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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 86 108
Rank change year-on-year -80 +22 -41
Contract jobs citing Ansible 287 401 397
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.65% 3.17% 2.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.54% 19.96% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 256 273
10th Percentile £360 £440 £381
25th Percentile £450 £503 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -13.08%
75th Percentile £650 £691 £675
90th Percentile £767 £881 £763
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -25.83% -17.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year - +22.95% -16.15%

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 2,487 2,009 2,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.34% 15.88% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,693 1,386 1,595
10th Percentile £350 £368 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £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 21 11 42
10th Percentile £22.41 £23.59 £13.62
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.45 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +98.49% +2.88% -61.05%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £59.69
90th Percentile - £63.25 £66.55
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
% change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -51.51%

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 10 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 10 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 40 £510 -9.33% 19
South London -17 9 £530 -11.67% 1
West London -21 3 £688 - 2
East London -2 2 £551 -12.62%
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 11 (3.83%) Confluence
2 4 (1.39%) Apache
2 4 (1.39%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.05%) JBoss
3 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) FileNet
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 132 (45.99%) AWS
2 99 (34.49%) Azure
3 68 (23.69%) GitHub
4 44 (15.33%) GCP
5 38 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (11.85%) Amazon S3
7 33 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (10.10%) Serverless
10 27 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (8.71%) OpenShift
12 24 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (8.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (5.23%) IaaS
17 12 (4.18%) Azure AKS
18 9 (3.14%) Entra ID
18 9 (3.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (21.25%) Firewall
2 33 (11.50%) VPN
3 31 (10.80%) BGP
4 28 (9.76%) DNS
5 25 (8.71%) WAN
6 20 (6.97%) OSPF
7 19 (6.62%) Network Security
8 15 (5.23%) VXLAN
9 14 (4.88%) TCP/IP
10 13 (4.53%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (4.18%) DHCP
11 12 (4.18%) MPLS
11 12 (4.18%) Multicast
12 11 (3.83%) SD-WAN
13 9 (3.14%) LAN
14 8 (2.79%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (2.79%) Ethernet
14 8 (2.79%) SAN
14 8 (2.79%) Wireless
15 7 (2.44%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.18%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 10 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.14%) MySQL
6 8 (2.79%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.09%) DynamoDB
8 4 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.05%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.05%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.05%) Redis
10 2 (0.70%) Big Data
10 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.70%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.70%) ImageNet
10 2 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (0.70%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 78 (27.18%) Jenkins
2 57 (19.86%) GitLab
3 56 (19.51%) Git
4 17 (5.92%) JIRA
5 7 (2.44%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.44%) JUnit
5 7 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.09%) Artifactory
7 5 (1.74%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.39%) Ant
8 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.39%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.39%) Snyk
8 4 (1.39%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.05%) Maven
10 2 (0.70%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.70%) Gatling
10 2 (0.70%) Mockito
10 2 (0.70%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.70%) RStudio
General
1 54 (18.82%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.68%) Finance
3 27 (9.41%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.23%) Banking
6 12 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.09%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.74%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Military
10 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.05%) Law
10 3 (1.05%) Police
11 2 (0.70%) Front Office
11 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Social Science
12 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (22.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (13.59%) Senior
3 35 (12.20%) Architect
4 31 (10.80%) Developer
5 29 (10.10%) Network Engineer
6 26 (9.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 24 (8.36%) AWS Engineer
8 21 (7.32%) Site Engineer
9 19 (6.62%) Java Developer
10 15 (5.23%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (5.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.88%) Lead
