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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 89 113
Rank change year-on-year -61 +24 -33
Contract jobs citing Ansible 325 379 372
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 3.13% 2.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.83% 19.85% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 235 256
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% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £725 £799 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -10.20%
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 £70.00
% change year-on-year +49.59% -36.43% -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 2,533 1,909 2,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.73% 15.78% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,282 1,632
10th Percentile £355 £363 £325
25th Percentile £432 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £718 £750 £750
England median daily rate £510 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% +60.26% -61.92%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £38.75 £28.75
% change year-on-year +45.81% +34.78% -45.68%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 £538 -2.27% 29
South London -17 4 £505 -15.83%
West London -19 3 £500 - 4
East London -4 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 12 (3.69%) Confluence
2 8 (2.46%) Apache
3 4 (1.23%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.92%) JBoss
4 3 (0.92%) nginx
5 2 (0.62%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.62%) CMS
5 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.62%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.62%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) Appian
6 1 (0.31%) MTS
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 147 (45.23%) AWS
2 117 (36.00%) Azure
3 76 (23.38%) GitHub
4 45 (13.85%) GCP
4 45 (13.85%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (8.92%) OpenShift
7 23 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (6.77%) Amazon S3
8 22 (6.77%) Serverless
9 21 (6.46%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (6.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (5.23%) Entra ID
12 15 (4.62%) Datadog
12 15 (4.62%) PaaS
13 14 (4.31%) Azure AKS
13 14 (4.31%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (22.15%) Firewall
2 37 (11.38%) VPN
3 36 (11.08%) BGP
4 30 (9.23%) DNS
4 30 (9.23%) WAN
5 23 (7.08%) Network Security
6 20 (6.15%) OSPF
7 14 (4.31%) TCP/IP
7 14 (4.31%) VXLAN
8 13 (4.00%) Cisco IOS
8 13 (4.00%) MPLS
9 12 (3.69%) Wireless
10 11 (3.38%) IOS XR
10 11 (3.38%) SD-WAN
11 10 (3.08%) DHCP
11 10 (3.08%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (3.08%) Multicast
11 10 (3.08%) NX-OS
12 9 (2.77%) SAN
12 9 (2.77%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.62%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 13 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (2.46%) Redis
4 7 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (1.54%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
7 4 (1.23%) MySQL
8 3 (0.92%) Big Data
8 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.62%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.62%) Power BI
9 2 (0.62%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.31%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.31%) Flink
10 1 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 88 (27.08%) Jenkins
2 62 (19.08%) GitLab
3 55 (16.92%) Git
4 22 (6.77%) JIRA
5 7 (2.15%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.15%) Postman
6 6 (1.85%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.85%) JMeter
6 6 (1.85%) Snyk
6 6 (1.85%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.54%) JUnit
7 5 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.23%) Ant
8 4 (1.23%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.23%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.62%) Gatling
10 2 (0.62%) Mockito
General
1 58 (17.85%) Finance
2 46 (14.15%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.54%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.46%) Banking
5 19 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.15%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.54%) Law
10 4 (1.23%) Military
10 4 (1.23%) Police
11 3 (0.92%) Front Office
11 3 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.62%) Retail
13 1 (0.31%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.31%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 77 (23.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (13.23%) Architect
3 37 (11.38%) Senior
4 36 (11.08%) Network Engineer
5 27 (8.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 26 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (8.00%) Developer
7 21 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (5.85%) Lead
8 19 (5.85%) Site Engineer
9 18 (5.54%) Linux Engineer
10 17 (5.23%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (5.23%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (4.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.92%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.69%) Senior Network Engineer
15 10 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
16 9 (2.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (7.08%) Kafka
2 19 (5.85%) REST
3 14 (4.31%) YAML
4 12 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.77%) .NET
5 9 (2.77%) Spring
