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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 89 91
Rank change year-on-year -38 +2 -26
Contract jobs citing Ansible 306 404 451
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.11% 2.93% 2.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.50% 19.74% 18.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 272 341
10th Percentile £350 £463 £413
25th Percentile £459 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £615 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +8.85% -13.08%
75th Percentile £663 £717 £694
90th Percentile £775 £810 £798
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £82.00 £74.44 £67.27
% change year-on-year +10.16% +10.67% -7.86%

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 2,267 2,047 2,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.61% 14.84% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 1,345 1,815
10th Percentile £350 £363 £320
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £792 £750
England median daily rate £506 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -4.53% +0.95% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 33
10th Percentile £20.82 £22.04 £14.08
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.30
Median hourly rate £52.50 £29.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% -10.77% +26.41%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.50 £60.00
90th Percentile - £105.20 £68.50
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +83.85% -42.62% +19.95%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -7 56 £600 -1.03% 26
South London -6 7 £530 -26.90% 2
West London -14 4 £688 +34.15% 1
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 15 (4.90%) Confluence
2 6 (1.96%) Apache
3 4 (1.31%) Appian
3 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.98%) Ethereum
4 3 (0.98%) Hyperledger
4 3 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) nginx
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.65%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.65%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.33%) FileNet
Applications
1 6 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 136 (44.44%) AWS
2 86 (28.10%) Azure
3 72 (23.53%) GitHub
4 58 (18.95%) GCP
5 41 (13.40%) Amazon S3
6 36 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (10.78%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (10.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 30 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 27 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
11 25 (8.17%) OpenShift
11 25 (8.17%) Serverless
12 21 (6.86%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (6.54%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (4.25%) Amazon ELB
16 12 (3.92%) IaaS
17 9 (2.94%) Datadog
18 8 (2.61%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.28%) Firewall
2 39 (12.75%) VPN
3 37 (12.09%) DNS
4 32 (10.46%) TCP/IP
5 26 (8.50%) Network Security
6 20 (6.54%) SSL
7 17 (5.56%) WAN
8 16 (5.23%) BGP
9 15 (4.90%) SD-WAN
10 12 (3.92%) OSPF
11 11 (3.59%) DHCP
12 10 (3.27%) LAN
13 9 (2.94%) HTTP
14 7 (2.29%) Ethernet VPN
14 7 (2.29%) Multicast
14 7 (2.29%) SAN
14 7 (2.29%) VXLAN
15 6 (1.96%) NetScaler
16 4 (1.31%) NAS
16 4 (1.31%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (3.92%) MySQL
3 11 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 8 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.29%) DynamoDB
6 6 (1.96%) MongoDB
6 6 (1.96%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.96%) Redis
7 5 (1.63%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.98%) Apache Hive
8 3 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.98%) Impala
9 2 (0.65%) Big Data
9 2 (0.65%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.65%) ImageNet
9 2 (0.65%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (28.76%) Jenkins
2 62 (20.26%) GitLab
3 57 (18.63%) Git
4 21 (6.86%) JIRA
5 12 (3.92%) Cucumber
6 10 (3.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (2.61%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.96%) JUnit
8 6 (1.96%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.96%) Terragrunt
9 5 (1.63%) Robot Framework
10 4 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (1.31%) CircleCI
10 4 (1.31%) Gradle
10 4 (1.31%) JMeter
10 4 (1.31%) Maven
10 4 (1.31%) RStudio
10 4 (1.31%) Subversion
11 3 (0.98%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.98%) Bitbucket
General
1 83 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 79 (25.82%) Finance
3 33 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.17%) Banking
5 19 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.25%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.31%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.31%) Military
8 4 (1.31%) Social Science
9 3 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.65%) International Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.65%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Back Office
11 1 (0.33%) Billing
11 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (12.75%) Senior
3 36 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 32 (10.46%) Architect
4 32 (10.46%) Developer
5 25 (8.17%) AWS Engineer
6 22 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (6.86%) Automation Engineer
8 20 (6.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 16 (5.23%) Site Engineer
10 14 (4.58%) Python Engineer
