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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 107 102
Rank change year-on-year -38 -5 -22
Contract jobs citing Ansible 394 342 406
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 2.59% 2.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.76% 19.63% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 217 265
10th Percentile £425 £407 £403
25th Percentile £475 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £773
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £49.78 £37.00 -
25th Percentile £50.94 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £53.75 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -
75th Percentile £57.44 £49.50 -
90th Percentile £59.13 £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £71.22 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +20.19% -19.93% -0.67%

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 2,219 1,742 1,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.06% 13.18% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 1,137 1,373
10th Percentile £320 £313 £326
25th Percentile £430 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £757
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 26
10th Percentile £31.18 £24.00 £20.25
25th Percentile £35.56 £26.34 £23.80
Median hourly rate £62.75 £33.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.93% +25.00% -55.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.81 £61.88
90th Percentile - £64.41 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.24 £47.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +41.55% +25.00% -23.59%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -29 39 £550 -8.33% 20
South London -5 11 £568 -6.97% 7
West London -16 7 £500 +20.48% 12
East London +4 5 £525 -22.22% 7
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 (5.08%) Confluence
2 9 (2.28%) Apache
3 7 (1.78%) nginx
4 5 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.27%) Apache Solr
5 4 (1.02%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.02%) WordPress
6 3 (0.76%) CMS
6 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.51%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.51%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.51%) Mule
7 2 (0.51%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.51%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) MTS
8 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 187 (47.46%) AWS
2 149 (37.82%) Azure
3 89 (22.59%) GitHub
4 52 (13.20%) GCP
5 51 (12.94%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (11.42%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (9.39%) OpenShift
8 34 (8.63%) Datadog
9 30 (7.61%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (7.36%) Serverless
11 27 (6.85%) Amazon S3
11 27 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (6.60%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (4.57%) Azure AKS
14 18 (4.57%) Entra ID
15 17 (4.31%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (2.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (17.51%) Firewall
2 45 (11.42%) BGP
3 39 (9.90%) DNS
4 38 (9.64%) VPN
5 28 (7.11%) Network Security
6 27 (6.85%) TCP/IP
7 26 (6.60%) WAN
8 21 (5.33%) OSPF
9 20 (5.08%) SSL
10 19 (4.82%) DHCP
11 18 (4.57%) VLAN
12 13 (3.30%) VXLAN
13 12 (3.05%) NX-OS
14 11 (2.79%) SSH
14 11 (2.79%) Wireless
15 9 (2.28%) SD-WAN
16 8 (2.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 8 (2.03%) IPsec
16 8 (2.03%) MPLS
16 8 (2.03%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.81%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.79%) Oracle Database
6 10 (2.54%) MySQL
7 9 (2.28%) Power BI
8 8 (2.03%) Redis
9 7 (1.78%) Big Data
10 5 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.27%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.27%) ObjectStore
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.02%) Metadata
11 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.02%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 93 (23.60%) Jenkins
2 84 (21.32%) Git
3 80 (20.30%) GitLab
4 25 (6.35%) JIRA
5 10 (2.54%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.54%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.28%) Snyk
7 8 (2.03%) Artifactory
8 7 (1.78%) JMeter
8 7 (1.78%) Postman
8 7 (1.78%) Selenium
9 6 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.27%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.02%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.76%) JUnit
12 3 (0.76%) Mockito
12 3 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.51%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.51%) Maven
General
1 89 (22.59%) Finance
2 74 (18.78%) Social Skills
3 44 (11.17%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.38%) Banking
5 26 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.28%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.78%) Law
8 7 (1.78%) Retail
9 6 (1.52%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.52%) Police
9 6 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.27%) Publishing
11 4 (1.02%) Automotive
11 4 (1.02%) Front Office
11 4 (1.02%) Military
12 3 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Legal
14 1 (0.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 81 (20.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 56 (14.21%) Senior
3 48 (12.18%) Network Engineer
4 40 (10.15%) Architect
5 37 (9.39%) Lead
6 31 (7.87%) Automation Engineer
7 29 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (7.11%) Developer
9 27 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (6.09%) Cloud Engineer
11 23 (5.84%) Linux Engineer
12 22 (5.58%) Platform Engineer
13 18 (4.57%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 15 (3.81%) Site Engineer
16 14 (3.55%) Azure Engineer
16 14 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
