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 -28 42 £550 -8.33% 14
South London -7 9 £600 -1.64% 2
West London -12 7 £500 +20.48% 12
East London +3 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 (5.12%) Confluence
2 10 (2.56%) Apache
3 7 (1.79%) nginx
4 5 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.28%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.02%) WordPress
6 3 (0.77%) CMS
6 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.51%) Mule
7 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) MTS
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 182 (46.55%) AWS
2 147 (37.60%) Azure
3 87 (22.25%) GitHub
4 51 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
5 50 (12.79%) GCP
6 44 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (8.70%) Datadog
7 34 (8.70%) OpenShift
8 30 (7.67%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (7.16%) Serverless
10 27 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (6.91%) Amazon S3
10 27 (6.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (4.86%) Entra ID
14 18 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (4.35%) Azure AKS
16 13 (3.32%) PaaS
17 12 (3.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (17.90%) Firewall
2 47 (12.02%) BGP
3 41 (10.49%) DNS
4 37 (9.46%) VPN
5 29 (7.42%) WAN
6 26 (6.65%) Network Security
6 26 (6.65%) TCP/IP
7 23 (5.88%) OSPF
8 20 (5.12%) DHCP
8 20 (5.12%) SSL
9 18 (4.60%) VLAN
10 16 (4.09%) VXLAN
11 15 (3.84%) NX-OS
12 11 (2.81%) Cisco IOS
12 11 (2.81%) SD-WAN
12 11 (2.81%) SSH
12 11 (2.81%) Wireless
13 10 (2.56%) IOS XR
13 10 (2.56%) MPLS
14 9 (2.30%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.84%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (3.32%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (3.07%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.81%) Oracle Database
7 10 (2.56%) MySQL
8 8 (2.05%) Power BI
8 8 (2.05%) Redis
9 7 (1.79%) Big Data
10 5 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.28%) ObjectStore
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.77%) Metadata
12 3 (0.77%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 95 (24.30%) Jenkins
2 87 (22.25%) Git
3 78 (19.95%) GitLab
4 26 (6.65%) JIRA
5 10 (2.56%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.30%) Bitbucket
6 9 (2.30%) Snyk
7 8 (2.05%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.79%) JMeter
8 7 (1.79%) Postman
8 7 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.53%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.28%) Selenium
11 4 (1.02%) JUnit
12 3 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.77%) Mockito
12 3 (0.77%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.77%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.51%) GoCD
13 2 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 88 (22.51%) Finance
2 73 (18.67%) Social Skills
3 43 (11.00%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.44%) Banking
5 27 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.30%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.79%) Law
8 7 (1.79%) Retail
9 6 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.53%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.53%) Police
10 5 (1.28%) Publishing
10 5 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.02%) Automotive
11 4 (1.02%) Front Office
11 4 (1.02%) Military
12 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.51%) Legal
Job Titles
1 80 (20.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (14.07%) Senior
3 47 (12.02%) Network Engineer
4 44 (11.25%) Architect
5 35 (8.95%) Lead
6 30 (7.67%) Developer
7 29 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 28 (7.16%) AWS Engineer
9 27 (6.91%) Automation Engineer
10 23 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (5.63%) Linux Engineer
11 22 (5.63%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.09%) Java Developer
14 16 (4.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 14 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.58%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (3.07%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (57.29%) Terraform
2 33 (8.44%) REST
3 30 (7.67%) Kafka
4 24 (6.14%) YAML
5 18 (4.60%) .NET
6 15 (3.84%) JSON
6 15 (3.84%) React
6 15 (3.84%) Spring
7 13 (3.32%) Middleware
8 11 (2.81%) ARM Templates
9 10 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.05%) cloud-init
10 8 (2.05%) JMS
10 8 (2.05%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.79%) 802.1X
11 7 (1.79%) Jakarta EE
11 7 (1.79%) Swagger
12 6 (1.53%) boto
12 6 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (1.53%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.30%) Data Centre
2 49 (12.53%) Cloud Native
3 30 (7.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.12%) PKI
