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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 81 111
Rank change year-on-year -66 +30 -45
Contract jobs citing Ansible 299 422 391
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 3.14% 2.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.40% 20.46% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 275 282
10th Percentile £350 £453 £406
25th Percentile £431 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £560
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +11.61% -13.85%
75th Percentile £650 £706 £685
90th Percentile £764 £835 £763
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -9.84%
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 £64.88
% change year-on-year +8.14% +14.73% -5.97%

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 2,411 2,063 2,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.18% 15.36% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,659 1,380 1,685
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +2.95% -9.84%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 34
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.63 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £44.50 £26.11
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% +70.47% +1.54%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £58.56
90th Percentile £64.65 £108.60 £61.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

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 27 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 27 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 -21 48 £550 -8.33% 20
South London -17 9 £530 -26.90% 1
West London -14 4 £688 - 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 18 (6.02%) Confluence
2 7 (2.34%) Apache
3 4 (1.34%) Appian
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.00%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.00%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.00%) nginx
4 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.00%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.67%) JBoss
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.67%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.67%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) FileNet
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 140 (46.82%) AWS
2 91 (30.43%) Azure
3 74 (24.75%) GitHub
4 59 (19.73%) GCP
5 38 (12.71%) Amazon S3
6 33 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (10.03%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (9.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (9.03%) OpenShift
10 26 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (8.36%) Serverless
12 24 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
13 22 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (4.01%) IaaS
17 8 (2.68%) Amazon ECR
17 8 (2.68%) Amazon ELB
18 7 (2.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.73%) Firewall
2 39 (13.04%) DNS
3 38 (12.71%) VPN
4 27 (9.03%) Network Security
5 24 (8.03%) TCP/IP
6 21 (7.02%) WAN
7 16 (5.35%) SD-WAN
8 15 (5.02%) BGP
9 12 (4.01%) DHCP
10 11 (3.68%) Ethernet VPN
10 11 (3.68%) LAN
11 10 (3.34%) NetScaler
11 10 (3.34%) OSPF
11 10 (3.34%) SSL
12 9 (3.01%) SAN
13 8 (2.68%) VXLAN
14 7 (2.34%) Ethernet
14 7 (2.34%) InfiniBand
14 7 (2.34%) Multicast
14 7 (2.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.01%) MySQL
2 12 (4.01%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.34%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.34%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.01%) Redis
5 4 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.34%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.67%) Big Data
7 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.67%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.67%) ImageNet
7 2 (0.67%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.67%) Tableau
8 1 (0.33%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 91 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 67 (22.41%) GitLab
3 54 (18.06%) Git
4 26 (8.70%) JIRA
5 11 (3.68%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.68%) JUnit
8 5 (1.67%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.67%) SonarQube
8 5 (1.67%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.34%) JMeter
9 4 (1.34%) RStudio
9 4 (1.34%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.00%) Ant
10 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.00%) Gradle
10 3 (1.00%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.00%) Maven
10 3 (1.00%) Selenium
General
1 74 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 58 (19.40%) Finance
3 28 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.02%) Banking
6 11 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.68%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.34%) Social Science
10 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.00%) Military
10 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Back Office
12 1 (0.33%) Billing
12 1 (0.33%) Front Office
12 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.33%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (13.04%) Architect
2 39 (13.04%) Senior
3 33 (11.04%) Developer
4 29 (9.70%) Network Engineer
5 26 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (6.35%) Site Engineer
8 17 (5.69%) Automation Engineer
8 17 (5.69%) Java Developer
9 14 (4.68%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (4.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.68%) AWS Architect
12 11 (3.68%) Lead
13 10 (3.34%) Consultant
