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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 87 115
Rank change year-on-year -71 +28 -36
Contract jobs citing Ansible 319 379 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.74% 3.14% 2.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.68% 20.14% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 237 255
10th Percentile £400 £425 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £634 £688 £689
90th Percentile £725 £795 £763
England median daily rate £519 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.63% - -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.85 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £37.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £44.88 -
90th Percentile - £47.80 -
England median hourly rate £66.57 £44.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +49.59% -32.83% -9.25%

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 2,515 1,882 2,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.71% 15.59% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 1,272 1,637
10th Percentile £356 £363 £325
25th Percentile £437 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £625 £653 £650
90th Percentile £725 £759 £750
England median daily rate £510 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -1.61% -1.27% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 33
10th Percentile £22.33 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.75 £27.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £57.77 £38.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% +60.26% -62.22%
75th Percentile £63.32 £52.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.70 £70.40
England median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +50.67% +36.36% -48.04%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -34 40 £513 -6.82% 26
South London -14 5 £528 -12.08%
West London -22 3 £500 - 5
East London -4 2 £551 -18.44% 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 (3.76%) Confluence
2 8 (2.51%) Apache
3 4 (1.25%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.94%) JBoss
4 3 (0.94%) nginx
5 2 (0.63%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.63%) CMS
5 2 (0.63%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.63%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) Appian
6 1 (0.31%) MTS
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 144 (45.14%) AWS
2 117 (36.68%) Azure
3 74 (23.20%) GitHub
4 43 (13.48%) GCP
4 43 (13.48%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (8.15%) OpenShift
7 23 (7.21%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (7.21%) Amazon S3
7 23 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (7.21%) Serverless
8 22 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 18 (5.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (5.33%) Entra ID
11 14 (4.39%) Azure AKS
12 13 (4.08%) Datadog
12 13 (4.08%) PaaS
13 12 (3.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (21.94%) Firewall
2 36 (11.29%) BGP
3 35 (10.97%) VPN
4 30 (9.40%) WAN
5 28 (8.78%) DNS
6 23 (7.21%) Network Security
7 20 (6.27%) OSPF
8 14 (4.39%) TCP/IP
8 14 (4.39%) VXLAN
9 13 (4.08%) Cisco IOS
9 13 (4.08%) MPLS
10 12 (3.76%) Wireless
11 11 (3.45%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.45%) SD-WAN
12 10 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (3.13%) Multicast
12 10 (3.13%) NX-OS
13 9 (2.82%) SAN
13 9 (2.82%) VLAN
14 8 (2.51%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
1 13 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (1.88%) Redis
4 6 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.57%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.25%) MySQL
7 3 (0.94%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.63%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.63%) Power BI
8 2 (0.63%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.31%) ClickHouse
9 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.31%) Flink
9 1 (0.31%) GIS
9 1 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 87 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 62 (19.44%) GitLab
3 56 (17.55%) Git
4 22 (6.90%) JIRA
5 7 (2.19%) Artifactory
5 7 (2.19%) Postman
6 6 (1.88%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.88%) JMeter
6 6 (1.88%) Snyk
6 6 (1.88%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.57%) JUnit
7 5 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.25%) Ant
8 4 (1.25%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.25%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.94%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.63%) Gatling
10 2 (0.63%) Mockito
General
1 56 (17.55%) Finance
2 46 (14.42%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.58%) Banking
5 19 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.88%) Financial Institution
8 6 (1.88%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.57%) Law
10 4 (1.25%) Military
10 4 (1.25%) Police
11 3 (0.94%) Front Office
11 3 (0.94%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Retail
13 1 (0.31%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.31%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 77 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (13.17%) Architect
3 37 (11.60%) Senior
4 36 (11.29%) Network Engineer
5 27 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (8.15%) Developer
7 25 (7.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (5.96%) Lead
9 18 (5.64%) AWS DevOps
9 18 (5.64%) Linux Engineer
10 17 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 17 (5.33%) Site Engineer
11 16 (5.02%) Java Developer
12 15 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.76%) Senior Network Engineer
15 10 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
16 9 (2.82%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.58%) Kafka
