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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 82 106
Rank change year-on-year -62 +24 -39
Contract jobs citing Ansible 291 422 400
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 3.13% 2.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.24% 20.59% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 274 293
10th Percentile £350 £452 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £568
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +8.37% -13.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £763 £839 £763
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £39.25 -
Median hourly rate - £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.14% +19.10% -14.38%

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 2,377 2,050 2,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.27% 15.18% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,636 1,366 1,725
10th Percentile £350 £365 £321
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.30% +4.09% -10.20%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -6.89% +2.29% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 35
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.63 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £44.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.35% +41.27% +22.52%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.25 £59.38
90th Percentile £64.65 £108.60 £65.20
England median hourly rate £53.25 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +100.94% -33.75% -16.67%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -20 48 £550 -8.33% 23
South London -16 8 £530 -26.90%
West London -18 4 £688 - 2
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 17 (5.84%) Confluence
2 6 (2.06%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) Appian
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.03%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.03%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.03%) nginx
4 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.03%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.69%) JBoss
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.69%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.69%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 137 (47.08%) AWS
2 89 (30.58%) Azure
3 71 (24.40%) GitHub
4 59 (20.27%) GCP
5 36 (12.37%) Amazon S3
6 32 (11.00%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (9.62%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (9.62%) OpenShift
8 26 (8.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (8.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (8.25%) Serverless
11 22 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.78%) IaaS
15 8 (2.75%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.75%) Amazon ELB
16 7 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 56 (19.24%) Firewall
2 38 (13.06%) DNS
2 38 (13.06%) VPN
3 26 (8.93%) Network Security
4 24 (8.25%) TCP/IP
5 20 (6.87%) WAN
6 15 (5.15%) SD-WAN
7 13 (4.47%) BGP
8 12 (4.12%) DHCP
9 11 (3.78%) LAN
10 10 (3.44%) NetScaler
10 10 (3.44%) SSL
11 9 (3.09%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (3.09%) OSPF
12 8 (2.75%) SAN
13 7 (2.41%) Ethernet
13 7 (2.41%) InfiniBand
13 7 (2.41%) Multicast
13 7 (2.41%) Wireless
14 6 (2.06%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.12%) MySQL
2 12 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.41%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.41%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.41%) Redis
4 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.03%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.69%) Big Data
6 2 (0.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.69%) Hazelcast
6 2 (0.69%) ImageNet
6 2 (0.69%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (29.21%) Jenkins
2 64 (21.99%) GitLab
3 49 (16.84%) Git
4 23 (7.90%) JIRA
5 11 (3.78%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.75%) JUnit
8 6 (2.06%) Terragrunt
9 4 (1.37%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.37%) JMeter
9 4 (1.37%) RStudio
9 4 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.37%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.03%) Ant
10 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.03%) Gradle
10 3 (1.03%) Liquibase
10 3 (1.03%) Maven
10 3 (1.03%) Robot Framework
10 3 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 73 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 59 (20.27%) Finance
3 28 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.53%) Banking
6 10 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.09%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.41%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.37%) Social Science
10 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.03%) Military
10 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.69%) International Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (23.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (13.06%) Senior
3 36 (12.37%) Architect
4 30 (10.31%) Developer
5 28 (9.62%) Network Engineer
6 23 (7.90%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (7.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (6.53%) Site Engineer
8 16 (5.50%) Automation Engineer
9 14 (4.81%) Java Developer
9 14 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
9 14 (4.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (3.78%) AWS Architect
