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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 81 105
Rank change year-on-year -66 +24 -38
Contract jobs citing Ansible 293 421 403
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 3.25% 2.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.23% 20.46% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 271 279
10th Percentile £353 £450 £400
25th Percentile £433 £513 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +7.64% -13.46%
75th Percentile £651 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £881 £763
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -10.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £39.25 -
Median hourly rate - £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £67.27
% change year-on-year +8.14% +10.67% -7.22%

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 2,395 2,058 2,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.83% 15.90% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,643 1,394 1,639
10th Percentile £350 £373 £313
25th Percentile £429 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 38
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £36.75 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +44.94% -20.14%
75th Percentile £63.32 £71.19 £56.06
90th Percentile - £110.30 £60.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £34.67
% change year-on-year +107.55% -23.57% -33.49%

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 11 March 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 March 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 49 £550 -4.76% 7
South London -16 9 £530 -20.00% 1
West London -16 2 £688 - 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 18 (6.14%) Confluence
2 3 (1.02%) Apache
2 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.02%) Appian
2 3 (1.02%) Ethereum
2 3 (1.02%) Hyperledger
2 3 (1.02%) JBoss
2 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.02%) WebSphere
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.68%) nginx
3 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.34%) FileNet
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 136 (46.42%) AWS
2 89 (30.38%) Azure
3 74 (25.26%) GitHub
4 56 (19.11%) GCP
5 35 (11.95%) Amazon S3
6 34 (11.60%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (9.22%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (8.87%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (8.87%) Serverless
9 25 (8.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 24 (8.19%) OpenShift
11 23 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.10%) IaaS
15 7 (2.39%) Akamai
15 7 (2.39%) AWS Control Tower
15 7 (2.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 58 (19.80%) Firewall
2 37 (12.63%) VPN
3 32 (10.92%) DNS
4 26 (8.87%) WAN
5 23 (7.85%) Network Security
6 20 (6.83%) BGP
7 19 (6.48%) SD-WAN
8 18 (6.14%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.78%) Ethernet VPN
9 14 (4.78%) VXLAN
10 13 (4.44%) DHCP
10 13 (4.44%) OSPF
11 11 (3.75%) LAN
12 10 (3.41%) NetScaler
13 9 (3.07%) MPLS
13 9 (3.07%) Multicast
13 9 (3.07%) SAN
14 7 (2.39%) Ethernet
14 7 (2.39%) InfiniBand
14 7 (2.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.10%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.75%) MySQL
4 9 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (2.73%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.39%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.71%) Redis
8 4 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
10 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
10 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.68%) Tableau
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 86 (29.35%) Jenkins
2 60 (20.48%) GitLab
3 54 (18.43%) Git
4 24 (8.19%) JIRA
5 10 (3.41%) Cucumber
5 10 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (3.07%) JUnit
7 5 (1.71%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.71%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.37%) JMeter
8 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.02%) Ant
9 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.02%) Gradle
9 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.02%) Maven
9 3 (1.02%) RStudio
9 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.68%) Robot Framework
General
1 68 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.45%) Finance
3 28 (9.56%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.48%) Banking
6 12 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.71%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Social Science
11 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Military
11 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (22.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (13.65%) Architect
3 37 (12.63%) Senior
4 32 (10.92%) Developer
5 30 (10.24%) Network Engineer
6 25 (8.53%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (7.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (6.48%) Java Developer
8 19 (6.48%) Site Engineer
9 16 (5.46%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (4.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.10%) Lead
13 11 (3.75%) Senior Network Engineer
14 10 (3.41%) AWS Architect
14 10 (3.41%) Consultant
