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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 99 104
Rank change year-on-year -52 +5 -27
Contract jobs citing Ansible 382 384 401
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 2.82% 2.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.84% 18.36% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 235 261
10th Percentile £425 £413 £381
25th Percentile £475 £478 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +0.87% -11.54%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -10.20%
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 2,760 2,092 2,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.70% 15.39% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,914 1,385 1,624
10th Percentile £360 £331 £338
25th Percentile £441 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £736 £751
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 26
10th Percentile £31.18 £26.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.45 £21.33
Median hourly rate £62.75 £40.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +56.88% +62.67% -60.97%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.00 £58.75
90th Percentile - £62.80 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.69 £53.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +22.79% +41.72% -24.09%

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 12 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 12 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 -41 42 £550 -6.78% 11
South London -8 9 £535 -12.30% 4
West London -14 7 £500 +20.48% 2
East London +3 3 £551 -18.44% 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 22 (5.76%) Confluence
2 10 (2.62%) Apache
3 8 (2.09%) nginx
4 5 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.05%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.05%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.05%) WordPress
6 3 (0.79%) JBoss
6 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.52%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
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
Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 179 (46.86%) AWS
2 141 (36.91%) Azure
3 83 (21.73%) GitHub
4 49 (12.83%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (12.04%) GCP
6 41 (10.73%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (8.90%) Datadog
8 32 (8.38%) OpenShift
9 30 (7.85%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (7.07%) Amazon S3
10 27 (7.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (6.54%) Serverless
13 23 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (5.76%) Entra ID
15 18 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (4.71%) Azure AKS
16 13 (3.40%) PaaS
17 12 (3.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (18.85%) Firewall
2 44 (11.52%) BGP
3 40 (10.47%) DNS
4 38 (9.95%) VPN
5 29 (7.59%) WAN
6 25 (6.54%) TCP/IP
7 23 (6.02%) Network Security
8 22 (5.76%) OSPF
9 19 (4.97%) DHCP
9 19 (4.97%) SSL
10 18 (4.71%) VLAN
11 17 (4.45%) VXLAN
12 13 (3.40%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (3.40%) NX-OS
13 11 (2.88%) IOS XR
14 10 (2.62%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (2.62%) MPLS
14 10 (2.62%) SD-WAN
14 10 (2.62%) SSH
14 10 (2.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.66%) MongoDB
1 14 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (2.62%) Oracle Database
4 8 (2.09%) Redis
4 8 (2.09%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.83%) Big Data
5 7 (1.83%) MySQL
5 7 (1.83%) Power BI
6 6 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.31%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.05%) ObjectStore
9 3 (0.79%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.52%) Metadata
10 2 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 98 (25.65%) Jenkins
2 87 (22.77%) Git
3 75 (19.63%) GitLab
4 31 (8.12%) JIRA
5 10 (2.62%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.36%) Snyk
6 9 (2.36%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.09%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (1.83%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.83%) Postman
9 6 (1.57%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.57%) JMeter
9 6 (1.57%) JUnit
10 4 (1.05%) Ant
10 4 (1.05%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.79%) Mockito
12 2 (0.52%) Gradle
12 2 (0.52%) Maven
12 2 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 80 (20.94%) Finance
2 70 (18.32%) Social Skills
3 39 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.59%) Banking
6 13 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.36%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.83%) Law
8 7 (1.83%) Retail
9 6 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.31%) Police
10 5 (1.31%) Publishing
11 4 (1.05%) Automotive
11 4 (1.05%) Military
12 3 (0.79%) Front Office
12 3 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 82 (21.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (14.14%) Senior
3 44 (11.52%) Architect
4 43 (11.26%) Network Engineer
5 33 (8.64%) Developer
6 29 (7.59%) Lead
7 28 (7.33%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (6.28%) Automation Engineer
8 24 (6.28%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (5.76%) Linux Engineer
10 21 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (4.71%) Java Developer
