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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 114 103
Rank change year-on-year -35 -11 -27
Contract jobs citing Ansible 406 344 415
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.00% 2.55% 2.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.99% 19.31% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 213 274
10th Percentile £425 £408 £402
25th Percentile £475 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £49.78 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £57.44 £49.50 -
90th Percentile £59.13 £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.43 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +20.56% -19.93% -3.27%

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 2,257 1,781 2,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.10% 13.19% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,506 1,155 1,385
10th Percentile £314 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £528 £548
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -3.65% -8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £715 £725 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 23
10th Percentile £25.39 £24.00 £21.16
25th Percentile £35.00 £26.34 £23.80
Median hourly rate £58.50 £33.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% +25.00% -55.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.81 £63.50
90th Percentile - £64.41 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.00 £40.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +67.50% +1.91% -25.24%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -27 42 £563 -6.25% 18
South London +1 11 £568 -8.47% 4
West London -18 7 £500 +20.48% 6
East London +3 5 £525 -22.22% 9
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 20 (4.93%) Confluence
2 9 (2.22%) Apache
3 7 (1.72%) nginx
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.99%) WordPress
6 3 (0.74%) CMS
7 2 (0.49%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.49%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.49%) Mule
7 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) MTS
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 191 (47.04%) AWS
2 154 (37.93%) Azure
3 97 (23.89%) GitHub
4 54 (13.30%) GCP
5 53 (13.05%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (12.81%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (9.36%) OpenShift
8 37 (9.11%) Datadog
9 31 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (7.14%) Serverless
11 28 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (6.65%) Amazon S3
13 26 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (5.67%) Azure AKS
15 19 (4.68%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (4.43%) Entra ID
17 11 (2.71%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (2.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (17.24%) Firewall
2 43 (10.59%) BGP
3 40 (9.85%) DNS
4 39 (9.61%) VPN
5 31 (7.64%) Network Security
6 27 (6.65%) TCP/IP
7 26 (6.40%) WAN
8 20 (4.93%) OSPF
8 20 (4.93%) SSL
9 19 (4.68%) DHCP
10 18 (4.43%) VLAN
11 12 (2.96%) NX-OS
12 11 (2.71%) SSH
12 11 (2.71%) VXLAN
12 11 (2.71%) Wireless
13 10 (2.46%) SD-WAN
14 9 (2.22%) MPLS
15 8 (1.97%) Ethernet VPN
15 8 (1.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 8 (1.97%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.20%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (2.71%) Oracle Database
6 10 (2.46%) MySQL
7 9 (2.22%) Power BI
8 8 (1.97%) Redis
9 7 (1.72%) Big Data
10 5 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.23%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.23%) ObjectStore
10 5 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.99%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.99%) Metadata
11 4 (0.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 96 (23.65%) Jenkins
2 86 (21.18%) Git
3 83 (20.44%) GitLab
4 25 (6.16%) JIRA
5 13 (3.20%) SonarQube
6 11 (2.71%) Artifactory
7 10 (2.46%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.22%) Snyk
9 7 (1.72%) JMeter
9 7 (1.72%) Postman
9 7 (1.72%) Selenium
10 6 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.23%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.99%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.74%) JUnit
13 3 (0.74%) Mockito
13 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 96 (23.65%) Finance
2 80 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.62%) Banking
5 26 (6.40%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (2.46%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.72%) Law
8 7 (1.72%) Retail
8 7 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.48%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.48%) Police
10 5 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.23%) Publishing
11 4 (0.99%) Automotive
11 4 (0.99%) Front Office
11 4 (0.99%) Military
12 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Legal
14 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 82 (20.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 59 (14.53%) Senior
3 48 (11.82%) Network Engineer
4 41 (10.10%) Architect
5 38 (9.36%) Lead
6 33 (8.13%) Automation Engineer
7 29 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (6.65%) Developer
8 27 (6.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 24 (5.91%) Linux Engineer
11 23 (5.67%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (3.69%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (3.20%) Senior DevOps
16 13 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (58.62%) Terraform
