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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 93 115
Rank change year-on-year -54 +22 -39
Contract jobs citing Ansible 340 372 389
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 3.04% 2.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.09% 19.52% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 231 264
10th Percentile £400 £425 £383
25th Percentile £463 £500 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £630 £688 £690
90th Percentile £725 £775 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.85 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £37.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £44.88 -
90th Percentile - £47.80 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £44.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +41.88% -38.19% -1.85%

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 2,597 1,906 2,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.79% 15.56% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,781 1,277 1,667
10th Percentile £356 £357 £325
25th Percentile £430 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £749
England median daily rate £511 £515 £523
% change year-on-year -0.83% -1.44% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.97% +60.26% -61.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £58.50 £42.25 £30.75
% change year-on-year +38.46% +37.40% -41.01%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -32 43 £525 -4.55% 11
South London -12 4 £505 -15.83%
West London -21 3 £500 - 4
East London -3 2 £551 -18.44% 2
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 12 (3.53%) Confluence
2 8 (2.35%) Apache
3 4 (1.18%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.88%) JBoss
4 3 (0.88%) nginx
4 3 (0.88%) WordPress
5 2 (0.59%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.59%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.59%) CMS
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.59%) Mule
5 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) Appian
6 1 (0.29%) MTS
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 157 (46.18%) AWS
2 120 (35.29%) Azure
3 77 (22.65%) GitHub
4 44 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
5 43 (12.65%) GCP
6 37 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (8.24%) OpenShift
8 23 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (6.76%) Amazon S3
9 22 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
9 22 (6.47%) Serverless
9 22 (6.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 21 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (6.18%) Datadog
11 20 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (5.59%) Entra ID
13 17 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (4.71%) Azure AKS
15 14 (4.12%) PaaS
16 13 (3.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (22.06%) Firewall
2 40 (11.76%) VPN
3 36 (10.59%) BGP
4 31 (9.12%) WAN
5 29 (8.53%) DNS
6 23 (6.76%) Network Security
7 20 (5.88%) OSPF
8 15 (4.41%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.12%) VXLAN
9 14 (4.12%) Wireless
10 13 (3.82%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (3.82%) MPLS
11 11 (3.24%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.24%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (2.94%) Multicast
12 10 (2.94%) NX-OS
12 10 (2.94%) SSL
13 9 (2.65%) DHCP
13 9 (2.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.71%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.94%) Redis
4 8 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (1.76%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.47%) MySQL
6 5 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (1.18%) Big Data
7 4 (1.18%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.88%) Power BI
9 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.59%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.59%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.29%) GIS
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (25.88%) Jenkins
2 65 (19.12%) GitLab
3 62 (18.24%) Git
4 23 (6.76%) JIRA
5 8 (2.35%) Snyk
5 8 (2.35%) SonarQube
6 7 (2.06%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.06%) CircleCI
6 7 (2.06%) Postman
7 6 (1.76%) JMeter
7 6 (1.76%) JUnit
8 5 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.18%) Ant
9 4 (1.18%) Liquibase
10 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.88%) Gradle
10 3 (0.88%) Mockito
11 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.59%) Gatling
General
1 65 (19.12%) Finance
2 50 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 34 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.06%) Banking
5 20 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.35%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.06%) Law
10 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.47%) Military
11 5 (1.47%) Police
12 4 (1.18%) Publishing
13 3 (0.88%) Front Office
13 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.88%) Retail
14 2 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.59%) Legal
14 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (25.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (12.94%) Architect
3 38 (11.18%) Senior
4 35 (10.29%) Network Engineer
5 29 (8.53%) Developer
6 27 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
7 26 (7.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 23 (6.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (6.18%) Lead
10 20 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
11 19 (5.59%) Automation Engineer
11 19 (5.59%) Java Developer
12 18 (5.29%) AWS DevOps
12 18 (5.29%) Site Engineer
13 17 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
15 14 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
