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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 89 119
Rank change year-on-year -59 +30 -40
Contract jobs citing Ansible 349 369 384
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 2.94% 2.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.18% 18.91% 16.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 229 263
10th Percentile £401 £425 £383
25th Percentile £466 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £628 £688 £692
90th Percentile £725 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £36.85 -
25th Percentile £56.75 £37.75 -
Median hourly rate £58.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £44.88 -
90th Percentile - £47.80 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £44.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year +41.88% -39.86% +0.39%

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 2,647 1,951 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.86% 15.55% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,825 1,305 1,683
10th Percentile £357 £352 £330
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.42% -10.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 35
10th Percentile £26.29 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £35.75 £27.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.94 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.34% +60.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £69.55
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% +69.35% -43.64%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -24 42 £550 -2.22% 10
South London -9 4 £505 -15.83%
West London -25 4 £500 +20.48% 2
East London 0 2 £551 -18.44% 4
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 12 (3.44%) Confluence
2 8 (2.29%) Apache
3 4 (1.15%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.15%) WordPress
4 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.86%) JBoss
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.86%) nginx
5 2 (0.57%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.57%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.57%) CMS
5 2 (0.57%) Mule
5 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.29%) MTS
6 1 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 169 (48.42%) AWS
2 124 (35.53%) Azure
3 76 (21.78%) GitHub
4 45 (12.89%) GCP
5 40 (11.46%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (10.60%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (8.31%) OpenShift
8 25 (7.16%) Amazon S3
9 23 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
9 23 (6.59%) Datadog
9 23 (6.59%) Serverless
10 22 (6.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (6.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (5.73%) Entra ID
13 19 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (5.16%) Azure AKS
15 15 (4.30%) PaaS
16 14 (4.01%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (21.49%) Firewall
2 40 (11.46%) VPN
3 37 (10.60%) BGP
4 32 (9.17%) WAN
5 29 (8.31%) DNS
6 25 (7.16%) Network Security
7 21 (6.02%) OSPF
8 15 (4.30%) TCP/IP
9 14 (4.01%) VXLAN
10 13 (3.72%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (3.72%) MPLS
10 13 (3.72%) Wireless
11 11 (3.15%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.15%) Multicast
11 11 (3.15%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.87%) DHCP
12 10 (2.87%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (2.87%) NX-OS
12 10 (2.87%) SSL
12 10 (2.87%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.58%) MongoDB
2 15 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (3.15%) Redis
4 10 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (1.72%) Big Data
6 6 (1.72%) MySQL
6 6 (1.72%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.43%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.15%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.86%) Power BI
10 2 (0.57%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.57%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 92 (26.36%) Jenkins
2 70 (20.06%) GitLab
3 63 (18.05%) Git
4 24 (6.88%) JIRA
5 9 (2.58%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.29%) Snyk
6 8 (2.29%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.01%) CircleCI
7 7 (2.01%) Postman
8 6 (1.72%) JMeter
8 6 (1.72%) JUnit
9 5 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.15%) Ant
10 4 (1.15%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.86%) Gradle
11 3 (0.86%) Mockito
12 2 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.57%) Gatling
General
1 67 (19.20%) Finance
2 54 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 27 (7.74%) Banking
5 20 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.29%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.01%) Law
9 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.43%) Police
10 5 (1.43%) Retail
11 4 (1.15%) Military
11 4 (1.15%) Publishing
12 3 (0.86%) Front Office
12 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Legal
13 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (25.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 47 (13.47%) Architect
3 40 (11.46%) Senior
4 36 (10.32%) Network Engineer
5 30 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (7.45%) Developer
7 25 (7.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 24 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (6.02%) Lead
10 20 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
10 20 (5.73%) AWS DevOps
10 20 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 20 (5.73%) Linux Engineer
11 19 (5.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (5.16%) Java Developer