2 32 (7.88%) Kafka
2 32 (7.88%) REST
3 25 (6.16%) YAML
4 20 (4.93%) .NET
5 17 (4.19%) Middleware
6 16 (3.94%) React
7 15 (3.69%) JSON
8 13 (3.20%) Spring
9 12 (2.96%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (2.71%) ARM Templates
11 8 (1.97%) cloud-init
12 7 (1.72%) 802.1X
12 7 (1.72%) boto
12 7 (1.72%) JMS
12 7 (1.72%) Keycloak
12 7 (1.72%) Playwright
12 7 (1.72%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.72%) Swagger
13 6 (1.48%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.58%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.33%) Data Centre
3 35 (8.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.17%) PKI
5 19 (4.68%) Security Posture
6 18 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.43%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.20%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.22%) Clustering
10 8 (1.97%) CMDB
10 8 (1.97%) Distributed Applications
10 8 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.97%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.97%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.72%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.72%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.48%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 154 (37.93%) Linux
2 67 (16.50%) Windows
3 49 (12.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (7.64%) Ubuntu
5 28 (6.90%) Unix
6 26 (6.40%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.99%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.74%) CentOS
9 3 (0.74%) VMS
9 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.49%) Debian
10 2 (0.49%) Solaris
11 1 (0.25%) AIX
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Rocky
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (55.42%) DevOps
2 207 (50.99%) CI/CD
3 196 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (23.40%) Containerisation
5 89 (21.92%) Configuration Management
6 76 (18.72%) Agile
7 74 (18.23%) Observability
8 68 (16.75%) Platform Engineering
9 67 (16.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 63 (15.52%) AI
10 63 (15.52%) Migration
11 62 (15.27%) Infrastructure Automation
12 54 (13.30%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 46 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 44 (10.84%) Test Automation
16 41 (10.10%) Runbook
17 40 (9.85%) Validation
18 38 (9.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 36 (8.87%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 239 (58.87%) Python
2 118 (29.06%) Bash
3 96 (23.65%) PowerShell
4 51 (12.56%) Java
5 33 (8.13%) SQL
6 22 (5.42%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.42%) Shell Script
7 20 (4.93%) Go
8 16 (3.94%) Bicep
9 14 (3.45%) C#
10 11 (2.71%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.46%) Perl
12 6 (1.48%) C++
12 6 (1.48%) Ruby
13 4 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.99%) Groovy
14 3 (0.74%) C
15 2 (0.49%) R
15 2 (0.49%) Scala
15 2 (0.49%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 125 (30.79%) Security Cleared
2 102 (25.12%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.90%) Degree
4 24 (5.91%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.67%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (4.93%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.68%) CCNP
8 16 (3.94%) AWS Certification
8 16 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.97%) CISSP
10 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.23%) CCIE
13 4 (0.99%) CCNA
13 4 (0.99%) ISSAP
13 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.99%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.99%) JNCIS
13 4 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.40%) QA
2 11 (2.71%) NIST
3 8 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.74%) GDPR
5 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) SEPA
7 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 102 (25.12%) Docker
2 38 (9.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.91%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.20%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (3.20%) vSphere
6 8 (1.97%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.23%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (1.23%) NFS
8 3 (0.74%) Ceph
8 3 (0.74%) IAG
8 3 (0.74%) KVM
8 3 (0.74%) Postfix
8 3 (0.74%) Squid
8 3 (0.74%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.74%) Varnish
9 2 (0.49%) HDFS
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 161 (39.66%) Kubernetes
2 74 (18.23%) Prometheus
3 70 (17.24%) Grafana
4 43 (10.59%) Puppet
5 19 (4.68%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.69%) Packer
7 12 (2.96%) FortiGate
7 12 (2.96%) systemd
8 10 (2.46%) vCenter Server
9 8 (1.97%) SCCM
10 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.48%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.23%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.23%) Nagios
11 5 (1.23%) SELinux
11 5 (1.23%) vMotion
11 5 (1.23%) vRealize
12 4 (0.99%) Consul
12 4 (0.99%) Salt
12 4 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 57 (14.04%) VMware
3 55 (13.55%) Cisco
4 34 (8.37%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.39%) Fortinet
5 30 (7.39%) Splunk
6 28 (6.90%) Oracle
7 27 (6.65%) Palo Alto
8 22 (5.42%) Google
8 22 (5.42%) ServiceNow
9 19 (4.68%) Arista
10 15 (3.69%) Dynatrace
10 15 (3.69%) F5
11 13 (3.20%) Juniper
12 12 (2.96%) Zscaler
13 7 (1.72%) CyberArk
13 7 (1.72%) NetApp
13 7 (1.72%) Okta
14 6 (1.48%) Hitachi
14 6 (1.48%) IBM