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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 119 99
Rank change year-on-year -27 -20 -23
Contract jobs citing Ansible 419 325 424
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 2.41% 2.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.37% 18.22% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 202 283
10th Percentile £417 £387 £425
25th Percentile £475 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £770 £770 £810
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 £48.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +48.36% -35.14% -3.31%

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 2,281 1,784 2,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.22% 13.24% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,527 1,163 1,383
10th Percentile £320 £325 £325
25th Percentile £430 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £661
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 16 16 23
10th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 -
25th Percentile £29.08 £26.34 £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £33.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.26% -10.00% -37.50%
75th Percentile £76.56 £59.81 £67.88
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.41 £94.25
England median hourly rate £67.24 £33.39 £43.09
% change year-on-year +101.39% -22.52% -15.92%

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 25 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 25 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 46 £575 -4.17% 36
South London -3 11 £535 -13.71% 1
West London -21 8 £519 +25.00% 13
East London +2 4 £550 -18.52% 6
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 24 (5.73%) Confluence
2 9 (2.15%) Apache
3 8 (1.91%) nginx
4 6 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.19%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.95%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.95%) WordPress
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.72%) CMS
8 2 (0.48%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.48%) CICS
8 2 (0.48%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.48%) Mule
8 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
9 1 (0.24%) MTS
9 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 201 (47.97%) AWS
2 158 (37.71%) Azure
3 93 (22.20%) GitHub
4 64 (15.27%) GCP
5 51 (12.17%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (10.50%) OpenShift
8 40 (9.55%) Datadog
9 30 (7.16%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
10 29 (6.92%) Serverless
11 28 (6.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (6.21%) Amazon S3
13 26 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (5.25%) Entra ID
15 20 (4.77%) Azure AKS
16 18 (4.30%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
17 12 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 69 (16.47%) Firewall
2 41 (9.79%) VPN
3 40 (9.55%) DNS
4 39 (9.31%) BGP
5 33 (7.88%) Network Security
6 27 (6.44%) TCP/IP
7 26 (6.21%) WAN
8 21 (5.01%) SSL
9 19 (4.53%) OSPF
10 18 (4.30%) DHCP
11 17 (4.06%) VLAN
12 13 (3.10%) SD-WAN
13 12 (2.86%) SSH
14 11 (2.63%) NX-OS
14 11 (2.63%) Wireless
15 10 (2.39%) MPLS
16 9 (2.15%) Ethernet VPN
16 9 (2.15%) Internet
16 9 (2.15%) VXLAN
17 8 (1.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (3.58%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (2.86%) Oracle Database
4 12 (2.86%) SQL Server
5 11 (2.63%) MySQL
6 10 (2.39%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.15%) Power BI
8 8 (1.91%) Big Data
8 8 (1.91%) Redis
9 6 (1.43%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (1.19%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.19%) ObjectStore
11 4 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.95%) Metadata
11 4 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 102 (24.34%) Jenkins
2 93 (22.20%) Git
3 87 (20.76%) GitLab
4 26 (6.21%) JIRA
5 15 (3.58%) SonarQube
6 13 (3.10%) Artifactory
6 13 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.39%) Selenium
8 9 (2.15%) Snyk
9 8 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.67%) JMeter
10 7 (1.67%) Postman
11 5 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.19%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.19%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.95%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.72%) GoCD
13 3 (0.72%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.72%) TestRail
General
1 107 (25.54%) Finance
2 77 (18.38%) Social Skills
3 43 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 43 (10.26%) Banking
4 26 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.10%) Financial Institution
6 9 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (1.67%) Retail
8 6 (1.43%) Law
9 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.19%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.19%) Police
9 5 (1.19%) Publishing
9 5 (1.19%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.95%) Automotive
10 4 (0.95%) Military
11 3 (0.72%) Front Office
11 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Legal
12 2 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 78 (18.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 54 (12.89%) Senior
3 47 (11.22%) Architect
3 47 (11.22%) Network Engineer
4 40 (9.55%) Lead
5 36 (8.59%) Automation Engineer
6 31 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (6.68%) Platform Engineer
8 27 (6.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 27 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (6.21%) Developer
9 26 (6.21%) Linux Engineer
10 20 (4.77%) AWS DevOps
11 19 (4.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 15 (3.58%) Site Engineer
13 15 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (3.34%) Security Engineer
