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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 97 116
Rank change year-on-year -56 +19 -35
Contract jobs citing Ansible 357 390 403
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 2.89% 2.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.96% 18.65% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 233 272
10th Percentile £401 £423 £382
25th Percentile £463 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £695
90th Percentile £733 £775 £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 2,755 2,091 2,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.95% 15.47% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,920 1,378 1,713
10th Percentile £356 £350 £331
25th Percentile £440 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
England median daily rate £519 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.18% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 36
10th Percentile £25.00 £26.27 £20.00
25th Percentile £33.25 £26.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% +60.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £78.13 £59.00 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £69.13
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +15.84% +74.40% -44.44%

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 10 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 10 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 -26 40 £550 -2.22% 23
South London -12 4 £505 -15.83% 2
West London -15 4 £500 +20.48% 17
East London -2 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 13 (3.64%) Confluence
2 9 (2.52%) Apache
3 4 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.12%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.12%) WordPress
4 3 (0.84%) JBoss
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.84%) nginx
5 2 (0.56%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.56%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.56%) CMS
5 2 (0.56%) Mule
5 2 (0.56%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) MTS
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 171 (47.90%) AWS
2 118 (33.05%) Azure
3 71 (19.89%) GitHub
4 38 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (10.36%) GCP
6 32 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
7 29 (8.12%) Amazon S3
8 26 (7.28%) Datadog
8 26 (7.28%) OpenShift
8 26 (7.28%) Serverless
9 25 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
11 23 (6.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (6.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 22 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (5.60%) Entra ID
14 18 (5.04%) Azure AKS
15 14 (3.92%) PaaS
16 13 (3.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (18.77%) Firewall
2 39 (10.92%) VPN
3 38 (10.64%) BGP
4 32 (8.96%) WAN
5 30 (8.40%) DNS
6 22 (6.16%) OSPF
7 20 (5.60%) Network Security
8 17 (4.76%) TCP/IP
9 14 (3.92%) VXLAN
10 13 (3.64%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (3.64%) MPLS
10 13 (3.64%) Wireless
11 11 (3.08%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.08%) Multicast
11 11 (3.08%) VLAN
12 10 (2.80%) DHCP
12 10 (2.80%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (2.80%) NX-OS
12 10 (2.80%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.48%) MongoDB
1 16 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (2.52%) Redis
5 7 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (1.96%) MySQL
6 6 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (1.68%) Big Data
6 6 (1.68%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.40%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.40%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.84%) Power BI
9 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.56%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.28%) GIS
Development Applications
1 87 (24.37%) Jenkins
2 72 (20.17%) GitLab
3 68 (19.05%) Git
4 26 (7.28%) JIRA
5 9 (2.52%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.24%) Snyk
6 8 (2.24%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.96%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.96%) Postman
8 6 (1.68%) JMeter
8 6 (1.68%) JUnit
9 5 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.12%) Ant
10 4 (1.12%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.84%) Gradle
11 3 (0.84%) Mockito
12 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.56%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.56%) Maven
General
1 72 (20.17%) Finance
2 59 (16.53%) Social Skills
3 33 (9.24%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.12%) Banking
5 23 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.52%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.96%) Law
9 6 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.40%) Police
10 5 (1.40%) Retail
11 4 (1.12%) Front Office
11 4 (1.12%) Military
11 4 (1.12%) Publishing
12 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.56%) Legal
13 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (25.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (12.89%) Architect
3 43 (12.04%) Senior
4 38 (10.64%) Network Engineer
5 30 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (7.56%) Developer
7 23 (6.44%) Automation Engineer
8 22 (6.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 22 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (6.16%) Lead
9 21 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
10 20 (5.60%) AWS DevOps
11 19 (5.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 16 (4.48%) Java Developer
