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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 90 125
Rank change year-on-year -67 +35 -46
Contract jobs citing Ansible 308 375 366
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 3.10% 2.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.23% 19.62% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 238 255
10th Percentile £400 £425 £381
25th Percentile £463 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -14.18%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £731 £819 £763
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.68% - -10.39%
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 £66.57 £44.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year +49.59% -32.83% -9.25%

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 2,519 1,911 2,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.73% 15.82% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,732 1,300 1,600
10th Percentile £350 £363 £321
25th Percentile £432 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -10.42%
75th Percentile £626 £656 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
England median daily rate £507 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -3.43% +0.48% -9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 32
10th Percentile £22.35 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £32.00 £26.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.13 £37.50 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +55.02% +52.50% -61.88%
75th Percentile £63.32 £51.75 £51.44
90th Percentile £73.60 £53.75 £70.83
England median hourly rate £56.50 £33.25 £27.00
% change year-on-year +69.92% +23.15% -48.39%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -28 40 £525 -4.55% 18
South London -16 5 £528 -3.65%
West London -23 3 £500 - 4
East London -5 2 £551 -18.44% 3
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 (4.22%) Confluence
2 8 (2.60%) Apache
3 4 (1.30%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.97%) JBoss
4 3 (0.97%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.65%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.65%) CMS
5 2 (0.65%) nginx
5 2 (0.65%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) Appian
6 1 (0.32%) MTS
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
6 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 137 (44.48%) AWS
2 110 (35.71%) Azure
3 71 (23.05%) GitHub
4 41 (13.31%) GCP
4 41 (13.31%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (8.77%) OpenShift
7 23 (7.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (6.82%) Amazon S3
9 20 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (6.49%) Serverless
9 20 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.55%) Azure AKS
13 13 (4.22%) Entra ID
14 12 (3.90%) PaaS
15 11 (3.57%) Datadog
15 11 (3.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (21.75%) Firewall
2 34 (11.04%) BGP
2 34 (11.04%) VPN
3 29 (9.42%) WAN
4 27 (8.77%) DNS
5 22 (7.14%) Network Security
6 20 (6.49%) OSPF
7 14 (4.55%) VXLAN
8 13 (4.22%) TCP/IP
9 12 (3.90%) MPLS
10 11 (3.57%) Cisco IOS
10 11 (3.57%) SD-WAN
10 11 (3.57%) Wireless
11 10 (3.25%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (3.25%) Multicast
12 9 (2.92%) IOS XR
12 9 (2.92%) NX-OS
12 9 (2.92%) SAN
12 9 (2.92%) VLAN
13 8 (2.60%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (3.90%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (1.95%) Redis
3 6 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.62%) MySQL
4 5 (1.62%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.65%) Big Data
7 2 (0.65%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.65%) Hazelcast
7 2 (0.65%) Power BI
7 2 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.32%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 84 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 59 (19.16%) GitLab
3 56 (18.18%) Git
4 22 (7.14%) JIRA
5 7 (2.27%) CircleCI
5 7 (2.27%) Postman
6 6 (1.95%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.95%) JMeter
6 6 (1.95%) Snyk
6 6 (1.95%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.62%) JUnit
7 5 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.30%) Ant
8 4 (1.30%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.30%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.65%) Gatling
10 2 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 51 (16.56%) Finance
2 43 (13.96%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 19 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.84%) Banking
6 14 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.95%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.62%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.30%) Law
9 4 (1.30%) Military
9 4 (1.30%) Police
10 3 (0.97%) Front Office
11 2 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Retail
12 1 (0.32%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.32%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 72 (23.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (12.66%) Architect
3 38 (12.34%) Senior
4 35 (11.36%) Network Engineer
5 26 (8.44%) Developer
5 26 (8.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 25 (8.12%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.84%) Automation Engineer
8 18 (5.84%) Lead
8 18 (5.84%) Site Engineer
9 17 (5.52%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (5.52%) Linux Engineer
10 16 (5.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 16 (5.19%) Java Developer
11 14 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
12 12 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (2.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.14%) Kafka
