Ansible Contracts in London

Ansible
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 114 80
Rank change year-on-year +20 -34 -8
Contract jobs citing Ansible 384 395 771
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.93% 2.24% 3.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.77% 16.72% 18.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 267 575
10th Percentile £425 £385 £475
25th Percentile £495 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% +2.70%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £798
90th Percentile £775 £780 £816
England median daily rate £550 £550 £601
% change year-on-year - -8.41% +0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £37.15 - £57.50
25th Percentile £38.50 - £68.13
Median hourly rate £42.25 - £74.00
75th Percentile £52.06 - £86.50
90th Percentile £56.23 - £90.00
England median hourly rate £56.00 £74.00 £73.36
% change year-on-year -24.32% +0.88% +24.86%

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 2,046 2,362 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.61% 13.40% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,351 1,701 2,995
10th Percentile £350 £335 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -10.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £713
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 36 48
10th Percentile £26.45 £20.00 £22.43
25th Percentile £27.88 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -60.94% +167.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £41.63 £82.63
90th Percentile £62.95 £69.13 £90.00
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in London

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in London.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in London

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in London

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in London.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in London

Ansible
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Ansible in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Ansible in London

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 3 July 2025. 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 +24 58 £550 -15.38% 111
South London +2 9 £600 -4.00% 10
East London +17 3 £675 +50.00% 4
West London +7 3 £415 +13.70% 21
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (3.39%) Confluence
2 8 (2.08%) Apache
2 8 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.30%) nginx
4 4 (1.04%) JBoss
5 3 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.52%) IIS
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.26%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.26%) Mule
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Endur
1 2 (0.52%) ION MarketView
1 2 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 190 (49.48%) AWS
2 117 (30.47%) Azure
3 70 (18.23%) GCP
4 58 (15.10%) GitHub
5 41 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (8.85%) OpenShift
7 23 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (5.99%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (5.21%) PaaS
10 19 (4.95%) Serverless
11 17 (4.43%) IaaS
12 16 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (3.65%) Entra ID
14 13 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (2.86%) SaaS
16 10 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 9 (2.34%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (20.31%) Firewall
2 46 (11.98%) BGP
3 42 (10.94%) DNS
4 41 (10.68%) OSPF
5 37 (9.64%) VPN
6 28 (7.29%) TCP/IP
7 24 (6.25%) Multicast
8 20 (5.21%) WAN
9 19 (4.95%) MPLS
10 18 (4.69%) Network Security
11 14 (3.65%) IPsec
12 13 (3.39%) Cisco Nexus
13 12 (3.13%) DHCP
13 12 (3.13%) Internet
13 12 (3.13%) LAN
14 11 (2.86%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (2.86%) VXLAN
15 10 (2.60%) HTTP
16 9 (2.34%) SAN
16 9 (2.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.86%) MySQL
4 9 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.30%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.04%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.78%) Big Data
9 3 (0.78%) Hazelcast
9 3 (0.78%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.78%) Redis
10 2 (0.52%) CockroachDB
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 109 (28.39%) Jenkins
2 79 (20.57%) Git
3 66 (17.19%) GitLab
4 23 (5.99%) JIRA
5 17 (4.43%) Artifactory
6 16 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (2.86%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.60%) Maven
9 7 (1.82%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.82%) Subversion
10 6 (1.56%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.56%) Gradle
10 6 (1.56%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.30%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.04%) git-flow
13 3 (0.78%) JMeter
13 3 (0.78%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.52%) Ant
14 2 (0.52%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.52%) IntelliJ
General
1 100 (26.04%) Finance
2 90 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 51 (13.28%) Banking
4 44 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.95%) Investment Banking
7 18 (4.69%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.56%) Multimedia
10 6 (1.56%) Retail
11 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.04%) Law
12 3 (0.78%) Front Office
12 3 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.52%) Automotive
13 2 (0.52%) Back Office
13 2 (0.52%) Electronics
13 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (20.57%) Network Engineer
2 72 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 47 (12.24%) Senior
