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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 89 116
Rank change year-on-year -62 +27 -40
Contract jobs citing Ansible 339 371 382
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.80% 3.03% 2.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.06% 19.35% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 230 261
10th Percentile £400 £425 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £688
90th Percentile £724 £776 £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 2,596 1,917 2,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.81% 15.66% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,779 1,290 1,667
10th Percentile £356 £362 £325
25th Percentile £430 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £717 £750 £750
England median daily rate £511 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -0.29% -1.91% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 33
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £32.00 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.13 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +50.02% +60.26% -61.92%
75th Percentile £70.58 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £57.88 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +44.71% +33.33% -43.32%

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 11 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 11 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 -29 43 £525 -4.55% 10
South London -16 4 £505 -15.83%
West London -21 3 £500 - 5
East London -3 2 £551 -18.44% 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 12 (3.54%) Confluence
2 8 (2.36%) 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%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.59%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) Appian
6 1 (0.29%) MTS
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 155 (45.72%) AWS
2 120 (35.40%) Azure
3 77 (22.71%) GitHub
4 45 (13.27%) GCP
5 44 (12.98%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (10.62%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (8.55%) OpenShift
8 23 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (6.49%) Amazon S3
10 21 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (6.19%) Serverless
10 21 (6.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (5.60%) Datadog
12 18 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (5.31%) Entra ID
13 16 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (4.42%) Azure AKS
15 14 (4.13%) PaaS
16 13 (3.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (22.71%) Firewall
2 41 (12.09%) VPN
3 36 (10.62%) BGP
4 30 (8.85%) WAN
5 29 (8.55%) DNS
6 24 (7.08%) Network Security
7 20 (5.90%) OSPF
8 16 (4.72%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.13%) VXLAN
9 14 (4.13%) Wireless
10 13 (3.83%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (3.83%) MPLS
11 11 (3.24%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.24%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.95%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (2.95%) Multicast
12 10 (2.95%) NX-OS
12 10 (2.95%) SSL
12 10 (2.95%) VLAN
13 9 (2.65%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.42%) MongoDB
2 14 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.36%) Redis
5 6 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (1.77%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.47%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (1.18%) Big Data
7 4 (1.18%) MySQL
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%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 88 (25.96%) Jenkins
2 64 (18.88%) GitLab
3 61 (17.99%) Git
4 22 (6.49%) JIRA
5 7 (2.06%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.06%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.06%) Postman
5 7 (2.06%) Snyk
5 7 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.77%) JMeter
6 6 (1.77%) JUnit
7 5 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.18%) Ant
8 4 (1.18%) Liquibase
9 3 (0.88%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.88%) Gradle
9 3 (0.88%) Mockito
10 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.59%) Gatling
General
1 64 (18.88%) Finance
2 50 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 34 (10.03%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.08%) Banking
5 20 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.36%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.06%) Law
10 6 (1.77%) 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
14 2 (0.59%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.59%) Legal
14 2 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 85 (25.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (12.98%) Architect
3 37 (10.91%) Senior
4 35 (10.32%) Network Engineer
5 29 (8.55%) Developer
6 27 (7.96%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (7.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 23 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (6.19%) Lead
9 20 (5.90%) Linux Engineer
10 19 (5.60%) Automation Engineer
10 19 (5.60%) Java Developer
10 19 (5.60%) Site Engineer
11 18 (5.31%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (5.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
15 12 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (3.24%) Network Architect
