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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 81 106
Rank change year-on-year -78 +25 -39
Contract jobs citing Ansible 288 417 398
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.71% 3.30% 2.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.63% 20.52% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 268 272
10th Percentile £368 £440 £396
25th Percentile £463 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £646 £688 £669
90th Percentile £765 £881 £763
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -12.00%
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% -17.24%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £79.00 £75.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +5.33% +20.97% -14.48%

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 2,476 2,032 2,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.70% 16.09% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 1,400 1,612
10th Percentile £350 £365 £325
25th Percentile £429 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £790 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 41
10th Percentile £22.07 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.73 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +47.88% +7.84% -60.45%
75th Percentile £63.32 £55.00 £58.00
90th Percentile - £62.80 £62.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £27.88
% change year-on-year +107.55% -4.96% -50.43%

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 31 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 31 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 -36 41 £563 +2.27% 19
South London -17 10 £530 -20.00% 1
West London - 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 15 (5.21%) Confluence
2 4 (1.39%) Apache
2 4 (1.39%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.04%) JBoss
3 3 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
4 2 (0.69%) 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%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 133 (46.18%) AWS
2 101 (35.07%) Azure
3 75 (26.04%) GitHub
4 51 (17.71%) GCP
5 38 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (11.46%) Amazon S3
8 29 (10.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (9.03%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (9.03%) Serverless
10 24 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (7.99%) OpenShift
12 22 (7.64%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (4.51%) IaaS
17 11 (3.82%) Azure AKS
18 7 (2.43%) Amazon ECR
18 7 (2.43%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 66 (22.92%) Firewall
2 40 (13.89%) VPN
3 32 (11.11%) WAN
4 30 (10.42%) BGP
5 29 (10.07%) DNS
6 20 (6.94%) Network Security
6 20 (6.94%) OSPF
7 19 (6.60%) SD-WAN
8 17 (5.90%) TCP/IP
9 15 (5.21%) VXLAN
10 13 (4.51%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (4.17%) MPLS
11 12 (4.17%) Multicast
12 11 (3.82%) DHCP
13 10 (3.47%) LAN
14 8 (2.78%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (2.78%) Ethernet
14 8 (2.78%) NetScaler
14 8 (2.78%) SAN
14 8 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.82%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.13%) MySQL
5 6 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.04%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.04%) Redis
8 2 (0.69%) Big Data
8 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.69%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.69%) ImageNet
8 2 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.69%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (0.69%) Tableau
9 1 (0.35%) Impala
9 1 (0.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 80 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 58 (20.14%) GitLab
3 53 (18.40%) Git
4 21 (7.29%) JIRA
5 7 (2.43%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.43%) JUnit
5 7 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.74%) Terragrunt
7 4 (1.39%) Ant
7 4 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.39%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.39%) Liquibase
7 4 (1.39%) Snyk
7 4 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.04%) Maven
9 2 (0.69%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.69%) Gatling
9 2 (0.69%) Mockito
9 2 (0.69%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.69%) RStudio
General
1 58 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.97%) Finance
3 24 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.86%) Banking
5 12 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.08%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.74%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Front Office
10 2 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.69%) Social Science
11 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Law
11 1 (0.35%) Military
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 66 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (13.89%) Senior
3 36 (12.50%) Architect
4 34 (11.81%) Network Engineer
5 31 (10.76%) Developer
6 24 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 22 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
8 20 (6.94%) Site Engineer
9 19 (6.60%) Java Developer
10 17 (5.90%) Automation Engineer
11 16 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (4.86%) Lead
13 13 (4.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (4.51%) Senior Network Engineer
14 11 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (3.47%) AWS Architect
