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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 88 121
Rank change year-on-year -65 +33 -44
Contract jobs citing Ansible 315 375 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.71% 3.09% 2.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.50% 19.60% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 238 256
10th Percentile £400 £425 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -12.88%
75th Percentile £636 £688 £688
90th Percentile £725 £819 £763
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -10.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.85 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £37.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £44.88 -
90th Percentile - £47.80 -
England median hourly rate £66.57 £44.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +49.59% -32.83% -9.25%

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 2,521 1,913 2,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.71% 15.79% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,734 1,295 1,623
10th Percentile £352 £363 £325
25th Percentile £437 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -0.09% -10.42%
75th Percentile £626 £653 £650
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
England median daily rate £507 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -2.59% -0.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 32
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £32.00 £26.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.13 £37.50 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +55.02% +52.50% -61.88%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £51.44
90th Percentile £73.60 £53.75 £70.83
England median hourly rate £56.50 £29.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year +94.83% +6.42% -47.91%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -30 40 £513 -6.82% 18
South London -16 5 £528 -12.08%
West London -25 3 £500 - 4
East London -5 2 £551 -18.44% 3
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 13 (4.13%) Confluence
2 8 (2.54%) Apache
3 4 (1.27%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.95%) JBoss
4 3 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.63%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.63%) CMS
5 2 (0.63%) nginx
5 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Appian
6 1 (0.32%) MTS
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.95%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 142 (45.08%) AWS
2 114 (36.19%) Azure
3 73 (23.17%) GitHub
4 43 (13.65%) GCP
4 43 (13.65%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.57%) OpenShift
7 23 (7.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (6.98%) Amazon S3
9 21 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (6.67%) Serverless
9 21 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 17 (5.40%) Entra ID
11 16 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.44%) Azure AKS
13 12 (3.81%) Datadog
13 12 (3.81%) PaaS
14 11 (3.49%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (21.59%) Firewall
2 35 (11.11%) VPN
3 34 (10.79%) BGP
4 29 (9.21%) WAN
5 28 (8.89%) DNS
6 22 (6.98%) Network Security
7 20 (6.35%) OSPF
8 14 (4.44%) VXLAN
9 13 (4.13%) TCP/IP
10 12 (3.81%) MPLS
11 11 (3.49%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (3.49%) SD-WAN
11 11 (3.49%) Wireless
12 10 (3.17%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (3.17%) Multicast
13 9 (2.86%) IOS XR
13 9 (2.86%) NX-OS
13 9 (2.86%) SAN
13 9 (2.86%) VLAN
14 8 (2.54%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (3.81%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (1.90%) Redis
4 6 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.59%) MySQL
5 5 (1.59%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.27%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.63%) Big Data
8 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.63%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.63%) Power BI
8 2 (0.63%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.32%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.32%) Flink
Development Applications
1 86 (27.30%) Jenkins
2 62 (19.68%) GitLab
3 56 (17.78%) Git
4 22 (6.98%) JIRA
5 7 (2.22%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.22%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.22%) Postman
6 6 (1.90%) JMeter
6 6 (1.90%) Snyk
6 6 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.59%) JUnit
7 5 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.27%) Ant
8 4 (1.27%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.27%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.95%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.63%) Gatling
10 2 (0.63%) Mockito
General
1 52 (16.51%) Finance
2 43 (13.65%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.03%) Banking
5 15 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.90%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.27%) Law
8 4 (1.27%) Military
8 4 (1.27%) Police
9 3 (0.95%) Front Office
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Retail
11 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 74 (23.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (13.33%) Architect
3 40 (12.70%) Senior
4 35 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 26 (8.25%) Developer
5 26 (8.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 25 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
8 18 (5.71%) Lead
8 18 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
8 18 (5.71%) Site Engineer
9 17 (5.40%) AWS DevOps
10 16 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (5.08%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (4.44%) Senior Network Engineer
