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

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	149	118	91
Rank change year-on-year	-31	-27	-14
Contract jobs citing Ansible	421	336	444
As % of all contract jobs in London	2.05%	2.51%	2.77%
As % of the Systems Management category	17.90%	18.43%	21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	279	208	292
10^th Percentile	£417	£363	£439
25^th Percentile	£481	£463	£513
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£575	£600
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.17%	-
75^th Percentile	£674	£675	£688
90^th Percentile	£788	£772	£810
England median daily rate	£569	£550	£550
% change year-on-year	+3.45%	-	-6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	3	0
Median hourly rate	£49.00	£40.00	-
Median % change year-on-year	+22.50%	-	-
England median hourly rate	£71.43	£48.00	£74.00
% change year-on-year	+48.81%	-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.

	6 months to 16 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills	2,352	1,823	2,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	11.47%	13.62%	12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,583	1,180	1,357
10^th Percentile	£333	£335	£328
25^th Percentile	£437	£425	£438
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£530	£550
Median % change year-on-year	+3.87%	-3.73%	-6.14%
75^th Percentile	£638	£638	£675
90^th Percentile	£730	£720	£763
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	18	16	18
10^th Percentile	£23.20	£21.09	-
25^th Percentile	£24.48	£26.00	£23.80
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£38.75	£27.00
Median % change year-on-year	+9.68%	+43.52%	-55.00%
75^th Percentile	£67.50	£59.81	£61.88
90^th Percentile	£81.25	£64.41	£103.60
England median hourly rate	£65.00	£34.00	£36.83
% change year-on-year	+91.18%	-7.69%	-29.84%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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 October 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.

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 October 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	-23	45	£575	-4.17%	33
South London	-3	11	£535	-13.71%	1
West London	-21	7	£519	+25.00%	7
East London	+3	3	£525	-22.22%	2
Ansible England

Ansible Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Ansible also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region with a requirement for Ansible.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Python	62.7%	264
2	Terraform	58.4%	246
3	CI/CD	53.9%	227
4	DevOps	53.2%	224
5	Infrastructure as Code	51.3%	216
6	AWS	48.0%	202
7	Linux	42.0%	177
8	Kubernetes	40.1%	169
9	Azure	38.7%	163
10	Bash	30.2%	127
11	Security Cleared	27.3%	115
12	Docker	25.2%	106
13	Containerisation	24.5%	103
14	Jenkins	24.0%	101
15	PowerShell	23.8%	100
16	Git	23.3%	98
17	Configuration Management	22.6%	95
18	GitHub	21.9%	92
19	GitLab	21.6%	91
19	SC Cleared	21.6%	91
21	Observability	21.1%	89
22	Platform Engineering	20.0%	84
23	Windows	18.8%	79
24	GCP	18.5%	78
25	Infrastructure Engineering	17.8%	75
25	Prometheus	17.8%	75
27	Grafana	17.6%	74
28	Agile	17.3%	73
29	AI	16.9%	71
30	Microsoft	16.2%	68

Ansible Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Systems Management

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Kubernetes	40.1%	169
2	Prometheus	17.8%	75
3	Grafana	17.6%	74
4	Puppet	9.7%	41
5	Progress Chef	4.5%	19
6	Packer	3.8%	16
7	FortiGate	3.6%	15
8	systemd	3.3%	14
9	SCCM	2.4%	10
10	Argo	2.1%	9
11	Microsoft Intune	1.7%	7
11	vCenter Server	1.7%	7
13	vRealize	1.4%	6
14	Nagios	1.2%	5
14	SELinux	1.2%	5
14	Single Sign-On	1.2%	5
17	Podman	1.0%	4
17	Red Hat Satellite	1.0%	4
19	Cilium	0.7%	3
19	Consul	0.7%	3