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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 119 95
Rank change year-on-year -26 -24 -16
Contract jobs citing Ansible 414 336 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 2.49% 2.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.15% 18.47% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 206 287
10th Percentile £417 £373 £425
25th Percentile £475 £469 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £773 £767 £810
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £49.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% - -
England median hourly rate £71.22 £48.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +48.36% -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 1,819 2,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.21% 13.50% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,176 1,360
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -3.14% -7.41%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £725 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 21
10th Percentile £24.02 £21.09 -
25th Percentile £26.79 £26.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +43.52% -55.00%
75th Percentile £79.69 £59.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.41 £100.00
England median hourly rate £65.69 £34.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +93.21% -10.53% -27.62%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -31 46 £575 -4.17% 37
South London -3 11 £535 -13.71% 2
West London -22 7 £519 +25.00% 13
East London +2 3 £525 -22.22% 5
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 24 (5.80%) Confluence
2 8 (1.93%) nginx
3 7 (1.69%) Apache
4 6 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.21%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.97%) WordPress
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.72%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.48%) CICS
8 2 (0.48%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.48%) Mule
8 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) MTS
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 202 (48.79%) AWS
2 157 (37.92%) Azure
3 90 (21.74%) GitHub
4 67 (16.18%) GCP
5 50 (12.08%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (10.39%) OpenShift
8 40 (9.66%) Datadog
9 34 (8.21%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (7.97%) Amazon EC2
11 31 (7.49%) Serverless
12 29 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (7.00%) Amazon S3
12 29 (7.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 28 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.07%) Entra ID
15 19 (4.59%) Azure AKS
16 17 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
17 13 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (2.66%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 66 (15.94%) Firewall
2 39 (9.42%) VPN
3 38 (9.18%) DNS
4 34 (8.21%) BGP
5 32 (7.73%) Network Security
6 28 (6.76%) TCP/IP
7 22 (5.31%) SSL
7 22 (5.31%) WAN
8 16 (3.86%) DHCP
8 16 (3.86%) OSPF
9 15 (3.62%) VLAN
10 12 (2.90%) SD-WAN
10 12 (2.90%) SSH
11 10 (2.42%) NX-OS
11 10 (2.42%) Wireless
12 9 (2.17%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (2.17%) Internet
12 9 (2.17%) MPLS
12 9 (2.17%) VXLAN
13 7 (1.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 16 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (3.14%) MySQL
4 13 (3.14%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.90%) Oracle Database
6 11 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.17%) Power BI
8 8 (1.93%) Big Data
8 8 (1.93%) Redis
9 6 (1.45%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.21%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.21%) ObjectStore
11 4 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.97%) Metadata
11 4 (0.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 103 (24.88%) Jenkins
2 97 (23.43%) Git
3 91 (21.98%) GitLab
4 26 (6.28%) JIRA
5 14 (3.38%) Artifactory
5 14 (3.38%) SonarQube
6 13 (3.14%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.66%) Selenium
8 8 (1.93%) JMeter
8 8 (1.93%) Postman
8 8 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.69%) Snyk
10 5 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.21%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.97%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.97%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.72%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.72%) GoCD
12 3 (0.72%) TestRail
General
1 106 (25.60%) Finance
2 78 (18.84%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.39%) Banking
4 42 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.14%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (1.45%) Law
8 6 (1.45%) Police
8 6 (1.45%) Retail
9 5 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.21%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.21%) Publishing
10 4 (0.97%) Automotive
10 4 (0.97%) Military
10 4 (0.97%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.72%) Front Office
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Legal
12 2 (0.48%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 79 (19.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (12.80%) Senior
3 45 (10.87%) Architect
4 43 (10.39%) Network Engineer
5 41 (9.90%) Lead
6 34 (8.21%) Automation Engineer
7 30 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
9 27 (6.52%) Developer
10 26 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (6.28%) Linux Engineer
11 18 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 16 (3.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (3.38%) Security Engineer
14 14 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
14 14 (3.38%) Site Engineer
14 14 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (59.66%) Terraform
2 37 (8.94%) Kafka
3 32 (7.73%) REST
4 23 (5.56%) Middleware
