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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 87 116
Rank change year-on-year -61 +29 -36
Contract jobs citing Ansible 313 381 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.71% 3.13% 2.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.49% 20.06% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 239 255
10th Percentile £401 £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 £689 £689
90th Percentile £729 £815 £763
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -9.95%
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 £66.57 £44.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +49.59% -32.83% -9.25%

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 2,507 1,899 2,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.70% 15.62% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 1,283 1,637
10th Percentile £355 £363 £325
25th Percentile £436 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -1.40% -10.42%
75th Percentile £626 £653 £650
90th Percentile £725 £762 £750
England median daily rate £507 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 33
10th Percentile £22.31 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.28 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.13 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +42.28% +60.26% -62.22%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +50.67% +36.36% -50.00%

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 2 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 2 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 -30 40 £513 -6.82% 29
South London -14 5 £528 -12.08%
West London -22 3 £500 - 4
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 (3.83%) Confluence
2 8 (2.56%) Apache
3 4 (1.28%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.96%) JBoss
5 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.64%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.64%) nginx
5 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) Appian
6 1 (0.32%) MTS
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 142 (45.37%) AWS
2 115 (36.74%) Azure
3 73 (23.32%) GitHub
4 43 (13.74%) GCP
4 43 (13.74%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (10.22%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (8.31%) OpenShift
7 23 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (7.03%) Amazon S3
8 22 (7.03%) Serverless
9 21 (6.71%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (6.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (5.43%) Entra ID
11 14 (4.47%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.15%) Datadog
13 12 (3.83%) PaaS
14 11 (3.51%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (21.41%) Firewall
2 34 (10.86%) VPN
3 33 (10.54%) BGP
4 28 (8.95%) DNS
4 28 (8.95%) WAN
5 21 (6.71%) Network Security
6 19 (6.07%) OSPF
7 14 (4.47%) VXLAN
8 13 (4.15%) TCP/IP
9 12 (3.83%) MPLS
10 11 (3.51%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (3.51%) Wireless
11 10 (3.19%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (3.19%) Multicast
11 10 (3.19%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.88%) IOS XR
12 9 (2.88%) NX-OS
12 9 (2.88%) SAN
12 9 (2.88%) VLAN
13 8 (2.56%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (1.92%) Redis
5 6 (1.92%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.60%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.28%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.28%) MySQL
7 4 (1.28%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.64%) Big Data
8 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.64%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.64%) Power BI
8 2 (0.64%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.32%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.32%) Flink
Development Applications
1 86 (27.48%) Jenkins
2 62 (19.81%) GitLab
3 55 (17.57%) Git
4 22 (7.03%) JIRA
5 7 (2.24%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.24%) Postman
6 6 (1.92%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.92%) JMeter
6 6 (1.92%) Snyk
6 6 (1.92%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.60%) JUnit
7 5 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.28%) Ant
8 4 (1.28%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.28%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.96%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.96%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.64%) Gatling
10 2 (0.64%) Mockito
General
1 53 (16.93%) Finance
2 42 (13.42%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.39%) Banking
5 19 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.60%) Law
10 4 (1.28%) Military
10 4 (1.28%) Police
11 3 (0.96%) Front Office
12 2 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.64%) Retail
13 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.32%) Legal
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.32%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 75 (23.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (13.42%) Architect
3 39 (12.46%) Senior
4 34 (10.86%) Network Engineer
5 26 (8.31%) Developer
6 25 (7.99%) AWS Engineer
6 25 (7.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (6.07%) Lead
8 18 (5.75%) Linux Engineer
9 17 (5.43%) Automation Engineer
9 17 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (5.43%) Site Engineer
10 16 (5.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (5.11%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.15%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.19%) Lead DevOps
15 9 (2.88%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.71%) Kafka
2 17 (5.43%) REST
3 14 (4.47%) YAML
4 12 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.88%) .NET
