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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 86 104
Rank change year-on-year -58 +18 -37
Contract jobs citing Ansible 292 418 410
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 3.10% 2.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.41% 20.50% 17.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 276 303
10th Percentile £350 £450 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £568
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +8.28% -12.69%
75th Percentile £652 £700 £697
90th Percentile £769 £811 £775
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
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% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £68.63
% change year-on-year +8.14% +8.46% -5.98%

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 2,352 2,039 2,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.43% 15.14% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 1,352 1,752
10th Percentile £350 £365 £319
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.57%
75th Percentile £637 £681 £650
90th Percentile £725 £806 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 36
10th Percentile £21.93 £21.78 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £36.75 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +15.75% +23.49%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.65 £106.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £50.61 £26.00 £42.03
% change year-on-year +94.65% -38.14% -13.34%

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 February 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 February 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 -22 48 £550 -8.33% 32
South London -11 8 £530 -26.90% 1
West London -17 4 £688 +44.74% 2
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 17 (5.82%) Confluence
2 6 (2.05%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Appian
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.03%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.03%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.03%) nginx
4 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.68%) JBoss
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 136 (46.58%) AWS
2 87 (29.79%) Azure
3 71 (24.32%) GitHub
4 59 (20.21%) GCP
5 36 (12.33%) Amazon S3
6 32 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (9.59%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (9.59%) OpenShift
8 26 (8.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (8.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (8.22%) Serverless
11 22 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.77%) IaaS
15 8 (2.74%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.74%) Amazon ELB
16 7 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 56 (19.18%) Firewall
2 38 (13.01%) DNS
3 37 (12.67%) VPN
4 25 (8.56%) Network Security
5 24 (8.22%) TCP/IP
6 20 (6.85%) WAN
7 16 (5.48%) BGP
8 15 (5.14%) SD-WAN
9 12 (4.11%) DHCP
10 11 (3.77%) LAN
10 11 (3.77%) OSPF
11 10 (3.42%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (3.42%) SSL
12 9 (3.08%) NetScaler
13 8 (2.74%) Multicast
13 8 (2.74%) VXLAN
14 7 (2.40%) SAN
15 6 (2.05%) Ethernet
15 6 (2.05%) InfiniBand
15 6 (2.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.11%) MySQL
2 12 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.40%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.40%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.40%) Redis
4 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.03%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.68%) Big Data
6 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
6 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
6 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (29.11%) Jenkins
2 63 (21.58%) GitLab
3 49 (16.78%) Git
4 23 (7.88%) JIRA
5 11 (3.77%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.42%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.74%) JUnit
8 6 (2.05%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.37%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.37%) JMeter
9 4 (1.37%) RStudio
9 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.37%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.03%) Ant
10 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.03%) Gradle
10 3 (1.03%) Maven
10 3 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 76 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 62 (21.23%) Finance
3 30 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.51%) Banking
6 11 (3.77%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.40%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Social Science
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.03%) Military
10 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) International Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (23.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (12.33%) Architect
2 36 (12.33%) Senior
3 30 (10.27%) Network Engineer
4 29 (9.93%) Developer
5 24 (8.22%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (7.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (6.51%) Site Engineer
8 16 (5.48%) Automation Engineer
9 14 (4.79%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (4.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.77%) AWS Architect
11 11 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.42%) Consultant
12 10 (3.42%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.16%) Kafka
2 12 (4.11%) REST
3 10 (3.42%) Node.js
3 10 (3.42%) Spring
4 9 (3.08%) JSON
5 8 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.74%) OAuth
6 7 (2.40%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (2.40%) YAML
7 6 (2.05%) JWT
7 6 (2.05%) Middleware
7 6 (2.05%) Web Services
8 5 (1.71%) XML
9 4 (1.37%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.37%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.37%) Keycloak
9 4 (1.37%) ZK
10 3 (1.03%) Jinja
10 3 (1.03%) Loki
10 3 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.62%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.85%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (5.14%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.11%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.08%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.40%) Clustering
9 7 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.40%) PKI
9 7 (2.40%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.71%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.37%) Replication
12 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.03%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 99 (33.90%) Linux
2 34 (11.64%) Windows
3 30 (10.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (6.85%) Unix
5 13 (4.45%) VMS
6 12 (4.11%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.40%) CentOS
7 7 (2.40%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.37%) Solaris
8 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.68%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (51.37%) CI/CD
2 139 (47.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 133 (45.55%) DevOps
4 67 (22.95%) Containerisation
5 50 (17.12%) Agile
5 50 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (14.73%) Observability
7 41 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
7 41 (14.04%) Migration
8 40 (13.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 37 (12.67%) High Availability
10 36 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (11.30%) Configuration Management
12 27 (9.25%) Load Balancing
13 26 (8.90%) Incident Response
13 26 (8.90%) Test Automation
14 23 (7.88%) Project Delivery
15 22 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 22 (7.53%) Technical Leadership
16 21 (7.19%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 139 (47.60%) Python
2 79 (27.05%) Bash
3 32 (10.96%) Java
3 32 (10.96%) PowerShell
4 19 (6.51%) SQL
5 12 (4.11%) Go
6 9 (3.08%) Shell Script
7 7 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.71%) C++
8 5 (1.71%) Perl
9 3 (1.03%) C#
9 3 (1.03%) PHP
9 3 (1.03%) Rust
10 2 (0.68%) C
10 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) R
11 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.58%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.85%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.45%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (4.11%) CCNP
5 12 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.08%) Degree
7 8 (2.74%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.05%) RHCE
9 5 (1.71%) CCIE
9 5 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.37%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.03%) CCNA
11 3 (1.03%) CCSE
11 3 (1.03%) CISSP
11 3 (1.03%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.03%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.74%) GDPR
2 6 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.05%) NIST
3 5 (1.71%) QA
4 3 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.68%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) PSD2
5 2 (0.68%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (28.08%) Docker
2 27 (9.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.82%) Active Directory
4 15 (5.14%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.42%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.40%) KVM
6 7 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.40%) vSphere
7 6 (2.05%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.37%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.03%) NFS
10 2 (0.68%) Ceph
10 2 (0.68%) Lustre
10 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.68%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.68%) Xen
11 1 (0.34%) HDFS
11 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 172 (58.90%) Terraform
2 100 (34.25%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.38%) Grafana
4 41 (14.04%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.19%) Puppet
6 17 (5.82%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.77%) Argo
8 10 (3.42%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (3.08%) vCenter Server
10 8 (2.74%) SCCM
11 7 (2.40%) Kibana
12 6 (2.05%) Rancher
12 6 (2.05%) Salt
12 6 (2.05%) SCOM
13 5 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (1.37%) Nagios
14 4 (1.37%) vMotion
14 4 (1.37%) vRealize
15 3 (1.03%) Packer
15 3 (1.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 36 (12.33%) VMware
2 33 (11.30%) Splunk
3 29 (9.93%) Cisco
4 27 (9.25%) Red Hat
5 25 (8.56%) Microsoft
6 23 (7.88%) Arista
7 20 (6.85%) Google
8 18 (6.16%) Palo Alto
9 17 (5.82%) F5
10 16 (5.48%) CheckPoint
10 16 (5.48%) ServiceNow
11 14 (4.79%) Aruba
12 11 (3.77%) Oracle
13 10 (3.42%) Citrix
14 9 (3.08%) Fortinet
14 9 (3.08%) Zscaler
15 7 (2.40%) CyberArk
15 7 (2.40%) Dynatrace
16 6 (2.05%) IBM
16 6 (2.05%) Juniper