12 16 (4.48%) Site Engineer
13 14 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
14 12 (3.36%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (6.72%) Kafka
1 24 (6.72%) REST
2 16 (4.48%) YAML
3 12 (3.36%) Middleware
4 11 (3.08%) .NET
4 11 (3.08%) Spring
5 9 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.52%) JSON
6 8 (2.24%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.24%) cloud-init
6 8 (2.24%) React
7 7 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (1.96%) Spring Boot
7 7 (1.96%) Swagger
8 6 (1.68%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (1.68%) RESTful
8 6 (1.68%) SAML
8 6 (1.68%) Web Services
9 5 (1.40%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.40%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.76%) PKI
5 16 (4.48%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.20%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.80%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.24%) Clustering
9 8 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.96%) CMDB
10 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
11 5 (1.40%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.40%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.40%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 132 (36.97%) Linux
2 52 (14.57%) Windows
3 37 (10.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 28 (7.84%) Unix
5 23 (6.44%) Ubuntu
6 20 (5.60%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.40%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.56%) CentOS
9 2 (0.56%) Debian
9 2 (0.56%) Solaris
9 2 (0.56%) VMS
10 1 (0.28%) AIX
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Rocky
10 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (56.58%) DevOps
2 178 (49.86%) CI/CD
3 169 (47.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (25.21%) Containerisation
5 79 (22.13%) Configuration Management
6 69 (19.33%) Agile
6 69 (19.33%) Observability
7 54 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
8 47 (13.17%) AI
9 43 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 43 (12.04%) Migration
10 41 (11.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 39 (10.92%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (9.80%) Infrastructure Automation
12 35 (9.80%) Mentoring
13 34 (9.52%) Cloud Security
14 32 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 31 (8.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 30 (8.40%) Test Automation
17 29 (8.12%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 181 (50.70%) Python
2 104 (29.13%) Bash
3 65 (18.21%) PowerShell
4 44 (12.32%) Java
5 22 (6.16%) SQL
6 13 (3.64%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.36%) Bicep
8 11 (3.08%) JavaScript
9 10 (2.80%) Go
10 7 (1.96%) Ruby
11 5 (1.40%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.12%) C
12 4 (1.12%) C#
13 3 (0.84%) C++
13 3 (0.84%) Groovy
13 3 (0.84%) Perl
14 2 (0.56%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.56%) Scala
15 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 121 (33.89%) Security Cleared
2 102 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.28%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (7.28%) Degree
4 22 (6.16%) CCNP
5 19 (5.32%) DV Cleared
6 15 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.64%) Azure Certification
8 11 (3.08%) CCIE
9 9 (2.52%) CISSP
10 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (1.40%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.12%) CCNA
12 4 (1.12%) ISSAP
13 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.84%) CISM
13 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.84%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.08%) QA
2 9 (2.52%) NIST
3 6 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.84%) GDPR
4 3 (0.84%) 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 83 (23.25%) Docker
2 29 (8.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 16 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (2.80%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.80%) vSphere
7 9 (2.52%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.96%) BitLocker
8 7 (1.96%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.68%) NFS
10 4 (1.12%) Postfix
10 4 (1.12%) Varnish
11 3 (0.84%) IAG
11 3 (0.84%) KVM
11 3 (0.84%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.84%) Squid
11 3 (0.84%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.56%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 199 (55.74%) Terraform
2 148 (41.46%) Kubernetes
3 75 (21.01%) Prometheus
4 67 (18.77%) Grafana
5 40 (11.20%) Puppet
6 17 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 14 (3.92%) Packer
7 14 (3.92%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.52%) Salt
9 8 (2.24%) FortiGate
10 7 (1.96%) systemd
10 7 (1.96%) vMotion
11 6 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
12 5 (1.40%) Data Guard
12 5 (1.40%) Nagios
12 5 (1.40%) vRealize
13 4 (1.12%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.84%) Consul
14 3 (0.84%) yum
14 3 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 50 (14.01%) Cisco
2 41 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 38 (10.64%) VMware
4 34 (9.52%) Splunk
5 32 (8.96%) Palo Alto
6 28 (7.84%) Arista
7 23 (6.44%) Fortinet
8 19 (5.32%) F5
9 18 (5.04%) Red Hat
10 15 (4.20%) Oracle
11 14 (3.92%) ServiceNow
12 11 (3.08%) Juniper
13 10 (2.80%) Aruba
13 10 (2.80%) Google
13 10 (2.80%) NetApp
13 10 (2.80%) Okta
13 10 (2.80%) Zscaler
14 9 (2.52%) IBM
15 8 (2.24%) Dynatrace
16 7 (1.96%) Citrix