Ansible Contracts in London

Ansible
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 112 71
Rank change year-on-year +22 -41 +2
Contract jobs citing Ansible 389 366 898
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.10% 2.05% 3.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.57% 16.82% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 250 669
10th Percentile £442 £394 £481
25th Percentile £506 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £688 £689 £775
90th Percentile £875 £763 £820
England median daily rate £575 £550 £623
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.65% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £53.75
25th Percentile £39.25 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £70.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.43% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £49.75 - £76.00
90th Percentile - - £80.20
England median hourly rate £71.85 £62.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +14.96% -14.38% +26.96%

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 1,988 2,176 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.84% 12.20% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,374 1,567 3,266
10th Percentile £363 £323 £400
25th Percentile £447 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £789
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 42 41
10th Percentile £23.78 £18.00 £21.67
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £25.36 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.94% -62.16% +180.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.81 £83.00
90th Percentile £66.43 £69.70 £90.00
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in London

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in London.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in London

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in London

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in London.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in London

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 1 May 2025. 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 +28 65 £580 +1.75% 30
South London +10 11 £600 +20.00% 2
East London +14 1 £630 - 3
West London +11 1 - - 8
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (3.34%) Apache
1 13 (3.34%) OpenStack
2 12 (3.08%) Confluence
2 12 (3.08%) nginx
3 9 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.03%) IIS
5 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.51%) JBoss
6 2 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.51%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.26%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 159 (40.87%) AWS
2 102 (26.22%) Azure
3 65 (16.71%) GCP
4 45 (11.57%) GitHub
5 35 (9.00%) OpenShift
6 28 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (6.17%) Amazon S3
8 21 (5.40%) Serverless
9 20 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.37%) PaaS
12 14 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (3.60%) IaaS
13 10 (2.57%) Entra ID
13 10 (2.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (1.80%) Nutanix
16 7 (1.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (16.45%) Firewall
2 41 (10.54%) DNS
3 35 (9.00%) VPN
4 34 (8.74%) BGP
5 33 (8.48%) OSPF
6 30 (7.71%) TCP/IP
7 23 (5.91%) Network Security
8 18 (4.63%) WAN
9 17 (4.37%) Multicast
10 14 (3.60%) MPLS
11 12 (3.08%) 4G
11 12 (3.08%) 5G
11 12 (3.08%) HTTP
11 12 (3.08%) Internet
11 12 (3.08%) LAN
11 12 (3.08%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (2.83%) DHCP
13 10 (2.57%) 5G NR
13 10 (2.57%) Cisco Nexus
13 10 (2.57%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.14%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.83%) MySQL
5 10 (2.57%) NoSQL
6 9 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (1.54%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (1.29%) Redis
9 5 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.03%) Big Data
11 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.77%) Hazelcast
11 3 (0.77%) Impala
11 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.51%) CockroachDB
12 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 126 (32.39%) Jenkins
2 70 (17.99%) GitLab
3 65 (16.71%) Git
4 24 (6.17%) JIRA
5 12 (3.08%) TeamCity
6 11 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (2.57%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.31%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.06%) Artifactory
9 8 (2.06%) Subversion
10 7 (1.80%) Maven
11 5 (1.29%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.03%) JMeter
13 3 (0.77%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.77%) git-flow
13 3 (0.77%) Gradle
13 3 (0.77%) Selenium
13 3 (0.77%) Terragrunt
14 2 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
15 1 (0.26%) Travis CI
General
1 95 (24.42%) Finance
2 81 (20.82%) Social Skills
3 72 (18.51%) Banking
4 55 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (8.74%) Investment Banking
6 25 (6.43%) Telecoms
7 23 (5.91%) Public Sector
8 21 (5.40%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.54%) Multimedia
13 5 (1.29%) Front Office
13 5 (1.29%) Law
14 3 (0.77%) Retail
15 2 (0.51%) Military
16 1 (0.26%) Back Office
16 1 (0.26%) Legal
16 1 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (19.54%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (14.14%) Senior
3 54 (13.88%) Developer
4 51 (13.11%) Network Engineer
5 35 (9.00%) Architect
6 34 (8.74%) Python Developer
7 28 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
