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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 86 114
Rank change year-on-year -69 +28 -41
Contract jobs citing Ansible 293 392 365
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.66% 3.10% 2.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.76% 19.48% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 257 249
10th Percentile £364 £446 £394
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £690
90th Percentile £757 £863 £763
England median daily rate £504 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -12.39% +4.55% -11.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -36.43% -3.45%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £71.85 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.38% +14.96% -14.38%

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 2,492 2,012 2,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.13% 15.89% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 1,395 1,553
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £430 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £631 £674 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 42
10th Percentile £22.39 £23.59 £18.00
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £56.38 £29.00 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +94.42% +14.38% -62.16%
75th Percentile £63.32 £53.75 £53.81
90th Percentile £70.30 £63.25 £69.70
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £26.38
% change year-on-year +107.34% +3.29% -54.12%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -33 42 £510 -11.69% 28
South London -16 9 £530 -11.67%
East London -3 2 £551 -12.62% 3
West London -21 2 £500 - 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 (4.10%) Confluence
2 5 (1.71%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.02%) JBoss
4 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 132 (45.05%) AWS
2 105 (35.84%) Azure
3 73 (24.91%) GitHub
4 41 (13.99%) GCP
5 39 (13.31%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (11.95%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (10.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (10.24%) Amazon S3
9 28 (9.56%) OpenShift
10 26 (8.87%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (8.53%) Serverless
12 23 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (6.48%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (5.12%) IaaS
17 11 (3.75%) Azure AKS
18 10 (3.41%) Entra ID
18 10 (3.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (22.53%) Firewall
2 34 (11.60%) BGP
2 34 (11.60%) VPN
3 29 (9.90%) WAN
4 27 (9.22%) DNS
5 22 (7.51%) OSPF
6 21 (7.17%) Network Security
7 15 (5.12%) VXLAN
8 14 (4.78%) TCP/IP
9 13 (4.44%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (4.10%) MPLS
10 12 (4.10%) Multicast
10 12 (4.10%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.41%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (3.41%) DHCP
11 10 (3.41%) Wireless
12 9 (3.07%) LAN
13 8 (2.73%) Ethernet
13 8 (2.73%) SAN
13 8 (2.73%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.41%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (2.05%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.05%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.71%) MySQL
6 5 (1.71%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.02%) Redis
9 2 (0.68%) Big Data
9 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
9 2 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 78 (26.62%) Jenkins
2 60 (20.48%) GitLab
3 54 (18.43%) Git
4 21 (7.17%) JIRA
5 7 (2.39%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.05%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.05%) Snyk
6 6 (2.05%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.71%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.37%) Ant
8 4 (1.37%) JUnit
8 4 (1.37%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.68%) Gatling
10 2 (0.68%) Postman
10 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.68%) RStudio
General
1 48 (16.38%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.04%) Finance
3 29 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.78%) Banking
6 13 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.71%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.37%) Military
10 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.02%) Law
10 3 (1.02%) Police
11 2 (0.68%) Front Office
11 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Retail
11 2 (0.68%) Social Science
12 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 66 (22.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (12.97%) Senior
3 35 (11.95%) Architect
4 31 (10.58%) Network Engineer
5 29 (9.90%) Developer
6 26 (8.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 23 (7.85%) AWS Engineer
8 21 (7.17%) Site Engineer
9 18 (6.14%) Lead
10 17 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.46%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.46%) Java Developer
12 15 (5.12%) Automation Engineer
12 15 (5.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (4.78%) Senior Network Engineer
14 12 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
16 8 (2.73%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.46%) Kafka
2 14 (4.78%) REST
3 12 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
4 11 (3.75%) YAML
5 10 (3.41%) OAuth
6 9 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (2.73%) Node.js
