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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 88 85
Rank change year-on-year -37 -3 -22
Contract jobs citing Ansible 313 417 485
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.19% 2.91% 2.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.18% 19.60% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 276 356
10th Percentile £350 £468 £413
25th Percentile £463 £523 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.60% +8.70% -11.62%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £810 £798
England median daily rate £525 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -12.50% +7.14% -9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £67.00
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £82.00 £74.44 £68.63
% change year-on-year +10.16% +8.46% -5.98%

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 2,208 2,128 2,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.43% 14.87% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 1,408 1,855
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.88% -8.80%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £788 £763
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.57% -2.78% -8.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 29
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.30 £20.23
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £27.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.65 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.15% -29.91% +132.00%
75th Percentile £63.32 £72.13 £65.00
90th Percentile - £106.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +100.94% -42.62% +24.07%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -10 54 £588 -4.08% 48
South London -7 8 £530 -26.90% 28
West London -13 5 £675 +31.71% 24
East London +3 1 - - 55
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 15 (4.79%) Confluence
2 6 (1.92%) Apache
3 4 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.28%) Appian
3 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.96%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.96%) Hyperledger
4 3 (0.96%) nginx
4 3 (0.96%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.64%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) FileNet
6 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
Applications
1 6 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.28%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) Endur
2 1 (0.32%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 132 (42.17%) AWS
2 89 (28.43%) Azure
3 69 (22.04%) GitHub
4 58 (18.53%) GCP
5 39 (12.46%) Amazon S3
6 34 (10.86%) Amazon EC2
7 33 (10.54%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (9.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 29 (9.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (8.31%) OpenShift
11 25 (7.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (7.99%) Serverless
12 19 (6.07%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (4.15%) Amazon ELB
15 11 (3.51%) IaaS
16 9 (2.88%) Apigee
17 8 (2.56%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 70 (22.36%) Firewall
2 38 (12.14%) VPN
3 37 (11.82%) DNS
4 33 (10.54%) TCP/IP
5 31 (9.90%) Network Security
6 24 (7.67%) BGP
6 24 (7.67%) SSL
7 20 (6.39%) OSPF
8 19 (6.07%) WAN
9 18 (5.75%) SD-WAN
10 12 (3.83%) VXLAN
11 11 (3.51%) Ethernet VPN
11 11 (3.51%) HTTP
12 10 (3.19%) DHCP
12 10 (3.19%) LAN
13 6 (1.92%) MPLS
13 6 (1.92%) Multicast
13 6 (1.92%) SSH
14 5 (1.60%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (1.60%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (3.83%) MySQL
4 10 (3.19%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.56%) Redis
6 7 (2.24%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.24%) MongoDB
7 6 (1.92%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.96%) Apache Hive
9 3 (0.96%) Big Data
9 3 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.96%) Impala
10 2 (0.64%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.64%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.64%) ImageNet
10 2 (0.64%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 92 (29.39%) Jenkins
2 60 (19.17%) GitLab
3 56 (17.89%) Git
4 19 (6.07%) JIRA
5 12 (3.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (3.51%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.56%) TeamCity
8 7 (2.24%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.92%) JUnit
9 6 (1.92%) Robot Framework
9 6 (1.92%) Terragrunt
10 5 (1.60%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.28%) JMeter
11 4 (1.28%) Subversion
12 3 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.96%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.96%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.96%) Gradle
12 3 (0.96%) Maven
12 3 (0.96%) Selenium
General
1 91 (29.07%) Social Skills
2 85 (27.16%) Finance
3 37 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.31%) Banking
5 21 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.79%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.28%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.28%) Military
10 3 (0.96%) Social Science
11 2 (0.64%) Back Office
11 2 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.64%) International Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.64%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.64%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Automotive
12 1 (0.32%) Billing
12 1 (0.32%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 64 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (13.74%) Network Engineer
3 42 (13.42%) Senior
4 34 (10.86%) Architect
5 32 (10.22%) Developer
6 24 (7.67%) Automation Engineer
6 24 (7.67%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (6.07%) Python Engineer
9 16 (5.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (4.15%) Consultant
