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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 86 111
Rank change year-on-year -79 +25 -41
Contract jobs citing Ansible 282 405 384
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 3.20% 2.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.38% 20.06% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 261 266
10th Percentile £373 £440 £388
25th Percentile £459 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £850 £763
England median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% -11.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -25.83% -12.73%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year - +22.95% -16.44%

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 2,478 2,019 2,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.31% 15.94% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 1,389 1,575
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 11 43
10th Percentile £22.72 £23.59 £14.08
25th Percentile £26.32 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £26.45 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +103.21% +2.88% -61.05%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £69.33 £63.25 £69.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.34% +5.76% -55.19%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -41 38 £510 -11.30% 26
South London -17 9 £530 -11.67%
East London -2 2 £551 -12.62%
West London -23 2 £675 - 1
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 11 (3.90%) Confluence
2 4 (1.42%) Apache
2 4 (1.42%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) JBoss
3 3 (1.06%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.35%) Appian
5 1 (0.35%) FileNet
5 1 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 131 (46.45%) AWS
2 98 (34.75%) Azure
3 68 (24.11%) GitHub
4 44 (15.60%) GCP
5 38 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (12.06%) Amazon S3
7 32 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (10.28%) Serverless
10 27 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (8.51%) OpenShift
11 24 (8.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 23 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (5.32%) IaaS
16 13 (4.61%) Azure AKS
17 10 (3.55%) Entra ID
17 10 (3.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (21.63%) Firewall
2 32 (11.35%) BGP
2 32 (11.35%) VPN
3 27 (9.57%) DNS
4 26 (9.22%) WAN
5 20 (7.09%) Network Security
5 20 (7.09%) OSPF
6 15 (5.32%) VXLAN
7 14 (4.96%) TCP/IP
8 13 (4.61%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (4.26%) MPLS
9 12 (4.26%) Multicast
10 11 (3.90%) DHCP
10 11 (3.90%) SD-WAN
11 9 (3.19%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (3.19%) LAN
12 8 (2.84%) Ethernet
12 8 (2.84%) Wireless
13 7 (2.48%) SAN
13 7 (2.48%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.55%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.19%) MySQL
5 8 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.42%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.06%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.06%) Redis
9 2 (0.71%) Big Data
9 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.71%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.71%) ImageNet
9 2 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (28.01%) Jenkins
2 58 (20.57%) GitLab
3 54 (19.15%) Git
4 18 (6.38%) JIRA
5 8 (2.84%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.13%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.77%) Snyk
7 5 (1.77%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.77%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.42%) Ant
8 4 (1.42%) JUnit
8 4 (1.42%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.06%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.71%) Gatling
10 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.71%) RStudio
11 1 (0.35%) Gradle
11 1 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 52 (18.44%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.31%) Finance
3 28 (9.93%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.32%) Banking
6 13 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.77%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.42%) Military
10 3 (1.06%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.06%) Law
10 3 (1.06%) Police
11 2 (0.71%) Front Office
11 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Social Science
12 1 (0.35%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (23.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (13.48%) Senior
3 35 (12.41%) Architect
4 29 (10.28%) Developer
4 29 (10.28%) Network Engineer
5 26 (9.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 24 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (7.45%) Site Engineer
8 16 (5.67%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (5.67%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.96%) Lead
11 13 (4.61%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.61%) Senior Network Engineer
12 12 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.19%) AWS Architect
15 8 (2.84%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.03%) Kafka
2 14 (4.96%) REST
3 11 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (3.55%) Node.js
4 10 (3.55%) OAuth
4 10 (3.55%) YAML
5 8 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (2.48%) ARM Templates
