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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 113 97
Rank change year-on-year -31 -16 -20
Contract jobs citing Ansible 413 330 408
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 2.46% 2.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.11% 18.65% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 201 270
10th Percentile £419 £400 £412
25th Percentile £475 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -0.02% -7.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £801
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £49.78 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £57.44 £49.50 -
90th Percentile £59.13 £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.43 £48.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +48.81% -35.14% -3.31%

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 2,281 1,769 1,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.21% 13.17% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,521 1,146 1,357
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -3.05% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £761
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 23
10th Percentile £26.06 £24.00 £21.16
25th Percentile £35.19 £26.34 £23.80
Median hourly rate £53.75 £33.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.26% +25.00% -55.00%
75th Percentile £79.69 £59.81 £63.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.41 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.47 £34.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +98.44% -13.38% -23.41%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -24 45 £550 -8.33% 41
South London -1 12 £568 -8.47% 6
West London -19 8 £519 +25.00% 13
East London +3 5 £525 -22.22% 7
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 (4.84%) Confluence
2 9 (2.18%) Apache
3 7 (1.69%) nginx
4 5 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.21%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.97%) WordPress
6 3 (0.73%) CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.48%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.48%) Mule
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.24%) CICS
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) MTS
8 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 196 (47.46%) AWS
2 155 (37.53%) Azure
3 98 (23.73%) GitHub
4 59 (14.29%) GCP
5 54 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (12.11%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (9.20%) Datadog
7 38 (9.20%) OpenShift
8 31 (7.51%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (7.02%) Serverless
10 28 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (6.54%) Amazon S3
12 26 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (5.57%) Azure AKS
14 18 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (4.36%) Entra ID
15 11 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
16 10 (2.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 70 (16.95%) Firewall
2 44 (10.65%) BGP
3 39 (9.44%) DNS
3 39 (9.44%) VPN
4 31 (7.51%) Network Security
5 29 (7.02%) WAN
6 27 (6.54%) TCP/IP
7 21 (5.08%) OSPF
8 20 (4.84%) SSL
9 18 (4.36%) DHCP
9 18 (4.36%) VLAN
10 12 (2.91%) NX-OS
10 12 (2.91%) SD-WAN
11 11 (2.66%) SSH
11 11 (2.66%) VXLAN
11 11 (2.66%) Wireless
12 10 (2.42%) MPLS
13 9 (2.18%) Ethernet VPN
14 8 (1.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 8 (1.94%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.39%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.15%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.91%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.42%) MySQL
7 9 (2.18%) Power BI
8 8 (1.94%) Redis
9 7 (1.69%) Big Data
9 7 (1.69%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.21%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.21%) ObjectStore
11 4 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.97%) Metadata
11 4 (0.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 97 (23.49%) Jenkins
2 87 (21.07%) Git
3 84 (20.34%) GitLab
4 24 (5.81%) JIRA
5 15 (3.63%) SonarQube
6 12 (2.91%) Artifactory
6 12 (2.91%) Bitbucket
7 9 (2.18%) Snyk
8 7 (1.69%) JMeter
8 7 (1.69%) Postman
8 7 (1.69%) Selenium
9 6 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.21%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.97%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.73%) GoCD
12 3 (0.73%) JUnit
12 3 (0.73%) Mockito
12 3 (0.73%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.73%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (24.94%) Finance
2 79 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.93%) Banking
5 26 (6.30%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.66%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.69%) Law
8 7 (1.69%) Retail
9 6 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.45%) Police
9 6 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.21%) Publishing
11 4 (0.97%) Automotive
11 4 (0.97%) Front Office
11 4 (0.97%) Military
12 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Legal
14 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 81 (19.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (14.04%) Senior
3 49 (11.86%) Network Engineer
4 42 (10.17%) Architect
5 39 (9.44%) Lead
6 37 (8.96%) Automation Engineer
7 29 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (6.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (6.54%) Developer
8 27 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (6.30%) Linux Engineer
10 18 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (3.63%) Site Engineer
