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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 80 109
Rank change year-on-year -69 +29 -42
Contract jobs citing Ansible 295 421 399
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 3.32% 2.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.00% 20.67% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 265 272
10th Percentile £356 £440 £396
25th Percentile £445 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £564
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.43% -13.27%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £762 £881 £763
England median daily rate £520 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -9.57% +4.55% -11.65%
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% -17.24%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £75.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +7.33% +20.48% -14.14%

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 2,459 2,037 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.81% 16.07% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,676 1,392 1,610
10th Percentile £350 £365 £319
25th Percentile £429 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% -8.75%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 39
10th Percentile £22.07 £23.59 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £29.00 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +63.79% +12.80% -59.83%
75th Percentile £63.32 £56.25 £58.38
90th Percentile - £63.25 £63.40
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.55% -11.67% -45.45%

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 24 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 24 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 -25 48 £550 +4.36% 14
South London -16 10 £530 -20.00% 1
West London -15 2 £688 - 2
East London -4 1 £432 -31.43%
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 19 (6.44%) Confluence
2 4 (1.36%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.02%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.02%) Ethereum
3 3 (1.02%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.02%) JBoss
3 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.68%) nginx
4 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Appian
5 1 (0.34%) FileNet
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.03%) 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
1 130 (44.07%) AWS
2 97 (32.88%) Azure
3 76 (25.76%) GitHub
4 54 (18.31%) GCP
5 37 (12.54%) GitHub Actions
6 34 (11.53%) Amazon S3
6 34 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (8.81%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (8.81%) Serverless
9 24 (8.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (7.80%) OpenShift
11 22 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (4.41%) IaaS
15 10 (3.39%) Azure AKS
16 7 (2.37%) AWS Control Tower
16 7 (2.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 61 (20.68%) Firewall
2 37 (12.54%) VPN
3 30 (10.17%) DNS
4 28 (9.49%) WAN
5 26 (8.81%) BGP
6 22 (7.46%) Network Security
7 18 (6.10%) SD-WAN
8 17 (5.76%) OSPF
8 17 (5.76%) TCP/IP
9 15 (5.08%) VXLAN
10 14 (4.75%) Ethernet VPN
11 12 (4.07%) DHCP
12 11 (3.73%) MPLS
13 10 (3.39%) LAN
13 10 (3.39%) Multicast
14 9 (3.05%) NetScaler
15 8 (2.71%) SAN
16 7 (2.37%) Ethernet
16 7 (2.37%) InfiniBand
16 7 (2.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.42%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.07%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.39%) MySQL
5 9 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.37%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.03%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.69%) Redis
9 4 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.68%) Big Data
11 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
11 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
11 2 (0.68%) Tableau
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 87 (29.49%) Jenkins
2 62 (21.02%) GitLab
3 55 (18.64%) Git
4 26 (8.81%) JIRA
5 8 (2.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.03%) JUnit
7 5 (1.69%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.69%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.36%) Ant
8 4 (1.36%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.36%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.02%) Maven
9 3 (1.02%) RStudio
10 2 (0.68%) Gatling
10 2 (0.68%) Gradle
10 2 (0.68%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.68%) Snyk
10 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 69 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.31%) Finance
3 27 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.44%) Banking
6 13 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (1.69%) Financial Institution
7 5 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.02%) Social Science
10 2 (0.68%) Military
10 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (23.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (13.56%) Architect
2 40 (13.56%) Senior
3 32 (10.85%) Network Engineer
4 31 (10.51%) Developer
5 23 (7.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 22 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (6.44%) Site Engineer
8 18 (6.10%) Java Developer
9 17 (5.76%) Automation Engineer
10 16 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.75%) Lead
