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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 91 115
Rank change year-on-year -57 +24 -36
Contract jobs citing Ansible 335 380 379
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 3.11% 2.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.00% 19.77% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 235 258
10th Percentile £400 £425 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £636 £688 £688
90th Percentile £721 £799 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.85 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £37.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £44.88 -
90th Percentile - £47.80 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £44.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +57.30% -36.43% -4.57%

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 2,576 1,922 2,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.78% 15.72% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,767 1,288 1,656
10th Percentile £356 £363 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
England median daily rate £510 £515 £520
% change year-on-year -0.97% -0.96% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% +60.26% -61.92%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £40.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +41.25% +39.13% -45.68%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 42 £538 -2.27% 20
South London -15 4 £505 -15.83%
West London -13 3 £500 - 5
East London -4 2 £551 -18.44% 3
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 12 (3.58%) Confluence
2 8 (2.39%) Apache
3 4 (1.19%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.90%) JBoss
4 3 (0.90%) nginx
5 2 (0.60%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.60%) CMS
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.60%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.60%) WordPress
6 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) Appian
6 1 (0.30%) MTS
6 1 (0.30%) Mule
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 152 (45.37%) AWS
2 119 (35.52%) Azure
3 77 (22.99%) GitHub
4 47 (14.03%) GCP
5 46 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (8.66%) OpenShift
8 26 (7.76%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (7.16%) Amazon S3
9 24 (7.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 23 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (6.87%) Serverless
11 22 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (5.07%) Datadog
14 17 (5.07%) Entra ID
15 15 (4.48%) PaaS
16 14 (4.18%) Azure AKS
16 14 (4.18%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (22.09%) Firewall
2 38 (11.34%) VPN
3 36 (10.75%) BGP
4 31 (9.25%) DNS
5 30 (8.96%) WAN
6 24 (7.16%) Network Security
7 20 (5.97%) OSPF
8 14 (4.18%) TCP/IP
8 14 (4.18%) VXLAN
9 13 (3.88%) Cisco IOS
9 13 (3.88%) MPLS
10 12 (3.58%) Wireless
11 11 (3.28%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.28%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.99%) DHCP
12 10 (2.99%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (2.99%) Multicast
12 10 (2.99%) NX-OS
12 10 (2.99%) VLAN
13 9 (2.69%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (4.18%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.39%) Redis
5 6 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (1.79%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.49%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.19%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (1.19%) MySQL
8 3 (0.90%) Big Data
8 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.90%) Power BI
9 2 (0.60%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.60%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 90 (26.87%) Jenkins
2 65 (19.40%) GitLab
3 58 (17.31%) Git
4 22 (6.57%) JIRA
5 7 (2.09%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.09%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.09%) Postman
5 7 (2.09%) Snyk
5 7 (2.09%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.79%) JMeter
7 5 (1.49%) JUnit
7 5 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.19%) Ant
8 4 (1.19%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.19%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.60%) Gradle
10 2 (0.60%) Mockito
General
1 61 (18.21%) Finance
2 47 (14.03%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.55%) Public Sector
4 23 (6.87%) Banking
5 20 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.09%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.79%) Law
9 6 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.19%) Military
10 4 (1.19%) Police
11 3 (0.90%) Front Office
11 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Publishing
12 2 (0.60%) Retail
13 1 (0.30%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 80 (23.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (13.13%) Architect
3 37 (11.04%) Senior
4 36 (10.75%) Network Engineer
5 27 (8.06%) AWS Engineer
5 27 (8.06%) Developer
5 27 (8.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 22 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (6.27%) Lead
8 20 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
9 19 (5.67%) Linux Engineer
9 19 (5.67%) Site Engineer
10 18 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
11 17 (5.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 17 (5.07%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.78%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.58%) Senior Network Engineer
15 11 (3.28%) Lead DevOps
15 11 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.87%) Kafka