12 17 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (4.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 13 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.40%) Site Engineer
15 13 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
16 12 (3.14%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.07%) REST
2 24 (6.28%) Kafka
3 20 (5.24%) YAML
4 17 (4.45%) .NET
5 16 (4.19%) Spring
6 13 (3.40%) Middleware
7 12 (3.14%) JSON
7 12 (3.14%) React
8 10 (2.62%) ARM Templates
8 10 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (2.36%) JMS
10 8 (2.09%) cloud-init
10 8 (2.09%) Jakarta EE
10 8 (2.09%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.83%) SAML
11 7 (1.83%) Swagger
12 6 (1.57%) OAuth
12 6 (1.57%) RESTful
12 6 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.83%) Data Centre
2 48 (12.57%) Cloud Native
3 29 (7.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (4.97%) PKI
5 17 (4.45%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.45%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (3.93%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.40%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.36%) Clustering
9 9 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.09%) CMDB
10 8 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.57%) Distributed Applications
12 6 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.31%) Robotics
13 5 (1.31%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 140 (36.65%) Linux
2 62 (16.23%) Windows
3 45 (11.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (7.85%) Ubuntu
5 26 (6.81%) Windows Server
6 22 (5.76%) Unix
7 6 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.05%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.05%) 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
1 218 (57.07%) DevOps
2 189 (49.48%) CI/CD
3 173 (45.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (22.77%) Containerisation
5 81 (21.20%) Configuration Management
6 80 (20.94%) Agile
7 60 (15.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 60 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
8 59 (15.45%) Observability
9 57 (14.92%) Migration
10 55 (14.40%) AI
11 47 (12.30%) Infrastructure Automation
12 46 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (11.52%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (9.69%) Test Automation
15 36 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (9.42%) Validation
16 34 (8.90%) Mentoring
16 34 (8.90%) Runbook
17 33 (8.64%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 205 (53.66%) Python
2 108 (28.27%) Bash
3 81 (21.20%) PowerShell
4 53 (13.87%) Java
5 27 (7.07%) SQL
6 18 (4.71%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.45%) Shell Script
8 13 (3.40%) Go
9 12 (3.14%) Bicep
10 11 (2.88%) C#
11 10 (2.62%) PL/SQL
12 8 (2.09%) Perl
13 6 (1.57%) Ruby
14 5 (1.31%) Groovy
15 4 (1.05%) C++
16 2 (0.52%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.52%) C
16 2 (0.52%) R
16 2 (0.52%) Scala
17 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 126 (32.98%) Security Cleared
2 104 (27.23%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.33%) Degree
4 27 (7.07%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (6.02%) CCNP
6 22 (5.76%) DV Cleared
7 18 (4.71%) Azure Certification
8 15 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.66%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.36%) CCIE
11 8 (2.09%) CISSP
12 7 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 4 (1.05%) CCNA
14 4 (1.05%) ISSAP
14 4 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.05%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.05%) JNCIS
14 4 (1.05%) Oracle Certification
15 3 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.71%) QA
2 9 (2.36%) NIST
3 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.79%) GDPR
4 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.52%) Data Quality
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 94 (24.61%) Docker
2 37 (9.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.81%) Active Directory
4 14 (3.66%) Hyper-V
4 14 (3.66%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (3.14%) vSphere
7 8 (2.09%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.57%) BitLocker
8 6 (1.57%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.57%) NFS
9 4 (1.05%) IAG
9 4 (1.05%) Postfix
9 4 (1.05%) Varnish
10 3 (0.79%) Ceph
10 3 (0.79%) KVM
10 3 (0.79%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.79%) Squid
10 3 (0.79%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 223 (58.38%) Terraform
2 155 (40.58%) Kubernetes
3 70 (18.32%) Prometheus
4 66 (17.28%) Grafana
5 40 (10.47%) Puppet
6 16 (4.19%) Packer
7 15 (3.93%) Progress Chef
8 12 (3.14%) systemd
9 11 (2.88%) FortiGate
9 11 (2.88%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.83%) SCCM
11 6 (1.57%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.57%) vMotion
12 5 (1.31%) Data Guard
12 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.31%) Nagios
12 5 (1.31%) Salt
12 5 (1.31%) SELinux
12 5 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 56 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 54 (14.14%) Cisco
3 51 (13.35%) VMware
4 30 (7.85%) Palo Alto
5 27 (7.07%) Fortinet
6 26 (6.81%) Arista
6 26 (6.81%) Red Hat
7 25 (6.54%) Splunk
8 23 (6.02%) Oracle
9 22 (5.76%) ServiceNow
10 20 (5.24%) F5
11 17 (4.45%) Google
12 15 (3.93%) Juniper
13 12 (3.14%) Zscaler
14 10 (2.62%) Dynatrace
14 10 (2.62%) Okta
15 9 (2.36%) IBM
15 9 (2.36%) NetApp
16 6 (1.57%) Citrix
16 6 (1.57%) Infoblox