13 10 (3.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.34%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.35%) Kafka
2 13 (4.35%) REST
3 11 (3.68%) Spring
4 10 (3.34%) Node.js
5 9 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (3.01%) OAuth
6 8 (2.68%) JSON
7 7 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (2.01%) JWT
8 6 (2.01%) Middleware
8 6 (2.01%) Web Services
9 5 (1.67%) Hibernate
9 5 (1.67%) XML
10 4 (1.34%) AWS CDK
10 4 (1.34%) Jinja
10 4 (1.34%) OpenID
10 4 (1.34%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.34%) YAML
10 4 (1.34%) ZK
11 3 (1.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.37%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.69%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.35%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.01%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.01%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 8 (2.68%) PKI
7 8 (2.68%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.34%) Clustering
8 7 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.01%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.34%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.34%) Replication
10 4 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 102 (34.11%) Linux
2 34 (11.37%) Windows
3 28 (9.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (7.36%) Unix
5 13 (4.35%) VMS
6 12 (4.01%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.34%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.01%) CentOS
9 4 (1.34%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.00%) Solaris
11 2 (0.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (52.51%) CI/CD
2 140 (46.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 138 (46.15%) DevOps
4 69 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 53 (17.73%) Agile
6 48 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (14.72%) Observability
8 42 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (13.71%) Migration
9 41 (13.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 40 (13.38%) Infrastructure Automation
11 37 (12.37%) High Availability
12 35 (11.71%) Configuration Management
13 28 (9.36%) Load Balancing
13 28 (9.36%) Test Automation
14 26 (8.70%) Incident Response
14 26 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 23 (7.69%) Project Delivery
16 22 (7.36%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (46.82%) Python
2 82 (27.42%) Bash
3 36 (12.04%) Java
4 31 (10.37%) PowerShell
5 20 (6.69%) SQL
6 12 (4.01%) Go
7 8 (2.68%) JavaScript
8 7 (2.34%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.67%) C++
9 5 (1.67%) Perl
10 3 (1.00%) C#
10 3 (1.00%) PHP
10 3 (1.00%) Rust
11 2 (0.67%) C
11 2 (0.67%) Ruby
11 2 (0.67%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.33%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.33%) Bicep
12 1 (0.33%) Groovy
12 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 84 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 70 (23.41%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.69%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (4.35%) CCNP
6 12 (4.01%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.34%) Degree
8 9 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (2.68%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.01%) CCIE
11 5 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.67%) RHCE
12 4 (1.34%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.00%) CCNA
13 3 (1.00%) CCSE
13 3 (1.00%) CISSP
13 3 (1.00%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.68%) GDPR
2 7 (2.34%) NIST
3 6 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.67%) QA
5 3 (1.00%) NCSC
5 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.67%) PSD2
6 2 (0.67%) SEPA
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.33%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (29.10%) Docker
2 23 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.02%) Active Directory
4 14 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.01%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.34%) vSphere
7 4 (1.34%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.34%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.34%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (1.34%) NFS
8 3 (1.00%) KVM
9 2 (0.67%) Ceph
9 2 (0.67%) Lustre
9 2 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.67%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.67%) Xen
10 1 (0.33%) iptables
10 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 174 (58.19%) Terraform
2 104 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 46 (15.38%) Grafana
4 45 (15.05%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.02%) Puppet
6 15 (5.02%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.68%) Argo
8 9 (3.01%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.01%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.68%) SCCM
10 7 (2.34%) Kibana
10 7 (2.34%) Salt
11 6 (2.01%) Rancher
11 6 (2.01%) SCOM
12 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.34%) Nagios
13 4 (1.34%) vMotion
14 3 (1.00%) Packer
14 3 (1.00%) QRadar
14 3 (1.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (11.71%) Splunk
2 33 (11.04%) VMware
3 31 (10.37%) Cisco
4 28 (9.36%) Microsoft
5 25 (8.36%) Red Hat
6 23 (7.69%) Arista
7 21 (7.02%) Palo Alto
8 20 (6.69%) F5
9 19 (6.35%) Google
10 18 (6.02%) ServiceNow
11 17 (5.69%) CheckPoint
12 15 (5.02%) Aruba
13 11 (3.68%) Fortinet
14 10 (3.34%) Citrix
14 10 (3.34%) Oracle
14 10 (3.34%) Zscaler
15 8 (2.68%) Dynatrace
16 7 (2.34%) Pure Storage
17 6 (2.01%) BigPanda
17 6 (2.01%) PagerDuty