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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 90 76
Rank change year-on-year -36 -14 -11
Contract jobs citing Ansible 332 452 580
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.35% 2.88% 2.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 14.76% 19.64% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 289 440
10th Percentile £356 £462 £425
25th Percentile £457 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +2.13% -9.62%
75th Percentile £672 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £810 £810
England median daily rate £529 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.09% - -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.00 - £60.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 - £67.00
75th Percentile £59.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £74.00 £73.27
% change year-on-year +1.35% +1.00% +0.36%

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 2,249 2,301 2,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.95% 14.65% 14.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 1,504 2,195
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
90th Percentile £724 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 34
10th Percentile £22.00 £23.07 £21.48
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £28.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.30% -55.00% +140.00%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £65.57 £102.40 £82.38
England median hourly rate £36.00 £36.83 £48.12
% change year-on-year -2.26% -23.45% +87.15%

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 25 November 2025.

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 25 November 2025. 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 -10 52 £581 -7.00% 18
South London -5 8 £566 -22.00% 1
West London -7 7 £415 -19.02% 1
East London +7 3 - - 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 16 (4.82%) Confluence
2 9 (2.71%) Apache
3 5 (1.51%) nginx
4 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.90%) Appian
5 3 (0.90%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.90%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.90%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.60%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.30%) Mule
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Endur
2 3 (0.90%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 148 (44.58%) AWS
2 88 (26.51%) Azure
3 63 (18.98%) GitHub
4 53 (15.96%) GCP
5 35 (10.54%) Amazon S3
6 33 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (7.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (7.53%) OpenShift
10 22 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (6.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (5.42%) Serverless
13 16 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (4.22%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (3.01%) Amazon ELB
16 10 (3.01%) Apigee
16 10 (3.01%) IaaS
17 9 (2.71%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 71 (21.39%) Firewall
2 36 (10.84%) DNS
2 36 (10.84%) TCP/IP
2 36 (10.84%) VPN
3 34 (10.24%) BGP
4 29 (8.73%) OSPF
5 26 (7.83%) SSL
6 25 (7.53%) Network Security
7 21 (6.33%) WAN
8 16 (4.82%) SD-WAN
8 16 (4.82%) VXLAN
9 15 (4.52%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (3.61%) HTTP
10 12 (3.61%) Multicast
11 11 (3.31%) DHCP
11 11 (3.31%) LAN
12 10 (3.01%) MPLS
13 7 (2.11%) IPsec
13 7 (2.11%) SSH
14 6 (1.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (3.92%) MySQL
3 12 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 8 (2.41%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 6 (1.81%) Redis
8 5 (1.51%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.20%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.90%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.90%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.60%) Big Data
11 2 (0.60%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.60%) ImageNet
11 2 (0.60%) Impala
11 2 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 97 (29.22%) Jenkins
2 70 (21.08%) Git
3 59 (17.77%) GitLab
4 24 (7.23%) JIRA
5 14 (4.22%) Artifactory
5 14 (4.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (3.01%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.41%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.41%) Robot Framework
7 8 (2.41%) SonarQube
7 8 (2.41%) TeamCity
8 7 (2.11%) Subversion
9 6 (1.81%) JUnit
10 5 (1.51%) Maven
11 4 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (1.20%) Gradle
11 4 (1.20%) JMeter
12 3 (0.90%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.90%) RStudio
12 3 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 105 (31.63%) Finance
2 103 (31.02%) Social Skills
3 44 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.04%) Banking
5 22 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.42%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.52%) Financial Institution
8 11 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.51%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.20%) Back Office
10 4 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.90%) Automotive
11 3 (0.90%) Military
11 3 (0.90%) Retail
11 3 (0.90%) Social Science
12 2 (0.60%) Electronics
12 2 (0.60%) International Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.60%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 57 (17.17%) Network Engineer
3 38 (11.45%) Senior
4 35 (10.54%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (9.64%) Architect
6 31 (9.34%) Automation Engineer
7 30 (9.04%) Python Engineer