17 13 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
17 13 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (58.38%) Terraform
2 33 (8.38%) REST
3 32 (8.12%) Kafka
4 25 (6.35%) YAML
5 20 (5.08%) .NET
6 17 (4.31%) React
7 15 (3.81%) JSON
8 14 (3.55%) Middleware
9 13 (3.30%) Spring
10 12 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (2.79%) ARM Templates
12 8 (2.03%) cloud-init
13 7 (1.78%) 802.1X
13 7 (1.78%) boto
13 7 (1.78%) JMS
13 7 (1.78%) Playwright
13 7 (1.78%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.78%) Swagger
14 6 (1.52%) Jakarta EE
14 6 (1.52%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.18%) Data Centre
2 47 (11.93%) Cloud Native
3 32 (8.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.08%) PKI
5 18 (4.57%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (4.57%) Security Posture
6 17 (4.31%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.06%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (3.05%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.28%) Clustering
11 8 (2.03%) CMDB
11 8 (2.03%) Distributed Applications
11 8 (2.03%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (2.03%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.52%) Product Ownership
12 6 (1.52%) Spread Betting
12 6 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 147 (37.31%) Linux
2 64 (16.24%) Windows
3 49 (12.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 32 (8.12%) Ubuntu
5 27 (6.85%) Unix
6 26 (6.60%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.78%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.02%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.76%) CentOS
9 3 (0.76%) VMS
9 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.51%) Debian
10 2 (0.51%) Solaris
11 1 (0.25%) AIX
11 1 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.25%) Rocky
11 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (55.08%) DevOps
2 197 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 189 (47.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (24.11%) Containerisation
5 84 (21.32%) Configuration Management
6 75 (19.04%) Agile
7 67 (17.01%) Observability
7 67 (17.01%) Platform Engineering
8 63 (15.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 61 (15.48%) Infrastructure Automation
9 61 (15.48%) Migration
10 58 (14.72%) AI
11 52 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
12 48 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 44 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 43 (10.91%) Test Automation
15 40 (10.15%) Validation
16 36 (9.14%) Microservices
16 36 (9.14%) Runbook
16 36 (9.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 230 (58.38%) Python
2 113 (28.68%) Bash
3 89 (22.59%) PowerShell
4 52 (13.20%) Java
5 33 (8.38%) SQL
6 23 (5.84%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.33%) Shell Script
8 19 (4.82%) Go
9 14 (3.55%) Bicep
9 14 (3.55%) C#
10 11 (2.79%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.54%) Perl
12 6 (1.52%) C++
12 6 (1.52%) Ruby
13 4 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (1.02%) Groovy
14 2 (0.51%) C
14 2 (0.51%) R
14 2 (0.51%) Scala
14 2 (0.51%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 121 (30.71%) Security Cleared
2 98 (24.87%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.11%) Degree
4 24 (6.09%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.82%) CCNP
8 16 (4.06%) AWS Certification
8 16 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.03%) CISSP
10 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.27%) CCIE
13 4 (1.02%) CCNA
13 4 (1.02%) ISSAP
13 4 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.02%) JNCIP
13 4 (1.02%) JNCIS
13 4 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.60%) QA
2 10 (2.54%) NIST
3 7 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.76%) GDPR
5 3 (0.76%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.51%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.51%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.25%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.25%) NCSC
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) SEPA
7 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 102 (25.89%) Docker
2 40 (10.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.09%) Active Directory
4 15 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.55%) Hyper-V
6 13 (3.30%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (3.30%) vSphere
7 8 (2.03%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.27%) BitLocker
8 5 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (1.27%) NFS
9 3 (0.76%) Ceph
9 3 (0.76%) IAG
9 3 (0.76%) KVM
9 3 (0.76%) Postfix
9 3 (0.76%) Squid
9 3 (0.76%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.76%) Varnish
10 2 (0.51%) HDFS
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 155 (39.34%) Kubernetes
2 73 (18.53%) Prometheus
3 69 (17.51%) Grafana
4 41 (10.41%) Puppet
5 17 (4.31%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.81%) Packer
7 12 (3.05%) systemd
8 11 (2.79%) FortiGate
9 10 (2.54%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.78%) SCCM
11 6 (1.52%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.27%) Data Guard
12 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (1.27%) Nagios
12 5 (1.27%) SELinux
12 5 (1.27%) vMotion
12 5 (1.27%) vRealize
13 4 (1.02%) Consul
13 4 (1.02%) Salt
13 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 56 (14.21%) VMware
3 54 (13.71%) Cisco
4 33 (8.38%) Red Hat
5 29 (7.36%) Splunk
6 28 (7.11%) Fortinet
6 28 (7.11%) Oracle
7 26 (6.60%) Palo Alto
8 22 (5.58%) ServiceNow
9 21 (5.33%) Google
10 20 (5.08%) Arista
11 16 (4.06%) F5
12 14 (3.55%) Juniper
13 12 (3.05%) Dynatrace
14 11 (2.79%) Zscaler
15 7 (1.78%) CyberArk
15 7 (1.78%) NetApp
15 7 (1.78%) Okta
16 6 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
16 6 (1.52%) Hitachi