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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 86 94
Rank change year-on-year -46 +8 -30
Contract jobs citing Ansible 308 411 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 2.96% 2.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.36% 19.86% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 275 336
10th Percentile £350 £463 £413
25th Percentile £447 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £553
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +11.31% -15.00%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £688
90th Percentile £775 £810 £786
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -9.69%
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% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £82.00 £74.44 £68.63
% change year-on-year +10.16% +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 2,305 2,069 2,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.56% 14.90% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,573 1,360 1,803
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.41% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £668
90th Percentile £725 £794 £750
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 34
10th Percentile £20.76 £22.30 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £36.75 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +36.05% +13.95% +25.44%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.99 £103.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £48.00 £26.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +84.62% -43.70% +0.16%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -12 55 £600 - 24
South London -8 7 £530 -26.90%
West London -19 4 £688 +34.15%
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 15 (4.87%) Confluence
2 6 (1.95%) Apache
3 4 (1.30%) Appian
3 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.97%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.97%) Hyperledger
4 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) nginx
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.32%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.32%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 141 (45.78%) AWS
2 87 (28.25%) Azure
3 72 (23.38%) GitHub
4 57 (18.51%) GCP
5 40 (12.99%) Amazon S3
6 34 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (10.39%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (9.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (9.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 29 (9.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 26 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (8.12%) OpenShift
12 24 (7.79%) Serverless
13 22 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
14 20 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (4.22%) Amazon ELB
17 12 (3.90%) IaaS
18 8 (2.60%) Datadog
18 8 (2.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 60 (19.48%) Firewall
2 39 (12.66%) VPN
3 36 (11.69%) DNS
4 31 (10.06%) TCP/IP
5 26 (8.44%) Network Security
6 19 (6.17%) SSL
7 17 (5.52%) WAN
8 16 (5.19%) BGP
9 15 (4.87%) SD-WAN
10 12 (3.90%) OSPF
11 11 (3.57%) DHCP
12 10 (3.25%) LAN
13 9 (2.92%) HTTP
14 7 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
14 7 (2.27%) Multicast
14 7 (2.27%) SAN
14 7 (2.27%) VXLAN
15 6 (1.95%) NetScaler
16 4 (1.30%) NAS
16 4 (1.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (3.90%) MySQL
2 12 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.27%) DynamoDB
5 6 (1.95%) MongoDB
5 6 (1.95%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.95%) Redis
6 5 (1.62%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.97%) Apache Hive
7 3 (0.97%) Impala
8 2 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.65%) Big Data
8 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.65%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.65%) ImageNet
8 2 (0.65%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 61 (19.81%) GitLab
3 56 (18.18%) Git
4 21 (6.82%) JIRA
5 12 (3.90%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.27%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.95%) JUnit
8 6 (1.95%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.95%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.30%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.30%) JMeter
9 4 (1.30%) Robot Framework
9 4 (1.30%) RStudio
10 3 (0.97%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.97%) Gradle
10 3 (0.97%) Selenium
10 3 (0.97%) Subversion
General
1 79 (25.65%) Social Skills
2 75 (24.35%) Finance
3 33 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.14%) Banking
5 20 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.90%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.30%) Military
9 4 (1.30%) Social Science
10 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) International Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Billing
12 1 (0.32%) Front Office
12 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (13.31%) Senior
3 35 (11.36%) Network Engineer
4 33 (10.71%) Developer
5 32 (10.39%) Architect
6 27 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (6.82%) Automation Engineer
7 21 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 17 (5.52%) Site Engineer
9 15 (4.87%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.22%) Python Engineer
