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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 89 91
Rank change year-on-year -44 +2 -25
Contract jobs citing Ansible 308 406 442
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.08% 2.92% 2.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.39% 19.66% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 273 334
10th Percentile £350 £463 £413
25th Percentile £448 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £615 £556
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +10.56% -14.42%
75th Percentile £663 £713 £688
90th Percentile £775 £810 £791
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £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 2,301 2,065 2,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.57% 14.86% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,357 1,783
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £670
90th Percentile £725 £794 £750
England median daily rate £500 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -6.10% +1.43% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 33
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.04 £14.08
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.30
Median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% -10.77% +26.41%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.50 £60.00
90th Percentile - £105.20 £68.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +87.38% -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 29 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 29 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 -14 56 £600 -1.03% 21
South London -6 7 £530 -26.90% 1
West London -15 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
1 140 (45.45%) AWS
2 87 (28.25%) Azure
3 73 (23.70%) 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%) Amazon ECR
18 8 (2.60%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.16%) Firewall
2 39 (12.66%) VPN
3 36 (11.69%) DNS
4 32 (10.39%) TCP/IP
5 26 (8.44%) Network Security
6 20 (6.49%) 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%) HTTP
12 10 (3.25%) LAN
13 7 (2.27%) Ethernet VPN
13 7 (2.27%) Multicast
13 7 (2.27%) SAN
13 7 (2.27%) VXLAN
14 6 (1.95%) NetScaler
15 4 (1.30%) NAS
15 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 57 (18.51%) Git
4 21 (6.82%) JIRA
5 12 (3.90%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.25%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.60%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.95%) JUnit
8 6 (1.95%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.95%) Terragrunt
9 5 (1.62%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.30%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.30%) JMeter
10 4 (1.30%) RStudio
10 4 (1.30%) Subversion
11 3 (0.97%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.97%) Gradle
11 3 (0.97%) Selenium
General
1 80 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 76 (24.68%) Finance
3 33 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.14%) Banking
5 20 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.22%) 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 36 (11.69%) Network Engineer
4 32 (10.39%) Architect
4 32 (10.39%) Developer
5 27 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
6 22 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (6.82%) Automation Engineer
8 20 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 16 (5.19%) Site Engineer
10 14 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 14 (4.55%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.57%) AWS Architect
12 11 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (3.25%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.49%) Kafka
2 16 (5.19%) 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%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.30%) RESTful
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 11 (3.57%) Private Cloud
8 10 (3.25%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.60%) Clustering
10 7 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.27%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.27%) Replication
11 6 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.95%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.62%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.62%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.30%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 103 (33.44%) Linux
2 34 (11.04%) Windows
3 30 (9.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (7.14%) Unix
5 14 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.22%) VMS
7 7 (2.27%) CentOS
8 6 (1.95%) Solaris
8 6 (1.95%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.65%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (50.97%) CI/CD
2 147 (47.73%) DevOps
3 146 (47.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (24.03%) Containerisation
5 55 (17.86%) Agile
5 55 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (15.26%) Infrastructure Automation
7 45 (14.61%) High Availability
8 41 (13.31%) Migration
8 41 (13.31%) Observability
9 37 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 34 (11.04%) Configuration Management
12 32 (10.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (9.74%) Test Automation
14 27 (8.77%) Project Delivery
15 26 (8.44%) Load Balancing
16 25 (8.12%) DevSecOps
17 24 (7.79%) Performance Tuning
18 22 (7.14%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 158 (51.30%) Python
2 81 (26.30%) Bash
3 35 (11.36%) PowerShell
4 34 (11.04%) Java
5 23 (7.47%) SQL
6 14 (4.55%) Go
7 12 (3.90%) Perl
8 11 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.27%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.62%) C++
11 3 (0.97%) C#
11 3 (0.97%) PHP
11 3 (0.97%) Rust
11 3 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.32%) R
12 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 10 (3.25%) GDPR
2 7 (2.27%) QA
3 6 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.95%) NIST
4 5 (1.62%) 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 27 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.84%) Active Directory
4 12 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.60%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.27%) KVM
7 5 (1.62%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.62%) NFS
7 5 (1.62%) vSphere
8 4 (1.30%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.30%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 3 (0.97%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.97%) HDFS
9 3 (0.97%) Microsoft App-V
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%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 181 (58.77%) Terraform
2 99 (32.14%) Kubernetes
3 34 (11.04%) Prometheus
4 33 (10.71%) Grafana
5 21 (6.82%) Progress Chef
5 21 (6.82%) Puppet
6 12 (3.90%) 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%) QRadar
11 4 (1.30%) vRealize
12 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.97%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.97%) Podman
Vendors
1 35 (11.36%) VMware
2 31 (10.06%) Splunk
3 28 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 27 (8.77%) Microsoft
5 24 (7.79%) Arista
5 24 (7.79%) Cisco
5 24 (7.79%) 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%) CyberArk
12 9 (2.92%) Fortinet
13 7 (2.27%) Dynatrace
14 6 (1.95%) PagerDuty
15 5 (1.62%) BMC