12 12 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (2.86%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.98%) Kafka
2 17 (5.40%) REST
3 14 (4.44%) YAML
4 12 (3.81%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.86%) .NET
5 9 (2.86%) Spring
6 8 (2.54%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.54%) JSON
6 8 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (2.22%) Middleware
7 7 (2.22%) Web Services
8 6 (1.90%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.90%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.90%) Swagger
9 5 (1.59%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.59%) cloud-init
9 5 (1.59%) React
9 5 (1.59%) RESTful
10 4 (1.27%) Jinja
10 4 (1.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (13.65%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.08%) PKI
5 15 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.81%) Enterprise Storage
7 11 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.49%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.86%) CMDB
9 8 (2.54%) Clustering
10 7 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.59%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.27%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.27%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.27%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.95%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 108 (34.29%) Linux
2 44 (13.97%) Windows
3 25 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (6.67%) Unix
5 19 (6.03%) Ubuntu
6 18 (5.71%) Windows Server
7 13 (4.13%) VMS
8 7 (2.22%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.27%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.63%) CentOS
10 2 (0.63%) Debian
10 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.32%) AIX
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.32%) Rocky
11 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (52.70%) DevOps
2 154 (48.89%) CI/CD
3 148 (46.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 71 (22.54%) Containerisation
5 60 (19.05%) Configuration Management
6 59 (18.73%) Observability
7 57 (18.10%) Agile
8 49 (15.56%) Migration
9 41 (13.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 39 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
11 36 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (11.43%) Mentoring
12 34 (10.79%) Load Balancing
13 31 (9.84%) Infrastructure Automation
14 30 (9.52%) Incident Management
15 29 (9.21%) AI
16 28 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 27 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (7.94%) Runbook
18 25 (7.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 143 (45.40%) Python
2 83 (26.35%) Bash
3 52 (16.51%) PowerShell
4 32 (10.16%) Java
5 21 (6.67%) SQL
6 12 (3.81%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.49%) Go
8 10 (3.17%) Bicep
9 8 (2.54%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.22%) Ruby
11 5 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.27%) C
13 3 (0.95%) Groovy
13 3 (0.95%) Perl
14 2 (0.63%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.63%) C#
14 2 (0.63%) Scala
15 1 (0.32%) C++
15 1 (0.32%) RPG
15 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 112 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 99 (31.43%) SC Cleared
3 22 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (6.35%) CCNP
5 17 (5.40%) Degree
6 16 (5.08%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.13%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.81%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.17%) CCIE
10 5 (1.59%) CISSP
10 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.27%) JNCIP
12 3 (0.95%) CCSE
12 3 (0.95%) ISSAP
12 3 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.95%) JNCIE
12 3 (0.95%) VCAP
13 2 (0.63%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.17%) QA
2 8 (2.54%) NIST
3 5 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.63%) NCSC
5 2 (0.63%) PSD2
5 2 (0.63%) SEPA
5 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 70 (22.22%) Docker
2 22 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.35%) Active Directory
4 15 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 10 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.22%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.22%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.22%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.22%) vSphere
7 5 (1.59%) NFS
8 4 (1.27%) KVM
8 4 (1.27%) Postfix
8 4 (1.27%) Varnish
9 3 (0.95%) Ceph
9 3 (0.95%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.95%) Squid
10 2 (0.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.63%) Firmware
10 2 (0.63%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 179 (56.83%) Terraform
2 138 (43.81%) Kubernetes
3 66 (20.95%) Prometheus
4 60 (19.05%) Grafana
5 28 (8.89%) Puppet
6 15 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.49%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.86%) Salt
9 8 (2.54%) Packer
10 7 (2.22%) vMotion
11 5 (1.59%) Argo
11 5 (1.59%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.59%) Kibana
11 5 (1.59%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.27%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.27%) vRealize
13 3 (0.95%) Consul
13 3 (0.95%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.95%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.95%) Podman
Vendors
1 47 (14.92%) Cisco
2 38 (12.06%) Microsoft
3 32 (10.16%) Splunk
4 30 (9.52%) Arista
4 30 (9.52%) VMware
5 29 (9.21%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.35%) F5
6 20 (6.35%) Fortinet
7 17 (5.40%) Google
8 15 (4.76%) Red Hat
9 12 (3.81%) Oracle
9 12 (3.81%) ServiceNow
10 11 (3.49%) Aruba
10 11 (3.49%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.49%) Juniper
10 11 (3.49%) NetApp
11 10 (3.17%) Zscaler
12 9 (2.86%) IBM
12 9 (2.86%) Okta
13 7 (2.22%) Citrix