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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 114 101
Rank change year-on-year -31 -13 -23
Contract jobs citing Ansible 409 340 414
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.01% 2.52% 2.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.11% 19.12% 20.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 209 274
10th Percentile £425 £407 £402
25th Percentile £475 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £753 £796
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 £71.43 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +20.56% -19.93% -3.27%

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 2,259 1,778 2,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.11% 13.18% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,156 1,380
10th Percentile £315 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £763
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 23
10th Percentile £25.39 £24.00 £21.16
25th Percentile £35.00 £26.34 £23.80
Median hourly rate £58.50 £33.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% +25.00% -55.00%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.81 £63.50
90th Percentile - £64.41 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.00 £39.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +71.79% -0.64% -25.24%

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 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 12 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 -21 42 £563 -6.25% 27
South London -1 12 £568 -8.47% 4
West London -22 7 £500 +20.48% 8
East London +3 5 £525 -22.22% 10
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 (4.89%) Confluence
2 9 (2.20%) Apache
3 7 (1.71%) nginx
4 5 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.22%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.98%) WordPress
6 3 (0.73%) CMS
7 2 (0.49%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.49%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.49%) Mule
7 2 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.24%) CICS
8 1 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.24%) MTS
8 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 192 (46.94%) AWS
2 155 (37.90%) Azure
3 98 (23.96%) GitHub
4 55 (13.45%) GCP
5 54 (13.20%) GitHub Actions
6 52 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (9.54%) OpenShift
8 37 (9.05%) Datadog
9 31 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (7.09%) Serverless
11 28 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (6.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (6.60%) Amazon S3
13 26 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (5.62%) Azure AKS
15 19 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (4.40%) Entra ID
17 11 (2.69%) Amazon ECS
17 11 (2.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (17.11%) Firewall
2 44 (10.76%) BGP
3 40 (9.78%) DNS
4 39 (9.54%) VPN
5 30 (7.33%) Network Security
6 27 (6.60%) TCP/IP
6 27 (6.60%) WAN
7 21 (5.13%) OSPF
8 20 (4.89%) SSL
9 19 (4.65%) DHCP
10 18 (4.40%) VLAN
11 12 (2.93%) NX-OS
12 11 (2.69%) SD-WAN
12 11 (2.69%) SSH
12 11 (2.69%) VXLAN
12 11 (2.69%) Wireless
13 10 (2.44%) MPLS
14 9 (2.20%) Ethernet VPN
15 8 (1.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 8 (1.96%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.42%) MongoDB
3 13 (3.18%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (2.93%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.44%) MySQL
6 9 (2.20%) Power BI
7 8 (1.96%) Redis
8 7 (1.71%) Big Data
8 7 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.22%) ObjectStore
10 4 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.98%) Metadata
10 4 (0.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 96 (23.47%) Jenkins
2 87 (21.27%) Git
3 83 (20.29%) GitLab
4 25 (6.11%) JIRA
5 14 (3.42%) SonarQube
6 12 (2.93%) Artifactory
7 10 (2.44%) Bitbucket
8 9 (2.20%) Snyk
9 7 (1.71%) JMeter
9 7 (1.71%) Postman
9 7 (1.71%) Selenium
10 6 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.22%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.98%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.73%) JUnit
13 3 (0.73%) Mockito
13 3 (0.73%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.49%) Maven
General
1 98 (23.96%) Finance
2 80 (19.56%) Social Skills
3 44 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (9.29%) Banking
5 26 (6.36%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.69%) Financial Institution
7 10 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (1.71%) Law
8 7 (1.71%) Retail
8 7 (1.71%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.47%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.47%) Police
10 5 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.22%) Publishing
11 4 (0.98%) Automotive
11 4 (0.98%) Front Office
11 4 (0.98%) Military
12 3 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.49%) Legal
14 1 (0.24%) Games
Job Titles
1 82 (20.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (14.18%) Senior
3 48 (11.74%) Network Engineer
4 41 (10.02%) Architect
5 39 (9.54%) Lead
6 34 (8.31%) Automation Engineer
7 29 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (6.60%) Developer
8 27 (6.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (6.11%) Linux Engineer
11 24 (5.87%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
13 17 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 17 (4.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 15 (3.67%) Site Engineer
15 14 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
16 13 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
16 13 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (58.19%) Terraform