16 8 (2.78%) Cloud Engineer
16 8 (2.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.21%) Kafka
1 15 (5.21%) REST
2 10 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (3.47%) Node.js
2 10 (3.47%) Spring
3 9 (3.13%) OAuth
4 8 (2.78%) YAML
5 7 (2.43%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.43%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (2.08%) JWT
6 6 (2.08%) Middleware
6 6 (2.08%) Web Services
7 5 (1.74%) AWS CDK
7 5 (1.74%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.39%) Jinja
8 4 (1.39%) JSON
8 4 (1.39%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (1.04%) OpenID
9 3 (1.04%) RESTful
9 3 (1.04%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.68%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.82%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (3.13%) PKI
8 7 (2.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (2.08%) Clustering
9 6 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.74%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.74%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.39%) Hedge funds
11 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
12 3 (1.04%) CMDB
12 3 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.69%) Celerra
13 2 (0.69%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 93 (32.29%) Linux
2 33 (11.46%) Windows
3 21 (7.29%) Unix
4 19 (6.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.86%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.51%) VMS
7 6 (2.08%) Windows Server 2003
8 5 (1.74%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.69%) AIX
9 2 (0.69%) CentOS
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Rocky
10 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.92%) CI/CD
1 138 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
2 136 (47.22%) DevOps
3 60 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 57 (19.79%) Agile
5 41 (14.24%) Configuration Management
5 41 (14.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 40 (13.89%) Migration
7 39 (13.54%) Observability
8 38 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (10.42%) Infrastructure Automation
11 29 (10.07%) High Availability
11 29 (10.07%) Load Balancing
12 28 (9.72%) Mentoring
13 27 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (9.03%) Platform Engineering
15 25 (8.68%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (8.33%) ITIL
17 23 (7.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 127 (44.10%) Python
2 71 (24.65%) Bash
3 35 (12.15%) PowerShell
4 32 (11.11%) Java
5 18 (6.25%) SQL
6 9 (3.13%) Go
7 8 (2.78%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.74%) Bicep
8 5 (1.74%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.39%) Perl
10 3 (1.04%) C++
10 3 (1.04%) Ruby
11 2 (0.69%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.69%) C
11 2 (0.69%) PHP
12 1 (0.35%) C#
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.35%) Rust
12 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 89 (30.90%) Security Cleared
2 76 (26.39%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.90%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 16 (5.56%) CCNP
6 13 (4.51%) Degree
7 12 (4.17%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (3.13%) CCIE
10 7 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.74%) VCAP
12 4 (1.39%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.04%) CCSE
13 3 (1.04%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.69%) JNCIS
14 2 (0.69%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.43%) QA
2 4 (1.39%) GDPR
2 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.39%) NIST
3 3 (1.04%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.69%) PSD2
4 2 (0.69%) SEPA
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (27.78%) Docker
2 20 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.90%) Active Directory
4 15 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.47%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.13%) vSphere
7 8 (2.78%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.08%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.08%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.69%) Ceph
9 2 (0.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.69%) IAG
9 2 (0.69%) KVM
9 2 (0.69%) Lustre
9 2 (0.69%) NFS
9 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.69%) Xen
10 1 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 175 (60.76%) Terraform
2 104 (36.11%) Kubernetes
3 49 (17.01%) Grafana
4 45 (15.63%) Prometheus
5 26 (9.03%) Puppet
6 15 (5.21%) Progress Chef
7 12 (4.17%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.47%) Argo
9 7 (2.43%) Kibana
9 7 (2.43%) Salt
9 7 (2.43%) SCCM
10 6 (2.08%) SCOM
10 6 (2.08%) vMotion
11 5 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.39%) Rancher
13 3 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.04%) Karpenter
13 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.04%) Packer
13 3 (1.04%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 40 (13.89%) Cisco
2 31 (10.76%) Arista
3 29 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 29 (10.07%) Splunk
4 28 (9.72%) VMware
5 22 (7.64%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.94%) F5
7 17 (5.90%) Red Hat
8 16 (5.56%) Google
9 15 (5.21%) Aruba
10 14 (4.86%) Fortinet
11 13 (4.51%) ServiceNow
12 12 (4.17%) CheckPoint
13 10 (3.47%) Juniper
13 10 (3.47%) NetApp
14 9 (3.13%) Citrix
14 9 (3.13%) Dynatrace
14 9 (3.13%) IBM
15 8 (2.78%) Oracle
15 8 (2.78%) Zscaler