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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 99 110
Rank change year-on-year -51 +11 -28
Contract jobs citing Ansible 360 389 400
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 2.85% 2.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.33% 18.32% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 234 268
10th Percentile £404 £417 £381
25th Percentile £471 £479 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £634 £682 £688
90th Percentile £725 £771 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £37.15 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £38.50 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £42.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £52.06 -
90th Percentile - £56.23 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £56.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -24.32% +0.88%

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 2,701 2,123 2,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.63% 15.56% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,872 1,404 1,706
10th Percentile £358 £350 £330
25th Percentile £442 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £524 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.24% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 34
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.23 £20.15
25th Percentile £39.88 £26.68 £20.89
Median hourly rate £62.75 £42.25 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +48.52% +71.82% -61.58%
75th Percentile £81.25 £59.88 £47.38
90th Percentile - £63.25 £69.98
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +17.12% +81.97% -44.55%

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 20 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 20 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 -30 38 £550 - 14
South London -14 7 £535 -12.30% 3
West London -16 5 £500 +20.48% 4
East London -1 2 £551 -18.44% 5
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 18 (5.00%) Confluence
2 9 (2.50%) Apache
3 7 (1.94%) nginx
4 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.11%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.11%) WebSphere
5 4 (1.11%) WordPress
6 3 (0.83%) JBoss
6 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.56%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.56%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.56%) CMS
7 2 (0.56%) Mule
7 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.28%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.28%) MTS
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 168 (46.67%) AWS
2 125 (34.72%) Azure
3 75 (20.83%) GitHub
4 42 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (10.00%) GCP
6 34 (9.44%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (8.06%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (7.78%) Amazon S3
8 28 (7.78%) Datadog
9 27 (7.50%) OpenShift
9 27 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (6.94%) Serverless
11 23 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (5.56%) Entra ID
15 18 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (5.00%) Azure AKS
16 14 (3.89%) PaaS
17 13 (3.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (19.44%) Firewall
2 41 (11.39%) BGP
3 39 (10.83%) VPN
4 35 (9.72%) DNS
5 31 (8.61%) WAN
6 24 (6.67%) TCP/IP
7 23 (6.39%) OSPF
8 21 (5.83%) Network Security
9 15 (4.17%) VLAN
10 14 (3.89%) VXLAN
11 13 (3.61%) Cisco IOS
11 13 (3.61%) DHCP
11 13 (3.61%) MPLS
11 13 (3.61%) Wireless
12 12 (3.33%) SSL
13 11 (3.06%) IOS XR
14 10 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
14 10 (2.78%) Multicast
14 10 (2.78%) NX-OS
15 9 (2.50%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
1 15 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 14 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (2.50%) Redis
4 7 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (1.94%) Big Data
4 7 (1.94%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (1.67%) MySQL
6 5 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
6 5 (1.39%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.11%) Power BI
8 2 (0.56%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 91 (25.28%) Jenkins
2 80 (22.22%) Git
3 69 (19.17%) GitLab
4 27 (7.50%) JIRA
5 9 (2.50%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.22%) Snyk
6 8 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.94%) Postman
8 6 (1.67%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.67%) JMeter
8 6 (1.67%) JUnit
9 5 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.11%) Ant
10 4 (1.11%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.83%) Gradle
11 3 (0.83%) Mockito
12 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 74 (20.56%) Finance
2 61 (16.94%) Social Skills
3 32 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 30 (8.33%) Banking
5 29 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.50%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.94%) Law
8 7 (1.94%) Retail
9 6 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.39%) Police
11 4 (1.11%) Front Office
11 4 (1.11%) Military
11 4 (1.11%) Publishing
11 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Automotive
13 2 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 86 (23.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (12.50%) Senior
3 44 (12.22%) Architect
4 42 (11.67%) Network Engineer
5 31 (8.61%) AWS Engineer
6 29 (8.06%) Developer
7 24 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (6.11%) Automation Engineer
8 22 (6.11%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (6.11%) Linux Engineer