5 18 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.60%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.35%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.09%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.32%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.56%) Clustering
9 10 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.05%) CMDB
10 8 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
11 7 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (1.79%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.53%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.53%) Spread Betting
12 6 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 145 (37.08%) Linux
2 65 (16.62%) Windows
3 47 (12.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (8.18%) Ubuntu
5 27 (6.91%) Windows Server
6 25 (6.39%) Unix
7 7 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.02%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.77%) CentOS
9 3 (0.77%) VMS
9 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.51%) Debian
10 2 (0.51%) Solaris
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 (55.50%) DevOps
2 194 (49.62%) CI/CD
3 185 (47.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (23.27%) Containerisation
5 83 (21.23%) Configuration Management
6 79 (20.20%) Agile
7 64 (16.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 64 (16.37%) Platform Engineering
8 63 (16.11%) Observability
9 59 (15.09%) Migration
10 58 (14.83%) AI
11 54 (13.81%) Infrastructure Automation
12 48 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (11.25%) Test Automation
15 41 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (10.49%) Validation
16 37 (9.46%) Runbook
17 35 (8.95%) Microservices
18 34 (8.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 224 (57.29%) Python
2 105 (26.85%) Bash
3 86 (21.99%) PowerShell
4 53 (13.55%) Java
5 33 (8.44%) SQL
6 21 (5.37%) JavaScript
7 20 (5.12%) Shell Script
8 16 (4.09%) Go
9 13 (3.32%) Bicep
9 13 (3.32%) C#
10 11 (2.81%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.30%) Perl
12 6 (1.53%) C++
12 6 (1.53%) Ruby
13 4 (1.02%) Groovy
14 3 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.51%) C
15 2 (0.51%) R
15 2 (0.51%) Scala
16 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (31.46%) Security Cleared
2 99 (25.32%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.16%) Degree
4 27 (6.91%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (6.39%) DV Cleared
6 23 (5.88%) CCNP
7 19 (4.86%) Azure Certification
8 16 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (3.84%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.30%) CCIE
11 8 (2.05%) CISSP
12 7 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (1.02%) CCNA
14 4 (1.02%) ISSAP
14 4 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.02%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.02%) JNCIS
14 4 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.14%) QA
2 9 (2.30%) NIST
3 6 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.77%) GDPR
5 3 (0.77%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.26%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) SEPA
7 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 98 (25.06%) Docker
2 40 (10.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.84%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.84%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.58%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (3.32%) vSphere
7 8 (2.05%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.53%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.53%) NFS
9 4 (1.02%) Postfix
9 4 (1.02%) Varnish
10 3 (0.77%) Ceph
10 3 (0.77%) IAG
10 3 (0.77%) KVM
10 3 (0.77%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.77%) Squid
10 3 (0.77%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.51%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 155 (39.64%) Kubernetes
2 72 (18.41%) Prometheus
3 68 (17.39%) Grafana
4 42 (10.74%) Puppet
5 17 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.84%) Packer
7 12 (3.07%) systemd
8 11 (2.81%) FortiGate
8 11 (2.81%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.79%) SCCM
10 6 (1.53%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (1.53%) vMotion
11 5 (1.28%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.28%) Nagios
11 5 (1.28%) SELinux
11 5 (1.28%) vRealize
12 4 (1.02%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.02%) Salt
12 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (15.35%) Microsoft
2 57 (14.58%) Cisco
3 55 (14.07%) VMware
4 29 (7.42%) Red Hat
5 28 (7.16%) Oracle
5 28 (7.16%) Splunk
6 27 (6.91%) Fortinet
7 26 (6.65%) Palo Alto
8 23 (5.88%) Arista
9 22 (5.63%) ServiceNow
10 20 (5.12%) Google
11 17 (4.35%) F5
12 15 (3.84%) Juniper
13 12 (3.07%) Zscaler
14 11 (2.81%) Dynatrace
15 8 (2.05%) Okta
16 7 (1.79%) CyberArk
16 7 (1.79%) NetApp
17 6 (1.53%) Citrix
17 6 (1.53%) Hitachi