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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 99 104
Rank change year-on-year -49 +5 -23
Contract jobs citing Ansible 374 385 402
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 2.83% 2.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.76% 18.26% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 235 263
10th Percentile £420 £410 £376
25th Percentile £475 £478 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
90th Percentile £744 £758 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.06% - -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £38.13 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - £55.20 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £59.25 £74.00
% change year-on-year +18.14% -19.93% +1.37%

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 2,719 2,109 2,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.58% 15.51% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,889 1,404 1,644
10th Percentile £359 £339 £336
25th Percentile £440 £424 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £760
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 28
10th Percentile £31.60 £26.00 £20.50
25th Percentile £35.75 £26.45 £21.68
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +60.00% -60.32%
75th Percentile £81.25 £62.25 £56.25
90th Percentile - £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £31.25
% change year-on-year +18.18% +76.00% -42.32%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -32 41 £550 -2.22% 19
South London -17 9 £535 -12.30% 3
West London -14 7 £500 +20.48% 3
East London +1 2 £551 -18.44% 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 20 (5.35%) Confluence
2 9 (2.41%) Apache
3 7 (1.87%) nginx
4 5 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.07%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.07%) WordPress
6 3 (0.80%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.80%) JBoss
6 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.53%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.53%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) Mule
7 2 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) MTS
8 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.27%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 170 (45.45%) AWS
2 136 (36.36%) Azure
3 80 (21.39%) GitHub
4 49 (13.10%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (11.76%) GCP
6 39 (10.43%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (8.82%) Datadog
8 32 (8.56%) OpenShift
9 29 (7.75%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (7.22%) Amazon S3
10 27 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (6.68%) Serverless
12 23 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (5.88%) Entra ID
14 21 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (4.81%) Azure AKS
16 17 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (3.74%) PaaS
18 13 (3.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (19.52%) Firewall
2 43 (11.50%) DNS
3 42 (11.23%) BGP
4 41 (10.96%) VPN
5 30 (8.02%) WAN
6 25 (6.68%) TCP/IP
7 24 (6.42%) OSPF
8 22 (5.88%) Network Security
9 19 (5.08%) DHCP
10 17 (4.55%) VLAN
11 15 (4.01%) SSL
11 15 (4.01%) VXLAN
12 13 (3.48%) Cisco IOS
12 13 (3.48%) Wireless
13 12 (3.21%) MPLS
14 11 (2.94%) IOS XR
15 10 (2.67%) Ethernet VPN
15 10 (2.67%) NX-OS
16 9 (2.41%) IPsec
16 9 (2.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.01%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.41%) Oracle Database
4 9 (2.41%) Redis
5 7 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (1.87%) Big Data
5 7 (1.87%) MySQL
5 7 (1.87%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (1.60%) Power BI
7 5 (1.34%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.34%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (1.07%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.80%) ObjectStore
9 3 (0.80%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.53%) Apache Hive
10 2 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 100 (26.74%) Jenkins
2 84 (22.46%) Git
3 75 (20.05%) GitLab
4 29 (7.75%) JIRA
5 10 (2.67%) Artifactory
6 9 (2.41%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.14%) Snyk
8 7 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 7 (1.87%) Postman
8 7 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.60%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.60%) JMeter
9 6 (1.60%) JUnit
10 4 (1.07%) Ant
10 4 (1.07%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.80%) Mockito
12 2 (0.53%) Gradle
12 2 (0.53%) Subversion
12 2 (0.53%) Zephyr
General
1 78 (20.86%) Finance
2 65 (17.38%) Social Skills
3 37 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 30 (8.02%) Banking
6 15 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.41%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.87%) Law
8 7 (1.87%) Retail
9 6 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.34%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.34%) Police
11 4 (1.07%) Military
11 4 (1.07%) Publishing
11 4 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.80%) Automotive
12 3 (0.80%) Front Office
12 3 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 84 (22.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (13.64%) Senior
3 44 (11.76%) Architect
4 43 (11.50%) Network Engineer
5 32 (8.56%) Developer
6 28 (7.49%) AWS Engineer
6 28 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (6.15%) Automation Engineer
7 23 (6.15%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (6.15%) Lead
8 21 (5.61%) Linux Engineer
8 21 (5.61%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (4.55%) Java Developer