11 13 (4.25%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.25%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (4.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (3.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.92%) Consultant
13 11 (3.59%) AWS Architect
14 10 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.27%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.19%) Kafka
2 16 (5.23%) REST
3 12 (3.92%) Node.js
3 12 (3.92%) OAuth
3 12 (3.92%) Spring
4 9 (2.94%) JSON
5 8 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (2.61%) YAML
6 7 (2.29%) OpenID
7 6 (1.96%) JWT
7 6 (1.96%) Middleware
7 6 (1.96%) OAuth2
7 6 (1.96%) Spring Boot
7 6 (1.96%) Web Services
7 6 (1.96%) ZK
8 5 (1.63%) Hibernate
8 5 (1.63%) Keycloak
8 5 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.63%) XML
9 4 (1.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.46%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.21%) Data Centre
3 18 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (4.90%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.58%) Hedge funds
7 12 (3.92%) Private Cloud
8 10 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (2.61%) Clustering
10 7 (2.29%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.29%) Replication
11 6 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.63%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.63%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 101 (33.01%) Linux
2 33 (10.78%) Windows
3 30 (9.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (7.19%) Unix
5 14 (4.58%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.25%) VMS
7 7 (2.29%) CentOS
8 6 (1.96%) Solaris
8 6 (1.96%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.98%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.65%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (50.33%) CI/CD
2 148 (48.37%) DevOps
3 146 (47.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (24.84%) Containerisation
5 56 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (16.99%) Agile
7 47 (15.36%) Infrastructure Automation
8 45 (14.71%) High Availability
9 43 (14.05%) Observability
10 40 (13.07%) Migration
11 38 (12.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (11.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 34 (11.11%) Configuration Management
14 32 (10.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 29 (9.48%) Test Automation
16 28 (9.15%) DevSecOps
17 27 (8.82%) Project Delivery
18 26 (8.50%) Load Balancing
19 25 (8.17%) Performance Tuning
20 23 (7.52%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 159 (51.96%) Python
2 83 (27.12%) Bash
3 35 (11.44%) Java
4 34 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 22 (7.19%) SQL
6 14 (4.58%) Go
7 12 (3.92%) Perl
8 10 (3.27%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.29%) JavaScript
10 5 (1.63%) C++
11 3 (0.98%) C#
11 3 (0.98%) PHP
11 3 (0.98%) Rust
11 3 (0.98%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 75 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 64 (20.92%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.21%) AWS Certification
4 14 (4.58%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.59%) CCNP
5 11 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 10 (3.27%) Degree
7 8 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (2.61%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.29%) CCIE
9 6 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.96%) RHCE
10 4 (1.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 3 (0.98%) CCNA
11 3 (0.98%) CCSE
11 3 (0.98%) JNCIE
11 3 (0.98%) JNCIP
11 3 (0.98%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.27%) GDPR
2 9 (2.94%) QA
3 6 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.63%) NIST
4 5 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.65%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.65%) NCSC
5 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.65%) PSD2
5 2 (0.65%) SEPA
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (29.74%) Docker
2 27 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 12 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (2.94%) VMware NSX
6 8 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.29%) KVM
8 5 (1.63%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.63%) NFS
8 5 (1.63%) vSphere
9 4 (1.31%) Veritas File System
9 4 (1.31%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.98%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.98%) HDFS
10 3 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.65%) Ceph
11 2 (0.65%) Lustre
11 2 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.65%) Xen
Systems Management
1 180 (58.82%) Terraform
2 97 (31.70%) Kubernetes
3 36 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 35 (11.44%) Grafana
5 23 (7.52%) Puppet
6 22 (7.19%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.92%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (2.94%) Argo
8 9 (2.94%) Kibana
9 8 (2.61%) SCCM
10 6 (1.96%) Rancher
10 6 (1.96%) SCOM
10 6 (1.96%) vCenter Server
11 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (1.63%) vRealize
12 4 (1.31%) Nagios
12 4 (1.31%) Packer
12 4 (1.31%) QRadar
13 3 (0.98%) Istio
13 3 (0.98%) vMotion
Vendors
1 36 (11.76%) VMware
2 31 (10.13%) Splunk
3 28 (9.15%) Red Hat
4 26 (8.50%) Microsoft
5 24 (7.84%) Arista
5 24 (7.84%) Cisco
5 24 (7.84%) F5
6 22 (7.19%) Google
7 18 (5.88%) CheckPoint
8 17 (5.56%) Palo Alto
9 13 (4.25%) ServiceNow
10 12 (3.92%) Oracle
11 10 (3.27%) Zscaler
12 9 (2.94%) Aruba
12 9 (2.94%) Citrix
12 9 (2.94%) CyberArk
12 9 (2.94%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.96%) PagerDuty
14 5 (1.63%) BMC
14 5 (1.63%) Dynatrace