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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 117 101
Rank change year-on-year -30 -16 -26
Contract jobs citing Ansible 404 330 411
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.01% 2.47% 2.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.06% 18.81% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 202 271
10th Percentile £425 £400 £410
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 £761 £800
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 £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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,237 1,754 2,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.10% 13.14% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,496 1,136 1,367
10th Percentile £317 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% -3.41% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £719 £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 £67.47 £37.75 £39.25
% change year-on-year +78.73% -3.82% -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 14 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 14 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 -21 42 £563 -6.25% 29
South London -4 12 £568 -8.47% 6
West London -19 7 £500 +20.48% 11
East London +3 5 £525 -22.22% 8
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 19 (4.70%) Confluence
2 9 (2.23%) Apache
3 7 (1.73%) nginx
4 5 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.24%) 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 (0.50%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.50%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.50%) Mule
7 2 (0.50%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) JBoss
8 1 (0.25%) MTS
8 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 191 (47.28%) AWS
2 153 (37.87%) Azure
3 97 (24.01%) GitHub
4 55 (13.61%) GCP
5 53 (13.12%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
7 38 (9.41%) OpenShift
8 37 (9.16%) Datadog
9 31 (7.67%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (7.18%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (7.18%) Serverless
11 28 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (6.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (6.68%) Amazon S3
13 26 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (5.69%) Azure AKS
15 18 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (4.46%) Entra ID
16 11 (2.72%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (2.48%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 68 (16.83%) Firewall
2 43 (10.64%) BGP
3 39 (9.65%) DNS
4 38 (9.41%) VPN
5 30 (7.43%) Network Security
6 27 (6.68%) TCP/IP
6 27 (6.68%) WAN
7 20 (4.95%) OSPF
7 20 (4.95%) SSL
8 18 (4.46%) DHCP
8 18 (4.46%) VLAN
9 12 (2.97%) NX-OS
10 11 (2.72%) SD-WAN
10 11 (2.72%) SSH
10 11 (2.72%) VXLAN
10 11 (2.72%) Wireless
11 9 (2.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (2.23%) MPLS
12 8 (1.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 8 (1.98%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.47%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.22%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.97%) Oracle Database
5 11 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.48%) MySQL
7 9 (2.23%) Power BI
8 8 (1.98%) Redis
9 7 (1.73%) Big Data
9 7 (1.73%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.24%) ObjectStore
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 94 (23.27%) Jenkins
2 85 (21.04%) Git
3 82 (20.30%) GitLab
4 23 (5.69%) JIRA
5 14 (3.47%) SonarQube
6 11 (2.72%) Artifactory
7 10 (2.48%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.23%) Snyk
9 7 (1.73%) JMeter
9 7 (1.73%) Postman
9 7 (1.73%) Selenium
10 5 (1.24%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.99%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.74%) JUnit
12 3 (0.74%) Mockito
12 3 (0.74%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.50%) Maven
General
1 98 (24.26%) Finance
2 79 (19.55%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.41%) Banking
5 26 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.72%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.73%) Law
8 7 (1.73%) Retail
9 6 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.49%) Police
9 6 (1.49%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.24%) 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 (0.50%) Legal
14 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 81 (20.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (14.36%) Senior
3 48 (11.88%) Network Engineer
4 41 (10.15%) Architect
5 38 (9.41%) Lead
6 34 (8.42%) Automation Engineer
7 29 (7.18%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (6.68%) Developer
9 26 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
9 26 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 25 (6.19%) Linux Engineer
11 24 (5.94%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (3.71%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.47%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
16 13 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (58.17%) Terraform
2 32 (7.92%) Kafka
2 32 (7.92%) REST
3 25 (6.19%) YAML
4 19 (4.70%) .NET
4 19 (4.70%) Middleware
5 17 (4.21%) React
6 15 (3.71%) JSON
7 13 (3.22%) Spring
