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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 106 105
Rank change year-on-year -37 -1 -26
Contract jobs citing Ansible 386 374 402
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 2.76% 2.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.91% 17.99% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 228 262
10th Percentile £425 £408 £388
25th Percentile £488 £475 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £768
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -9.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +19.83% -19.93% +0.39%

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 2,774 2,079 2,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.81% 15.37% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,913 1,371 1,622
10th Percentile £361 £330 £338
25th Percentile £449 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.11% -8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 28
10th Percentile £31.18 £24.80 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.45 £22.98
Median hourly rate £62.75 £38.75 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.94% +49.04% -58.57%
75th Percentile £81.25 £57.69 £61.13
90th Percentile - £62.73 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.00 £54.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +22.94% +43.42% -23.26%

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 August 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 August 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 -42 41 £550 -8.33% 12
South London -7 9 £535 -12.30% 2
West London -14 7 £500 +20.48% 2
East London +1 5 £525 -22.22% 6
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 20 (5.18%) Confluence
2 10 (2.59%) Apache
3 8 (2.07%) nginx
4 5 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.30%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.04%) WordPress
6 3 (0.78%) CMS
6 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.52%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.52%) JBoss
7 2 (0.52%) Mule
7 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) MTS
8 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
8 1 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 177 (45.85%) AWS
2 142 (36.79%) Azure
3 84 (21.76%) GitHub
4 49 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (11.66%) GCP
6 41 (10.62%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (8.81%) Datadog
8 32 (8.29%) OpenShift
9 30 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (6.99%) Amazon S3
10 27 (6.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
11 26 (6.74%) Serverless
12 24 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (5.70%) Entra ID
14 18 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (4.66%) Azure AKS
15 13 (3.37%) PaaS
16 12 (3.11%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (18.91%) Firewall
2 44 (11.40%) BGP
3 40 (10.36%) DNS
4 38 (9.84%) VPN
5 28 (7.25%) WAN
6 25 (6.48%) Network Security
6 25 (6.48%) TCP/IP
7 22 (5.70%) OSPF
8 20 (5.18%) SSL
9 19 (4.92%) DHCP
10 18 (4.66%) VLAN
11 17 (4.40%) VXLAN
12 14 (3.63%) NX-OS
13 13 (3.37%) Cisco IOS
14 12 (3.11%) Wireless
15 11 (2.85%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (2.85%) IOS XR
16 10 (2.59%) MPLS
16 10 (2.59%) SD-WAN
16 10 (2.59%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.63%) MongoDB
1 14 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.59%) Oracle Database
4 9 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.07%) Power BI
5 8 (2.07%) Redis
6 7 (1.81%) Big Data
6 7 (1.81%) MySQL
7 6 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (1.30%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.30%) ObjectStore
9 4 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.78%) Metadata
10 3 (0.78%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 94 (24.35%) Jenkins
2 85 (22.02%) Git
3 76 (19.69%) GitLab
4 29 (7.51%) JIRA
5 10 (2.59%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.33%) Snyk
6 9 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.81%) Postman
9 6 (1.55%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.55%) JMeter
10 5 (1.30%) JUnit
11 3 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.78%) Mockito
12 2 (0.52%) GoCD
12 2 (0.52%) Gradle
12 2 (0.52%) Selenium
12 2 (0.52%) Subversion
12 2 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 82 (21.24%) Finance
2 74 (19.17%) Social Skills
3 43 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.51%) Banking
5 28 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.81%) Law
8 7 (1.81%) Retail
9 6 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.30%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.30%) Police
10 5 (1.30%) Publishing
10 5 (1.30%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.04%) Automotive
11 4 (1.04%) Military
12 3 (0.78%) Front Office
12 3 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 79 (20.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (14.25%) Senior
3 45 (11.66%) Network Engineer
4 44 (11.40%) Architect
5 32 (8.29%) Developer
6 31 (8.03%) Lead
7 28 (7.25%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (6.99%) Automation Engineer
9 24 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (5.96%) Linux Engineer
11 22 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
12 17 (4.40%) Java Developer
13 16 (4.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 13 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.37%) Senior Network Engineer
15 13 (3.37%) Site Engineer
15 13 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (7.77%) REST
