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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 85 114
Rank change year-on-year -67 +29 -43
Contract jobs citing Ansible 292 396 374
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.67% 3.11% 2.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.73% 19.57% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 258 259
10th Percentile £366 £440 £381
25th Percentile £463 £506 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £859 £763
England median daily rate £507 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -11.83% +4.55% -11.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 £39.25 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.46% -25.83% -17.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +20.97% -15.07%

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 2,490 2,023 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.23% 15.89% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,701 1,401 1,569
10th Percentile £350 £363 £313
25th Percentile £429 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 44
10th Percentile £22.41 £23.33 £14.55
25th Percentile £28.88 £24.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.73 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +98.38% +7.84% -63.92%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £59.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.43 £69.10
England median hourly rate £56.50 £27.25 £28.50
% change year-on-year +107.34% -4.39% -48.18%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -35 42 £525 -9.09% 22
South London -16 9 £530 -11.67%
East London -1 2 £551 -12.62% 3
West London -24 2 £500 - 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 (4.11%) Confluence
2 5 (1.71%) Apache
3 4 (1.37%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.03%) JBoss
4 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) Appian
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.03%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 131 (44.86%) AWS
2 104 (35.62%) Azure
3 70 (23.97%) GitHub
4 43 (14.73%) GCP
5 38 (13.01%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (11.99%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (10.96%) Amazon S3
8 30 (10.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 28 (9.59%) OpenShift
10 27 (9.25%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (8.56%) Serverless
12 22 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (7.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 19 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (5.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (5.14%) IaaS
16 11 (3.77%) Azure AKS
17 10 (3.42%) Entra ID
17 10 (3.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (22.26%) Firewall
2 34 (11.64%) VPN
3 33 (11.30%) BGP
4 28 (9.59%) WAN
5 27 (9.25%) DNS
6 21 (7.19%) OSPF
7 20 (6.85%) Network Security
8 15 (5.14%) VXLAN
9 14 (4.79%) TCP/IP
10 13 (4.45%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (4.11%) MPLS
11 12 (4.11%) Multicast
11 12 (4.11%) SD-WAN
12 10 (3.42%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (3.42%) DHCP
13 9 (3.08%) Wireless
14 8 (2.74%) Ethernet
14 8 (2.74%) IOS XR
14 8 (2.74%) LAN
14 8 (2.74%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (3.42%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (2.74%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.40%) MySQL
6 6 (2.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (2.05%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.71%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.37%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.03%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.03%) Redis
10 2 (0.68%) Big Data
10 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
10 2 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.34%) Impala
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 77 (26.37%) Jenkins
2 61 (20.89%) GitLab
3 54 (18.49%) Git
4 21 (7.19%) JIRA
5 8 (2.74%) CircleCI
6 6 (2.05%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.71%) Snyk
7 5 (1.71%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.71%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.37%) Ant
8 4 (1.37%) JUnit
8 4 (1.37%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.03%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.68%) Gatling
10 2 (0.68%) Postman
10 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.68%) RStudio
General
1 50 (17.12%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.10%) Finance
3 28 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (4.79%) Banking
6 13 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.05%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.71%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.37%) Military
10 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.03%) Law
10 3 (1.03%) Police
11 2 (0.68%) Front Office
11 2 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Retail
11 2 (0.68%) Social Science
12 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 64 (21.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (12.67%) Senior
3 35 (11.99%) Architect
4 30 (10.27%) Network Engineer
5 29 (9.93%) Developer
6 26 (8.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 23 (7.88%) AWS Engineer
8 21 (7.19%) Site Engineer
9 18 (6.16%) Lead
10 17 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.48%) AWS DevOps
11 16 (5.48%) Java Developer
12 15 (5.14%) Automation Engineer
12 15 (5.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (4.45%) Senior Network Engineer
15 12 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