14 10 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.46%) Kafka
2 13 (4.44%) REST
3 12 (4.10%) Spring
4 10 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (3.41%) Node.js
5 9 (3.07%) OAuth
6 7 (2.39%) JSON
6 7 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (2.39%) Web Services
7 6 (2.05%) Jinja
7 6 (2.05%) JWT
8 5 (1.71%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.37%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.37%) Middleware
9 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.37%) XML
9 4 (1.37%) ZK
10 3 (1.02%) OpenID
10 3 (1.02%) React
10 3 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.22%) Cloud Native
1 27 (9.22%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (5.46%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.41%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.07%) PKI
7 8 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.73%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.39%) Clustering
8 7 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.39%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.05%) Hedge funds
9 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
12 3 (1.02%) Blockchain
12 3 (1.02%) CMDB
12 3 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 94 (32.08%) Linux
2 35 (11.95%) Windows
3 20 (6.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (6.48%) Unix
5 14 (4.78%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.44%) VMS
7 6 (2.05%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.71%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.68%) AIX
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (50.85%) CI/CD
2 133 (45.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 132 (45.05%) DevOps
4 63 (21.50%) Containerisation
5 55 (18.77%) Agile
6 45 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (15.02%) Observability
8 43 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
9 41 (13.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (12.97%) Migration
11 36 (12.29%) Configuration Management
12 33 (11.26%) Infrastructure Automation
13 32 (10.92%) High Availability
14 28 (9.56%) Load Balancing
15 26 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (8.87%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (8.53%) Test Automation
17 24 (8.19%) Mentoring
17 24 (8.19%) Platform Engineering
18 22 (7.51%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 132 (45.05%) Python
2 71 (24.23%) Bash
3 37 (12.63%) Java
4 32 (10.92%) PowerShell
5 21 (7.17%) SQL
6 9 (3.07%) Go
7 7 (2.39%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.71%) C++
8 5 (1.71%) Perl
8 5 (1.71%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.02%) PHP
9 3 (1.02%) Rust
10 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.68%) C
10 2 (0.68%) C#
10 2 (0.68%) Ruby
10 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (27.99%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.21%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.80%) AWS Certification
3 17 (5.80%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (5.46%) CCNP
5 12 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.75%) Degree
7 9 (3.07%) Azure Certification
7 9 (3.07%) CCIE
8 7 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.37%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.02%) CCNA
10 3 (1.02%) CCSE
10 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.02%) VCAP
11 2 (0.68%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.05%) GDPR
1 6 (2.05%) QA
2 5 (1.71%) NIST
3 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) PSD2
5 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (27.65%) Docker
2 22 (7.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.14%) Active Directory
4 13 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.07%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.39%) vSphere
7 6 (2.05%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.71%) BitLocker
8 5 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.02%) NFS
10 2 (0.68%) Ceph
10 2 (0.68%) KVM
10 2 (0.68%) Lustre
10 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.68%) Xen
11 1 (0.34%) GPFS
11 1 (0.34%) HDFS
11 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 170 (58.02%) Terraform
2 100 (34.13%) Kubernetes
3 48 (16.38%) Grafana
4 44 (15.02%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.17%) Puppet
6 14 (4.78%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.41%) Argo
7 10 (3.41%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.73%) SCCM
9 7 (2.39%) Kibana
9 7 (2.39%) Salt
10 6 (2.05%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (2.05%) SCOM
11 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.71%) Rancher
11 5 (1.71%) vMotion
12 3 (1.02%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
12 3 (1.02%) Packer
12 3 (1.02%) vRealize
Vendors
1 36 (12.29%) Cisco
2 31 (10.58%) Splunk
2 31 (10.58%) VMware
3 29 (9.90%) Microsoft
4 27 (9.22%) Arista
5 20 (6.83%) Palo Alto
6 19 (6.48%) F5
6 19 (6.48%) Google
7 18 (6.14%) Red Hat
8 15 (5.12%) Aruba
9 14 (4.78%) ServiceNow
10 13 (4.44%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.75%) Citrix
11 11 (3.75%) Fortinet
12 8 (2.73%) Dynatrace
12 8 (2.73%) Juniper
12 8 (2.73%) Zscaler
13 7 (2.39%) NetApp
13 7 (2.39%) Oracle
13 7 (2.39%) Pure Storage