13 14 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.15%) Security Engineer
14 13 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (57.38%) Terraform
2 32 (7.75%) Kafka
2 32 (7.75%) REST
3 25 (6.05%) YAML
4 22 (5.33%) Middleware
5 19 (4.60%) .NET
6 17 (4.12%) React
7 15 (3.63%) JSON
8 13 (3.15%) Spring
9 12 (2.91%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (2.42%) ARM Templates
11 8 (1.94%) cloud-init
12 7 (1.69%) 802.1X
12 7 (1.69%) boto
12 7 (1.69%) JMS
12 7 (1.69%) Keycloak
12 7 (1.69%) Playwright
12 7 (1.69%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.69%) Swagger
13 6 (1.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.86%) Cloud Native
2 48 (11.62%) Data Centre
3 33 (7.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (5.33%) PKI
5 19 (4.60%) Security Posture
6 18 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.36%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.87%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.15%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.94%) Clustering
10 8 (1.94%) CMDB
10 8 (1.94%) Distributed Applications
10 8 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.94%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.94%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.69%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 162 (39.23%) Linux
2 70 (16.95%) Windows
3 51 (12.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (7.51%) Ubuntu
5 29 (7.02%) Unix
6 24 (5.81%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.97%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.73%) CentOS
9 3 (0.73%) Solaris
9 3 (0.73%) VMS
9 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.48%) AIX
10 2 (0.48%) Debian
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (54.72%) DevOps
2 214 (51.82%) CI/CD
3 201 (48.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (23.73%) Containerisation
5 95 (23.00%) Configuration Management
6 77 (18.64%) Observability
7 75 (18.16%) Agile
8 74 (17.92%) Platform Engineering
9 67 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 65 (15.74%) AI
10 65 (15.74%) Infrastructure Automation
11 64 (15.50%) Migration
12 54 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (11.14%) Runbook
13 46 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (10.90%) Test Automation
15 42 (10.17%) Validation
16 39 (9.44%) Root Cause Analysis
17 38 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 250 (60.53%) Python
2 123 (29.78%) Bash
3 97 (23.49%) PowerShell
4 54 (13.08%) Java
5 34 (8.23%) SQL
6 22 (5.33%) Go
6 22 (5.33%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.33%) Shell Script
7 16 (3.87%) Bicep
8 14 (3.39%) C#
9 11 (2.66%) PL/SQL
10 10 (2.42%) Perl
11 6 (1.45%) C++
11 6 (1.45%) Ruby
12 5 (1.21%) Groovy
13 4 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (0.73%) C
14 3 (0.73%) Korn
15 2 (0.48%) R
15 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 125 (30.27%) Security Cleared
2 103 (24.94%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.54%) Degree
4 25 (6.05%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (5.57%) DV Cleared
6 20 (4.84%) Azure Certification
6 20 (4.84%) CCNP
7 17 (4.12%) AWS Certification
8 15 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.94%) CISSP
10 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.45%) CCIE
12 5 (1.21%) CCNA
13 4 (0.97%) ISSAP
13 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.97%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.97%) JNCIS
13 4 (0.97%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (6.54%) QA
2 10 (2.42%) NIST
3 7 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.97%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
5 3 (0.73%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) SEPA
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 101 (24.46%) Docker
2 36 (8.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.33%) Active Directory
4 14 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.66%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.66%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.66%) vSphere
6 6 (1.45%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.21%) NFS
8 4 (0.97%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.97%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.73%) Ceph
9 3 (0.73%) IAG
9 3 (0.73%) KVM
9 3 (0.73%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.73%) Postfix
9 3 (0.73%) Squid
9 3 (0.73%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.73%) Varnish
10 2 (0.48%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 164 (39.71%) Kubernetes
2 74 (17.92%) Prometheus
3 70 (16.95%) Grafana
4 42 (10.17%) Puppet
5 19 (4.60%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.63%) Packer
7 14 (3.39%) FortiGate
8 13 (3.15%) systemd
9 8 (1.94%) SCCM
9 8 (1.94%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.45%) Data Guard
10 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.21%) Nagios
11 5 (1.21%) SELinux
11 5 (1.21%) vRealize
12 4 (0.97%) Consul
12 4 (0.97%) Podman
12 4 (0.97%) Salt
12 4 (0.97%) vMotion
Vendors
1 59 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 58 (14.04%) Cisco
3 54 (13.08%) VMware
4 35 (8.47%) Red Hat
5 31 (7.51%) Fortinet
6 30 (7.26%) Oracle
6 30 (7.26%) Splunk
7 29 (7.02%) Palo Alto
8 24 (5.81%) Google
9 22 (5.33%) ServiceNow
10 20 (4.84%) Arista
11 16 (3.87%) F5
12 15 (3.63%) Dynatrace
13 13 (3.15%) Juniper
14 12 (2.91%) Zscaler
15 7 (1.69%) CyberArk
15 7 (1.69%) Okta
16 6 (1.45%) Hitachi
16 6 (1.45%) IBM
16 6 (1.45%) SaltStack