11 11 (3.78%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.44%) Consultant
12 10 (3.44%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.19%) Kafka
2 12 (4.12%) REST
3 10 (3.44%) Node.js
3 10 (3.44%) Spring
4 9 (3.09%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (3.09%) OAuth
5 8 (2.75%) JSON
6 7 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.06%) JWT
7 6 (2.06%) Middleware
7 6 (2.06%) Web Services
7 6 (2.06%) YAML
8 5 (1.72%) XML
9 4 (1.37%) AWS CDK
9 4 (1.37%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.37%) OpenID
9 4 (1.37%) ZK
10 3 (1.03%) Loki
10 3 (1.03%) NETCONF
10 3 (1.03%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.31%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (6.19%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.15%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.78%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.09%) Enterprise Storage
6 9 (3.09%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.41%) Clustering
8 7 (2.41%) PKI
8 7 (2.41%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.06%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.06%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.37%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.37%) Replication
10 4 (1.37%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.03%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 100 (34.36%) Linux
2 34 (11.68%) Windows
3 28 (9.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (6.87%) Unix
5 13 (4.47%) VMS
6 12 (4.12%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.41%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.06%) CentOS
9 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.03%) Solaris
11 2 (0.69%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (51.55%) CI/CD
2 136 (46.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 132 (45.36%) DevOps
4 66 (22.68%) Containerisation
5 50 (17.18%) Agile
6 47 (16.15%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (15.12%) Observability
8 41 (14.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 40 (13.75%) Infrastructure Automation
9 40 (13.75%) Migration
10 37 (12.71%) High Availability
11 36 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (11.34%) Configuration Management
13 27 (9.28%) Load Balancing
13 27 (9.28%) Test Automation
14 26 (8.93%) Incident Response
15 23 (7.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 23 (7.90%) Project Delivery
15 23 (7.90%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (7.56%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 133 (45.70%) Python
2 79 (27.15%) Bash
3 33 (11.34%) Java
4 32 (11.00%) PowerShell
5 19 (6.53%) SQL
6 12 (4.12%) Go
7 8 (2.75%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.06%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.72%) C++
9 5 (1.72%) Perl
10 3 (1.03%) C#
10 3 (1.03%) PHP
10 3 (1.03%) Rust
11 2 (0.69%) C
11 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.34%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.34%) Bicep
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) R
12 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 78 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 64 (21.99%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.87%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.78%) CCNP
6 9 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.09%) Degree
7 8 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.72%) RHCE
9 4 (1.37%) CCIE
9 4 (1.37%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.03%) CCNA
10 3 (1.03%) CCSE
10 3 (1.03%) CISSP
10 3 (1.03%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.75%) GDPR
2 6 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.06%) NIST
3 5 (1.72%) QA
4 3 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.69%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.69%) NCSC
5 2 (0.69%) PSD2
5 2 (0.69%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (28.52%) Docker
2 23 (7.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.84%) Active Directory
4 15 (5.15%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.75%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.41%) vSphere
7 4 (1.37%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.03%) KVM
8 3 (1.03%) NFS
9 2 (0.69%) Ceph
9 2 (0.69%) Lustre
9 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.69%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.69%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.69%) Xen
10 1 (0.34%) iptables
10 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 171 (58.76%) Terraform
2 99 (34.02%) Kubernetes
3 44 (15.12%) Grafana
4 43 (14.78%) Prometheus
5 20 (6.87%) Puppet
6 16 (5.50%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.78%) Argo
8 9 (3.09%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.09%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.75%) SCCM
10 7 (2.41%) Kibana
11 6 (2.06%) Rancher
11 6 (2.06%) Salt
11 6 (2.06%) SCOM
12 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.37%) Nagios
13 4 (1.37%) Packer
13 4 (1.37%) vMotion
13 4 (1.37%) vRealize
14 3 (1.03%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (11.68%) Splunk
2 32 (11.00%) VMware
3 29 (9.97%) Cisco
4 25 (8.59%) Microsoft
4 25 (8.59%) Red Hat
5 21 (7.22%) Arista
6 19 (6.53%) F5
6 19 (6.53%) Google
6 19 (6.53%) Palo Alto
7 17 (5.84%) CheckPoint
7 17 (5.84%) ServiceNow
8 15 (5.15%) Aruba
9 10 (3.44%) Citrix
9 10 (3.44%) Oracle
10 9 (3.09%) Fortinet
10 9 (3.09%) Zscaler
11 8 (2.75%) Dynatrace
12 7 (2.41%) CyberArk
13 6 (2.06%) IBM
13 6 (2.06%) PagerDuty