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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 87 79
Rank change year-on-year -39 -8 -13
Contract jobs citing Ansible 328 445 552
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.28% 2.83% 2.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.49% 19.27% 19.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 293 410
10th Percentile £350 £463 £418
25th Percentile £458 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +6.96% -11.71%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £810 £801
England median daily rate £525 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.26% -8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £74.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% -4.11%

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 2,264 2,309 2,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.76% 14.69% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,514 1,516 2,093
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £429 £462 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £680 £675
90th Percentile £720 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.36% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 32
10th Percentile £22.35 £23.07 £21.33
25th Percentile £25.60 £23.80 £26.88
Median hourly rate £50.75 £27.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.96% -54.24% +136.00%
75th Percentile £63.06 £63.50 £67.75
90th Percentile £65.35 £102.40 £84.13
England median hourly rate £39.75 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year +13.30% -24.03% +34.83%

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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 -16 51 £600 -4.00% 19
South London -6 9 £540 -25.52% 4
West London -12 7 £415 -19.02% 2
East London +5 3 - - 5
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 18 (5.49%) Confluence
2 7 (2.13%) Apache
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.91%) Appian
4 3 (0.91%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.91%) Hyperledger
4 3 (0.91%) nginx
4 3 (0.91%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.61%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.61%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.30%) FileNet
6 1 (0.30%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.30%) Mule
Applications
1 6 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Endur
2 3 (0.91%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 143 (43.60%) AWS
2 80 (24.39%) Azure
3 57 (17.38%) GitHub
4 48 (14.63%) GCP
5 38 (11.59%) Amazon S3
6 33 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (9.45%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (7.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (7.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (7.62%) OpenShift
10 24 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (6.40%) Serverless
12 19 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (3.05%) Amazon ELB
16 10 (3.05%) IaaS
17 9 (2.74%) Apigee
17 9 (2.74%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 64 (19.51%) Firewall
2 35 (10.67%) TCP/IP
2 35 (10.67%) VPN
3 33 (10.06%) BGP
3 33 (10.06%) DNS
4 28 (8.54%) OSPF
5 26 (7.93%) Network Security
6 25 (7.62%) SSL
7 18 (5.49%) WAN
8 17 (5.18%) SD-WAN
9 16 (4.88%) VXLAN
10 15 (4.57%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (3.66%) HTTP
12 10 (3.05%) MPLS
12 10 (3.05%) Multicast
13 9 (2.74%) DHCP
14 8 (2.44%) LAN
15 6 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
15 6 (1.83%) SSH
16 4 (1.22%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (3.96%) MySQL
3 10 (3.05%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.74%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.83%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.83%) Redis
7 5 (1.52%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (0.91%) Big Data
9 3 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.91%) MariaDB
9 3 (0.91%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.61%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.61%) ImageNet
10 2 (0.61%) Impala
10 2 (0.61%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 96 (29.27%) Jenkins
2 68 (20.73%) Git
3 64 (19.51%) GitLab
4 24 (7.32%) JIRA
5 13 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (3.05%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.74%) Artifactory
8 8 (2.44%) Robot Framework
8 8 (2.44%) TeamCity
9 7 (2.13%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.83%) JUnit
10 6 (1.83%) Subversion
11 5 (1.52%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.22%) JMeter
13 3 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.91%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.91%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.91%) Gradle
13 3 (0.91%) Maven
13 3 (0.91%) RStudio
General
1 105 (32.01%) Social Skills
2 101 (30.79%) Finance
3 43 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.23%) Banking
5 23 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.49%) Financial Institution
7 17 (5.18%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.22%) Back Office
10 4 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.91%) Automotive
11 3 (0.91%) Military
11 3 (0.91%) Social Science
12 2 (0.61%) International Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Marketing
12 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.61%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.61%) Retail
12 2 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (20.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 50 (15.24%) Network Engineer
3 43 (13.11%) Senior
4 33 (10.06%) Architect
5 31 (9.45%) Automation Engineer