10 13 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.57%) AWS Architect
11 11 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.49%) Kafka
2 15 (4.87%) REST
3 11 (3.57%) Node.js
4 10 (3.25%) OAuth
4 10 (3.25%) Spring
5 9 (2.92%) JSON
6 8 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (2.60%) YAML
7 6 (1.95%) JWT
7 6 (1.95%) Middleware
7 6 (1.95%) Web Services
7 6 (1.95%) ZK
8 5 (1.62%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.62%) Hibernate
8 5 (1.62%) Keycloak
8 5 (1.62%) OpenID
8 5 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.62%) XML
9 4 (1.30%) Jinja
9 4 (1.30%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.39%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.17%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.19%) Public Cloud
5 14 (4.55%) Hedge funds
6 13 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (3.25%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.27%) Clustering
9 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
9 7 (2.27%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.95%) Replication
11 5 (1.62%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.62%) PKI
11 5 (1.62%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.30%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 103 (33.44%) Linux
2 35 (11.36%) Windows
3 29 (9.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (6.82%) Unix
5 14 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.22%) VMS
7 7 (2.27%) CentOS
8 6 (1.95%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.62%) Solaris
10 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.65%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (50.65%) CI/CD
2 146 (47.40%) DevOps
2 146 (47.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (23.70%) Containerisation
4 56 (18.18%) Agile
5 55 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (15.58%) Infrastructure Automation
7 43 (13.96%) High Availability
8 42 (13.64%) Observability
9 41 (13.31%) Migration
10 37 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 34 (11.04%) Configuration Management
13 31 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 29 (9.42%) Test Automation
15 26 (8.44%) Load Balancing
15 26 (8.44%) Project Delivery
16 25 (8.12%) DevSecOps
16 25 (8.12%) Performance Tuning
17 23 (7.47%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 156 (50.65%) Python
2 80 (25.97%) Bash
3 35 (11.36%) Java
3 35 (11.36%) PowerShell
4 23 (7.47%) SQL
5 14 (4.55%) Go
6 11 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.25%) Perl
8 7 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.62%) C++
10 3 (0.97%) C#
10 3 (0.97%) PHP
10 3 (0.97%) Rust
10 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.32%) R
11 1 (0.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (25.65%) Security Cleared
2 68 (22.08%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.82%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.57%) CCNP
5 11 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (3.25%) Degree
7 8 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.27%) CCIE
9 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.95%) RHCE
10 4 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.97%) CCNA
11 3 (0.97%) CCSE
11 3 (0.97%) JNCIE
11 3 (0.97%) JNCIP
11 3 (0.97%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.92%) GDPR
2 7 (2.27%) QA
3 6 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.95%) NIST
4 4 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.65%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.65%) NCSC
5 2 (0.65%) PSD2
5 2 (0.65%) SEPA
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) SLA
6 1 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (27.92%) Docker
2 26 (8.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.84%) Active Directory
4 12 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.60%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.27%) KVM
6 7 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.62%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.62%) vSphere
8 4 (1.30%) NFS
9 3 (0.97%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.97%) HDFS
9 3 (0.97%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (0.97%) Veritas File System
9 3 (0.97%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.65%) Ceph
10 2 (0.65%) Lustre
10 2 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 180 (58.44%) Terraform
2 100 (32.47%) Kubernetes
3 35 (11.36%) Prometheus
4 34 (11.04%) Grafana
5 21 (6.82%) Progress Chef
5 21 (6.82%) Puppet
6 11 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
7 9 (2.92%) Argo
7 9 (2.92%) Kibana
8 8 (2.60%) SCCM
9 6 (1.95%) Rancher
9 6 (1.95%) SCOM
9 6 (1.95%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (1.30%) Nagios
11 4 (1.30%) vRealize
12 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.97%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.97%) Podman
Vendors
1 34 (11.04%) VMware
2 30 (9.74%) Splunk
3 27 (8.77%) Microsoft
3 27 (8.77%) Red Hat
4 24 (7.79%) Arista
4 24 (7.79%) Cisco
5 23 (7.47%) F5
6 21 (6.82%) Google
7 18 (5.84%) CheckPoint
8 17 (5.52%) Palo Alto
9 13 (4.22%) ServiceNow
10 12 (3.90%) Oracle
11 10 (3.25%) Zscaler
12 9 (2.92%) Aruba
12 9 (2.92%) Citrix
12 9 (2.92%) Fortinet
13 8 (2.60%) CyberArk
14 7 (2.27%) Dynatrace
15 6 (1.95%) PagerDuty
16 5 (1.62%) BMC