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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 96 110
Rank change year-on-year -48 +14 -29
Contract jobs citing Ansible 366 385 397
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 2.84% 2.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.56% 18.32% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 229 265
10th Percentile £413 £413 £381
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - -8.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £37.15 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £38.50 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £42.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £52.06 -
90th Percentile - £56.23 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% +1.37%

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 2,700 2,102 2,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.63% 15.50% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 1,387 1,693
10th Percentile £358 £350 £330
25th Percentile £440 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 33
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.23 £20.50
25th Percentile £39.88 £26.68 £22.08
Median hourly rate £62.75 £42.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.52% +69.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.88 £50.25
90th Percentile - £63.25 £70.40
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.12% +85.00% -45.45%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -36 38 £550 - 22
South London -15 7 £535 -12.30% 3
West London -8 6 £500 +20.48% 3
East London -1 2 £551 -18.44% 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 19 (5.19%) Confluence
2 9 (2.46%) Apache
3 7 (1.91%) nginx
4 5 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.09%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.09%) WordPress
6 3 (0.82%) JBoss
6 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.55%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.55%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.55%) CMS
7 2 (0.55%) Mule
7 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) MTS
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 172 (46.99%) AWS
2 130 (35.52%) Azure
3 77 (21.04%) GitHub
4 43 (11.75%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (10.93%) GCP
6 36 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
7 31 (8.47%) Datadog
8 29 (7.92%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (7.65%) Amazon S3
9 28 (7.65%) OpenShift
10 27 (7.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (6.83%) Serverless
12 24 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (5.74%) Entra ID
15 18 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (4.92%) Azure AKS
16 14 (3.83%) PaaS
17 13 (3.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (19.67%) Firewall
2 42 (11.48%) BGP
3 41 (11.20%) VPN
4 38 (10.38%) DNS
5 30 (8.20%) WAN
6 27 (7.38%) TCP/IP
7 24 (6.56%) OSPF
8 22 (6.01%) Network Security
9 17 (4.64%) VLAN
10 16 (4.37%) DHCP
11 15 (4.10%) VXLAN
12 13 (3.55%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (3.55%) SSL
12 13 (3.55%) Wireless
13 12 (3.28%) MPLS
14 11 (3.01%) IOS XR
15 10 (2.73%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (2.73%) Multicast
15 10 (2.73%) NX-OS
16 9 (2.46%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
1 15 (4.10%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.46%) Redis
4 7 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (1.91%) Big Data
4 7 (1.91%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (1.64%) MySQL
5 6 (1.64%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (1.37%) Power BI
7 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.09%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.55%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.55%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 94 (25.68%) Jenkins
2 82 (22.40%) Git
3 72 (19.67%) GitLab
4 28 (7.65%) JIRA
5 9 (2.46%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.19%) Snyk
6 8 (2.19%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.91%) Postman
8 6 (1.64%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.64%) JMeter
8 6 (1.64%) JUnit
8 6 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.37%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.09%) Ant
10 4 (1.09%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.82%) Mockito
12 2 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.55%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.55%) Gradle
12 2 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 75 (20.49%) Finance
2 62 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 33 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.92%) Banking
6 15 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.46%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.91%) Law
8 7 (1.91%) Retail
9 6 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.37%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.37%) Police
11 4 (1.09%) Front Office
11 4 (1.09%) Military
11 4 (1.09%) Publishing
11 4 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.82%) Automotive
12 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 87 (23.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 49 (13.39%) Senior
3 44 (12.02%) Architect
4 43 (11.75%) Network Engineer
5 31 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
6 30 (8.20%) Developer
7 25 (6.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (6.01%) Automation Engineer
8 22 (6.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (5.74%) Lead
10 20 (5.46%) Linux Engineer
