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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 121 98
Rank change year-on-year -21 -23 -21
Contract jobs citing Ansible 420 324 415
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 2.41% 2.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.34% 18.23% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 199 275
10th Percentile £418 £400 £415
25th Percentile £475 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +2.16% -7.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £772 £810
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £49.78 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £57.44 £49.50 -
90th Percentile £59.13 £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.22 £48.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +48.36% -35.14% -3.31%

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 2,290 1,777 2,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.25% 13.19% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,531 1,154 1,377
10th Percentile £322 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -3.14% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 23
10th Percentile £24.02 £24.00 £21.16
25th Percentile £32.88 £26.34 £23.80
Median hourly rate £49.00 £33.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.19% +25.00% -55.00%
75th Percentile £78.13 £59.81 £63.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.41 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.47 £34.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +98.44% -13.38% -21.50%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -21 45 £550 -8.33% 40
South London -1 12 £568 -8.47% 2
West London -20 8 £519 +25.00% 14
East London +3 5 £525 -22.22% 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 21 (5.00%) Confluence
2 9 (2.14%) Apache
3 7 (1.67%) nginx
4 5 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.19%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.95%) WordPress
6 3 (0.71%) CMS
7 2 (0.48%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.48%) CICS
7 2 (0.48%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.48%) Mule
7 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) MTS
8 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 199 (47.38%) AWS
2 159 (37.86%) Azure
3 97 (23.10%) GitHub
4 64 (15.24%) GCP
5 55 (13.10%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (10.24%) OpenShift
8 40 (9.52%) Datadog
9 31 (7.38%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (6.90%) Serverless
12 28 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (6.43%) Amazon S3
14 26 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (5.71%) Azure AKS
16 21 (5.00%) Entra ID
17 19 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
18 11 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (2.62%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 71 (16.90%) Firewall
2 43 (10.24%) BGP
3 40 (9.52%) VPN
4 39 (9.29%) DNS
5 32 (7.62%) Network Security
6 29 (6.90%) WAN
7 27 (6.43%) TCP/IP
8 20 (4.76%) OSPF
8 20 (4.76%) SSL
9 18 (4.29%) DHCP
9 18 (4.29%) VLAN
10 12 (2.86%) NX-OS
10 12 (2.86%) SD-WAN
11 11 (2.62%) SSH
11 11 (2.62%) Wireless
12 10 (2.38%) MPLS
12 10 (2.38%) VXLAN
13 9 (2.14%) Ethernet VPN
14 8 (1.90%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (1.90%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.86%) Oracle Database
6 11 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (2.38%) MySQL
8 9 (2.14%) Power BI
8 9 (2.14%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.90%) Redis
10 7 (1.67%) Big Data
11 6 (1.43%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.19%) ObjectStore
13 4 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.95%) Metadata
13 4 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 102 (24.29%) Jenkins
2 90 (21.43%) Git
3 88 (20.95%) GitLab
4 25 (5.95%) JIRA
5 15 (3.57%) SonarQube
6 13 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 12 (2.86%) Artifactory
8 9 (2.14%) Selenium
8 9 (2.14%) Snyk
9 7 (1.67%) JMeter
9 7 (1.67%) Postman
9 7 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.95%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.95%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.95%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.71%) GoCD
12 3 (0.71%) Mockito
12 3 (0.71%) REST Assured
General
1 109 (25.95%) Finance
2 82 (19.52%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.24%) Banking
5 26 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.67%) Law
8 7 (1.67%) Retail
9 6 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.43%) Police
9 6 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.19%) Publishing
11 4 (0.95%) Automotive
11 4 (0.95%) Front Office
11 4 (0.95%) Military
12 3 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.48%) Legal
13 2 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 80 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (13.33%) Senior
3 50 (11.90%) Network Engineer
4 45 (10.71%) Architect
5 41 (9.76%) Lead
6 37 (8.81%) Automation Engineer
7 30 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 27 (6.43%) Developer
10 26 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (5.95%) Linux Engineer
12 19 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 18 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 15 (3.57%) Site Engineer
16 14 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (3.33%) Security Engineer
16 14 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