2 16 (5.19%) REST
3 14 (4.55%) YAML
4 12 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.92%) .NET
5 9 (2.92%) Spring
6 8 (2.60%) ARM Templates
6 8 (2.60%) JSON
6 8 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (2.27%) Web Services
8 6 (1.95%) Middleware
8 6 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (1.95%) Spring Boot
8 6 (1.95%) Swagger
9 5 (1.62%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.62%) React
9 5 (1.62%) RESTful
10 4 (1.30%) Loki
10 4 (1.30%) OAuth
10 4 (1.30%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.36%) Data Centre
3 16 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (5.19%) PKI
4 15 (4.87%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 12 (3.90%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.60%) Clustering
8 7 (2.27%) CMDB
8 7 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.30%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.30%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.30%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.97%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.65%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 104 (33.77%) Linux
2 43 (13.96%) Windows
3 22 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (6.82%) Unix
5 16 (5.19%) Ubuntu
5 16 (5.19%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.22%) VMS
7 7 (2.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.65%) CentOS
8 2 (0.65%) Debian
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.32%) AIX
9 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Rocky
9 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (52.27%) DevOps
2 151 (49.03%) CI/CD
3 143 (46.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (22.40%) Containerisation
5 58 (18.83%) Agile
5 58 (18.83%) Observability
6 56 (18.18%) Configuration Management
7 45 (14.61%) Migration
8 41 (13.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 37 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (11.69%) Mentoring
10 36 (11.69%) Platform Engineering
11 32 (10.39%) Infrastructure Automation
11 32 (10.39%) Load Balancing
12 30 (9.74%) Incident Management
13 28 (9.09%) AI
13 28 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 27 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (8.12%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (7.79%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 138 (44.81%) Python
2 80 (25.97%) Bash
3 51 (16.56%) PowerShell
4 32 (10.39%) Java
5 21 (6.82%) SQL
6 12 (3.90%) Shell Script
7 11 (3.57%) Go
8 8 (2.60%) Bicep
8 8 (2.60%) JavaScript
9 7 (2.27%) Ruby
10 5 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.30%) C
12 3 (0.97%) Groovy
12 3 (0.97%) Perl
13 2 (0.65%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.65%) C#
13 2 (0.65%) Scala
14 1 (0.32%) C++
14 1 (0.32%) RPG
14 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 108 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 97 (31.49%) SC Cleared
3 23 (7.47%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (6.49%) CCNP
5 18 (5.84%) Degree
6 16 (5.19%) Azure Certification
7 13 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (4.22%) DV Cleared
8 12 (3.90%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.25%) CCIE
10 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.62%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.30%) CISSP
11 4 (1.30%) JNCIP
12 3 (0.97%) CCNA
12 3 (0.97%) CCSE
12 3 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.97%) JNCIE
12 3 (0.97%) VCAP
13 2 (0.65%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.25%) QA
2 8 (2.60%) NIST
3 5 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.65%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.65%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.65%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.65%) NCSC
5 2 (0.65%) PSD2
5 2 (0.65%) SEPA
5 2 (0.65%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.32%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 68 (22.08%) Docker
2 21 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (6.17%) Active Directory
4 14 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.25%) Hyper-V
6 9 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (2.27%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
8 6 (1.95%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.62%) NFS
9 5 (1.62%) vSphere
10 4 (1.30%) KVM
10 4 (1.30%) Postfix
10 4 (1.30%) Varnish
11 3 (0.97%) Ceph
11 3 (0.97%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.97%) Squid
12 2 (0.65%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.65%) IAG
12 2 (0.65%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 173 (56.17%) Terraform
2 135 (43.83%) Kubernetes
3 64 (20.78%) Prometheus
4 58 (18.83%) Grafana
5 27 (8.77%) Puppet
6 15 (4.87%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.25%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.92%) Packer
9 8 (2.60%) Salt
10 7 (2.27%) vMotion
11 5 (1.62%) Argo
11 5 (1.62%) Data Guard
11 5 (1.62%) Kibana
11 5 (1.62%) Oracle RMAN
12 4 (1.30%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.30%) vRealize
13 3 (0.97%) Consul
13 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.97%) Karpenter
13 3 (0.97%) Podman
Vendors
1 47 (15.26%) Cisco
2 36 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 30 (9.74%) Arista
3 30 (9.74%) Splunk
3 30 (9.74%) VMware
4 29 (9.42%) Palo Alto
5 20 (6.49%) F5
5 20 (6.49%) Fortinet
6 15 (4.87%) Google
6 15 (4.87%) Red Hat
7 12 (3.90%) Oracle
7 12 (3.90%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.57%) Aruba
8 11 (3.57%) CheckPoint
8 11 (3.57%) Juniper
8 11 (3.57%) NetApp
9 10 (3.25%) Zscaler
10 9 (2.92%) IBM
11 7 (2.27%) Citrix
11 7 (2.27%) Okta