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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 78 109
Rank change year-on-year -92 +31 -42
Contract jobs citing Ansible 281 409 396
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.66% 3.25% 2.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.37% 20.35% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 263 270
10th Percentile £356 £440 £394
25th Percentile £463 £504 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% -13.46%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £666
90th Percentile £768 £875 £763
England median daily rate £514 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.61% +4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -25.83% -17.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +20.97% -14.48%

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 2,472 2,010 2,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.57% 15.96% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,682 1,382 1,596
10th Percentile £350 £368 £322
25th Percentile £429 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.23% -10.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £790 £750
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.90% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 40
10th Percentile £22.39 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.73 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +71.33% +9.35% -60.99%
75th Percentile £63.32 £55.00 £55.94
90th Percentile - £62.80 £62.95
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £25.77
% change year-on-year +107.55% +2.85% -55.19%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -43 40 £563 +2.27% 19
South London -13 10 £530 -20.00% 1
West London - 3 £688 - 2
East London +1 2 £551 -12.62%
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 10 (3.56%) Confluence
2 4 (1.42%) Apache
2 4 (1.42%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.07%) JBoss
3 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.36%) FileNet
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.07%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.36%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 126 (44.84%) AWS
2 99 (35.23%) Azure
3 68 (24.20%) GitHub
4 46 (16.37%) GCP
5 38 (13.52%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (11.39%) Amazon S3
7 30 (10.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (10.68%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (9.25%) Serverless
9 25 (8.90%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (8.90%) OpenShift
10 22 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (7.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (6.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
13 15 (5.34%) IaaS
14 12 (4.27%) Azure AKS
15 9 (3.20%) PaaS
16 7 (2.49%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 58 (20.64%) Firewall
2 33 (11.74%) VPN
3 31 (11.03%) BGP
4 28 (9.96%) DNS
5 25 (8.90%) WAN
6 20 (7.12%) OSPF
7 19 (6.76%) Network Security
8 15 (5.34%) VXLAN
9 14 (4.98%) TCP/IP
10 13 (4.63%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (4.27%) DHCP
11 12 (4.27%) MPLS
11 12 (4.27%) Multicast
12 11 (3.91%) SD-WAN
13 9 (3.20%) LAN
14 8 (2.85%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (2.85%) Ethernet
14 8 (2.85%) SAN
14 8 (2.85%) Wireless
15 7 (2.49%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.85%) MySQL
5 6 (2.14%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.14%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.07%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.07%) Redis
8 2 (0.71%) Big Data
8 2 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.71%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.71%) ImageNet
8 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.71%) Sybase ASE
8 2 (0.71%) Tableau
9 1 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 77 (27.40%) Jenkins
2 54 (19.22%) Git
3 53 (18.86%) GitLab
4 16 (5.69%) JIRA
5 7 (2.49%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.49%) JUnit
5 7 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.78%) Terragrunt
7 4 (1.42%) Ant
7 4 (1.42%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.42%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.42%) Liquibase
7 4 (1.42%) Snyk
7 4 (1.42%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.07%) Maven
9 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.71%) Gatling
9 2 (0.71%) Mockito
9 2 (0.71%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.71%) RStudio
General
1 53 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.30%) Finance
3 24 (8.54%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.34%) Banking
6 11 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.07%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Front Office
11 2 (0.71%) Military
11 2 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Social Science
12 1 (0.36%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 64 (22.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (13.88%) Senior
3 35 (12.46%) Architect
4 32 (11.39%) Developer
5 29 (10.32%) Network Engineer
6 25 (8.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 21 (7.47%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (7.47%) Site Engineer
8 19 (6.76%) Java Developer
9 15 (5.34%) Lead
10 14 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
10 14 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.63%) Senior Network Engineer
12 12 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.20%) AWS Architect
14 8 (2.85%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.85%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.69%) Kafka
