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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 87 77
Rank change year-on-year -31 -10 -10
Contract jobs citing Ansible 337 448 587
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.39% 2.87% 2.95%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.96% 19.54% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 286 447
10th Percentile £357 £453 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +2.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £664 £688 £713
90th Percentile £772 £810 £810
England median daily rate £529 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.09% - -6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £53.00 - £61.75
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £68.50
75th Percentile £59.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £68.75 £74.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -7.09% -3.31% +4.84%

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 2,252 2,293 2,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.98% 14.70% 14.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,490 1,503 2,226
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 35
10th Percentile £22.00 £22.81 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £31.63
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.30% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.88 £68.50
90th Percentile £65.57 £103.60 £85.94
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year -7.28% -22.96% +90.59%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 -18 51 £575 -8.00% 95
South London -4 8 £566 -22.00% 3
West London -10 7 £415 -24.55% 3
East London +7 3 - - 4
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 16 (4.75%) Confluence
2 8 (2.37%) Apache
3 5 (1.48%) nginx
4 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.89%) Appian
5 3 (0.89%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.89%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.89%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.59%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.30%) Mule
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.89%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Endur
2 3 (0.89%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 152 (45.10%) AWS
2 93 (27.60%) Azure
3 64 (18.99%) GitHub
4 53 (15.73%) GCP
5 35 (10.39%) Amazon S3
5 35 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (8.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (8.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 27 (8.01%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (7.72%) OpenShift
9 23 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (6.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (5.34%) Serverless
12 16 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (3.56%) IaaS
15 10 (2.97%) Amazon ELB
15 10 (2.97%) Apigee
16 9 (2.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 75 (22.26%) Firewall
2 36 (10.68%) DNS
2 36 (10.68%) VPN
3 35 (10.39%) BGP
3 35 (10.39%) TCP/IP
4 30 (8.90%) OSPF
5 28 (8.31%) SSL
6 25 (7.42%) Network Security
7 20 (5.93%) WAN
8 16 (4.75%) SD-WAN
8 16 (4.75%) VXLAN
9 15 (4.45%) Ethernet VPN
10 13 (3.86%) Multicast
11 12 (3.56%) HTTP
12 10 (2.97%) DHCP
12 10 (2.97%) LAN
12 10 (2.97%) MPLS
13 7 (2.08%) IPsec
14 6 (1.78%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (1.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (3.56%) MySQL
3 9 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.08%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.78%) Redis
7 4 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.89%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.89%) MariaDB
8 3 (0.89%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.59%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.59%) Impala
9 2 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.59%) Tableau
10 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 97 (28.78%) Jenkins
2 71 (21.07%) Git
3 58 (17.21%) GitLab
4 24 (7.12%) JIRA
5 15 (4.45%) Artifactory
6 14 (4.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (3.26%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.67%) SonarQube
9 8 (2.37%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.37%) Robot Framework
9 8 (2.37%) TeamCity
10 7 (2.08%) Subversion
11 6 (1.78%) JUnit
11 6 (1.78%) Maven
12 4 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.19%) Gradle
12 4 (1.19%) JMeter
13 3 (0.89%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.89%) RStudio
13 3 (0.89%) Selenium
General
1 106 (31.45%) Finance
2 101 (29.97%) Social Skills
3 43 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.20%) Banking
5 23 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.34%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.15%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.78%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Back Office
12 3 (0.89%) Automotive
12 3 (0.89%) Military
12 3 (0.89%) Retail
12 3 (0.89%) Social Science
13 2 (0.59%) International Banking
13 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.59%) Marketing
13 2 (0.59%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (21.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 58 (17.21%) Network Engineer
3 39 (11.57%) Senior
4 36 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
5 35 (10.39%) Architect
6 32 (9.50%) Automation Engineer
