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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 98 102
Rank change year-on-year -51 +4 -20
Contract jobs citing Ansible 377 399 396
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 2.93% 2.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.71% 18.81% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 245 260
10th Percentile £422 £413 £375
25th Percentile £475 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £678
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% +0.88%

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 2,750 2,121 2,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.65% 15.55% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,911 1,407 1,642
10th Percentile £360 £336 £330
25th Percentile £440 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -3.67% -9.17%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £751
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 27
10th Percentile £31.60 £26.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.75 £26.45 £22.15
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +60.00% -60.32%
75th Percentile £81.25 £62.25 £57.50
90th Percentile - £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +18.18% +80.33% -40.49%

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 1 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 1 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 -2.22% 21
South London -13 9 £535 -12.30% 3
West London -13 7 £500 +20.48% 3
East London 0 2 £551 -18.44% 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 (5.31%) Confluence
2 10 (2.65%) Apache
3 8 (2.12%) nginx
4 5 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.06%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.06%) WordPress
6 3 (0.80%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.80%) JBoss
6 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.53%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) Mule
7 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) MTS
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 173 (45.89%) AWS
2 140 (37.14%) Azure
3 81 (21.49%) GitHub
4 51 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (12.20%) GCP
6 40 (10.61%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (8.75%) Datadog
7 33 (8.75%) OpenShift
8 30 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (7.43%) Amazon S3
9 28 (7.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (6.63%) Serverless
11 23 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (5.84%) Entra ID
13 18 (4.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (4.77%) Azure AKS
14 14 (3.71%) PaaS
15 13 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (19.89%) Firewall
2 47 (12.47%) DNS
3 42 (11.14%) BGP
3 42 (11.14%) VPN
4 30 (7.96%) WAN
5 26 (6.90%) TCP/IP
6 24 (6.37%) OSPF
7 23 (6.10%) Network Security
8 20 (5.31%) DHCP
9 18 (4.77%) VLAN
10 17 (4.51%) SSL
11 15 (3.98%) VXLAN
12 13 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (3.45%) Wireless
13 12 (3.18%) MPLS
14 11 (2.92%) IOS XR
15 10 (2.65%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (2.65%) NX-OS
15 10 (2.65%) SSH
16 9 (2.39%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.98%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.71%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.39%) Oracle Database
4 9 (2.39%) Redis
5 7 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (1.86%) Big Data
5 7 (1.86%) MySQL
5 7 (1.86%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (1.59%) Power BI
7 5 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.33%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.06%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.80%) ObjectStore
9 3 (0.80%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.53%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 101 (26.79%) Jenkins
2 85 (22.55%) Git
3 76 (20.16%) GitLab
4 29 (7.69%) JIRA
5 10 (2.65%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.39%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.12%) Snyk
7 8 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.86%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.86%) Postman
9 6 (1.59%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.59%) JMeter
9 6 (1.59%) JUnit
10 4 (1.06%) Ant
10 4 (1.06%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.80%) Mockito
12 2 (0.53%) Gradle
12 2 (0.53%) Maven
12 2 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 78 (20.69%) Finance
2 65 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 30 (7.96%) Banking
6 15 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.39%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.86%) Law
8 7 (1.86%) Retail
9 6 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.33%) Police
10 5 (1.33%) Publishing
11 4 (1.06%) Automotive
11 4 (1.06%) Military
11 4 (1.06%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.80%) Front Office
12 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 83 (22.02%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (14.32%) Senior
3 44 (11.67%) Architect
3 44 (11.67%) Network Engineer
4 32 (8.49%) Developer
5 29 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (7.43%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (6.10%) Automation Engineer
7 23 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (6.10%) Lead
8 22 (5.84%) Linux Engineer
9 21 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
10 18 (4.77%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (4.51%) Java Developer