11 14 (4.75%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.41%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.39%) AWS Architect
15 10 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
15 10 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.41%) Kafka
1 13 (4.41%) REST
2 11 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (3.39%) Node.js
4 9 (3.05%) OAuth
4 9 (3.05%) Spring
5 7 (2.37%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.37%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (2.37%) Web Services
5 7 (2.37%) YAML
6 6 (2.03%) JWT
7 5 (1.69%) JSON
8 4 (1.36%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.36%) Jinja
8 4 (1.36%) Middleware
8 4 (1.36%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.36%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (1.36%) ZK
9 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.02%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (9.83%) Data Centre
2 25 (8.47%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.42%) Public Cloud
5 11 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (3.73%) Enterprise Storage
6 10 (3.39%) PKI
7 8 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.03%) Clustering
8 6 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.03%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.69%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.02%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 95 (32.20%) Linux
2 36 (12.20%) Windows
3 21 (7.12%) Unix
4 20 (6.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (5.42%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.41%) VMS
7 6 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.03%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.68%) AIX
8 2 (0.68%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Rocky
9 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (48.81%) CI/CD
2 142 (48.14%) DevOps
3 139 (47.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (21.69%) Containerisation
5 56 (18.98%) Agile
6 46 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (13.90%) Configuration Management
9 40 (13.56%) Observability
9 40 (13.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (12.88%) Migration
11 33 (11.19%) Infrastructure Automation
12 32 (10.85%) High Availability
13 28 (9.49%) Load Balancing
14 27 (9.15%) Platform Engineering
15 26 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 26 (8.81%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (8.14%) Mentoring
17 23 (7.80%) ITIL
18 22 (7.46%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 133 (45.08%) Python
2 76 (25.76%) Bash
3 37 (12.54%) PowerShell
4 33 (11.19%) Java
5 21 (7.12%) SQL
6 9 (3.05%) Go
7 7 (2.37%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.69%) Bicep
8 5 (1.69%) C++
8 5 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.36%) Perl
10 3 (1.02%) PHP
10 3 (1.02%) Ruby
11 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.68%) C
11 2 (0.68%) C#
11 2 (0.68%) Rust
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (30.85%) Security Cleared
2 76 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.10%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.76%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.42%) Azure Certification
5 16 (5.42%) CCNP
6 14 (4.75%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.41%) Degree
8 9 (3.05%) CCIE
8 9 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.69%) VCAP
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%) CCSE
12 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.68%) CCNA
13 2 (0.68%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.37%) QA
2 6 (2.03%) NIST
3 5 (1.69%) GDPR
3 5 (1.69%) 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%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (28.81%) Docker
2 22 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.10%) Active Directory
4 14 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.73%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.05%) vSphere
7 8 (2.71%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.71%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.03%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.03%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.68%) Ceph
9 2 (0.68%) KVM
9 2 (0.68%) Lustre
9 2 (0.68%) NFS
9 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.68%) Xen
10 1 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.34%) GPFS
10 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 178 (60.34%) Terraform
2 106 (35.93%) Kubernetes
3 50 (16.95%) Grafana
4 46 (15.59%) Prometheus
5 26 (8.81%) Puppet
6 15 (5.08%) Progress Chef
7 12 (4.07%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.39%) Argo
9 8 (2.71%) SCCM
10 7 (2.37%) Kibana
10 7 (2.37%) Salt
11 6 (2.03%) SCOM
11 6 (2.03%) vMotion
12 5 (1.69%) Rancher
12 5 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (1.02%) Karpenter
14 3 (1.02%) Packer
14 3 (1.02%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 35 (11.86%) Cisco
2 32 (10.85%) Microsoft
3 30 (10.17%) Splunk
3 30 (10.17%) VMware
4 29 (9.83%) Arista
5 21 (7.12%) Palo Alto
6 19 (6.44%) F5
6 19 (6.44%) Google
7 18 (6.10%) Red Hat
8 15 (5.08%) Aruba
9 13 (4.41%) CheckPoint
9 13 (4.41%) ServiceNow
10 12 (4.07%) Fortinet
11 10 (3.39%) Citrix
12 9 (3.05%) Dynatrace
12 9 (3.05%) Oracle
13 8 (2.71%) Juniper
13 8 (2.71%) NetApp
14 7 (2.37%) IBM
14 7 (2.37%) Zscaler