5 9 (2.88%) Spring
6 8 (2.56%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.56%) JSON
6 8 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (2.24%) Middleware
7 7 (2.24%) Web Services
8 6 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.92%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.92%) Swagger
9 5 (1.60%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.60%) cloud-init
9 5 (1.60%) React
9 5 (1.60%) RESTful
10 4 (1.28%) Jinja
10 4 (1.28%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.06%) Cloud Native
2 34 (10.86%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.11%) PKI
5 15 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.83%) Enterprise Storage
7 11 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.51%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.56%) Clustering
8 8 (2.56%) CMDB
9 7 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.92%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.28%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.28%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 107 (34.19%) Linux
2 43 (13.74%) Windows
3 25 (7.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (6.71%) Unix
5 19 (6.07%) Ubuntu
6 18 (5.75%) Windows Server
7 13 (4.15%) VMS
8 7 (2.24%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.28%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.64%) CentOS
10 2 (0.64%) Debian
10 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.32%) AIX
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.32%) Rocky
11 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (53.35%) DevOps
2 154 (49.20%) CI/CD
3 147 (46.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (22.68%) Containerisation
5 60 (19.17%) Configuration Management
6 58 (18.53%) Observability
7 57 (18.21%) Agile
8 48 (15.34%) Migration
9 40 (12.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 39 (12.46%) Platform Engineering
11 37 (11.82%) Mentoring
12 36 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (10.86%) Load Balancing
14 31 (9.90%) Infrastructure Automation
15 30 (9.58%) AI
15 30 (9.58%) Incident Management
16 27 (8.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 27 (8.63%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (7.99%) High Availability
17 25 (7.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 141 (45.05%) Python
2 82 (26.20%) Bash
3 52 (16.61%) PowerShell
4 33 (10.54%) Java
5 21 (6.71%) SQL
6 12 (3.83%) Shell Script
7 10 (3.19%) Bicep
7 10 (3.19%) Go
8 8 (2.56%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.24%) Ruby
10 5 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.28%) C
12 3 (0.96%) Groovy
12 3 (0.96%) Perl
13 2 (0.64%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.64%) C#
13 2 (0.64%) Scala
14 1 (0.32%) C++
14 1 (0.32%) RPG
14 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 112 (35.78%) Security Cleared
2 99 (31.63%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.71%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (6.07%) CCNP
5 18 (5.75%) Degree
6 16 (5.11%) Azure Certification
7 14 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (4.15%) AWS Certification
8 13 (4.15%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.88%) CCIE
10 5 (1.60%) CISSP
10 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.60%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.96%) ISSAP
11 3 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.96%) JNCIP
11 3 (0.96%) VCAP
12 2 (0.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.64%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.19%) QA
2 8 (2.56%) NIST
3 5 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.96%) GDPR
5 2 (0.64%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.64%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.64%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.64%) NCSC
5 2 (0.64%) PSD2
5 2 (0.64%) SEPA
5 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 69 (22.04%) Docker
2 22 (7.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.39%) Active Directory
4 15 (4.79%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.19%) Hyper-V
5 10 (3.19%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.24%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.24%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.24%) vSphere
7 5 (1.60%) NFS
8 4 (1.28%) KVM
8 4 (1.28%) Postfix
8 4 (1.28%) Varnish
9 3 (0.96%) Ceph
9 3 (0.96%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.96%) Squid
10 2 (0.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.64%) Firmware
10 2 (0.64%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 177 (56.55%) Terraform
2 138 (44.09%) Kubernetes
3 65 (20.77%) Prometheus
4 59 (18.85%) Grafana
5 28 (8.95%) Puppet
6 15 (4.79%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.51%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.88%) Salt
9 8 (2.56%) Packer
10 7 (2.24%) vMotion
11 5 (1.60%) Argo
11 5 (1.60%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.60%) Kibana
11 5 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.28%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.28%) vRealize
13 3 (0.96%) Consul
13 3 (0.96%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.96%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.96%) Podman
Vendors
1 46 (14.70%) Cisco
2 38 (12.14%) Microsoft
3 31 (9.90%) Splunk
4 30 (9.58%) VMware
5 29 (9.27%) Arista
5 29 (9.27%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.39%) Fortinet
7 19 (6.07%) F5
8 17 (5.43%) Google
9 15 (4.79%) Red Hat
10 12 (3.83%) Oracle
11 11 (3.51%) Aruba
11 11 (3.51%) NetApp
11 11 (3.51%) ServiceNow
12 10 (3.19%) CheckPoint
12 10 (3.19%) Juniper
13 9 (2.88%) IBM
13 9 (2.88%) Okta
13 9 (2.88%) Zscaler
14 7 (2.24%) Citrix