11 17 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.98%) Site Engineer
14 14 (3.71%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.45%) Senior Network Engineer
15 13 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.37%) Kafka
1 24 (6.37%) REST
2 18 (4.77%) YAML
3 16 (4.24%) .NET
4 15 (3.98%) Spring
5 13 (3.45%) Middleware
6 12 (3.18%) ARM Templates
7 11 (2.92%) React
8 10 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (2.39%) JSON
10 8 (2.12%) cloud-init
10 8 (2.12%) JMS
10 8 (2.12%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.86%) Jakarta EE
11 7 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.86%) SAML
11 7 (1.86%) Swagger
12 6 (1.59%) OAuth
12 6 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.26%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.94%) Data Centre
3 27 (7.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.57%) PKI
5 17 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.51%) Security Posture
6 14 (3.71%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (3.45%) Public Cloud
8 10 (2.65%) Clustering
9 9 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.12%) CMDB
11 7 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
13 5 (1.33%) Private Cloud
13 5 (1.33%) Robotics
13 5 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 141 (37.40%) Linux
2 60 (15.92%) Windows
3 43 (11.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (7.96%) Ubuntu
5 27 (7.16%) Windows Server
6 25 (6.63%) Unix
7 6 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.06%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.53%) CentOS
10 2 (0.53%) Debian
10 2 (0.53%) Solaris
10 2 (0.53%) VMS
10 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.27%) AIX
11 1 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.27%) Rocky
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (57.82%) DevOps
2 185 (49.07%) CI/CD
3 172 (45.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (23.87%) Containerisation
5 81 (21.49%) Configuration Management
6 77 (20.42%) Agile
7 64 (16.98%) Observability
8 58 (15.38%) AI
8 58 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
9 57 (15.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 52 (13.79%) Migration
11 43 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (11.41%) Infrastructure Automation
11 43 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
12 36 (9.55%) Mentoring
13 35 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 34 (9.02%) Cloud Security
15 32 (8.49%) Runbook
15 32 (8.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (8.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 202 (53.58%) Python
2 111 (29.44%) Bash
3 82 (21.75%) PowerShell
4 52 (13.79%) Java
5 26 (6.90%) SQL
6 16 (4.24%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.98%) Shell Script
8 13 (3.45%) Bicep
8 13 (3.45%) Go
9 10 (2.65%) C#
10 9 (2.39%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.59%) Perl
11 6 (1.59%) Ruby
12 5 (1.33%) Groovy
13 4 (1.06%) C
13 4 (1.06%) C++
14 2 (0.53%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.53%) R
14 2 (0.53%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 125 (33.16%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.32%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (7.43%) Degree
5 25 (6.63%) CCNP
6 20 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 17 (4.51%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.71%) AWS Certification
10 10 (2.65%) CCIE
11 9 (2.39%) CISSP
12 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 5 (1.33%) JNCIP
14 5 (1.33%) JNCIS
14 5 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
15 4 (1.06%) CCNA
15 4 (1.06%) ISSAP
15 4 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.98%) QA
2 9 (2.39%) NIST
3 5 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.80%) GDPR
4 3 (0.80%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.53%) NCSC
5 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
6 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 93 (24.67%) Docker
2 36 (9.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (7.16%) Active Directory
4 17 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (3.98%) Hyper-V
6 14 (3.71%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (3.45%) vSphere
8 8 (2.12%) VMware NSX
9 7 (1.86%) BitLocker
9 7 (1.86%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (1.59%) NFS
11 4 (1.06%) IAG
11 4 (1.06%) Postfix
11 4 (1.06%) Varnish
12 3 (0.80%) Ceph
12 3 (0.80%) KVM
12 3 (0.80%) Sendmail
12 3 (0.80%) Squid
12 3 (0.80%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 216 (57.29%) Terraform
2 157 (41.64%) Kubernetes
3 77 (20.42%) Prometheus
4 74 (19.63%) Grafana
5 41 (10.88%) Puppet
6 16 (4.24%) Packer
7 15 (3.98%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.71%) vCenter Server
9 12 (3.18%) systemd
10 10 (2.65%) FortiGate
11 8 (2.12%) Salt
12 7 (1.86%) SCCM
12 7 (1.86%) vMotion
13 6 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (1.33%) Data Guard
14 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (1.33%) Nagios
14 5 (1.33%) SELinux
14 5 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 55 (14.59%) Cisco
3 48 (12.73%) VMware
4 34 (9.02%) Palo Alto
5 30 (7.96%) Splunk
6 29 (7.69%) Arista
7 26 (6.90%) Fortinet
8 23 (6.10%) Red Hat
9 21 (5.57%) F5
9 21 (5.57%) Oracle
10 20 (5.31%) ServiceNow
11 16 (4.24%) Google
11 16 (4.24%) Juniper
12 11 (2.92%) Zscaler
13 10 (2.65%) Dynatrace
13 10 (2.65%) NetApp
13 10 (2.65%) Okta
14 9 (2.39%) Aruba
15 8 (2.12%) IBM
16 7 (1.86%) Citrix