12 13 (4.53%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.53%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (3.14%) AWS Architect
16 8 (2.79%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.27%) Kafka
2 17 (5.92%) REST
3 11 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (3.48%) Node.js
4 10 (3.48%) Spring
4 10 (3.48%) YAML
5 9 (3.14%) OAuth
6 8 (2.79%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (2.44%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.09%) JSON
8 6 (2.09%) JWT
8 6 (2.09%) Middleware
8 6 (2.09%) Web Services
9 5 (1.74%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.74%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.39%) Jinja
10 4 (1.39%) WebSphere MQ
11 3 (1.05%) JMS
11 3 (1.05%) LDAP
11 3 (1.05%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.80%) Data Centre
2 27 (9.41%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.53%) PKI
5 12 (4.18%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (4.18%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.44%) Clustering
8 6 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.74%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.05%) CMDB
11 3 (1.05%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 95 (33.10%) Linux
2 35 (12.20%) Windows
3 21 (7.32%) Unix
4 17 (5.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.23%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.53%) VMS
7 7 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 7 (2.44%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.70%) AIX
8 2 (0.70%) CentOS
9 1 (0.35%) Debian
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Rocky
9 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (48.78%) CI/CD
2 139 (48.43%) DevOps
3 134 (46.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (22.30%) Containerisation
5 55 (19.16%) Agile
6 44 (15.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 43 (14.98%) Configuration Management
7 43 (14.98%) Observability
8 41 (14.29%) Migration
9 39 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (10.80%) Load Balancing
12 30 (10.45%) High Availability
12 30 (10.45%) Mentoring
13 27 (9.41%) Infrastructure Automation
13 27 (9.41%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 25 (8.71%) ITIL
14 25 (8.71%) Performance Tuning
14 25 (8.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 127 (44.25%) Python
2 78 (27.18%) Bash
3 37 (12.89%) PowerShell
4 32 (11.15%) Java
5 21 (7.32%) SQL
6 11 (3.83%) Go
7 10 (3.48%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.09%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.74%) Bicep
9 5 (1.74%) Ruby
10 4 (1.39%) Perl
11 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.70%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.70%) C
12 2 (0.70%) C++
12 2 (0.70%) PHP
13 1 (0.35%) C#
13 1 (0.35%) Groovy
13 1 (0.35%) Rust
13 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 95 (33.10%) Security Cleared
2 81 (28.22%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.27%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (5.92%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.92%) Azure Certification
4 17 (5.92%) CCNP
5 13 (4.53%) Degree
5 13 (4.53%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.14%) CCIE
8 6 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.39%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.39%) VCAP
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.05%) CCSE
10 3 (1.05%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.70%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.79%) QA
2 6 (2.09%) NIST
3 4 (1.39%) GDPR
3 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.05%) NCSC
5 2 (0.70%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.70%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.70%) PSD2
5 2 (0.70%) SEPA
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (28.22%) Docker
2 21 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.48%) Hyper-V
5 9 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (3.14%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.44%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.44%) vSphere
7 3 (1.05%) NFS
8 2 (0.70%) Ceph
8 2 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.70%) IAG
8 2 (0.70%) Lustre
8 2 (0.70%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.70%) Postfix
8 2 (0.70%) Sendmail
8 2 (0.70%) Varnish
8 2 (0.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 168 (58.54%) Terraform
2 110 (38.33%) Kubernetes
3 51 (17.77%) Grafana
4 49 (17.07%) Prometheus
5 30 (10.45%) Puppet
6 15 (5.23%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.53%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.48%) Argo
9 9 (3.14%) Salt
10 8 (2.79%) Kibana
11 7 (2.44%) SCCM
11 7 (2.44%) vMotion
12 6 (2.09%) SCOM
13 4 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.39%) Rancher
14 3 (1.05%) HAProxy
14 3 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (1.05%) Karpenter
14 3 (1.05%) Packer
14 3 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 35 (12.20%) Cisco
2 33 (11.50%) Microsoft
3 31 (10.80%) Arista
4 29 (10.10%) Splunk
5 28 (9.76%) VMware
6 22 (7.67%) Palo Alto
7 19 (6.62%) F5
8 16 (5.57%) Google
8 16 (5.57%) Red Hat
9 14 (4.88%) Fortinet
9 14 (4.88%) ServiceNow
10 11 (3.83%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.83%) NetApp
11 10 (3.48%) Aruba
11 10 (3.48%) Juniper
11 10 (3.48%) Oracle
12 9 (3.14%) Citrix
12 9 (3.14%) Dynatrace
12 9 (3.14%) IBM
13 7 (2.44%) Zscaler