15 13 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (58.23%) Terraform
2 34 (8.11%) Kafka
2 34 (8.11%) REST
3 25 (5.97%) Middleware
4 21 (5.01%) YAML
5 18 (4.30%) .NET
5 18 (4.30%) React
6 15 (3.58%) JSON
7 12 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
7 12 (2.86%) Spring
8 8 (1.91%) cloud-init
8 8 (1.91%) Keycloak
8 8 (1.91%) Playwright
8 8 (1.91%) SAML
9 7 (1.67%) 802.1X
9 7 (1.67%) boto
9 7 (1.67%) OAuth
9 7 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.67%) pytest
9 7 (1.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.65%) Cloud Native
2 47 (11.22%) Data Centre
3 36 (8.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 23 (5.49%) PKI
5 22 (5.25%) Security Posture
6 20 (4.77%) Onboarding
7 18 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (3.82%) Public Cloud
9 14 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.39%) Private Cloud
12 9 (2.15%) CMDB
12 9 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.91%) Clustering
13 8 (1.91%) Distributed Applications
13 8 (1.91%) Low-Code
14 7 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.43%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 168 (40.10%) Linux
2 75 (17.90%) Windows
3 52 (12.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 31 (7.40%) Ubuntu
5 28 (6.68%) Unix
6 25 (5.97%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.95%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.95%) CentOS
8 4 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.72%) VMS
10 2 (0.48%) AIX
10 2 (0.48%) Debian
10 2 (0.48%) Solaris
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.48%) zOS
11 1 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (54.18%) DevOps
2 223 (53.22%) CI/CD
3 206 (49.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 100 (23.87%) Containerisation
5 96 (22.91%) Configuration Management
6 85 (20.29%) Observability
7 77 (18.38%) Platform Engineering
8 75 (17.90%) Agile
8 75 (17.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 70 (16.71%) AI
10 65 (15.51%) Migration
11 64 (15.27%) Infrastructure Automation
12 58 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 55 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
14 50 (11.93%) Runbook
14 50 (11.93%) Test Automation
15 47 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
16 43 (10.26%) Validation
17 42 (10.02%) Deployment Automation
18 39 (9.31%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 253 (60.38%) Python
2 124 (29.59%) Bash
3 99 (23.63%) PowerShell
4 56 (13.37%) Java
5 34 (8.11%) SQL
6 24 (5.73%) Go
6 24 (5.73%) Shell Script
7 23 (5.49%) JavaScript
8 15 (3.58%) C#
9 13 (3.10%) Bicep
10 11 (2.63%) Perl
10 11 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.67%) C++
12 6 (1.43%) Groovy
13 5 (1.19%) Ruby
14 4 (0.95%) C
14 4 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.72%) Korn
15 3 (0.72%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 123 (29.36%) Security Cleared
2 100 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.21%) Degree
3 26 (6.21%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
5 20 (4.77%) AWS Certification
6 18 (4.30%) CCNP
7 16 (3.82%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.91%) CISSP
10 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.43%) CCIE
12 5 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 5 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (1.19%) CCNA
13 4 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.95%) ISSAP
13 4 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.95%) JNCIP
13 4 (0.95%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.92%) QA
2 12 (2.86%) NIST
3 11 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.95%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.72%) GDPR
5 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.72%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.48%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.48%) NCSC
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) FedRAMP
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) SEPA
7 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 103 (24.58%) Docker
2 36 (8.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.21%) Active Directory
4 14 (3.34%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (2.86%) Hyper-V
6 11 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.63%) vSphere
7 6 (1.43%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.19%) NFS
9 4 (0.95%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (0.72%) Ceph
10 3 (0.72%) HDFS
10 3 (0.72%) IAG
10 3 (0.72%) KVM
10 3 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.72%) Postfix
10 3 (0.72%) Squid
10 3 (0.72%) Terminal Services
10 3 (0.72%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 169 (40.33%) Kubernetes
2 77 (18.38%) Prometheus
3 73 (17.42%) Grafana
4 40 (9.55%) Puppet
5 16 (3.82%) Packer
5 16 (3.82%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.58%) FortiGate
7 14 (3.34%) systemd
8 9 (2.15%) SCCM
9 8 (1.91%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.43%) Data Guard
11 6 (1.43%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.19%) Argo
12 5 (1.19%) Nagios
12 5 (1.19%) SELinux
12 5 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (1.19%) vRealize
13 4 (0.95%) Consul
13 4 (0.95%) Podman
Vendors
1 61 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 56 (13.37%) Cisco
3 55 (13.13%) VMware
4 34 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 34 (8.11%) Splunk
5 31 (7.40%) Fortinet
6 29 (6.92%) Google
6 29 (6.92%) Oracle
6 29 (6.92%) Palo Alto
7 22 (5.25%) ServiceNow
8 17 (4.06%) Dynatrace
9 16 (3.82%) Arista
10 15 (3.58%) F5
11 12 (2.86%) Juniper
11 12 (2.86%) Zscaler
12 11 (2.63%) CyberArk
13 8 (1.91%) IBM
14 7 (1.67%) Okta
15 6 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
15 6 (1.43%) Tenable