2 20 (5.97%) REST
3 14 (4.18%) YAML
4 13 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (2.99%) Spring
6 9 (2.69%) .NET
6 9 (2.69%) JSON
6 9 (2.69%) Middleware
7 8 (2.39%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.39%) OpenTelemetry
8 7 (2.09%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.09%) Web Services
9 6 (1.79%) cloud-init
9 6 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.79%) Swagger
10 5 (1.49%) AWS CDK
10 5 (1.49%) React
10 5 (1.49%) RESTful
11 4 (1.19%) Jinja
11 4 (1.19%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.43%) Cloud Native
2 39 (11.64%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 18 (5.37%) PKI
5 17 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.58%) Enterprise Storage
6 12 (3.58%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.58%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.99%) Clustering
8 7 (2.09%) CMDB
8 7 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.09%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.49%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.19%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 115 (34.33%) Linux
2 48 (14.33%) Windows
3 27 (8.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (6.87%) Unix
5 21 (6.27%) Windows Server
6 20 (5.97%) Ubuntu
7 13 (3.88%) VMS
8 8 (2.39%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.19%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.60%) CentOS
10 2 (0.60%) Debian
10 2 (0.60%) Solaris
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.30%) AIX
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Rocky
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (53.73%) DevOps
2 166 (49.55%) CI/CD
3 158 (47.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (22.99%) Containerisation
5 65 (19.40%) Configuration Management
5 65 (19.40%) Observability
6 59 (17.61%) Agile
7 51 (15.22%) Migration
8 43 (12.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 42 (12.54%) Platform Engineering
10 39 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (11.64%) Mentoring
11 35 (10.45%) AI
11 35 (10.45%) Load Balancing
12 34 (10.15%) Infrastructure Automation
13 33 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 31 (9.25%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (8.96%) Incident Management
16 26 (7.76%) High Availability
16 26 (7.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 148 (44.18%) Python
2 88 (26.27%) Bash
3 58 (17.31%) PowerShell
4 35 (10.45%) Java
5 22 (6.57%) SQL
6 13 (3.88%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.28%) Bicep
8 10 (2.99%) Go
9 9 (2.69%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.09%) Ruby
11 5 (1.49%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.19%) C
13 3 (0.90%) Groovy
13 3 (0.90%) Perl
14 2 (0.60%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.60%) C#
14 2 (0.60%) Scala
15 1 (0.30%) C++
15 1 (0.30%) PHP
15 1 (0.30%) RPG
Qualifications
1 116 (34.63%) Security Cleared
2 102 (30.45%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.16%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (6.57%) Degree
5 21 (6.27%) CCNP
6 17 (5.07%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.78%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (4.18%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.99%) CCIE
11 6 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.49%) CISSP
12 5 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 3 (0.90%) CCNA
14 3 (0.90%) ISSAP
14 3 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.90%) JNCIP
14 3 (0.90%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.99%) QA
2 8 (2.39%) NIST
3 5 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.90%) GDPR
5 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.60%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.60%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.60%) NCSC
5 2 (0.60%) PSD2
5 2 (0.60%) SEPA
5 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 75 (22.39%) Docker
2 27 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.87%) Active Directory
4 19 (5.67%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (3.58%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.69%) BitLocker
7 9 (2.69%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (2.39%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.39%) vSphere
9 5 (1.49%) NFS
10 4 (1.19%) KVM
10 4 (1.19%) Postfix
10 4 (1.19%) Varnish
11 3 (0.90%) Ceph
11 3 (0.90%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.90%) Squid
12 2 (0.60%) IAG
12 2 (0.60%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 190 (56.72%) Terraform
2 144 (42.99%) Kubernetes
3 70 (20.90%) Prometheus
4 63 (18.81%) Grafana
5 31 (9.25%) Puppet
6 15 (4.48%) Progress Chef
7 13 (3.88%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.69%) Packer
8 9 (2.69%) Salt
8 9 (2.69%) vMotion
9 6 (1.79%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (1.49%) Data Guard
10 5 (1.49%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.49%) Kibana
10 5 (1.49%) vRealize
11 4 (1.19%) Argo
11 4 (1.19%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.90%) Consul
12 3 (0.90%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.90%) systemd
Vendors
1 50 (14.93%) Cisco
2 44 (13.13%) Microsoft
3 36 (10.75%) VMware
4 32 (9.55%) Splunk
5 31 (9.25%) Arista
6 30 (8.96%) Palo Alto
7 22 (6.57%) Fortinet
8 19 (5.67%) F5
8 19 (5.67%) Google
9 15 (4.48%) Red Hat
10 14 (4.18%) Oracle
11 11 (3.28%) Aruba
11 11 (3.28%) NetApp
11 11 (3.28%) ServiceNow
12 10 (2.99%) CheckPoint
12 10 (2.99%) IBM
12 10 (2.99%) Juniper
13 9 (2.69%) Citrix
13 9 (2.69%) Okta
13 9 (2.69%) Zscaler