16 12 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (3.24%) Network Architect
17 11 (3.24%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.35%) Kafka
2 23 (6.76%) REST
3 16 (4.71%) YAML
4 12 (3.53%) Spring
5 11 (3.24%) JSON
5 11 (3.24%) Middleware
6 10 (2.94%) .NET
6 10 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.65%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.35%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (2.06%) cloud-init
9 7 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.06%) React
9 7 (2.06%) Web Services
10 6 (1.76%) OAuth
10 6 (1.76%) RESTful
10 6 (1.76%) SAML
10 6 (1.76%) Swagger
11 5 (1.47%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 47 (13.82%) Cloud Native
2 39 (11.47%) Data Centre
3 21 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.00%) PKI
5 16 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.82%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.24%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (2.65%) Clustering
9 8 (2.35%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.76%) CMDB
11 6 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.47%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (1.18%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.18%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 116 (34.12%) Linux
2 48 (14.12%) Windows
3 31 (9.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (7.06%) Unix
5 22 (6.47%) Ubuntu
6 21 (6.18%) Windows Server
7 10 (2.94%) VMS
8 7 (2.06%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.18%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.59%) CentOS
11 2 (0.59%) Debian
11 2 (0.59%) Solaris
12 1 (0.29%) AIX
12 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.29%) Rocky
12 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (55.88%) DevOps
2 172 (50.59%) CI/CD
3 163 (47.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 68 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 65 (19.12%) Observability
7 64 (18.82%) Agile
8 51 (15.00%) Migration
9 44 (12.94%) Platform Engineering
10 41 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (12.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 38 (11.18%) AI
11 38 (11.18%) Mentoring
12 37 (10.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 35 (10.29%) Infrastructure Automation
14 33 (9.71%) Problem-Solving
15 32 (9.41%) Load Balancing
16 29 (8.53%) Incident Management
17 28 (8.24%) Test Automation
18 26 (7.65%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 153 (45.00%) Python
2 91 (26.76%) Bash
3 58 (17.06%) PowerShell
4 37 (10.88%) Java
5 23 (6.76%) SQL
6 13 (3.82%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.24%) Bicep
8 10 (2.94%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.65%) Go
10 7 (2.06%) Ruby
11 5 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.18%) C
13 3 (0.88%) Groovy
13 3 (0.88%) Perl
14 2 (0.59%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.59%) C#
14 2 (0.59%) Scala
15 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.29%) VB
15 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 114 (33.53%) Security Cleared
2 101 (29.71%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.65%) Degree
4 25 (7.35%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (6.18%) CCNP
6 16 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 16 (4.71%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.82%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.94%) CCIE
10 6 (1.76%) CISSP
10 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.18%) CCNA
13 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.88%) CISM
13 3 (0.88%) ISSAP
13 3 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.88%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.24%) QA
2 10 (2.94%) NIST
3 6 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.18%) GDPR
5 3 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.59%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.59%) NCSC
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.59%) PSD2
6 2 (0.59%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 78 (22.94%) Docker
2 27 (7.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.18%) Active Directory
4 18 (5.29%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.53%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.24%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.65%) vSphere
8 8 (2.35%) BitLocker
8 8 (2.35%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (2.35%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.47%) NFS
10 4 (1.18%) Postfix
10 4 (1.18%) Varnish
11 3 (0.88%) KVM
11 3 (0.88%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.88%) Squid
12 2 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.59%) Firmware
12 2 (0.59%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.59%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 195 (57.35%) Terraform
2 145 (42.65%) Kubernetes
3 72 (21.18%) Prometheus
4 65 (19.12%) Grafana
5 33 (9.71%) Puppet
6 15 (4.41%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.53%) vCenter Server
8 11 (3.24%) Packer
9 9 (2.65%) Salt
10 8 (2.35%) vMotion
11 6 (1.76%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.76%) systemd
11 6 (1.76%) vRealize
12 5 (1.47%) Data Guard
12 5 (1.47%) FortiGate
13 4 (1.18%) Argo
13 4 (1.18%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.88%) Consul
14 3 (0.88%) Podman
14 3 (0.88%) yum
Vendors
1 52 (15.29%) Cisco
2 43 (12.65%) Microsoft
3 37 (10.88%) VMware
4 33 (9.71%) Splunk
5 32 (9.41%) Palo Alto
6 31 (9.12%) Arista
7 22 (6.47%) Fortinet
8 19 (5.59%) F5
9 18 (5.29%) Google
10 15 (4.41%) Oracle
11 14 (4.12%) Red Hat
12 13 (3.82%) Aruba
13 12 (3.53%) ServiceNow
14 10 (2.94%) CheckPoint
14 10 (2.94%) IBM
14 10 (2.94%) Juniper
14 10 (2.94%) NetApp
14 10 (2.94%) Okta
15 8 (2.35%) Citrix
15 8 (2.35%) Zscaler