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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 85 97
Rank change year-on-year -62 +12 -29
Contract jobs citing Ansible 285 416 418
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 3.08% 2.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.21% 20.43% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 276 311
10th Percentile £350 £450 £406
25th Percentile £427 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £558
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +10.00% -14.23%
75th Percentile £653 £730 £688
90th Percentile £774 £810 £798
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £39.25 -
Median hourly rate - £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £82.00 £74.44 £68.63
% change year-on-year +10.16% +8.46% -5.98%

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 2,334 2,036 2,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.42% 15.07% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,602 1,345 1,761
10th Percentile £350 £365 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.20%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £658
90th Percentile £725 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 35
10th Percentile £20.76 £22.30 £13.15
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £53.25 £49.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% +57.14% +22.52%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.56 £59.38
90th Percentile £63.99 £103.50 £61.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £40.31
% change year-on-year +87.38% -35.50% -19.08%

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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -29 45 £581 -3.13% 21
South London -10 7 £530 -26.90% 1
West London -15 4 £688 +34.15% 2
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 14 (4.91%) Confluence
2 6 (2.11%) Apache
3 4 (1.40%) Appian
3 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.05%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.05%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.70%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.70%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.35%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.35%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 131 (45.96%) AWS
2 86 (30.18%) Azure
3 72 (25.26%) GitHub
4 57 (20.00%) GCP
5 36 (12.63%) Amazon S3
6 33 (11.58%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (9.82%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (9.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 28 (9.82%) OpenShift
8 26 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (9.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 24 (8.42%) Serverless
10 23 (8.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (4.56%) IaaS
15 8 (2.81%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.81%) Amazon ELB
16 7 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 56 (19.65%) Firewall
2 35 (12.28%) DNS
2 35 (12.28%) VPN
3 24 (8.42%) Network Security
4 22 (7.72%) TCP/IP
5 18 (6.32%) WAN
6 15 (5.26%) SD-WAN
7 14 (4.91%) BGP
8 12 (4.21%) DHCP
9 11 (3.86%) LAN
10 10 (3.51%) OSPF
11 9 (3.16%) SSL
12 7 (2.46%) Ethernet VPN
12 7 (2.46%) Multicast
12 7 (2.46%) SAN
12 7 (2.46%) VXLAN
13 6 (2.11%) NetScaler
14 4 (1.40%) 5G
14 4 (1.40%) HTTP
14 4 (1.40%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.21%) MySQL
2 12 (4.21%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.46%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.11%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.11%) Redis
5 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.05%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.70%) Big Data
7 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.70%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.70%) ImageNet
7 2 (0.70%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (28.07%) Jenkins
2 61 (21.40%) GitLab
3 45 (15.79%) Git
4 19 (6.67%) JIRA
5 11 (3.86%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (2.11%) JUnit
7 6 (2.11%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.40%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.40%) JMeter
8 4 (1.40%) RStudio
8 4 (1.40%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.05%) Gradle
9 3 (1.05%) Maven
9 3 (1.05%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.05%) Selenium
9 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.70%) Gatling
General
1 75 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 60 (21.05%) Finance
3 31 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.32%) Banking
6 11 (3.86%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.40%) Social Science
10 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.05%) Military
10 3 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) International Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Front Office
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (23.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (12.28%) Architect
2 35 (12.28%) Senior
3 29 (10.18%) Network Engineer
4 27 (9.47%) Developer
5 25 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
6 23 (8.07%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 19 (6.67%) Site Engineer
8 16 (5.61%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (4.56%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.56%) Senior DevOps
9 13 (4.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
11 11 (3.86%) AWS Architect
11 11 (3.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (3.51%) Consultant