8 12 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (2.48%) ARM Templates
10 8 (1.98%) cloud-init
11 7 (1.73%) 802.1X
11 7 (1.73%) boto
11 7 (1.73%) JMS
11 7 (1.73%) Keycloak
11 7 (1.73%) Playwright
11 7 (1.73%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.73%) Swagger
12 6 (1.49%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.39%) Data Centre
3 34 (8.42%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (4.95%) PKI
5 19 (4.70%) Security Posture
6 18 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.22%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.98%) Clustering
11 8 (1.98%) CMDB
11 8 (1.98%) Distributed Applications
11 8 (1.98%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.98%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.73%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.73%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.49%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 155 (38.37%) Linux
2 67 (16.58%) Windows
3 50 (12.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (7.67%) Ubuntu
5 29 (7.18%) Unix
6 25 (6.19%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.99%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.74%) CentOS
9 3 (0.74%) Solaris
9 3 (0.74%) VMS
9 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.50%) AIX
10 2 (0.50%) Debian
10 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
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
1 222 (54.95%) DevOps
2 208 (51.49%) CI/CD
3 197 (48.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (23.76%) Containerisation
5 92 (22.77%) Configuration Management
6 75 (18.56%) Agile
6 75 (18.56%) Observability
7 70 (17.33%) Platform Engineering
8 67 (16.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 64 (15.84%) AI
9 64 (15.84%) Migration
10 62 (15.35%) Infrastructure Automation
11 54 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (13.12%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (11.14%) Test Automation
14 41 (10.15%) Runbook
14 41 (10.15%) Validation
15 38 (9.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 36 (8.91%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 241 (59.65%) Python
2 118 (29.21%) Bash
3 94 (23.27%) PowerShell
4 52 (12.87%) Java
5 34 (8.42%) SQL
6 22 (5.45%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.45%) Shell Script
7 20 (4.95%) Go
8 16 (3.96%) Bicep
9 14 (3.47%) C#
10 11 (2.72%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.48%) Perl
12 6 (1.49%) C++
12 6 (1.49%) Ruby
13 4 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.99%) Groovy
14 3 (0.74%) C
15 2 (0.50%) Korn
15 2 (0.50%) R
15 2 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 124 (30.69%) Security Cleared
2 102 (25.25%) SC Cleared
3 27 (6.68%) Degree
4 24 (5.94%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 20 (4.95%) Azure Certification
6 20 (4.95%) CCNP
7 16 (3.96%) AWS Certification
8 15 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.98%) CISSP
10 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (1.49%) CCIE
12 4 (0.99%) CCNA
12 4 (0.99%) ISSAP
12 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.99%) JNCIP
12 4 (0.99%) JNCIS
12 4 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.44%) QA
2 11 (2.72%) NIST
3 8 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.74%) GDPR
5 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.50%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.50%) 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
1 100 (24.75%) Docker
2 36 (8.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (5.69%) Active Directory
4 14 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (2.97%) Hyper-V
6 11 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.72%) vSphere
7 6 (1.49%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.24%) NFS
9 4 (0.99%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.74%) Ceph
10 3 (0.74%) IAG
10 3 (0.74%) KVM
10 3 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.74%) Postfix
10 3 (0.74%) Squid
10 3 (0.74%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.74%) Varnish
11 2 (0.50%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 160 (39.60%) Kubernetes
2 73 (18.07%) Prometheus
3 69 (17.08%) Grafana
4 42 (10.40%) Puppet
5 19 (4.70%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.71%) Packer
7 13 (3.22%) systemd
8 12 (2.97%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.98%) SCCM
9 8 (1.98%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.49%) Data Guard
10 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (1.49%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.24%) Nagios
11 5 (1.24%) SELinux
11 5 (1.24%) vRealize
12 4 (0.99%) Consul
12 4 (0.99%) Salt
12 4 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.99%) vMotion
Vendors
1 60 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 56 (13.86%) Cisco
3 54 (13.37%) VMware
4 35 (8.66%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.43%) Fortinet
5 30 (7.43%) Oracle
6 29 (7.18%) Splunk
7 27 (6.68%) Palo Alto
8 22 (5.45%) Google
8 22 (5.45%) ServiceNow
9 20 (4.95%) Arista
10 15 (3.71%) F5
11 14 (3.47%) Dynatrace
12 13 (3.22%) Juniper
13 12 (2.97%) Zscaler
14 7 (1.73%) CyberArk
14 7 (1.73%) Okta
15 6 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (1.49%) Hitachi
15 6 (1.49%) SaltStack