8 26 (6.68%) Gen AI Developer
9 24 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 22 (5.66%) AWS DevOps
10 22 (5.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 20 (5.14%) Automation Engineer
11 20 (5.14%) Linux Engineer
11 20 (5.14%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (5.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 19 (4.88%) Lead
12 19 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (4.37%) Kubernetes Engineer
14 16 (4.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 15 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (9.51%) React
2 30 (7.71%) FastAPI
3 28 (7.20%) Django
4 27 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
5 24 (6.17%) .NET
6 19 (4.88%) REST
7 13 (3.34%) Kafka
8 11 (2.83%) Spring
9 10 (2.57%) LDAP
10 8 (2.06%) OAuth
10 8 (2.06%) OpenID
10 8 (2.06%) RESTful
11 7 (1.80%) Node.js
12 6 (1.54%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.54%) Spring Boot
13 5 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (1.29%) SailPoint
13 5 (1.29%) XACML
13 5 (1.29%) YAML
14 4 (1.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (11.57%) Cloud Native
2 23 (5.91%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.63%) Public Cloud
4 15 (3.86%) Hedge funds
5 14 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (3.34%) Clustering
6 13 (3.34%) Replication
7 9 (2.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 8 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.54%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.03%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.77%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 140 (35.99%) Linux
2 36 (9.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 34 (8.74%) Windows
4 30 (7.71%) Unix
5 15 (3.86%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.83%) CentOS
7 9 (2.31%) Solaris
8 7 (1.80%) Rocky
9 6 (1.54%) Ubuntu
10 5 (1.29%) SUSE
10 5 (1.29%) VMS
11 3 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.51%) Debian
13 1 (0.26%) AIX
13 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (55.53%) DevOps
2 206 (52.96%) CI/CD
3 113 (29.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (23.91%) Containerisation
5 92 (23.65%) Configuration Management
6 85 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (20.82%) Agile
8 78 (20.05%) High Availability
9 48 (12.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (11.57%) Migration
11 42 (10.80%) Continuous Integration
11 42 (10.80%) Infrastructure Automation
11 42 (10.80%) Task Automation
12 37 (9.51%) SDLC
13 35 (9.00%) Test Automation
14 34 (8.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 33 (8.48%) Deployment Automation
16 32 (8.23%) Artificial Intelligence
16 32 (8.23%) Use Case
17 30 (7.71%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 266 (68.38%) Python
2 89 (22.88%) Bash
3 60 (15.42%) Java
4 54 (13.88%) SQL
5 38 (9.77%) PowerShell
6 33 (8.48%) TypeScript
7 30 (7.71%) C#
8 26 (6.68%) Go
9 24 (6.17%) Shell Script
10 23 (5.91%) Perl
11 12 (3.08%) JavaScript
12 11 (2.83%) Groovy
13 7 (1.80%) Ruby
14 5 (1.29%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.77%) C++
16 2 (0.51%) Bicep
16 2 (0.51%) C
16 2 (0.51%) Scala
17 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 83 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 64 (16.45%) SC Cleared
3 42 (10.80%) Degree
4 23 (5.91%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (5.91%) DV Cleared
5 21 (5.40%) CCNP
6 17 (4.37%) AWS Certification
7 16 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.83%) CCIE
9 6 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.54%) CCNA
10 5 (1.29%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.29%) RHCSA
11 3 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.77%) JNCIA
11 3 (0.77%) JNCIS
11 3 (0.77%) RHCE
11 3 (0.77%) VCAP
12 2 (0.51%) OCP
12 2 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.63%) QA
2 14 (3.60%) GDPR
3 9 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.77%) NIST
6 3 (0.77%) SLA
7 2 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 125 (32.13%) Docker
2 22 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.40%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.80%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.03%) vSphere
7 3 (0.77%) Firmware
7 3 (0.77%) FreeRADIUS
7 3 (0.77%) iptables
7 3 (0.77%) NFS
7 3 (0.77%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 3 (0.77%) Veritas File System
7 3 (0.77%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 2 (0.51%) Ceph
8 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.26%) RACF
9 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 199 (51.16%) Terraform
2 183 (47.04%) Kubernetes
3 66 (16.97%) Puppet
4 39 (10.03%) Progress Chef
5 38 (9.77%) Grafana
6 33 (8.48%) Prometheus
7 12 (3.08%) Red Hat Satellite
8 10 (2.57%) Rancher
9 9 (2.31%) Packer
10 8 (2.06%) Nagios
10 8 (2.06%) Podman
10 8 (2.06%) ZABBIX
11 7 (1.80%) NSN NetAct
11 7 (1.80%) QRadar
11 7 (1.80%) Salt
12 6 (1.54%) Argo
12 6 (1.54%) Tivoli
13 5 (1.29%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (1.29%) Netcool
13 5 (1.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 49 (12.60%) Cisco
1 49 (12.60%) Red Hat
2 46 (11.83%) VMware
3 31 (7.97%) Oracle
4 30 (7.71%) Microsoft
5 26 (6.68%) Splunk
6 24 (6.17%) Fortinet
7 23 (5.91%) F5
8 21 (5.40%) Arista
9 18 (4.63%) ServiceNow
10 17 (4.37%) Google
11 16 (4.11%) CheckPoint
12 14 (3.60%) IBM
12 14 (3.60%) SolarWinds
13 11 (2.83%) CyberArk
14 10 (2.57%) EMC
14 10 (2.57%) Nokia
15 8 (2.06%) Ericsson
15 8 (2.06%) Palo Alto
15 8 (2.06%) Qualys