5 20 (4.83%) YAML
6 18 (4.35%) .NET
6 18 (4.35%) React
7 15 (3.62%) JSON
8 13 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
9 12 (2.90%) Spring
10 10 (2.42%) Keycloak
11 9 (2.17%) Playwright
12 8 (1.93%) cloud-init
12 8 (1.93%) OAuth
12 8 (1.93%) SAML
13 7 (1.69%) 802.1X
13 7 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
13 7 (1.69%) boto
13 7 (1.69%) JMS
13 7 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 58 (14.01%) Cloud Native
2 43 (10.39%) Data Centre
3 35 (8.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (6.04%) PKI
5 21 (5.07%) Security Posture
6 20 (4.83%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (4.83%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.86%) Public Cloud
8 15 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.42%) Private Cloud
11 9 (2.17%) CMDB
11 9 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
11 9 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.93%) Distributed Applications
12 8 (1.93%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.93%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.69%) Clustering
13 7 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 169 (40.82%) Linux
2 74 (17.87%) Windows
3 54 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (7.73%) Ubuntu
5 28 (6.76%) Unix
6 25 (6.04%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.97%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.97%) CentOS
8 4 (0.97%) VMS
8 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.48%) AIX
9 2 (0.48%) Solaris
9 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.48%) zOS
10 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.24%) Debian
10 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (55.31%) CI/CD
2 227 (54.83%) DevOps
3 210 (50.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (25.12%) Containerisation
5 94 (22.71%) Configuration Management
6 88 (21.26%) Observability
7 82 (19.81%) Platform Engineering
8 77 (18.60%) Agile
9 73 (17.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 71 (17.15%) AI
11 62 (14.98%) Infrastructure Automation
11 62 (14.98%) Migration
12 60 (14.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
14 52 (12.56%) Test Automation
15 50 (12.08%) Runbook
16 48 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 46 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
18 42 (10.14%) Validation
19 41 (9.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 252 (60.87%) Python
2 127 (30.68%) Bash
3 97 (23.43%) PowerShell
4 57 (13.77%) Java
5 34 (8.21%) SQL
6 24 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 23 (5.56%) Go
7 23 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 16 (3.86%) C#
9 13 (3.14%) Bicep
10 11 (2.66%) Perl
11 10 (2.42%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.93%) C++
13 7 (1.69%) Groovy
14 4 (0.97%) C
14 4 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.97%) Korn
15 3 (0.72%) Ruby
15 3 (0.72%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 123 (29.71%) Security Cleared
2 99 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.76%) DV Cleared
4 25 (6.04%) Degree
5 22 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 21 (5.07%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (3.86%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.86%) CCNP
8 13 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.93%) CISSP
10 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.45%) CCIE
12 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.21%) CCNA
12 5 (1.21%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.97%) ISSAP
13 4 (0.97%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.97%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (7.00%) QA
2 12 (2.90%) NIST
3 11 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.21%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.72%) GDPR
5 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
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%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 106 (25.60%) Docker
2 35 (8.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.28%) Active Directory
4 13 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.66%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.66%) vSphere
6 10 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.45%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.97%) NFS
8 4 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.72%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.72%) Ceph
9 3 (0.72%) HDFS
9 3 (0.72%) KVM
9 3 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.72%) Squid
9 3 (0.72%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.48%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.48%) RACF
10 2 (0.48%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 170 (41.06%) Kubernetes
2 77 (18.60%) Prometheus
3 74 (17.87%) Grafana
4 42 (10.14%) Puppet
5 17 (4.11%) Progress Chef
6 16 (3.86%) Packer
7 14 (3.38%) FortiGate
7 14 (3.38%) systemd
8 9 (2.17%) SCCM
9 7 (1.69%) Argo
9 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (1.69%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.45%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.21%) Nagios
11 5 (1.21%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.21%) SELinux
11 5 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.21%) vRealize
12 4 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.97%) Salt
Vendors
1 61 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 54 (13.04%) VMware
3 50 (12.08%) Cisco
4 34 (8.21%) Red Hat
4 34 (8.21%) Splunk
5 31 (7.49%) Google
6 29 (7.00%) Oracle
7 28 (6.76%) Fortinet
8 27 (6.52%) Palo Alto
9 20 (4.83%) ServiceNow
10 17 (4.11%) Dynatrace
11 14 (3.38%) F5
12 13 (3.14%) Arista
13 11 (2.66%) CyberArk
13 11 (2.66%) Juniper
13 11 (2.66%) Zscaler
14 7 (1.69%) Okta
15 6 (1.45%) Hitachi
15 6 (1.45%) IBM
15 6 (1.45%) SaltStack