17 13 (3.10%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (57.86%) Terraform
2 34 (8.10%) Kafka
3 32 (7.62%) REST
4 25 (5.95%) YAML
5 22 (5.24%) Middleware
6 19 (4.52%) .NET
7 17 (4.05%) React
8 15 (3.57%) JSON
9 13 (3.10%) Spring
10 12 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (2.38%) ARM Templates
12 8 (1.90%) cloud-init
13 7 (1.67%) 802.1X
13 7 (1.67%) boto
13 7 (1.67%) JMS
13 7 (1.67%) Keycloak
13 7 (1.67%) Playwright
13 7 (1.67%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.67%) Swagger
14 6 (1.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.90%) Data Centre
2 49 (11.67%) Cloud Native
3 37 (8.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 22 (5.24%) PKI
4 22 (5.24%) Security Posture
5 19 (4.52%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (3.81%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 12 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.14%) Legacy Applications
9 9 (2.14%) Private Cloud
10 8 (1.90%) Clustering
10 8 (1.90%) CMDB
10 8 (1.90%) Distributed Applications
10 8 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.90%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.67%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.43%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 164 (39.05%) Linux
2 71 (16.90%) Windows
3 51 (12.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (7.38%) Ubuntu
5 28 (6.67%) Unix
6 24 (5.71%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.95%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.71%) CentOS
9 3 (0.71%) VMS
9 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.48%) AIX
10 2 (0.48%) Debian
10 2 (0.48%) Solaris
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.48%) zOS
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (54.29%) DevOps
2 219 (52.14%) CI/CD
3 207 (49.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 95 (22.62%) Configuration Management
6 80 (19.05%) Observability
7 77 (18.33%) Platform Engineering
8 75 (17.86%) Agile
9 73 (17.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 67 (15.95%) AI
11 66 (15.71%) Migration
12 65 (15.48%) Infrastructure Automation
13 58 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
14 57 (13.57%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (11.43%) Test Automation
16 47 (11.19%) Runbook
17 46 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
18 42 (10.00%) Validation
19 38 (9.05%) Root Cause Analysis
19 38 (9.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 253 (60.24%) Python
2 124 (29.52%) Bash
3 99 (23.57%) PowerShell
4 57 (13.57%) Java
5 34 (8.10%) SQL
6 23 (5.48%) Go
6 23 (5.48%) Shell Script
7 22 (5.24%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.05%) Bicep
9 14 (3.33%) C#
10 11 (2.62%) Perl
10 11 (2.62%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.43%) C++
11 6 (1.43%) Groovy
11 6 (1.43%) Ruby
12 4 (0.95%) C
12 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.71%) Korn
14 2 (0.48%) JCL
14 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 124 (29.52%) Security Cleared
2 102 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.67%) Degree
4 25 (5.95%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 22 (5.24%) Azure Certification
7 20 (4.76%) AWS Certification
7 20 (4.76%) CCNP
8 16 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.90%) CISSP
10 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.43%) CCIE
12 5 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.19%) CCNA
13 4 (0.95%) ISSAP
13 4 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.95%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.95%) JNCIS
13 4 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.90%) QA
2 11 (2.62%) NIST
3 9 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.71%) GDPR
5 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) SEPA
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 104 (24.76%) Docker
2 35 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (5.95%) Active Directory
4 14 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.62%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.62%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (2.62%) vSphere
6 6 (1.43%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.19%) NFS
8 4 (0.95%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.71%) Ceph
9 3 (0.71%) IAG
9 3 (0.71%) KVM
9 3 (0.71%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.71%) Postfix
9 3 (0.71%) Squid
9 3 (0.71%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.71%) Varnish
10 2 (0.48%) RACF
Systems Management
1 169 (40.24%) Kubernetes
2 78 (18.57%) Prometheus
3 74 (17.62%) Grafana
4 43 (10.24%) Puppet
5 20 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 16 (3.81%) Packer
7 14 (3.33%) FortiGate
8 13 (3.10%) systemd
9 8 (1.90%) SCCM
9 8 (1.90%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.43%) Data Guard
11 6 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.19%) Nagios
12 5 (1.19%) SELinux
12 5 (1.19%) vRealize
13 4 (0.95%) Consul
13 4 (0.95%) Podman
13 4 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.95%) vMotion
Vendors
1 60 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 59 (14.05%) Cisco
3 54 (12.86%) VMware
4 34 (8.10%) Red Hat
5 33 (7.86%) Splunk
6 32 (7.62%) Fortinet
7 30 (7.14%) Oracle
7 30 (7.14%) Palo Alto
8 28 (6.67%) Google
9 22 (5.24%) ServiceNow
10 20 (4.76%) Arista
11 17 (4.05%) Dynatrace
12 16 (3.81%) F5
13 13 (3.10%) Juniper
14 12 (2.86%) Zscaler
15 10 (2.38%) CyberArk
16 7 (1.67%) IBM
16 7 (1.67%) Okta
16 7 (1.67%) SaltStack
17 6 (1.43%) CrowdStrike