12 18 (5.16%) Site Engineer
13 13 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
14 12 (3.44%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.16%) Kafka
2 23 (6.59%) REST
3 16 (4.58%) YAML
4 12 (3.44%) Middleware
4 12 (3.44%) Spring
5 11 (3.15%) .NET
5 11 (3.15%) JSON
6 9 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (2.58%) Spring Boot
7 8 (2.29%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.29%) cloud-init
7 8 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (2.29%) React
8 7 (2.01%) OAuth
8 7 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (2.01%) Swagger
9 6 (1.72%) RESTful
9 6 (1.72%) SAML
9 6 (1.72%) Web Services
10 5 (1.43%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 52 (14.90%) Cloud Native
2 42 (12.03%) Data Centre
3 21 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (4.87%) PKI
5 16 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (4.01%) Onboarding
7 13 (3.72%) Public Cloud
8 11 (3.15%) Security Posture
9 10 (2.87%) Enterprise Storage
10 9 (2.58%) Clustering
11 7 (2.01%) CMDB
11 7 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (2.01%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.43%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.43%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (34.38%) Linux
2 50 (14.33%) Windows
3 31 (8.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (6.59%) Ubuntu
4 23 (6.59%) Unix
5 21 (6.02%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.29%) VMS
7 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.15%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.57%) CentOS
9 2 (0.57%) Debian
9 2 (0.57%) Solaris
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.29%) Rocky
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (57.88%) DevOps
2 177 (50.72%) CI/CD
3 172 (49.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (25.79%) Containerisation
5 73 (20.92%) Configuration Management
6 67 (19.20%) Agile
6 67 (19.20%) Observability
7 51 (14.61%) Migration
8 50 (14.33%) Platform Engineering
9 45 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (11.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 39 (11.17%) AI
11 39 (11.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 37 (10.60%) Mentoring
13 35 (10.03%) Infrastructure Automation
13 35 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (8.60%) Cloud Security
14 30 (8.60%) Load Balancing
15 28 (8.02%) Runbook
15 28 (8.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 166 (47.56%) Python
2 94 (26.93%) Bash
3 60 (17.19%) PowerShell
4 42 (12.03%) Java
5 24 (6.88%) SQL
6 13 (3.72%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.44%) Bicep
8 11 (3.15%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.58%) Go
10 7 (2.01%) Ruby
11 5 (1.43%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.15%) C
12 4 (1.15%) C#
13 3 (0.86%) C++
13 3 (0.86%) Groovy
13 3 (0.86%) Perl
14 2 (0.57%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.57%) Scala
15 1 (0.29%) Rust
15 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 117 (33.52%) Security Cleared
2 100 (28.65%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.45%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (7.45%) Degree
4 22 (6.30%) CCNP
5 17 (4.87%) AWS Certification
5 17 (4.87%) DV Cleared
6 15 (4.30%) Azure Certification
6 15 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.15%) CCIE
8 8 (2.29%) CISSP
9 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.15%) CCNA
11 4 (1.15%) ISSAP
12 3 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.86%) JNCIP
12 3 (0.86%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.44%) QA
2 10 (2.87%) NIST
3 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.15%) GDPR
5 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.57%) NCSC
6 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.57%) PSD2
6 2 (0.57%) SEPA
7 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 84 (24.07%) Docker
2 27 (7.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.30%) Active Directory
4 18 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.44%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.15%) Hyper-V
7 10 (2.87%) vSphere
8 8 (2.29%) BitLocker
8 8 (2.29%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (2.29%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.43%) NFS
10 4 (1.15%) Postfix
10 4 (1.15%) Varnish
11 3 (0.86%) IAG
11 3 (0.86%) KVM
11 3 (0.86%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.86%) Squid
11 3 (0.86%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.57%) Ceph
12 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 203 (58.17%) Terraform
2 152 (43.55%) Kubernetes
3 74 (21.20%) Prometheus
4 67 (19.20%) Grafana
5 36 (10.32%) Puppet
6 15 (4.30%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.44%) Packer
7 12 (3.44%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.58%) Salt
9 8 (2.29%) vMotion
10 7 (2.01%) FortiGate
10 7 (2.01%) systemd
11 6 (1.72%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.72%) vRealize
12 5 (1.43%) Data Guard
13 4 (1.15%) Argo
13 4 (1.15%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.15%) Nagios
14 3 (0.86%) Consul
14 3 (0.86%) yum
Vendors
1 51 (14.61%) Cisco
2 43 (12.32%) Microsoft
3 37 (10.60%) VMware
4 32 (9.17%) Splunk
5 31 (8.88%) Palo Alto
6 29 (8.31%) Arista
7 22 (6.30%) Fortinet
8 19 (5.44%) F5
9 16 (4.58%) Google
10 15 (4.30%) Red Hat
11 14 (4.01%) Oracle
12 12 (3.44%) ServiceNow
13 11 (3.15%) Aruba
13 11 (3.15%) Juniper
14 10 (2.87%) Okta
15 9 (2.58%) IBM
15 9 (2.58%) NetApp
15 9 (2.58%) Zscaler
16 8 (2.29%) CheckPoint
16 8 (2.29%) Citrix