10 13 (4.15%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (4.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.15%) Site Engineer
11 12 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (3.83%) IP Network Engineer
11 12 (3.83%) Switch Engineer
12 10 (3.19%) AWS Architect
12 10 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.35%) Kafka
2 14 (4.47%) Node.js
2 14 (4.47%) OAuth
2 14 (4.47%) REST
3 13 (4.15%) YAML
4 12 (3.83%) Spring
5 10 (3.19%) JSON
6 9 (2.88%) OpenID
7 8 (2.56%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.24%) Jinja
8 7 (2.24%) Middleware
8 7 (2.24%) Spring Boot
9 6 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (1.92%) JWT
9 6 (1.92%) Keycloak
9 6 (1.92%) RESTful
10 5 (1.60%) Hibernate
10 5 (1.60%) Web Services
10 5 (1.60%) XML
10 5 (1.60%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.22%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.31%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.11%) Hedge funds
5 13 (4.15%) Private Cloud
5 13 (4.15%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.83%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.24%) Clustering
9 7 (2.24%) Replication
10 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.92%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.60%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.60%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.28%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.28%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 94 (30.03%) Linux
2 32 (10.22%) Windows
3 31 (9.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (6.07%) Unix
5 14 (4.47%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.15%) VMS
7 7 (2.24%) CentOS
8 6 (1.92%) Solaris
8 6 (1.92%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.64%) AIX
9 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (50.16%) CI/CD
2 153 (48.88%) DevOps
3 145 (46.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (25.56%) Containerisation
5 62 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (17.57%) Agile
7 47 (15.02%) High Availability
8 46 (14.70%) Infrastructure Automation
9 44 (14.06%) Migration
10 39 (12.46%) Observability
11 33 (10.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 32 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (9.90%) Configuration Management
14 29 (9.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 28 (8.95%) DevSecOps
15 28 (8.95%) Load Balancing
15 28 (8.95%) Test Automation
16 26 (8.31%) Project Delivery
17 25 (7.99%) Performance Tuning
18 23 (7.35%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 169 (53.99%) Python
2 77 (24.60%) Bash
3 33 (10.54%) Java
4 31 (9.90%) PowerShell
5 24 (7.67%) SQL
6 15 (4.79%) Go
7 13 (4.15%) Perl
8 11 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.88%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.60%) C++
11 4 (1.28%) C#
12 3 (0.96%) PHP
12 3 (0.96%) Rust
12 3 (0.96%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.32%) Groovy
13 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 74 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 64 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.43%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (5.11%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.47%) CCNP
6 10 (3.19%) Degree
7 9 (2.88%) CCIE
7 9 (2.88%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (2.56%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.92%) RHCE
10 5 (1.60%) JNCIE
10 5 (1.60%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.28%) CCSE
11 4 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.96%) CCNA
12 3 (0.96%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.19%) GDPR
2 7 (2.24%) QA
3 6 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.60%) NIST
4 5 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.64%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.64%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.64%) NCSC
5 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.64%) PSD2
5 2 (0.64%) SEPA
5 2 (0.64%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 89 (28.43%) Docker
2 25 (7.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.43%) Active Directory
4 11 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.56%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.24%) KVM
6 7 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.60%) NFS
7 5 (1.60%) vSphere
8 4 (1.28%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.28%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 3 (0.96%) HDFS
10 2 (0.64%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.64%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.64%) Ceph
10 2 (0.64%) Lustre
10 2 (0.64%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.64%) Xen
Systems Management
1 185 (59.11%) Terraform
2 95 (30.35%) Kubernetes
3 37 (11.82%) Grafana
4 31 (9.90%) Prometheus
5 20 (6.39%) Puppet
6 19 (6.07%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.19%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (2.88%) Argo
8 9 (2.88%) Kibana
9 8 (2.56%) SCCM
10 6 (1.92%) SCOM
11 5 (1.60%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.60%) Rancher
11 5 (1.60%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.28%) Nagios
12 4 (1.28%) Packer
12 4 (1.28%) QRadar
12 4 (1.28%) vRealize
13 3 (0.96%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 32 (10.22%) VMware
2 30 (9.58%) Cisco
3 29 (9.27%) Arista
3 29 (9.27%) Splunk
4 27 (8.63%) Red Hat
5 25 (7.99%) F5
5 25 (7.99%) Google
6 24 (7.67%) Microsoft
7 22 (7.03%) Palo Alto
8 18 (5.75%) CheckPoint
9 13 (4.15%) Oracle
9 13 (4.15%) ServiceNow
10 12 (3.83%) Fortinet
11 11 (3.51%) CyberArk
11 11 (3.51%) Zscaler
12 10 (3.19%) Juniper
13 8 (2.56%) Aruba
13 8 (2.56%) Citrix
14 7 (2.24%) Dynatrace
15 6 (1.92%) PagerDuty