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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 87 78
Rank change year-on-year -36 -9 -13
Contract jobs citing Ansible 326 444 552
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.28% 2.85% 2.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.47% 19.35% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 293 410
10th Percentile £350 £463 £418
25th Percentile £457 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +6.96% -11.54%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £810 £801
England median daily rate £525 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% -8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £74.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% -4.11%

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 2,253 2,294 2,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.76% 14.70% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,509 1,506 2,095
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £675
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -3.39% -3.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 32
10th Percentile £22.35 £23.07 £21.33
25th Percentile £25.60 £23.80 £26.88
Median hourly rate £50.75 £27.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.96% -54.24% +136.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £63.50 £67.75
90th Percentile £65.35 £102.40 £84.13
England median hourly rate £39.50 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +21.54% -29.62% +34.83%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 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 -9 51 £600 -4.00% 27
South London -4 9 £540 -25.52% 8
West London -9 7 £415 -19.02% 3
East London +5 3 - - 9
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 18 (5.52%) Confluence
2 7 (2.15%) Apache
3 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.92%) Appian
4 3 (0.92%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.92%) Hyperledger
4 3 (0.92%) nginx
4 3 (0.92%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.31%) FileNet
6 1 (0.31%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.31%) Mule
Applications
1 6 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.23%) Endur
2 3 (0.92%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 142 (43.56%) AWS
2 80 (24.54%) Azure
3 56 (17.18%) GitHub
4 48 (14.72%) GCP
5 38 (11.66%) Amazon S3
6 33 (10.12%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (9.51%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (7.67%) OpenShift
10 24 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (7.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (6.44%) Serverless
12 18 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
14 15 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (3.07%) Amazon ELB
16 10 (3.07%) IaaS
17 9 (2.76%) Apigee
17 9 (2.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 62 (19.02%) Firewall
2 35 (10.74%) TCP/IP
3 34 (10.43%) VPN
4 32 (9.82%) BGP
4 32 (9.82%) DNS
5 27 (8.28%) OSPF
6 26 (7.98%) Network Security
7 25 (7.67%) SSL
8 18 (5.52%) WAN
9 17 (5.21%) SD-WAN
10 15 (4.60%) VXLAN
11 14 (4.29%) Ethernet VPN
12 12 (3.68%) HTTP
13 10 (3.07%) MPLS
14 9 (2.76%) Multicast
15 8 (2.45%) DHCP
15 8 (2.45%) LAN
16 6 (1.84%) Cisco Nexus
16 6 (1.84%) SSH
17 4 (1.23%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.99%) MySQL
3 10 (3.07%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.76%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.15%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.84%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.84%) Redis
7 5 (1.53%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.92%) Big Data
9 3 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.92%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.92%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.61%) ImageNet
10 2 (0.61%) Impala
10 2 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 95 (29.14%) Jenkins
2 68 (20.86%) Git
3 64 (19.63%) GitLab
4 24 (7.36%) JIRA
5 13 (3.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (3.07%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.76%) Artifactory
8 8 (2.45%) Robot Framework
8 8 (2.45%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.15%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.84%) JUnit
10 6 (1.84%) Subversion
11 5 (1.53%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.23%) JMeter
13 3 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.92%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.92%) Gradle
13 3 (0.92%) Maven
13 3 (0.92%) RStudio
13 3 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 104 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 100 (30.67%) Finance
3 43 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.28%) Banking
5 23 (7.06%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.52%) Financial Institution
7 17 (5.21%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.53%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.23%) Back Office
10 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.92%) Automotive
11 3 (0.92%) Military
11 3 (0.92%) Social Science
12 2 (0.61%) Electronics
12 2 (0.61%) International Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.61%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Retail
12 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (20.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (15.34%) Network Engineer
3 43 (13.19%) Senior
4 33 (10.12%) Architect
5 31 (9.51%) Automation Engineer
6 30 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (8.59%) Developer
8 26 (7.98%) Python Engineer