6 8 (2.46%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.46%) JSON
6 8 (2.46%) Middleware
6 8 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (2.15%) Web Services
8 6 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.85%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.85%) Swagger
9 5 (1.54%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.54%) cloud-init
9 5 (1.54%) React
9 5 (1.54%) RESTful
10 4 (1.23%) OAuth
10 4 (1.23%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.54%) Cloud Native
2 38 (11.69%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (5.54%) PKI
4 17 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.69%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.69%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.08%) Clustering
7 7 (2.15%) CMDB
7 7 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.23%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.23%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 112 (34.46%) Linux
2 48 (14.77%) Windows
3 26 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (7.08%) Unix
5 21 (6.46%) Windows Server
6 19 (5.85%) Ubuntu
7 13 (4.00%) VMS
8 8 (2.46%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.23%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.62%) CentOS
10 2 (0.62%) Debian
10 2 (0.62%) Solaris
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.31%) AIX
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.31%) Rocky
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (53.54%) DevOps
2 160 (49.23%) CI/CD
3 153 (47.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (22.15%) Containerisation
5 63 (19.38%) Configuration Management
6 60 (18.46%) Observability
7 57 (17.54%) Agile
8 50 (15.38%) Migration
9 43 (13.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 41 (12.62%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (11.69%) Mentoring
12 37 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (10.46%) Load Balancing
14 32 (9.85%) AI
14 32 (9.85%) Infrastructure Automation
15 31 (9.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 30 (9.23%) Incident Management
17 28 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
18 25 (7.69%) High Availability
18 25 (7.69%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 144 (44.31%) Python
2 85 (26.15%) Bash
3 57 (17.54%) PowerShell
4 33 (10.15%) Java
5 21 (6.46%) SQL
6 13 (4.00%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.38%) Bicep
8 10 (3.08%) Go
9 9 (2.77%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.15%) Ruby
11 5 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.23%) C
13 3 (0.92%) Groovy
13 3 (0.92%) Perl
14 2 (0.62%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.62%) C#
14 2 (0.62%) Scala
15 1 (0.31%) C++
15 1 (0.31%) RPG
15 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 114 (35.08%) Security Cleared
2 100 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.38%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (6.46%) CCNP
4 21 (6.46%) Degree
5 17 (5.23%) Azure Certification
6 14 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 14 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.31%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.08%) CCIE
8 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.54%) CISSP
9 5 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.92%) CCNA
10 3 (0.92%) ISSAP
10 3 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.92%) JNCIP
10 3 (0.92%) VCAP
11 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.08%) QA
2 8 (2.46%) NIST
3 5 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.92%) GDPR
5 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.62%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.62%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.62%) NCSC
5 2 (0.62%) PSD2
5 2 (0.62%) SEPA
5 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 72 (22.15%) Docker
2 26 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.77%) Active Directory
4 17 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (3.69%) Hyper-V
7 9 (2.77%) BitLocker
7 9 (2.77%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (2.15%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.15%) vSphere
9 5 (1.54%) NFS
10 4 (1.23%) KVM
10 4 (1.23%) Postfix
10 4 (1.23%) Varnish
11 3 (0.92%) Ceph
11 3 (0.92%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.92%) Squid
12 2 (0.62%) Firmware
12 2 (0.62%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 185 (56.92%) Terraform
2 141 (43.38%) Kubernetes
3 66 (20.31%) Prometheus
4 60 (18.46%) Grafana
5 30 (9.23%) Puppet
6 15 (4.62%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.00%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.77%) Packer
8 9 (2.77%) Salt
8 9 (2.77%) vMotion
9 6 (1.85%) Oracle RMAN
10 5 (1.54%) Data Guard
10 5 (1.54%) Kibana
10 5 (1.54%) vRealize
11 4 (1.23%) Argo
11 4 (1.23%) FortiGate
11 4 (1.23%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.92%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.92%) Nagios
12 3 (0.92%) Podman
Vendors
1 49 (15.08%) Cisco
2 43 (13.23%) Microsoft
3 35 (10.77%) VMware
4 31 (9.54%) Arista
4 31 (9.54%) Splunk
5 30 (9.23%) Palo Alto
6 22 (6.77%) Fortinet
7 19 (5.85%) F5
7 19 (5.85%) Google
8 15 (4.62%) Red Hat
9 13 (4.00%) Oracle
10 11 (3.38%) Aruba
10 11 (3.38%) NetApp
10 11 (3.38%) ServiceNow
11 10 (3.08%) CheckPoint
11 10 (3.08%) IBM
11 10 (3.08%) Juniper
12 9 (2.77%) Citrix
12 9 (2.77%) Okta
12 9 (2.77%) Zscaler