8 7 (2.39%) ARM Templates
8 7 (2.39%) Spring
9 6 (2.05%) JWT
9 6 (2.05%) Web Services
10 5 (1.71%) AWS CDK
11 4 (1.37%) .NET
11 4 (1.37%) Jinja
11 4 (1.37%) JSON
11 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.37%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
12 3 (1.02%) OpenID
12 3 (1.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.92%) Data Centre
2 29 (9.90%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.44%) PKI
5 12 (4.10%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (4.10%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.39%) Clustering
7 7 (2.39%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.71%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.02%) CMDB
11 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
12 2 (0.68%) Celerra
12 2 (0.68%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 97 (33.11%) Linux
2 38 (12.97%) Windows
3 22 (7.51%) Unix
4 19 (6.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (5.80%) Windows Server
6 14 (4.78%) VMS
7 8 (2.73%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.39%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.68%) AIX
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) Debian
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.34%) Rocky
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (49.49%) DevOps
2 141 (48.12%) CI/CD
3 136 (46.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (23.21%) Containerisation
5 60 (20.48%) Agile
6 50 (17.06%) Configuration Management
7 44 (15.02%) Migration
8 43 (14.68%) Observability
9 42 (14.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 40 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (11.95%) Mentoring
12 33 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (10.92%) Load Balancing
14 31 (10.58%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (9.22%) High Availability
15 27 (9.22%) Infrastructure Automation
15 27 (9.22%) Performance Tuning
16 26 (8.87%) Incident Management
17 25 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 24 (8.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 131 (44.71%) Python
2 78 (26.62%) Bash
3 38 (12.97%) PowerShell
4 30 (10.24%) Java
5 22 (7.51%) SQL
6 12 (4.10%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.41%) Go
8 5 (1.71%) Bicep
8 5 (1.71%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.71%) PL/SQL
8 5 (1.71%) Ruby
9 4 (1.37%) Perl
10 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.68%) C
10 2 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.34%) C++
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) RPG
11 1 (0.34%) Rust
11 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 86 (29.35%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.17%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (6.48%) CCNP
5 18 (6.14%) Azure Certification
5 18 (6.14%) Degree
6 14 (4.78%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.44%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.07%) CCIE
9 5 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.37%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.37%) VCAP
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.02%) CCSE
11 3 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
12 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.41%) QA
2 6 (2.05%) NIST
3 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.37%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.68%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) PSD2
5 2 (0.68%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 77 (26.28%) Docker
2 21 (7.17%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.46%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.41%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (3.07%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.73%) vSphere
7 7 (2.39%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.39%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.02%) KVM
8 3 (1.02%) NFS
9 2 (0.68%) Ceph
9 2 (0.68%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.68%) IAG
9 2 (0.68%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.68%) Postfix
9 2 (0.68%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.68%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 174 (59.39%) Terraform
2 117 (39.93%) Kubernetes
3 55 (18.77%) Grafana
4 53 (18.09%) Prometheus
5 31 (10.58%) Puppet
6 14 (4.78%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.44%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.41%) Argo
9 9 (3.07%) Salt
10 7 (2.39%) vMotion
11 5 (1.71%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.71%) Kibana
11 5 (1.71%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.71%) Packer
12 4 (1.37%) Rancher
12 4 (1.37%) SCCM
12 4 (1.37%) SCOM
13 3 (1.02%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.02%) HAProxy
13 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 41 (13.99%) Cisco
2 37 (12.63%) Microsoft
3 30 (10.24%) Arista
3 30 (10.24%) Splunk
4 28 (9.56%) VMware
5 26 (8.87%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.83%) F5
7 18 (6.14%) Fortinet
8 17 (5.80%) Red Hat
9 14 (4.78%) Google
9 14 (4.78%) ServiceNow
10 12 (4.10%) Oracle
11 11 (3.75%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.75%) Juniper
11 11 (3.75%) NetApp
12 10 (3.41%) Aruba
12 10 (3.41%) Zscaler
13 9 (3.07%) IBM
14 8 (2.73%) Citrix
15 7 (2.39%) Dynatrace