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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 81 106
Rank change year-on-year -67 +25 -41
Contract jobs citing Ansible 294 427 403
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 3.27% 2.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.34% 20.73% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 274 279
10th Percentile £352 £450 £400
25th Percentile £440 £513 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% +9.24% -13.46%
75th Percentile £652 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £872 £763
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £39.25 -
Median hourly rate - £44.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £67.27
% change year-on-year +8.14% +10.67% -7.22%

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 2,382 2,060 2,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.85% 15.78% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 1,397 1,639
10th Percentile £350 £370 £313
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -9.47%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 38
10th Percentile £21.93 £23.61 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £36.75 £25.36
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +44.94% -27.56%
75th Percentile £63.32 £71.19 £56.06
90th Percentile - £110.30 £60.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £34.67
% change year-on-year +103.77% -23.57% -36.00%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 49 £550 -6.78% 13
South London -16 9 £530 -20.00% 2
West London -13 4 £688 - 2
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 (6.12%) Confluence
2 6 (2.04%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.02%) Appian
3 3 (1.02%) Ethereum
3 3 (1.02%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.02%) JBoss
3 3 (1.02%) nginx
3 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.02%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) FileNet
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 136 (46.26%) AWS
2 90 (30.61%) Azure
3 73 (24.83%) GitHub
4 58 (19.73%) GCP
5 35 (11.90%) Amazon S3
6 33 (11.22%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (9.18%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (8.84%) Serverless
9 25 (8.50%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (8.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 24 (8.16%) OpenShift
11 23 (7.82%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (6.46%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.08%) IaaS
15 7 (2.38%) Akamai
15 7 (2.38%) AWS Control Tower
15 7 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 58 (19.73%) Firewall
2 35 (11.90%) VPN
3 34 (11.56%) DNS
4 25 (8.50%) WAN
5 23 (7.82%) Network Security
6 19 (6.46%) SD-WAN
7 18 (6.12%) BGP
7 18 (6.12%) TCP/IP
8 14 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
9 13 (4.42%) DHCP
10 12 (4.08%) OSPF
10 12 (4.08%) VXLAN
11 11 (3.74%) LAN
12 10 (3.40%) NetScaler
13 9 (3.06%) MPLS
13 9 (3.06%) SAN
14 8 (2.72%) Multicast
15 7 (2.38%) Ethernet
15 7 (2.38%) InfiniBand
15 7 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.08%) MySQL
2 12 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 8 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (2.38%) DynamoDB
4 7 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.70%) Redis
6 4 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.68%) Big Data
8 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
8 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
8 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
8 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (0.68%) Tableau
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 87 (29.59%) Jenkins
2 62 (21.09%) GitLab
3 54 (18.37%) Git
4 26 (8.84%) JIRA
5 10 (3.40%) Cucumber
5 10 (3.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (3.06%) JUnit
7 5 (1.70%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.70%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.36%) JMeter
8 4 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.02%) Ant
9 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.02%) Gradle
9 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.02%) Maven
9 3 (1.02%) RStudio
9 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.68%) Robot Framework
General
1 69 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.39%) Finance
3 29 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.82%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.46%) Banking
6 11 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.02%) Social Science
11 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Military
11 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Front Office
12 1 (0.34%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 65 (22.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (13.95%) Architect
3 37 (12.59%) Senior
4 31 (10.54%) Developer
5 29 (9.86%) Network Engineer
6 25 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
7 23 (7.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (6.46%) Site Engineer
9 18 (6.12%) Java Developer
10 16 (5.44%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.08%) Lead
14 11 (3.74%) Senior Network Engineer
15 10 (3.40%) AWS Architect