2 19 (5.96%) REST
3 14 (4.39%) YAML
4 12 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.82%) .NET
5 9 (2.82%) Spring
6 8 (2.51%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.51%) JSON
6 8 (2.51%) Middleware
6 8 (2.51%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (2.19%) Web Services
8 6 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.88%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.88%) Swagger
9 5 (1.57%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.57%) cloud-init
9 5 (1.57%) React
9 5 (1.57%) RESTful
10 4 (1.25%) OAuth
10 4 (1.25%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 36 (11.29%) Data Centre
3 17 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.02%) PKI
5 15 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (3.76%) Enterprise Storage
6 12 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.76%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.51%) Clustering
7 8 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.19%) CMDB
8 7 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.88%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.25%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
10 4 (1.25%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 108 (33.86%) Linux
2 46 (14.42%) Windows
3 26 (8.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (6.90%) Unix
5 19 (5.96%) Ubuntu
5 19 (5.96%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.08%) VMS
7 7 (2.19%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.25%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.63%) CentOS
9 2 (0.63%) Debian
9 2 (0.63%) Solaris
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.31%) AIX
10 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.31%) Rocky
10 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (53.29%) DevOps
2 158 (49.53%) CI/CD
3 151 (47.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (22.57%) Containerisation
5 62 (19.44%) Configuration Management
6 58 (18.18%) Observability
7 57 (17.87%) Agile
8 49 (15.36%) Migration
9 41 (12.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 39 (12.23%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (11.91%) Mentoring
12 37 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
13 34 (10.66%) Load Balancing
14 32 (10.03%) Infrastructure Automation
15 30 (9.40%) AI
15 30 (9.40%) Incident Management
16 28 (8.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 28 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (7.84%) High Availability
17 25 (7.84%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 143 (44.83%) Python
2 84 (26.33%) Bash
3 54 (16.93%) PowerShell
4 33 (10.34%) Java
5 21 (6.58%) SQL
6 12 (3.76%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.45%) Bicep
8 10 (3.13%) Go
9 8 (2.51%) JavaScript
10 7 (2.19%) Ruby
11 5 (1.57%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.25%) C
13 3 (0.94%) Groovy
13 3 (0.94%) Perl
14 2 (0.63%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.63%) C#
14 2 (0.63%) Scala
15 1 (0.31%) C++
15 1 (0.31%) RPG
15 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 113 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 101 (31.66%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.52%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (6.58%) CCNP
5 19 (5.96%) Degree
6 17 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 14 (4.39%) AWS Certification
7 14 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (3.76%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.13%) CCIE
10 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.57%) CISSP
11 5 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.94%) CCNA
12 3 (0.94%) ISSAP
12 3 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.94%) JNCIP
12 3 (0.94%) VCAP
13 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.13%) QA
2 8 (2.51%) NIST
3 5 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.94%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.63%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.63%) NCSC
5 2 (0.63%) PSD2
5 2 (0.63%) SEPA
5 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 70 (21.94%) Docker
2 24 (7.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (6.27%) Active Directory
4 15 (4.70%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.13%) Hyper-V
7 7 (2.19%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.19%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (2.19%) VMware NSX
7 7 (2.19%) vSphere
8 5 (1.57%) NFS
9 4 (1.25%) KVM
9 4 (1.25%) Postfix
9 4 (1.25%) Varnish
10 3 (0.94%) Ceph
10 3 (0.94%) Sendmail
10 3 (0.94%) Squid
11 2 (0.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.63%) Firmware
11 2 (0.63%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 182 (57.05%) Terraform
2 138 (43.26%) Kubernetes
3 65 (20.38%) Prometheus
4 59 (18.50%) Grafana
5 28 (8.78%) Puppet
6 15 (4.70%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.45%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.82%) Packer
8 9 (2.82%) Salt
9 7 (2.19%) vMotion
10 6 (1.88%) Oracle RMAN
11 5 (1.57%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.57%) Kibana
12 4 (1.25%) Argo
12 4 (1.25%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.25%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.25%) vRealize
13 3 (0.94%) Consul
13 3 (0.94%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.94%) Podman
Vendors
1 49 (15.36%) Cisco
2 40 (12.54%) Microsoft
3 32 (10.03%) VMware
4 31 (9.72%) Arista
4 31 (9.72%) Splunk
5 30 (9.40%) Palo Alto
6 22 (6.90%) Fortinet
7 19 (5.96%) F5
8 17 (5.33%) Google
9 15 (4.70%) Red Hat
10 13 (4.08%) Oracle
11 11 (3.45%) Aruba
11 11 (3.45%) NetApp
11 11 (3.45%) ServiceNow
12 10 (3.13%) CheckPoint
12 10 (3.13%) IBM
12 10 (3.13%) Juniper
13 9 (2.82%) Okta
13 9 (2.82%) Zscaler
14 7 (2.19%) Citrix