2 33 (8.07%) REST
3 32 (7.82%) Kafka
4 25 (6.11%) YAML
5 20 (4.89%) .NET
6 19 (4.65%) Middleware
7 17 (4.16%) React
8 15 (3.67%) JSON
9 13 (3.18%) Spring
10 12 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (2.69%) ARM Templates
12 8 (1.96%) cloud-init
13 7 (1.71%) 802.1X
13 7 (1.71%) boto
13 7 (1.71%) JMS
13 7 (1.71%) Keycloak
13 7 (1.71%) Playwright
13 7 (1.71%) Spring Boot
13 7 (1.71%) Swagger
14 6 (1.47%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.49%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.25%) Data Centre
3 35 (8.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (5.13%) PKI
5 19 (4.65%) Security Posture
6 18 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (4.40%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.91%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (3.18%) Public Cloud
8 13 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (2.20%) Clustering
9 9 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.96%) CMDB
10 8 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
10 8 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.96%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.71%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.71%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.47%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 157 (38.39%) Linux
2 68 (16.63%) Windows
3 50 (12.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (7.58%) Ubuntu
5 29 (7.09%) Unix
6 26 (6.36%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.98%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.73%) CentOS
9 3 (0.73%) Solaris
9 3 (0.73%) VMS
9 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.49%) AIX
10 2 (0.49%) Debian
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Rocky
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (55.26%) DevOps
2 210 (51.34%) CI/CD
3 198 (48.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (23.47%) Containerisation
5 92 (22.49%) Configuration Management
6 76 (18.58%) Agile
6 76 (18.58%) Observability
7 70 (17.11%) Platform Engineering
8 68 (16.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 65 (15.89%) Migration
10 64 (15.65%) AI
11 62 (15.16%) Infrastructure Automation
12 54 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 54 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
13 46 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (11.00%) Test Automation
15 41 (10.02%) Runbook
15 41 (10.02%) Validation
16 38 (9.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 36 (8.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 243 (59.41%) Python
2 120 (29.34%) Bash
3 96 (23.47%) PowerShell
4 52 (12.71%) Java
5 34 (8.31%) SQL
6 22 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.38%) Shell Script
7 20 (4.89%) Go
8 16 (3.91%) Bicep
9 14 (3.42%) C#
10 11 (2.69%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.44%) Perl
12 6 (1.47%) C++
12 6 (1.47%) Ruby
13 4 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.98%) Groovy
14 3 (0.73%) C
15 2 (0.49%) Korn
15 2 (0.49%) R
15 2 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 125 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 102 (24.94%) SC Cleared
3 28 (6.85%) Degree
4 24 (5.87%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (5.87%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.89%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.89%) CCNP
6 16 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 16 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (1.96%) CISSP
8 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.47%) CCIE
10 4 (0.98%) CCNA
10 4 (0.98%) ISSAP
10 4 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.98%) JNCIP
10 4 (0.98%) JNCIS
10 4 (0.98%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.36%) QA
2 11 (2.69%) NIST
3 8 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.73%) GDPR
5 3 (0.73%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.49%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) SEPA
7 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 103 (25.18%) Docker
2 37 (9.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.87%) Active Directory
4 14 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.18%) Hyper-V
6 12 (2.93%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (2.69%) vSphere
8 6 (1.47%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.22%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.22%) NFS
10 3 (0.73%) Ceph
10 3 (0.73%) IAG
10 3 (0.73%) KVM
10 3 (0.73%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.73%) Postfix
10 3 (0.73%) Squid
10 3 (0.73%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.73%) Varnish
11 2 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 162 (39.61%) Kubernetes
2 74 (18.09%) Prometheus
3 70 (17.11%) Grafana
4 43 (10.51%) Puppet
5 19 (4.65%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.67%) Packer
7 13 (3.18%) systemd
8 12 (2.93%) FortiGate
9 9 (2.20%) vCenter Server
10 8 (1.96%) SCCM
11 6 (1.47%) Data Guard
11 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.22%) Nagios
12 5 (1.22%) SELinux
12 5 (1.22%) vMotion
12 5 (1.22%) vRealize
13 4 (0.98%) Consul
13 4 (0.98%) Salt
13 4 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 56 (13.69%) Cisco
3 55 (13.45%) VMware
4 35 (8.56%) Red Hat
5 30 (7.33%) Fortinet
5 30 (7.33%) Oracle
5 30 (7.33%) Splunk
6 27 (6.60%) Palo Alto
7 22 (5.38%) Google
7 22 (5.38%) ServiceNow
8 20 (4.89%) Arista
9 15 (3.67%) Dynatrace
9 15 (3.67%) F5
10 13 (3.18%) Juniper
11 12 (2.93%) Zscaler
12 7 (1.71%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.71%) NetApp
12 7 (1.71%) Okta
13 6 (1.47%) Hitachi
13 6 (1.47%) IBM