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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 83 76
Rank change year-on-year -33 -7 -9
Contract jobs citing Ansible 341 454 594
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.43% 2.89% 2.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.23% 19.64% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 292 458
10th Percentile £358 £451 £425
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 £775 £810 £810
England median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - -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 2,239 2,312 3,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.96% 14.70% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 1,515 2,293
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £429 £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 £770 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 36
10th Percentile £21.82 £22.81 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £30.25
Median hourly rate £34.75 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.31 £61.88 £67.75
90th Percentile £66.02 £103.60 £85.78
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +90.59%

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 15 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 15 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 -1 52 £581 -8.82% 90
South London -2 7 £566 -22.00% 4
West London -12 7 £415 -24.55% 2
East London +5 3 - - 3
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 8 (2.35%) 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%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.59%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.29%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.29%) JBoss
7 1 (0.29%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.29%) Mule
7 1 (0.29%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.17%) Endur
2 3 (0.88%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 155 (45.45%) AWS
2 94 (27.57%) Azure
3 65 (19.06%) GitHub
4 54 (15.84%) GCP
5 35 (10.26%) Amazon S3
5 35 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (8.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (7.92%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (7.62%) OpenShift
10 24 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (6.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (5.87%) Serverless
13 16 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (3.23%) IaaS
17 10 (2.93%) Amazon ELB
17 10 (2.93%) Apigee
18 9 (2.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 76 (22.29%) Firewall
2 36 (10.56%) BGP
2 36 (10.56%) DNS
2 36 (10.56%) VPN
3 35 (10.26%) TCP/IP
4 31 (9.09%) OSPF
5 28 (8.21%) SSL
6 25 (7.33%) Network Security
7 20 (5.87%) WAN
8 16 (4.69%) SD-WAN
8 16 (4.69%) VXLAN
9 15 (4.40%) Ethernet VPN
10 14 (4.11%) Multicast
11 12 (3.52%) HTTP
12 10 (2.93%) DHCP
12 10 (2.93%) LAN
12 10 (2.93%) MPLS
13 7 (2.05%) IPsec
14 6 (1.76%) SSH
14 6 (1.76%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.99%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (3.52%) MySQL
3 8 (2.35%) MongoDB
3 8 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.05%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.76%) Redis
6 5 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.88%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.88%) MariaDB
7 3 (0.88%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.59%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.59%) Impala
8 2 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.59%) Tableau
9 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 99 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 71 (20.82%) Git
3 59 (17.30%) GitLab
4 24 (7.04%) JIRA
5 17 (4.99%) Artifactory
6 14 (4.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (3.52%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.64%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.35%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.35%) Robot Framework
9 8 (2.35%) TeamCity
10 7 (2.05%) Subversion
11 6 (1.76%) JUnit
11 6 (1.76%) Maven
12 5 (1.47%) Gradle
13 4 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.17%) JMeter
14 3 (0.88%) Cypress.io
14 3 (0.88%) RStudio
14 3 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 108 (31.67%) Finance
2 103 (30.21%) Social Skills
3 43 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.38%) Banking
5 23 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.28%) 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
12 3 (0.88%) Social Science
13 2 (0.59%) International Banking
13 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.59%) Marketing
13 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (21.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 60 (17.60%) Network Engineer
3 40 (11.73%) Senior
4 38 (11.14%) AWS Engineer
5 36 (10.56%) Architect
6 33 (9.68%) Automation Engineer
7 31 (9.09%) Python Engineer
8 30 (8.80%) Developer
9 20 (5.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (5.28%) IP Network Engineer
10 18 (5.28%) Switch Engineer
11 15 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (4.11%) Consultant
12 14 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
12 14 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.23%) Cisco Engineer
13 11 (3.23%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.23%) Lead
13 11 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.62%) Kafka
2 21 (6.16%) REST
3 16 (4.69%) Node.js
4 14 (4.11%) JSON
4 14 (4.11%) YAML
5 13 (3.81%) OAuth
5 13 (3.81%) Spring
6 9 (2.64%) Jinja
6 9 (2.64%) RESTful
6 9 (2.64%) XML
7 8 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (2.35%) Middleware
8 7 (2.05%) JWT
8 7 (2.05%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.05%) OpenID
8 7 (2.05%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.05%) Swagger
9 6 (1.76%) Keycloak
10 5 (1.47%) NETCONF
10 5 (1.47%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 31 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.80%) Data Centre
3 22 (6.45%) Hedge funds
4 17 (4.99%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.99%) Private Cloud
5 16 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.81%) 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%) Replication
12 6 (1.76%) Clustering
12 6 (1.76%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.47%) Grid Computing
13 5 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 5 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 102 (29.91%) Linux
2 32 (9.38%) Windows
3 31 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (7.04%) Unix
5 14 (4.11%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.64%) CentOS
7 8 (2.35%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.76%) Solaris
9 2 (0.59%) AIX
9 2 (0.59%) Debian
10 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.29%) VMS
10 1 (0.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (51.03%) DevOps
2 166 (48.68%) CI/CD
3 145 (42.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (26.10%) Containerisation
5 72 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (17.89%) Agile
7 58 (17.01%) Infrastructure Automation
8 52 (15.25%) High Availability
9 50 (14.66%) Configuration Management
10 37 (10.85%) Migration
11 35 (10.26%) Observability
12 33 (9.68%) Test Automation
13 30 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (8.21%) DevSecOps
15 27 (7.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (7.92%) Microservices
16 23 (6.74%) Cloud Security
17 22 (6.45%) Low Latency
18 21 (6.16%) Incident Response
18 21 (6.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 204 (59.82%) Python
2 73 (21.41%) Bash
3 41 (12.02%) 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 9 (2.64%) 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%) Assembly Language
16 1 (0.29%) REXX
16 1 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 64 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.50%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (6.45%) CCNP
5 15 (4.40%) CCIE
6 14 (4.11%) AWS Certification
7 12 (3.52%) Degree
8 10 (2.93%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.05%) RHCE
11 5 (1.47%) CCNA
11 5 (1.47%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.17%) Azure Certification
12 4 (1.17%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.17%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.88%) CISSP
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
1 101 (29.62%) Docker
2 30 (8.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.23%) VMware NSX
4 9 (2.64%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.47%) KVM
6 5 (1.47%) vSphere
7 4 (1.17%) NFS
7 4 (1.17%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (0.88%) Firmware
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%) GPFS
10 1 (0.29%) iptables
10 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.29%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 188 (55.13%) Terraform
2 104 (30.50%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.68%) Puppet
4 31 (9.09%) Grafana
5 29 (8.50%) Prometheus
6 25 (7.33%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.93%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (2.35%) SCCM
9 7 (2.05%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.76%) Argo
10 6 (1.76%) Kibana
11 5 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.47%) Packer
11 5 (1.47%) SCOM
12 4 (1.17%) Istio
12 4 (1.17%) Nagios
12 4 (1.17%) QRadar
12 4 (1.17%) Rancher
12 4 (1.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (12.02%) Arista
2 40 (11.73%) Cisco
3 37 (10.85%) VMware
4 30 (8.80%) F5
5 29 (8.50%) Splunk
6 28 (8.21%) Red Hat
7 27 (7.92%) Palo Alto
8 20 (5.87%) Microsoft
9 18 (5.28%) CheckPoint
10 16 (4.69%) Oracle
11 15 (4.40%) Google
12 13 (3.81%) 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%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.05%) Citrix
16 7 (2.05%) MuleSoft
17 5 (1.47%) SaltStack