9 20 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (4.60%) Consultant
10 15 (4.60%) IP Network Engineer
10 15 (4.60%) Switch Engineer
11 14 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (4.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.37%) Java Developer
15 10 (3.07%) Lead
15 10 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
16 9 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.67%) Kafka
2 17 (5.21%) REST
3 16 (4.91%) Node.js
4 15 (4.60%) YAML
5 13 (3.99%) OAuth
6 11 (3.37%) JSON
6 11 (3.37%) Spring
7 8 (2.45%) RESTful
8 7 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.15%) Jinja
8 7 (2.15%) JWT
8 7 (2.15%) Middleware
8 7 (2.15%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.15%) OpenID
8 7 (2.15%) Swagger
8 7 (2.15%) XML
9 6 (1.84%) Keycloak
10 5 (1.53%) Hibernate
10 5 (1.53%) React
10 5 (1.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.90%) Cloud Native
2 27 (8.28%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.83%) Hedge funds
4 17 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (4.60%) Private Cloud
6 13 (3.99%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (3.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.76%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.76%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.15%) Replication
11 6 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.84%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.53%) Clustering
12 5 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.53%) Grid Computing
12 5 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 104 (31.90%) Linux
2 34 (10.43%) Windows
3 32 (9.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (7.98%) Unix
5 14 (4.29%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.76%) CentOS
7 8 (2.45%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.84%) Solaris
9 2 (0.61%) AIX
9 2 (0.61%) Debian
9 2 (0.61%) VMS
10 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (50.61%) DevOps
2 163 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 138 (42.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (28.53%) Containerisation
5 71 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (18.40%) Agile
7 57 (17.48%) Infrastructure Automation
8 50 (15.34%) High Availability
9 41 (12.58%) Configuration Management
10 37 (11.35%) Migration
11 35 (10.74%) Observability
12 31 (9.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 31 (9.51%) Test Automation
13 29 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (8.59%) DevSecOps
15 24 (7.36%) Microservices
16 22 (6.75%) Low Latency
16 22 (6.75%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (6.75%) Software Engineering
17 19 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 196 (60.12%) Python
2 79 (24.23%) Bash
3 36 (11.04%) Java
4 31 (9.51%) PowerShell
5 23 (7.06%) SQL
6 22 (6.75%) Go
7 15 (4.60%) Perl
8 13 (3.99%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.37%) C++
9 11 (3.37%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.45%) C#
11 6 (1.84%) PHP
12 4 (1.23%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.92%) Groovy
13 3 (0.92%) Rust
14 2 (0.61%) Ruby
15 1 (0.31%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.31%) C
15 1 (0.31%) REXX
15 1 (0.31%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (20.86%) Security Cleared
2 59 (18.10%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.67%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (5.83%) CCNP
5 14 (4.29%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.99%) CCIE
6 13 (3.99%) Degree
7 10 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.07%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.15%) RHCE
10 6 (1.84%) CCNA
10 6 (1.84%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.53%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.23%) CCSE
12 4 (1.23%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.76%) GDPR
2 7 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.15%) QA
3 5 (1.53%) NIST
3 5 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.61%) NCSC
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (30.67%) Docker
2 27 (8.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.99%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.45%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.45%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.84%) KVM
7 5 (1.53%) NFS
7 5 (1.53%) vSphere
8 4 (1.23%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.23%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.61%) HDFS
9 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.61%) Lustre
9 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.61%) Xen
10 1 (0.31%) Ceph
10 1 (0.31%) GPFS
10 1 (0.31%) iptables
Systems Management
1 183 (56.13%) Terraform
2 97 (29.75%) Kubernetes
3 37 (11.35%) Grafana
4 35 (10.74%) Prometheus
5 27 (8.28%) Puppet
6 25 (7.67%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.07%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (2.76%) SCCM
9 8 (2.45%) Argo
10 7 (2.15%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.84%) Kibana
11 6 (1.84%) SCOM
11 6 (1.84%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.53%) Nagios
12 5 (1.53%) Packer
12 5 (1.53%) Rancher
13 4 (1.23%) QRadar
13 4 (1.23%) vRealize
14 3 (0.92%) Istio
Vendors
1 35 (10.74%) Arista
1 35 (10.74%) VMware
2 33 (10.12%) Cisco
3 32 (9.82%) Splunk
4 26 (7.98%) F5
4 26 (7.98%) Red Hat
5 21 (6.44%) Palo Alto
6 19 (5.83%) Microsoft
7 17 (5.21%) CheckPoint
8 16 (4.91%) Oracle
9 15 (4.60%) Google
10 13 (3.99%) ServiceNow
11 11 (3.37%) CyberArk
11 11 (3.37%) Fortinet
11 11 (3.37%) Juniper
12 10 (3.07%) Dynatrace
13 9 (2.76%) Zscaler
14 7 (2.15%) Citrix
15 6 (1.84%) Bloomberg
15 6 (1.84%) MuleSoft