8 28 (8.43%) Developer
9 19 (5.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (5.12%) IP Network Engineer
10 17 (5.12%) Switch Engineer
11 14 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (4.22%) Consultant
11 14 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.01%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 10 (3.01%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.01%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.01%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.53%) Kafka
2 19 (5.72%) REST
3 16 (4.82%) Node.js
3 16 (4.82%) YAML
4 13 (3.92%) JSON
4 13 (3.92%) OAuth
5 11 (3.31%) Spring
6 8 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (2.41%) Jinja
6 8 (2.41%) Middleware
6 8 (2.41%) RESTful
6 8 (2.41%) XML
7 7 (2.11%) JWT
7 7 (2.11%) OAuth2
7 7 (2.11%) OpenID
7 7 (2.11%) Swagger
8 6 (1.81%) Keycloak
9 5 (1.51%) NETCONF
9 5 (1.51%) Spring Boot
9 5 (1.51%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.04%) Data Centre
2 29 (8.73%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.33%) Hedge funds
4 17 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (5.12%) Private Cloud
5 15 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (4.22%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (3.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 10 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.71%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.41%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.11%) Replication
11 6 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.81%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.51%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.51%) Grid Computing
12 5 (1.51%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 104 (31.33%) Linux
2 32 (9.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 32 (9.64%) Windows
3 26 (7.83%) Unix
4 14 (4.22%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.71%) CentOS
6 8 (2.41%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.81%) Solaris
8 2 (0.60%) AIX
8 2 (0.60%) Debian
8 2 (0.60%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (51.20%) DevOps
2 163 (49.10%) CI/CD
3 140 (42.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (27.71%) Containerisation
5 73 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (17.47%) Agile
7 57 (17.17%) Infrastructure Automation
8 49 (14.76%) High Availability
9 47 (14.16%) Configuration Management
10 37 (11.14%) Migration
11 34 (10.24%) Observability
12 31 (9.34%) Test Automation
13 29 (8.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (8.43%) DevSecOps
15 26 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (7.53%) Microservices
17 23 (6.93%) Low Latency
18 21 (6.33%) Performance Tuning
18 21 (6.33%) Software Engineering
19 20 (6.02%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 199 (59.94%) Python
2 77 (23.19%) Bash
3 34 (10.24%) Java
3 34 (10.24%) PowerShell
4 24 (7.23%) Go
5 22 (6.63%) SQL
6 14 (4.22%) C++
6 14 (4.22%) Perl
7 13 (3.92%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.92%) Shell Script
8 11 (3.31%) C#
9 7 (2.11%) Groovy
10 6 (1.81%) PHP
11 4 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.90%) Bicep
13 2 (0.60%) Ruby
13 2 (0.60%) Rust
14 1 (0.30%) C
14 1 (0.30%) R
14 1 (0.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 63 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 27 (8.13%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (6.63%) CCNP
5 14 (4.22%) AWS Certification
6 13 (3.92%) CCIE
7 12 (3.61%) Degree
8 11 (3.31%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.11%) RHCE
11 5 (1.51%) CCNA
11 5 (1.51%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.20%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.20%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.90%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.41%) GDPR
2 7 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.81%) QA
4 5 (1.51%) NIST
5 4 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.60%) NCSC
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (30.12%) Docker
2 29 (8.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.92%) Active Directory
4 10 (3.01%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.81%) KVM
8 5 (1.51%) NFS
8 5 (1.51%) vSphere
9 4 (1.20%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.20%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.60%) Firmware
10 2 (0.60%) HDFS
10 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.60%) iptables
10 2 (0.60%) Lustre
10 2 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.60%) Xen
11 1 (0.30%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 183 (55.12%) Terraform
2 102 (30.72%) Kubernetes
3 32 (9.64%) Grafana
3 32 (9.64%) Puppet
4 30 (9.04%) Prometheus
5 26 (7.83%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.01%) Red Hat Satellite
7 8 (2.41%) SCCM
8 7 (2.11%) Argo
9 6 (1.81%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (1.81%) Kibana
9 6 (1.81%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.51%) Nagios
10 5 (1.51%) Packer
10 5 (1.51%) SCOM
11 4 (1.20%) Istio
11 4 (1.20%) QRadar
11 4 (1.20%) Rancher
11 4 (1.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 39 (11.75%) Cisco
2 38 (11.45%) Arista
3 36 (10.84%) VMware
4 30 (9.04%) F5
4 30 (9.04%) Splunk
5 29 (8.73%) Red Hat
6 27 (8.13%) Palo Alto
7 22 (6.63%) Microsoft
8 18 (5.42%) CheckPoint
9 16 (4.82%) Google
9 16 (4.82%) Oracle
10 13 (3.92%) Fortinet
10 13 (3.92%) Juniper
11 11 (3.31%) CyberArk
11 11 (3.31%) ServiceNow
12 9 (2.71%) Dynatrace
13 8 (2.41%) Zscaler
14 7 (2.11%) Citrix
14 7 (2.11%) MuleSoft
15 5 (1.51%) Bloomberg