6 7 (2.48%) Spring
7 6 (2.13%) JWT
7 6 (2.13%) Web Services
8 5 (1.77%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.42%) Jinja
9 4 (1.42%) JSON
9 4 (1.42%) Middleware
9 4 (1.42%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.42%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (1.06%) OAuth2
10 3 (1.06%) React
10 3 (1.06%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.99%) Data Centre
2 27 (9.57%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.61%) PKI
5 12 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.26%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.48%) Clustering
8 6 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.77%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.77%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.06%) CMDB
11 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.71%) EMC VNX
12 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 91 (32.27%) Linux
2 35 (12.41%) Windows
3 21 (7.45%) Unix
4 16 (5.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.32%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.61%) VMS
7 7 (2.48%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (2.13%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.71%) AIX
10 1 (0.35%) CentOS
10 1 (0.35%) Debian
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.35%) Rocky
10 1 (0.35%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 137 (48.58%) DevOps
3 135 (47.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (22.70%) Containerisation
5 56 (19.86%) Agile
6 43 (15.25%) Configuration Management
6 43 (15.25%) Observability
6 43 (15.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 41 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (14.54%) Migration
8 34 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (11.70%) Mentoring
10 31 (10.99%) Load Balancing
11 27 (9.57%) High Availability
11 27 (9.57%) Infrastructure Automation
11 27 (9.57%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (9.22%) Performance Tuning
12 26 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
13 23 (8.16%) Incident Management
13 23 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 124 (43.97%) Python
2 77 (27.30%) Bash
3 35 (12.41%) PowerShell
4 29 (10.28%) Java
5 21 (7.45%) SQL
6 11 (3.90%) Go
6 11 (3.90%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.77%) Bicep
7 5 (1.77%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.77%) Ruby
8 4 (1.42%) Perl
8 4 (1.42%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.71%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.71%) C
9 2 (0.71%) PHP
10 1 (0.35%) C++
10 1 (0.35%) Groovy
10 1 (0.35%) RPG
10 1 (0.35%) Rust
10 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 95 (33.69%) Security Cleared
2 81 (28.72%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (6.03%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.03%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.03%) CCNP
5 14 (4.96%) Degree
6 13 (4.61%) DV Cleared
7 11 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.19%) CCIE
9 6 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.42%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.42%) VCAP
11 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.06%) CCSE
11 3 (1.06%) JNCIE
12 2 (0.71%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.84%) QA
2 6 (2.13%) NIST
3 4 (1.42%) GDPR
3 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.06%) NCSC
5 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.71%) PSD2
5 2 (0.71%) SEPA
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 79 (28.01%) Docker
2 20 (7.09%) Active Directory
3 19 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (5.67%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.55%) Hyper-V
6 9 (3.19%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (3.19%) VMware NSX
7 7 (2.48%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.48%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (2.48%) vSphere
8 3 (1.06%) NFS
9 2 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.71%) IAG
9 2 (0.71%) KVM
9 2 (0.71%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.71%) Postfix
9 2 (0.71%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.71%) Varnish
9 2 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 170 (60.28%) Terraform
2 111 (39.36%) Kubernetes
3 51 (18.09%) Grafana
4 50 (17.73%) Prometheus
5 30 (10.64%) Puppet
6 14 (4.96%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.61%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.55%) Argo
9 9 (3.19%) Salt
10 7 (2.48%) Kibana
10 7 (2.48%) vMotion
11 6 (2.13%) SCCM
11 6 (2.13%) SCOM
12 4 (1.42%) Data Guard
12 4 (1.42%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.42%) Rancher
13 3 (1.06%) HAProxy
13 3 (1.06%) Karpenter
13 3 (1.06%) Packer
13 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 36 (12.77%) Cisco
2 33 (11.70%) Microsoft
3 31 (10.99%) Arista
4 28 (9.93%) Splunk
5 26 (9.22%) VMware
6 23 (8.16%) Palo Alto
7 19 (6.74%) F5
8 16 (5.67%) Google
8 16 (5.67%) Red Hat
9 14 (4.96%) Fortinet
9 14 (4.96%) ServiceNow
10 11 (3.90%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.90%) NetApp
10 11 (3.90%) Oracle
11 10 (3.55%) Aruba
11 10 (3.55%) Juniper
12 9 (3.19%) Dynatrace
12 9 (3.19%) IBM
13 8 (2.84%) Citrix
13 8 (2.84%) Zscaler