2 24 (6.22%) Kafka
3 21 (5.44%) YAML
4 18 (4.66%) .NET
5 15 (3.89%) Spring
6 14 (3.63%) JSON
6 14 (3.63%) React
7 12 (3.11%) Middleware
8 10 (2.59%) ARM Templates
8 10 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.07%) cloud-init
9 8 (2.07%) JMS
9 8 (2.07%) Spring Boot
10 7 (1.81%) 802.1X
10 7 (1.81%) Jakarta EE
10 7 (1.81%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (1.81%) SAML
10 7 (1.81%) Swagger
11 6 (1.55%) OAuth
12 5 (1.30%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.69%) Data Centre
2 48 (12.44%) Cloud Native
3 29 (7.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.92%) PKI
5 18 (4.66%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.40%) Security Posture
7 16 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (3.89%) Linux Command Line
9 13 (3.37%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.33%) Clustering
10 9 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.07%) CMDB
11 8 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.81%) Distributed Applications
12 7 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.55%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.55%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.30%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 144 (37.31%) Linux
2 63 (16.32%) Windows
3 46 (11.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (7.77%) Ubuntu
5 26 (6.74%) Windows Server
6 24 (6.22%) Unix
7 6 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.04%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.52%) CentOS
9 2 (0.52%) Debian
9 2 (0.52%) Solaris
9 2 (0.52%) VMS
9 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.26%) AIX
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.26%) Rocky
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (55.96%) DevOps
2 189 (48.96%) CI/CD
3 177 (45.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (23.06%) Containerisation
5 83 (21.50%) Configuration Management
6 80 (20.73%) Agile
7 62 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 62 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
8 59 (15.28%) Observability
9 57 (14.77%) AI
9 57 (14.77%) Migration
10 48 (12.44%) Infrastructure Automation
11 47 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (10.10%) Test Automation
14 38 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 38 (9.84%) Validation
15 36 (9.33%) Mentoring
16 35 (9.07%) Runbook
17 33 (8.55%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 212 (54.92%) Python
2 106 (27.46%) Bash
3 83 (21.50%) PowerShell
4 52 (13.47%) Java
5 28 (7.25%) SQL
6 20 (5.18%) JavaScript
7 18 (4.66%) Shell Script
8 13 (3.37%) Go
9 12 (3.11%) Bicep
9 12 (3.11%) C#
10 10 (2.59%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.33%) Perl
12 6 (1.55%) Ruby
13 5 (1.30%) Groovy
14 4 (1.04%) C++
15 2 (0.52%) ActionScript
15 2 (0.52%) C
15 2 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.52%) R
15 2 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 125 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 102 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.25%) Degree
4 27 (6.99%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (5.96%) CCNP
5 23 (5.96%) DV Cleared
6 18 (4.66%) Azure Certification
7 15 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.63%) AWS Certification
9 9 (2.33%) CCIE
10 8 (2.07%) CISSP
11 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 4 (1.04%) CCNA
13 4 (1.04%) ISSAP
13 4 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.04%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.04%) JNCIS
13 4 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.78%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.92%) QA
2 9 (2.33%) NIST
3 5 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.78%) GDPR
4 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.52%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.52%) NCSC
5 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.26%) PMO
6 1 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 92 (23.83%) Docker
2 38 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.74%) Active Directory
4 14 (3.63%) Hyper-V
4 14 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (3.63%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (3.11%) vSphere
6 8 (2.07%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.55%) BitLocker
7 6 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (1.55%) NFS
8 4 (1.04%) IAG
8 4 (1.04%) Postfix
8 4 (1.04%) Varnish
9 3 (0.78%) Ceph
9 3 (0.78%) KVM
9 3 (0.78%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.78%) Squid
9 3 (0.78%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 221 (57.25%) Terraform
2 155 (40.16%) Kubernetes
3 70 (18.13%) Prometheus
4 65 (16.84%) Grafana
5 41 (10.62%) Puppet
6 16 (4.15%) Packer
6 16 (4.15%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.11%) systemd
8 11 (2.85%) FortiGate
8 11 (2.85%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.81%) SCCM
10 6 (1.55%) Oracle RMAN
10 6 (1.55%) vMotion
11 5 (1.30%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.30%) Nagios
11 5 (1.30%) Salt
11 5 (1.30%) SELinux
11 5 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.51%) Cisco
3 52 (13.47%) VMware
4 29 (7.51%) Palo Alto
5 28 (7.25%) Red Hat
6 27 (6.99%) Fortinet
7 26 (6.74%) Splunk
8 25 (6.48%) Arista
9 24 (6.22%) Oracle
10 23 (5.96%) ServiceNow
11 20 (5.18%) F5
12 17 (4.40%) Google
13 15 (3.89%) Juniper
14 12 (3.11%) Zscaler
15 10 (2.59%) Dynatrace
15 10 (2.59%) Okta
16 9 (2.33%) NetApp
17 6 (1.55%) Citrix
17 6 (1.55%) Hitachi
17 6 (1.55%) IBM