10 20 (5.46%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.92%) Java Developer
12 17 (4.64%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (4.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.10%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
17 12 (3.28%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.56%) REST
2 23 (6.28%) Kafka
3 16 (4.37%) YAML
4 13 (3.55%) .NET
4 13 (3.55%) Spring
5 12 (3.28%) ARM Templates
5 12 (3.28%) Middleware
6 10 (2.73%) React
7 9 (2.46%) JSON
8 8 (2.19%) cloud-init
8 8 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (1.91%) JMS
9 7 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.91%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.91%) Swagger
10 6 (1.64%) RESTful
10 6 (1.64%) SAML
10 6 (1.64%) Web Services
11 5 (1.37%) Node.js
11 5 (1.37%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.66%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.75%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.46%) PKI
5 17 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.64%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.10%) Onboarding
7 14 (3.83%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.55%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.19%) Clustering
10 8 (2.19%) CMDB
10 8 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (2.19%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
12 5 (1.37%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.37%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.09%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 134 (36.61%) Linux
2 52 (14.21%) Windows
3 41 (11.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (7.65%) Ubuntu
5 24 (6.56%) Unix
6 22 (6.01%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.09%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.55%) CentOS
9 2 (0.55%) Debian
9 2 (0.55%) Solaris
9 2 (0.55%) VMS
10 1 (0.27%) AIX
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.27%) Rocky
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (57.38%) DevOps
2 184 (50.27%) CI/CD
3 168 (45.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (24.04%) Containerisation
5 79 (21.58%) Configuration Management
6 77 (21.04%) Agile
7 62 (16.94%) Observability
8 60 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
9 53 (14.48%) AI
10 48 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 47 (12.84%) Migration
12 41 (11.20%) Problem-Solving
13 40 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (10.93%) Infrastructure Automation
14 35 (9.56%) Cloud Security
15 34 (9.29%) Mentoring
16 33 (9.02%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (8.74%) Test Automation
18 31 (8.47%) Runbook
18 31 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 195 (53.28%) Python
2 106 (28.96%) Bash
3 74 (20.22%) PowerShell
4 50 (13.66%) Java
5 24 (6.56%) SQL
6 15 (4.10%) Shell Script
7 13 (3.55%) Bicep
7 13 (3.55%) JavaScript
8 12 (3.28%) Go
9 7 (1.91%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.91%) Ruby
10 6 (1.64%) C#
11 5 (1.37%) Perl
12 4 (1.09%) C
12 4 (1.09%) Groovy
13 3 (0.82%) C++
14 2 (0.55%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.55%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 123 (33.61%) Security Cleared
2 103 (28.14%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.65%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (7.10%) Degree
5 24 (6.56%) CCNP
6 19 (5.19%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.37%) AWS Certification
7 16 (4.37%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.73%) CCIE
10 9 (2.46%) CISSP
11 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.09%) CCNA
14 4 (1.09%) ISSAP
14 4 (1.09%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.09%) JNCIS
15 3 (0.82%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.83%) QA
2 9 (2.46%) NIST
3 6 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.82%) GDPR
4 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.55%) NCSC
5 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 85 (23.22%) Docker
2 32 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.28%) Active Directory
4 17 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.83%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.01%) Hyper-V
6 11 (3.01%) vSphere
7 8 (2.19%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.91%) BitLocker
8 7 (1.91%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.64%) NFS
10 4 (1.09%) IAG
10 4 (1.09%) Postfix
10 4 (1.09%) Varnish
11 3 (0.82%) KVM
11 3 (0.82%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.82%) Squid
11 3 (0.82%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 209 (57.10%) Terraform
2 152 (41.53%) Kubernetes
3 75 (20.49%) Prometheus
4 71 (19.40%) Grafana
5 39 (10.66%) Puppet
6 16 (4.37%) Packer
7 14 (3.83%) vCenter Server
8 13 (3.55%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.73%) FortiGate
9 10 (2.73%) systemd
10 8 (2.19%) Salt
11 7 (1.91%) vMotion
12 6 (1.64%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (1.37%) Data Guard
13 5 (1.37%) Nagios
13 5 (1.37%) SELinux
13 5 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.37%) vRealize
14 4 (1.09%) Podman
14 4 (1.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (14.75%) Cisco
2 52 (14.21%) Microsoft
3 40 (10.93%) VMware
4 34 (9.29%) Palo Alto
5 29 (7.92%) Arista
5 29 (7.92%) Splunk
6 26 (7.10%) Fortinet
7 22 (6.01%) F5
8 20 (5.46%) Red Hat
9 19 (5.19%) Oracle
10 18 (4.92%) ServiceNow
11 15 (4.10%) Juniper
12 13 (3.55%) Google
13 11 (3.01%) Zscaler
14 10 (2.73%) NetApp
14 10 (2.73%) Okta
15 9 (2.46%) Aruba
15 9 (2.46%) Dynatrace
16 8 (2.19%) IBM
17 7 (1.91%) Citrix