9 21 (5.83%) Lead
10 19 (5.28%) Platform Engineer
11 18 (5.00%) Java Developer
12 17 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 13 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.61%) Site Engineer
15 13 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (3.06%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.67%) REST
2 23 (6.39%) Kafka
3 16 (4.44%) YAML
4 13 (3.61%) Spring
5 12 (3.33%) .NET
5 12 (3.33%) Middleware
6 11 (3.06%) ARM Templates
7 9 (2.50%) JSON
7 9 (2.50%) React
8 8 (2.22%) cloud-init
9 7 (1.94%) JMS
9 7 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.94%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.94%) Swagger
10 6 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (1.67%) RESTful
10 6 (1.67%) SAML
10 6 (1.67%) Web Services
11 5 (1.39%) boto
11 5 (1.39%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.94%) Data Centre
3 23 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (5.28%) PKI
5 17 (4.72%) Distributed Systems
5 17 (4.72%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.17%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
7 12 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.22%) Clustering
9 8 (2.22%) CMDB
9 8 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.39%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.39%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 130 (36.11%) Linux
2 49 (13.61%) Windows
3 40 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (6.94%) Ubuntu
4 25 (6.94%) Unix
5 21 (5.83%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.39%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.11%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.56%) CentOS
8 2 (0.56%) Debian
8 2 (0.56%) Solaris
8 2 (0.56%) VMS
9 1 (0.28%) AIX
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.28%) Rocky
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (56.94%) DevOps
2 179 (49.72%) CI/CD
3 164 (45.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (24.44%) Containerisation
5 76 (21.11%) Configuration Management
6 75 (20.83%) Agile
7 62 (17.22%) Observability
8 57 (15.83%) Platform Engineering
9 50 (13.89%) AI
10 46 (12.78%) Migration
11 45 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 41 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
14 36 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
15 35 (9.72%) Cloud Security
16 34 (9.44%) Mentoring
17 33 (9.17%) Stakeholder Management
18 32 (8.89%) Test Automation
19 30 (8.33%) Runbook
20 29 (8.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 189 (52.50%) Python
2 104 (28.89%) Bash
3 70 (19.44%) PowerShell
4 47 (13.06%) Java
5 22 (6.11%) SQL
6 15 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.33%) Bicep
7 12 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.50%) Go
9 7 (1.94%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.94%) Ruby
10 5 (1.39%) C#
11 4 (1.11%) C
12 3 (0.83%) C++
12 3 (0.83%) Groovy
12 3 (0.83%) Perl
13 2 (0.56%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.56%) Scala
14 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 123 (34.17%) Security Cleared
2 104 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (6.94%) Degree
5 23 (6.39%) CCNP
6 18 (5.00%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.44%) AWS Certification
7 16 (4.44%) Azure Certification
8 14 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.78%) CCIE
10 9 (2.50%) CISSP
11 7 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.11%) CCNA
14 4 (1.11%) ISSAP
15 3 (0.83%) CISM
15 3 (0.83%) JNCIP
15 3 (0.83%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.61%) QA
2 9 (2.50%) NIST
3 6 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.83%) GDPR
4 3 (0.83%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.56%) NCSC
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 84 (23.33%) Docker
2 30 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.11%) Active Directory
4 17 (4.72%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.89%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.06%) Hyper-V
6 11 (3.06%) vSphere
7 9 (2.50%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.94%) BitLocker
8 7 (1.94%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.67%) NFS
10 4 (1.11%) IAG
10 4 (1.11%) Postfix
10 4 (1.11%) Varnish
11 3 (0.83%) KVM
11 3 (0.83%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.83%) Squid
11 3 (0.83%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.56%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 202 (56.11%) Terraform
2 148 (41.11%) Kubernetes
3 72 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 68 (18.89%) Grafana
5 39 (10.83%) Puppet
6 15 (4.17%) Packer
7 14 (3.89%) vCenter Server
8 13 (3.61%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.78%) FortiGate
10 9 (2.50%) systemd
11 8 (2.22%) Salt
12 7 (1.94%) vMotion
13 6 (1.67%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (1.39%) Data Guard
14 5 (1.39%) Nagios
14 5 (1.39%) SELinux
14 5 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.39%) vRealize
15 4 (1.11%) HAProxy
15 4 (1.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 53 (14.72%) Cisco
2 50 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 39 (10.83%) VMware
4 33 (9.17%) Palo Alto
5 29 (8.06%) Arista
5 29 (8.06%) Splunk
6 25 (6.94%) Fortinet
7 20 (5.56%) F5
7 20 (5.56%) Red Hat
8 18 (5.00%) Oracle
8 18 (5.00%) ServiceNow
9 14 (3.89%) Juniper
10 12 (3.33%) Google
11 11 (3.06%) Zscaler
12 10 (2.78%) NetApp
12 10 (2.78%) Okta
13 9 (2.50%) Aruba
13 9 (2.50%) IBM
14 8 (2.22%) Dynatrace
15 7 (1.94%) Citrix