4 42 (10.94%) Architect
4 42 (10.94%) Developer
5 41 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
6 24 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 24 (6.25%) Python Engineer
7 22 (5.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 21 (5.47%) Cisco Engineer
9 20 (5.21%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 20 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
10 19 (4.95%) Lead
10 19 (4.95%) Python Developer
11 18 (4.69%) Linux Engineer
12 17 (4.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 14 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 13 (3.39%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.03%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (6.51%) REST
3 22 (5.73%) React
4 20 (5.21%) Kafka
5 14 (3.65%) Django
5 14 (3.65%) FastAPI
5 14 (3.65%) Spring
6 13 (3.39%) .NET
7 11 (2.86%) JSON
8 10 (2.60%) XML
9 9 (2.34%) RESTful
10 8 (2.08%) Node.js
10 8 (2.08%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (1.56%) OAuth
12 6 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (1.56%) YAML
13 5 (1.30%) LDAP
13 5 (1.30%) OpenID
13 5 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.03%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.47%) Public Cloud
4 20 (5.21%) Hedge funds
5 17 (4.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (2.86%) Clustering
7 10 (2.60%) Replication
8 7 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.04%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.78%) Podcast
12 3 (0.78%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 136 (35.42%) Linux
2 34 (8.85%) Windows
3 25 (6.51%) Unix
4 24 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (3.65%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.08%) CentOS
7 6 (1.56%) Rocky
7 6 (1.56%) Solaris
8 5 (1.30%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.30%) VMS
9 4 (1.04%) SUSE
10 3 (0.78%) Debian
10 3 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.26%) AIX
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (49.22%) DevOps
2 165 (42.97%) CI/CD
3 135 (35.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (24.74%) Configuration Management
5 90 (23.44%) Containerisation
6 73 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
7 63 (16.41%) Agile
8 52 (13.54%) High Availability
9 47 (12.24%) Infrastructure Automation
10 45 (11.72%) Migration
11 39 (10.16%) Task Automation
12 37 (9.64%) Continuous Integration
13 32 (8.33%) Test Automation
14 31 (8.07%) Deployment Automation
15 29 (7.55%) Observability
16 28 (7.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 25 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
17 25 (6.51%) Software Engineering
18 24 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
18 24 (6.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 258 (67.19%) Python
2 82 (21.35%) Bash
3 52 (13.54%) Java
4 45 (11.72%) PowerShell
5 36 (9.38%) Go
5 36 (9.38%) SQL
6 25 (6.51%) C#
7 20 (5.21%) Perl
8 17 (4.43%) Shell Script
9 16 (4.17%) TypeScript
10 15 (3.91%) JavaScript
11 13 (3.39%) Groovy
12 11 (2.86%) C++
13 7 (1.82%) Ruby
14 5 (1.30%) Bicep
14 5 (1.30%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.78%) C
15 3 (0.78%) PHP
16 2 (0.52%) Scala
17 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 92 (23.96%) Security Cleared
2 71 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 38 (9.90%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (8.07%) CCNP
5 30 (7.81%) Degree
6 18 (4.69%) DV Cleared
7 17 (4.43%) AWS Certification
8 15 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.65%) CCIE
10 9 (2.34%) CCNA
11 7 (1.82%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.30%) JNCIA
14 4 (1.04%) OCP
14 4 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.78%) JNCIS
15 3 (0.78%) VCAP
16 2 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
16 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.43%) QA
2 10 (2.60%) GDPR
3 9 (2.34%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.78%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.78%) SLA
6 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 112 (29.17%) Docker
2 17 (4.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.91%) Active Directory
4 12 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.08%) Firmware
6 7 (1.82%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.04%) iptables
9 3 (0.78%) FreeRADIUS
9 3 (0.78%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.52%) Ceph
10 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.26%) HDFS
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.26%) Veritas File System
11 1 (0.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.26%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 201 (52.34%) Terraform
2 177 (46.09%) Kubernetes
3 77 (20.05%) Puppet
4 43 (11.20%) Grafana
5 40 (10.42%) Progress Chef
5 40 (10.42%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.13%) Rancher
7 11 (2.86%) Podman
8 9 (2.34%) Nagios
8 9 (2.34%) Packer
9 8 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
10 7 (1.82%) Argo
10 7 (1.82%) Salt
11 6 (1.56%) Istio
11 6 (1.56%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.30%) Netcool
12 5 (1.30%) PowerCLI
12 5 (1.30%) Tivoli
12 5 (1.30%) vCenter Server
13 4 (1.04%) QRadar
Vendors
1 56 (14.58%) Cisco
2 42 (10.94%) Arista
3 37 (9.64%) VMware
4 35 (9.11%) Red Hat
5 32 (8.33%) Oracle
6 28 (7.29%) Microsoft
7 26 (6.77%) Splunk
8 24 (6.25%) F5
8 24 (6.25%) Fortinet
9 19 (4.95%) CheckPoint
10 17 (4.43%) Google
11 13 (3.39%) ServiceNow
12 12 (3.13%) Palo Alto
13 10 (2.60%) IBM
13 10 (2.60%) SolarWinds
14 9 (2.34%) EMC
15 8 (2.08%) CyberArk
16 7 (1.82%) Dell
16 7 (1.82%) Juniper
17 6 (1.56%) Hitachi