1 16 (5.69%) REST
2 11 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (3.56%) Node.js
3 10 (3.56%) Spring
4 9 (3.20%) OAuth
4 9 (3.20%) YAML
5 7 (2.49%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.49%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (2.14%) JWT
6 6 (2.14%) Middleware
6 6 (2.14%) Web Services
7 5 (1.78%) AWS CDK
7 5 (1.78%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.42%) Jinja
8 4 (1.42%) JSON
8 4 (1.42%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (1.07%) J2EE
9 3 (1.07%) JMS
9 3 (1.07%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.03%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.90%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.63%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.27%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (4.27%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.56%) PKI
7 7 (2.49%) Clustering
8 6 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.78%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.78%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.78%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 3 (1.07%) CMDB
11 3 (1.07%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.71%) Celerra
12 2 (0.71%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 95 (33.81%) Linux
2 34 (12.10%) Windows
3 22 (7.83%) Unix
4 17 (6.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.34%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.63%) VMS
7 7 (2.49%) Windows Server 2003
8 6 (2.14%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.71%) AIX
9 2 (0.71%) CentOS
10 1 (0.36%) Debian
10 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.36%) Rocky
10 1 (0.36%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (47.33%) CI/CD
1 133 (47.33%) DevOps
2 129 (45.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 60 (21.35%) Containerisation
4 54 (19.22%) Agile
5 43 (15.30%) Configuration Management
5 43 (15.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 41 (14.59%) Migration
6 41 (14.59%) Observability
7 39 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (10.68%) Load Balancing
10 29 (10.32%) Mentoring
11 28 (9.96%) High Availability
12 26 (9.25%) Infrastructure Automation
12 26 (9.25%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (8.90%) ITIL
13 25 (8.90%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 24 (8.54%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 122 (43.42%) Python
2 72 (25.62%) Bash
3 35 (12.46%) PowerShell
4 32 (11.39%) Java
5 19 (6.76%) SQL
6 10 (3.56%) Go
6 10 (3.56%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.78%) Bicep
7 5 (1.78%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.78%) Ruby
8 4 (1.42%) Perl
9 2 (0.71%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.71%) C
9 2 (0.71%) C++
9 2 (0.71%) PHP
9 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.36%) C#
10 1 (0.36%) Groovy
10 1 (0.36%) Rust
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 91 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 76 (27.05%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.41%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (6.05%) AWS Certification
4 17 (6.05%) CCNP
5 16 (5.69%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.63%) Degree
6 13 (4.63%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.20%) CCIE
9 6 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.42%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.42%) VCAP
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.07%) CCSE
11 3 (1.07%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.49%) QA
2 4 (1.42%) GDPR
2 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (1.42%) NIST
3 3 (1.07%) NCSC
4 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.71%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.71%) PSD2
4 2 (0.71%) SEPA
5 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 78 (27.76%) Docker
2 20 (7.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.41%) Active Directory
4 15 (5.34%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.56%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.20%) Hyper-V
6 9 (3.20%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (2.85%) vSphere
8 7 (2.49%) BitLocker
8 7 (2.49%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.07%) NFS
10 2 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.71%) IAG
10 2 (0.71%) KVM
10 2 (0.71%) Postfix
10 2 (0.71%) Sendmail
10 2 (0.71%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.71%) Varnish
10 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.71%) Xen
Systems Management
1 164 (58.36%) Terraform
2 106 (37.72%) Kubernetes
3 48 (17.08%) Grafana
4 44 (15.66%) Prometheus
5 27 (9.61%) Puppet
6 15 (5.34%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.63%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.56%) Argo
9 8 (2.85%) Kibana
10 7 (2.49%) Salt
10 7 (2.49%) SCCM
10 7 (2.49%) vMotion
11 6 (2.14%) SCOM
12 4 (1.42%) Rancher
13 3 (1.07%) HAProxy
13 3 (1.07%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.07%) Karpenter
13 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (1.07%) Packer
13 3 (1.07%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 35 (12.46%) Cisco
2 31 (11.03%) Arista
2 31 (11.03%) Microsoft
3 29 (10.32%) Splunk
4 28 (9.96%) VMware
5 21 (7.47%) Palo Alto
6 19 (6.76%) F5
7 16 (5.69%) Google
7 16 (5.69%) Red Hat
8 14 (4.98%) ServiceNow
9 11 (3.91%) CheckPoint
9 11 (3.91%) Fortinet
9 11 (3.91%) NetApp
10 10 (3.56%) Aruba
10 10 (3.56%) Juniper
11 9 (3.20%) Citrix
11 9 (3.20%) Dynatrace
11 9 (3.20%) IBM
11 9 (3.20%) Oracle
12 7 (2.49%) Zscaler