15 10 (3.40%) Consultant
15 10 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.10%) Kafka
2 12 (4.08%) REST
2 12 (4.08%) Spring
3 10 (3.40%) Node.js
4 9 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (3.06%) OAuth
5 7 (2.38%) JSON
5 7 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (2.38%) Web Services
6 6 (2.04%) Jinja
6 6 (2.04%) JWT
6 6 (2.04%) Middleware
7 5 (1.70%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.36%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.36%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.36%) XML
8 4 (1.36%) ZK
9 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.02%) OpenID
9 3 (1.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.54%) Cloud Native
2 25 (8.50%) Data Centre
3 18 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.44%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.40%) Enterprise Storage
7 9 (3.06%) PKI
8 8 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.72%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.38%) Clustering
9 7 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.38%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.04%) Hedge funds
10 6 (2.04%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
13 3 (1.02%) CMDB
13 3 (1.02%) Replication
13 3 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 96 (32.65%) Linux
2 34 (11.56%) Windows
3 22 (7.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (7.14%) Unix
5 13 (4.42%) VMS
5 13 (4.42%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.38%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.70%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.36%) CentOS
9 2 (0.68%) AIX
10 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (51.36%) CI/CD
2 136 (46.26%) DevOps
3 135 (45.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 67 (22.79%) Containerisation
5 56 (19.05%) Agile
6 45 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (14.63%) Observability
8 41 (13.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 38 (12.93%) Migration
10 35 (11.90%) Configuration Management
10 35 (11.90%) Infrastructure Automation
11 33 (11.22%) High Availability
12 29 (9.86%) Load Balancing
13 27 (9.18%) Test Automation
14 26 (8.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (8.84%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (8.16%) Mentoring
15 24 (8.16%) Platform Engineering
16 22 (7.48%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 135 (45.92%) Python
2 74 (25.17%) Bash
3 36 (12.24%) Java
4 31 (10.54%) PowerShell
5 20 (6.80%) SQL
6 11 (3.74%) Go
7 6 (2.04%) JavaScript
8 5 (1.70%) C++
8 5 (1.70%) Perl
8 5 (1.70%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.02%) PHP
9 3 (1.02%) Rust
10 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.68%) C
10 2 (0.68%) C#
10 2 (0.68%) Ruby
10 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.46%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.78%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.44%) CCNP
6 12 (4.08%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.40%) Degree
8 9 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.06%) CCIE
9 8 (2.72%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.36%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.02%) CCNA
12 3 (1.02%) CCSE
12 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
12 3 (1.02%) RHCE
13 2 (0.68%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.04%) GDPR
1 6 (2.04%) QA
2 5 (1.70%) NIST
3 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.02%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) PSD2
5 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (28.91%) Docker
2 20 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.12%) Active Directory
4 13 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.06%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.38%) vSphere
7 5 (1.70%) BitLocker
7 5 (1.70%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.70%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (1.02%) NFS
9 2 (0.68%) Ceph
9 2 (0.68%) KVM
9 2 (0.68%) Lustre
9 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.68%) Xen
10 1 (0.34%) GPFS
10 1 (0.34%) HDFS
10 1 (0.34%) iptables
Systems Management
1 169 (57.48%) Terraform
2 104 (35.37%) Kubernetes
3 46 (15.65%) Grafana
4 44 (14.97%) Prometheus
5 21 (7.14%) Puppet
6 14 (4.76%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.40%) Argo
7 10 (3.40%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.72%) SCCM
9 7 (2.38%) Kibana
9 7 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (2.38%) Salt
10 6 (2.04%) SCOM
11 5 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.70%) Rancher
11 5 (1.70%) vMotion
12 4 (1.36%) Nagios
13 3 (1.02%) FortiGate
13 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (1.02%) Packer
Vendors
1 35 (11.90%) Cisco
2 33 (11.22%) Splunk
3 29 (9.86%) Microsoft
3 29 (9.86%) VMware
4 26 (8.84%) Arista
5 19 (6.46%) Google
5 19 (6.46%) Palo Alto
5 19 (6.46%) Red Hat
6 18 (6.12%) F5
7 16 (5.44%) ServiceNow
8 15 (5.10%) Aruba
9 13 (4.42%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.74%) Citrix
10 11 (3.74%) Fortinet
11 9 (3.06%) Oracle
12 8 (2.72%) Dynatrace
12 8 (2.72%) Zscaler
13 7 (2.38%) Juniper
13 7 (2.38%) NetApp
13 7 (2.38%) Pure Storage