9 17 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 16 (4.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 15 (4.01%) Site Engineer
12 14 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.21%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.42%) Kafka
1 24 (6.42%) REST
2 17 (4.55%) YAML
3 16 (4.28%) .NET
4 15 (4.01%) Spring
5 13 (3.48%) Middleware
6 12 (3.21%) ARM Templates
7 11 (2.94%) React
8 10 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (2.41%) JSON
10 8 (2.14%) cloud-init
10 8 (2.14%) JMS
10 8 (2.14%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.87%) Jakarta EE
11 7 (1.87%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.87%) Swagger
12 6 (1.60%) OAuth
12 6 (1.60%) RESTful
12 6 (1.60%) SAML
12 6 (1.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (13.37%) Cloud Native
2 45 (12.03%) Data Centre
3 26 (6.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (5.35%) PKI
5 17 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.55%) Security Posture
6 16 (4.28%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
8 12 (3.21%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.67%) Clustering
10 9 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (2.14%) CMDB
12 7 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (1.34%) Cloud Security Posture
14 5 (1.34%) Private Cloud
14 5 (1.34%) Virtual Team
15 4 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 138 (36.90%) Linux
2 59 (15.78%) Windows
3 43 (11.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 29 (7.75%) Ubuntu
5 26 (6.95%) Windows Server
6 25 (6.68%) Unix
7 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (1.34%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.07%) Alpine Linux
10 2 (0.53%) CentOS
10 2 (0.53%) Debian
10 2 (0.53%) Solaris
10 2 (0.53%) VMS
10 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.27%) AIX
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.27%) Rocky
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (57.49%) DevOps
2 184 (49.20%) CI/CD
3 170 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (23.80%) Containerisation
5 81 (21.66%) Configuration Management
6 76 (20.32%) Agile
7 63 (16.84%) Observability
8 57 (15.24%) Platform Engineering
9 56 (14.97%) AI
10 54 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 51 (13.64%) Migration
12 44 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 43 (11.50%) Infrastructure Automation
14 35 (9.36%) Mentoring
14 35 (9.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 34 (9.09%) Cloud Security
16 32 (8.56%) Runbook
16 32 (8.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 32 (8.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 201 (53.74%) Python
2 109 (29.14%) Bash
3 81 (21.66%) PowerShell
4 52 (13.90%) Java
5 26 (6.95%) SQL
6 16 (4.28%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.74%) Go
7 14 (3.74%) Shell Script
8 13 (3.48%) Bicep
9 10 (2.67%) C#
10 9 (2.41%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.60%) Perl
11 6 (1.60%) Ruby
12 5 (1.34%) Groovy
13 4 (1.07%) C
13 4 (1.07%) C++
14 2 (0.53%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.53%) Scala
15 1 (0.27%) R
15 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 124 (33.16%) Security Cleared
2 103 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 28 (7.49%) Cisco Certification
3 28 (7.49%) Degree
4 24 (6.42%) CCNP
5 20 (5.35%) DV Cleared
6 17 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 15 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (3.74%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.67%) CCIE
10 9 (2.41%) CISSP
11 8 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (1.34%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (1.07%) CCNA
14 4 (1.07%) ISSAP
14 4 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.07%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.07%) JNCIS
15 3 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.01%) QA
2 9 (2.41%) NIST
3 5 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.80%) GDPR
4 3 (0.80%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.53%) NCSC
5 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
6 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 91 (24.33%) Docker
2 35 (9.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (6.95%) Active Directory
4 17 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.74%) Hyper-V
5 14 (3.74%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (3.48%) vSphere
7 8 (2.14%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.87%) BitLocker
8 7 (1.87%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.60%) NFS
10 4 (1.07%) IAG
10 4 (1.07%) Postfix
10 4 (1.07%) Varnish
11 3 (0.80%) KVM
11 3 (0.80%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.80%) Squid
11 3 (0.80%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 214 (57.22%) Terraform
2 155 (41.44%) Kubernetes
3 76 (20.32%) Prometheus
4 73 (19.52%) Grafana
5 41 (10.96%) Puppet
6 16 (4.28%) Packer
7 15 (4.01%) Progress Chef
8 14 (3.74%) vCenter Server
9 10 (2.67%) FortiGate
9 10 (2.67%) systemd
10 8 (2.14%) Salt
11 7 (1.87%) SCCM
11 7 (1.87%) vMotion
12 6 (1.60%) Oracle RMAN
13 5 (1.34%) Data Guard
13 5 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (1.34%) Nagios
13 5 (1.34%) SELinux
13 5 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 55 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 54 (14.44%) Cisco
3 47 (12.57%) VMware
4 34 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 30 (8.02%) Splunk
6 29 (7.75%) Arista
7 26 (6.95%) Fortinet
8 21 (5.61%) F5
8 21 (5.61%) Oracle
8 21 (5.61%) Red Hat
9 19 (5.08%) ServiceNow
10 15 (4.01%) Google
10 15 (4.01%) Juniper
11 11 (2.94%) Zscaler
12 10 (2.67%) NetApp
12 10 (2.67%) Okta
13 9 (2.41%) Aruba
13 9 (2.41%) Dynatrace
14 8 (2.14%) IBM
15 7 (1.87%) Citrix