16 11 (3.24%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (7.08%) Kafka
2 21 (6.19%) REST
3 14 (4.13%) YAML
4 12 (3.54%) Spring
5 11 (3.24%) Middleware
6 10 (2.95%) .NET
6 10 (2.95%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (2.95%) JSON
7 9 (2.65%) Spring Boot
8 8 (2.36%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (2.06%) cloud-init
9 7 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.06%) Web Services
10 6 (1.77%) React
10 6 (1.77%) RESTful
10 6 (1.77%) Swagger
11 5 (1.47%) AWS CDK
11 5 (1.47%) JMS
11 5 (1.47%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 40 (11.80%) Data Centre
3 21 (6.19%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.01%) PKI
5 15 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (3.83%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.54%) Onboarding
8 11 (3.24%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (2.65%) Clustering
10 7 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (2.06%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.77%) CMDB
11 6 (1.77%) 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
1 114 (33.63%) Linux
2 47 (13.86%) Windows
3 29 (8.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (6.78%) Unix
5 20 (5.90%) Ubuntu
5 20 (5.90%) Windows Server
6 13 (3.83%) VMS
7 7 (2.06%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.18%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.59%) Debian
9 2 (0.59%) Solaris
9 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
10 1 (0.29%) CentOS
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.29%) Rocky
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (55.16%) DevOps
2 169 (49.85%) CI/CD
3 161 (47.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (24.48%) Containerisation
5 68 (20.06%) Configuration Management
6 64 (18.88%) Observability
7 62 (18.29%) Agile
8 52 (15.34%) Migration
9 43 (12.68%) Platform Engineering
10 42 (12.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 41 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (11.50%) Mentoring
13 37 (10.91%) AI
14 36 (10.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 35 (10.32%) Infrastructure Automation
16 34 (10.03%) Load Balancing
17 32 (9.44%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (8.55%) Incident Management
19 27 (7.96%) Test Automation
20 26 (7.67%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 150 (44.25%) Python
2 91 (26.84%) Bash
3 57 (16.81%) PowerShell
4 37 (10.91%) Java
5 23 (6.78%) SQL
6 13 (3.83%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.24%) Bicep
8 10 (2.95%) Go
8 10 (2.95%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.06%) Ruby
10 5 (1.47%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.18%) C
12 3 (0.88%) Groovy
12 3 (0.88%) Perl
13 2 (0.59%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.59%) C#
13 2 (0.59%) Scala
14 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.29%) VB
14 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 117 (34.51%) Security Cleared
2 104 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.37%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (7.37%) Degree
4 21 (6.19%) CCNP
5 17 (5.01%) Azure Certification
6 16 (4.72%) AWS Certification
7 15 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (3.83%) DV Cleared
9 10 (2.95%) CCIE
10 6 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.47%) CISSP
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%) ISSAP
13 3 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.88%) JNCIP
13 3 (0.88%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.24%) QA
2 8 (2.36%) NIST
3 5 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.18%) GDPR
5 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.59%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.59%) NCSC
5 2 (0.59%) PSD2
5 2 (0.59%) SEPA
5 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 75 (22.12%) Docker
2 27 (7.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (6.19%) Active Directory
4 19 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.24%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.65%) vSphere
8 8 (2.36%) BitLocker
8 8 (2.36%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (2.36%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.47%) NFS
10 4 (1.18%) KVM
10 4 (1.18%) Postfix
10 4 (1.18%) Varnish
11 3 (0.88%) Ceph
11 3 (0.88%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.88%) Squid
12 2 (0.59%) Firmware
12 2 (0.59%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 193 (56.93%) Terraform
2 143 (42.18%) Kubernetes
3 71 (20.94%) Prometheus
4 64 (18.88%) Grafana
5 32 (9.44%) Puppet
6 15 (4.42%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.54%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.95%) Packer
9 9 (2.65%) Salt
10 8 (2.36%) vMotion
11 6 (1.77%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.77%) systemd
11 6 (1.77%) 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 (15.34%) Cisco
2 42 (12.39%) Microsoft
3 37 (10.91%) VMware
4 32 (9.44%) Palo Alto
4 32 (9.44%) Splunk
5 31 (9.14%) Arista
6 22 (6.49%) Fortinet
7 19 (5.60%) F5
7 19 (5.60%) Google
8 15 (4.42%) Oracle
9 14 (4.13%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.83%) Aruba
11 11 (3.24%) ServiceNow
12 10 (2.95%) CheckPoint
12 10 (2.95%) IBM
12 10 (2.95%) Juniper
12 10 (2.95%) NetApp
13 9 (2.65%) Okta
14 8 (2.36%) Citrix
14 8 (2.36%) Zscaler