5 31 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (8.54%) Developer
7 26 (7.93%) Python Engineer
8 20 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.57%) Consultant
9 15 (4.57%) IP Network Engineer
9 15 (4.57%) Switch Engineer
10 14 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (4.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.35%) Java Developer
14 10 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (3.05%) Lead
14 10 (3.05%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.62%) Kafka
2 17 (5.18%) REST
3 16 (4.88%) Node.js
3 16 (4.88%) YAML
4 13 (3.96%) OAuth
5 12 (3.66%) JSON
6 11 (3.35%) Spring
7 8 (2.44%) RESTful
8 7 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.13%) Jinja
8 7 (2.13%) JWT
8 7 (2.13%) Middleware
8 7 (2.13%) OAuth2
8 7 (2.13%) OpenID
8 7 (2.13%) Swagger
8 7 (2.13%) XML
9 6 (1.83%) Keycloak
10 5 (1.52%) Hibernate
10 5 (1.52%) React
10 5 (1.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.84%) Cloud Native
2 28 (8.54%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.79%) Hedge funds
4 17 (5.18%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (4.57%) Private Cloud
6 13 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
7 11 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.74%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.13%) Replication
11 6 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.83%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.52%) Clustering
12 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.52%) Grid Computing
12 5 (1.52%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 105 (32.01%) Linux
2 34 (10.37%) Windows
3 32 (9.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 26 (7.93%) Unix
5 14 (4.27%) Windows Server
6 9 (2.74%) CentOS
7 8 (2.44%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.83%) Solaris
9 2 (0.61%) AIX
9 2 (0.61%) Debian
9 2 (0.61%) VMS
10 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (50.30%) CI/CD
1 165 (50.30%) DevOps
2 139 (42.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 94 (28.66%) Containerisation
4 71 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (18.29%) Agile
6 57 (17.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 50 (15.24%) High Availability
8 42 (12.80%) Configuration Management
9 37 (11.28%) Migration
10 35 (10.67%) Observability
11 31 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (9.45%) Test Automation
12 29 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (8.54%) DevSecOps
14 24 (7.32%) Microservices
15 23 (7.01%) Low Latency
16 22 (6.71%) Performance Tuning
16 22 (6.71%) Software Engineering
17 19 (5.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 198 (60.37%) Python
2 80 (24.39%) Bash
3 36 (10.98%) Java
4 31 (9.45%) PowerShell
5 23 (7.01%) SQL
6 22 (6.71%) Go
7 15 (4.57%) Perl
8 13 (3.96%) Shell Script
9 11 (3.35%) C++
9 11 (3.35%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.44%) C#
11 6 (1.83%) PHP
12 4 (1.22%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.91%) Groovy
13 3 (0.91%) Rust
14 2 (0.61%) Ruby
15 1 (0.30%) Assembly Language
15 1 (0.30%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.30%) REXX
15 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 59 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 25 (7.62%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (5.79%) CCNP
5 14 (4.27%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.96%) CCIE
6 13 (3.96%) Degree
7 10 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.05%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.13%) RHCE
10 6 (1.83%) CCNA
10 6 (1.83%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.52%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.22%) CCSE
12 4 (1.22%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.91%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.74%) GDPR
2 7 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.13%) QA
3 5 (1.52%) NIST
3 5 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.61%) NCSC
5 2 (0.61%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (30.79%) Docker
2 27 (8.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.96%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.44%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.83%) KVM
7 5 (1.52%) NFS
7 5 (1.52%) vSphere
8 4 (1.22%) Veritas File System
8 4 (1.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.61%) HDFS
9 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.61%) iptables
9 2 (0.61%) Lustre
9 2 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.61%) Xen
10 1 (0.30%) Ceph
10 1 (0.30%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 184 (56.10%) Terraform
2 98 (29.88%) Kubernetes
3 37 (11.28%) Grafana
4 35 (10.67%) Prometheus
5 28 (8.54%) Puppet
6 26 (7.93%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.05%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (2.74%) SCCM
9 8 (2.44%) Argo
10 7 (2.13%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (1.83%) Kibana
11 6 (1.83%) SCOM
11 6 (1.83%) vCenter Server
12 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.52%) Nagios
12 5 (1.52%) Packer
12 5 (1.52%) Rancher
13 4 (1.22%) QRadar
13 4 (1.22%) vRealize
14 3 (0.91%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 36 (10.98%) Arista
2 35 (10.67%) VMware
3 33 (10.06%) Cisco
4 32 (9.76%) Splunk
5 26 (7.93%) F5
5 26 (7.93%) Red Hat
6 22 (6.71%) Palo Alto
7 19 (5.79%) Microsoft
8 17 (5.18%) CheckPoint
9 16 (4.88%) Oracle
10 15 (4.57%) Google
11 13 (3.96%) ServiceNow
12 12 (3.66%) Fortinet
13 11 (3.35%) CyberArk
13 11 (3.35%) Juniper
14 10 (3.05%) Dynatrace
15 9 (2.74%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.13%) Citrix
17 6 (1.83%) Bloomberg
17 6 (1.83%) PagerDuty