7 30 (8.90%) Developer
7 30 (8.90%) Python Engineer
8 20 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (5.04%) IP Network Engineer
9 17 (5.04%) Switch Engineer
10 15 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (4.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.15%) Consultant
11 14 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (4.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.26%) Cisco Engineer
12 11 (3.26%) Lead
12 11 (3.26%) Linux Engineer
13 10 (2.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.42%) Kafka
2 21 (6.23%) REST
3 16 (4.75%) Node.js
4 14 (4.15%) JSON
4 14 (4.15%) YAML
5 13 (3.86%) OAuth
6 12 (3.56%) Spring
7 9 (2.67%) Jinja
7 9 (2.67%) RESTful
7 9 (2.67%) XML
8 8 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.37%) Middleware
9 7 (2.08%) JWT
9 7 (2.08%) OAuth2
9 7 (2.08%) OpenID
9 7 (2.08%) Swagger
10 6 (1.78%) Keycloak
10 6 (1.78%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.48%) NETCONF
11 5 (1.48%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.90%) Cloud Native
1 30 (8.90%) Data Centre
2 21 (6.23%) Hedge funds
3 17 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (5.04%) Private Cloud
4 16 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.37%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.08%) Replication
10 6 (1.78%) Clustering
10 6 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.48%) Grid Computing
11 5 (1.48%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.48%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 103 (30.56%) Linux
2 32 (9.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 32 (9.50%) Windows
3 24 (7.12%) Unix
4 14 (4.15%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.67%) CentOS
6 8 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.78%) Solaris
8 2 (0.59%) AIX
8 2 (0.59%) Debian
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (51.63%) DevOps
2 165 (48.96%) CI/CD
3 143 (42.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (27.00%) Containerisation
5 71 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (17.80%) Agile
7 58 (17.21%) Infrastructure Automation
8 50 (14.84%) Configuration Management
8 50 (14.84%) High Availability
9 37 (10.98%) Migration
10 35 (10.39%) Observability
11 33 (9.79%) Test Automation
12 31 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 28 (8.31%) DevSecOps
14 27 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (7.72%) Microservices
16 22 (6.53%) Cloud Security
16 22 (6.53%) Low Latency
17 21 (6.23%) Incident Response
17 21 (6.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 200 (59.35%) Python
2 73 (21.66%) Bash
3 40 (11.87%) PowerShell
4 32 (9.50%) Java
5 25 (7.42%) Go
6 21 (6.23%) SQL
7 14 (4.15%) C++
7 14 (4.15%) JavaScript
8 13 (3.86%) Shell Script
9 12 (3.56%) Perl
10 11 (3.26%) C#
11 8 (2.37%) Groovy
12 4 (1.19%) PHP
12 4 (1.19%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.89%) Bicep
14 2 (0.59%) Ruby
14 2 (0.59%) Rust
15 1 (0.30%) DataWeave
15 1 (0.30%) R
15 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 65 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 28 (8.31%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (6.53%) CCNP
5 14 (4.15%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.15%) CCIE
6 12 (3.56%) Degree
7 10 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (2.08%) RHCE
9 5 (1.48%) CCNA
9 5 (1.48%) JNCIE
10 4 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.19%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.19%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.89%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.37%) GDPR
2 7 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.78%) QA
4 5 (1.48%) NIST
5 4 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.59%) NCSC
6 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.59%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (29.67%) Docker
2 30 (8.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 11 (3.26%) VMware NSX
4 9 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (1.48%) KVM
6 5 (1.48%) vSphere
7 4 (1.19%) NFS
7 4 (1.19%) Veritas File System
7 4 (1.19%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (0.89%) Firmware
9 2 (0.59%) HDFS
9 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.30%) GPFS
10 1 (0.30%) iptables
10 1 (0.30%) Lustre
10 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.30%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 186 (55.19%) Terraform
2 102 (30.27%) Kubernetes
3 33 (9.79%) Puppet
4 31 (9.20%) Grafana
5 29 (8.61%) Prometheus
6 26 (7.72%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.97%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (2.37%) SCCM
9 7 (2.08%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.78%) Argo
10 6 (1.78%) Kibana
11 5 (1.48%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.48%) Packer
11 5 (1.48%) SCOM
12 4 (1.19%) Istio
12 4 (1.19%) Nagios
12 4 (1.19%) Podman
12 4 (1.19%) QRadar
12 4 (1.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 40 (11.87%) Cisco
2 39 (11.57%) Arista
3 37 (10.98%) VMware
4 30 (8.90%) F5
5 29 (8.61%) Red Hat
5 29 (8.61%) Splunk
6 27 (8.01%) Palo Alto
7 20 (5.93%) Microsoft
8 18 (5.34%) CheckPoint
9 16 (4.75%) Oracle
10 15 (4.45%) Google
11 13 (3.86%) Fortinet
11 13 (3.86%) Juniper
12 11 (3.26%) CyberArk
12 11 (3.26%) ServiceNow
13 9 (2.67%) Dynatrace
14 8 (2.37%) Zscaler
15 7 (2.08%) Citrix
15 7 (2.08%) MuleSoft
16 5 (1.48%) SaltStack