16 11 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
17 10 (3.42%) Linux Engineer
18 8 (2.74%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.16%) Kafka
2 14 (4.79%) REST
3 11 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (3.77%) YAML
4 10 (3.42%) OAuth
5 9 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (2.74%) Node.js
7 7 (2.40%) ARM Templates
7 7 (2.40%) Spring
8 6 (2.05%) JWT
8 6 (2.05%) Web Services
9 5 (1.71%) AWS CDK
10 4 (1.37%) .NET
10 4 (1.37%) Jinja
10 4 (1.37%) JSON
10 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.37%) WebSphere MQ
11 3 (1.03%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.03%) OpenID
11 3 (1.03%) React
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.96%) Data Centre
2 27 (9.25%) Cloud Native
3 19 (6.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 13 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (4.45%) PKI
5 12 (4.11%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (4.11%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.40%) Clustering
7 7 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.71%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.71%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.03%) CMDB
11 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.68%) Celerra
12 2 (0.68%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 97 (33.22%) Linux
2 38 (13.01%) Windows
3 22 (7.53%) Unix
4 19 (6.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (5.82%) Windows Server
6 14 (4.79%) VMS
7 8 (2.74%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.40%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.68%) AIX
9 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) Debian
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.34%) Rocky
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (48.63%) DevOps
2 141 (48.29%) CI/CD
3 135 (46.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (22.95%) Containerisation
5 58 (19.86%) Agile
6 48 (16.44%) Configuration Management
7 44 (15.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 43 (14.73%) Migration
9 42 (14.38%) Observability
10 39 (13.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (11.99%) Mentoring
12 33 (11.30%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (10.96%) Load Balancing
14 31 (10.62%) Platform Engineering
15 28 (9.59%) Infrastructure Automation
16 27 (9.25%) Performance Tuning
17 26 (8.90%) Incident Management
18 25 (8.56%) High Availability
18 25 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 24 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 132 (45.21%) Python
2 80 (27.40%) Bash
3 38 (13.01%) PowerShell
4 30 (10.27%) Java
5 22 (7.53%) SQL
6 12 (4.11%) Go
6 12 (4.11%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.71%) Bicep
7 5 (1.71%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.71%) PL/SQL
7 5 (1.71%) Ruby
8 4 (1.37%) Perl
9 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
9 2 (0.68%) C
9 2 (0.68%) PHP
10 1 (0.34%) C++
10 1 (0.34%) Groovy
10 1 (0.34%) RPG
10 1 (0.34%) Rust
10 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (33.22%) Security Cleared
2 84 (28.77%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (6.16%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.16%) CCNP
4 18 (6.16%) Degree
5 14 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 14 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (4.45%) DV Cleared
7 9 (3.08%) CCIE
8 5 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.37%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.37%) VCAP
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.03%) CCSE
10 3 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.03%) JNCIE
11 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.08%) QA
2 6 (2.05%) NIST
3 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.37%) GDPR
5 3 (1.03%) NCSC
6 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.68%) PSD2
6 2 (0.68%) SEPA
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 78 (26.71%) Docker
2 21 (7.19%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (5.48%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.42%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (3.08%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.74%) vSphere
7 7 (2.40%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.40%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.03%) KVM
8 3 (1.03%) NFS
9 2 (0.68%) Ceph
9 2 (0.68%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.68%) IAG
9 2 (0.68%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.68%) Postfix
9 2 (0.68%) Sendmail
9 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.68%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 174 (59.59%) Terraform
2 116 (39.73%) Kubernetes
3 53 (18.15%) Grafana
3 53 (18.15%) Prometheus
4 31 (10.62%) Puppet
5 14 (4.79%) Progress Chef
6 13 (4.45%) vCenter Server
7 10 (3.42%) Argo
8 9 (3.08%) Salt
9 7 (2.40%) vMotion
10 5 (1.71%) Data Guard
10 5 (1.71%) Kibana
10 5 (1.71%) Oracle RMAN
11 4 (1.37%) Rancher
11 4 (1.37%) SCCM
11 4 (1.37%) SCOM
12 3 (1.03%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.03%) Karpenter
12 3 (1.03%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (13.70%) Cisco
2 37 (12.67%) Microsoft
3 32 (10.96%) Splunk
4 30 (10.27%) Arista
5 28 (9.59%) VMware
6 25 (8.56%) Palo Alto
7 20 (6.85%) F5
8 18 (6.16%) Fortinet
9 17 (5.82%) Red Hat
10 15 (5.14%) Google
11 14 (4.79%) ServiceNow
12 12 (4.11%) Oracle
13 11 (3.77%) CheckPoint
13 11 (3.77%) Juniper
13 11 (3.77%) NetApp
14 10 (3.42%) Aruba
14 10 (3.42%) Zscaler
15 9 (3.08%) IBM
16 8 (2.74%) Citrix
17 7 (2.40%) Dynatrace