12 10 (3.51%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.32%) Kafka
2 12 (4.21%) REST
3 10 (3.51%) Node.js
4 9 (3.16%) JSON
5 8 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.81%) OAuth
5 8 (2.81%) Spring
6 7 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
6 7 (2.46%) YAML
7 6 (2.11%) JWT
8 5 (1.75%) AWS CDK
8 5 (1.75%) Keycloak
8 5 (1.75%) Middleware
8 5 (1.75%) XML
9 4 (1.40%) Hibernate
9 4 (1.40%) Web Services
9 4 (1.40%) ZK
10 3 (1.05%) Jinja
10 3 (1.05%) OpenID
10 3 (1.05%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.23%) Cloud Native
2 20 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (6.32%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.56%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.21%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.16%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.46%) Clustering
9 7 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.46%) PKI
9 7 (2.46%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.75%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.40%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.40%) Replication
12 4 (1.40%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 95 (33.33%) Linux
2 34 (11.93%) Windows
3 29 (10.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (5.61%) Unix
5 13 (4.56%) VMS
6 12 (4.21%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.46%) CentOS
7 7 (2.46%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.40%) Solaris
8 4 (1.40%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.70%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (52.28%) CI/CD
2 140 (49.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (47.02%) DevOps
4 69 (24.21%) Containerisation
5 51 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (16.49%) Agile
7 42 (14.74%) Infrastructure Automation
7 42 (14.74%) Observability
8 41 (14.39%) Migration
9 37 (12.98%) High Availability
9 37 (12.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 36 (12.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (11.58%) Configuration Management
12 26 (9.12%) Load Balancing
13 25 (8.77%) Test Automation
14 24 (8.42%) Performance Tuning
15 23 (8.07%) Incident Response
15 23 (8.07%) Project Delivery
16 22 (7.72%) DevSecOps
16 22 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 138 (48.42%) Python
2 78 (27.37%) Bash
3 34 (11.93%) PowerShell
4 30 (10.53%) Java
5 18 (6.32%) SQL
6 12 (4.21%) Go
7 9 (3.16%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.46%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.75%) C++
9 5 (1.75%) Perl
10 3 (1.05%) C#
10 3 (1.05%) PHP
10 3 (1.05%) Rust
11 2 (0.70%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.35%) C
12 1 (0.35%) R
12 1 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 80 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 66 (23.16%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.02%) AWS Certification
4 12 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.86%) CCNP
6 9 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.16%) Degree
7 8 (2.81%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.11%) RHCE
9 5 (1.75%) CCIE
9 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.40%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.05%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (1.05%) CCNA
11 3 (1.05%) CCSE
11 3 (1.05%) JNCIE
11 3 (1.05%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.81%) GDPR
2 6 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.11%) NIST
3 5 (1.75%) QA
4 3 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.70%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.70%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.70%) NCSC
5 2 (0.70%) PSD2
5 2 (0.70%) SEPA
6 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (27.72%) Docker
2 27 (9.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 13 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.51%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.46%) KVM
6 7 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.46%) vSphere
7 6 (2.11%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.40%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.40%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.05%) NFS
10 2 (0.70%) Ceph
10 2 (0.70%) Lustre
10 2 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.70%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.70%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.70%) Xen
11 1 (0.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 169 (59.30%) Terraform
2 101 (35.44%) Kubernetes
3 38 (13.33%) Grafana
3 38 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 21 (7.37%) Puppet
5 18 (6.32%) Progress Chef
6 11 (3.86%) Argo
7 10 (3.51%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.16%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.81%) SCCM
10 7 (2.46%) Kibana
11 6 (2.11%) Rancher
11 6 (2.11%) SCOM
12 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.40%) Nagios
13 4 (1.40%) vMotion
13 4 (1.40%) vRealize
14 3 (1.05%) FortiGate
14 3 (1.05%) Karpenter
14 3 (1.05%) Podman
Vendors
1 36 (12.63%) VMware
2 29 (10.18%) Splunk
3 27 (9.47%) Red Hat
4 26 (9.12%) Microsoft
5 25 (8.77%) Cisco
6 20 (7.02%) Google
7 19 (6.67%) Arista
8 13 (4.56%) CheckPoint
8 13 (4.56%) F5
8 13 (4.56%) Palo Alto
8 13 (4.56%) ServiceNow
9 10 (3.51%) Aruba
9 10 (3.51%) Citrix
9 10 (3.51%) Oracle
10 9 (3.16%) Fortinet
10 9 (3.16%) Zscaler
11 7 (2.46%) CyberArk
11 7 (2.46%) Dynatrace
12 6 (2.11%) PagerDuty
13 5 (1.75%) Pure Storage