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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 80 106
Rank change year-on-year -70 +26 -38
Contract jobs citing Ansible 298 421 401
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 3.33% 2.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.05% 20.65% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 269 273
10th Percentile £366 £440 £400
25th Percentile £450 £506 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -13.08%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £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 £79.00 £75.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +5.33% +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 2,474 2,039 2,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.80% 16.14% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,674 1,402 1,612
10th Percentile £350 £365 £319
25th Percentile £428 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.23% -8.54%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £790 £750
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.24% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 39
10th Percentile £22.21 £23.63 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.45 £25.71
Median % change year-on-year +60.68% +2.88% -59.83%
75th Percentile £63.32 £53.75 £56.50
90th Percentile - £62.35 £60.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £26.48 £30.00
% change year-on-year +107.74% -11.75% -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 27 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 27 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 -31 46 £550 +2.14% 19
South London -16 10 £530 -20.00% 1
West London -13 3 £688 - 2
East London -2 2 £551 -12.62%
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 16 (5.37%) Confluence
2 4 (1.34%) Apache
2 4 (1.34%) WebSphere
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.01%) Ethereum
3 3 (1.01%) Hyperledger
3 3 (1.01%) JBoss
3 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.67%) nginx
4 2 (0.67%) 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 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (1.01%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 135 (45.30%) AWS
2 102 (34.23%) Azure
3 77 (25.84%) GitHub
4 55 (18.46%) GCP
5 39 (13.09%) GitHub Actions
6 35 (11.74%) Amazon S3
6 35 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (9.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.06%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (9.06%) Serverless
9 25 (8.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 24 (8.05%) OpenShift
11 23 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
12 20 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (4.36%) IaaS
15 11 (3.69%) Azure AKS
16 7 (2.35%) AWS Control Tower
16 7 (2.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 65 (21.81%) Firewall
2 40 (13.42%) VPN
3 30 (10.07%) DNS
3 30 (10.07%) WAN
4 29 (9.73%) BGP
5 21 (7.05%) Network Security
6 19 (6.38%) OSPF
6 19 (6.38%) SD-WAN
7 17 (5.70%) TCP/IP
8 16 (5.37%) VXLAN
9 14 (4.70%) Ethernet VPN
10 12 (4.03%) MPLS
11 11 (3.69%) DHCP
11 11 (3.69%) Multicast
12 10 (3.36%) LAN
13 8 (2.68%) Ethernet
13 8 (2.68%) NetScaler
13 8 (2.68%) SAN
13 8 (2.68%) Wireless
14 7 (2.35%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.03%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (3.36%) MySQL
5 9 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.68%) Redis
9 4 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.34%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.01%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.67%) Big Data
11 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.67%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.67%) ImageNet
11 2 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (0.67%) Sybase ASE
11 2 (0.67%) Tableau
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 86 (28.86%) Jenkins
2 63 (21.14%) GitLab
3 54 (18.12%) Git
4 22 (7.38%) JIRA
5 7 (2.35%) JUnit
5 7 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.01%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.68%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.34%) Ant
8 4 (1.34%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.34%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.34%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.01%) Maven
9 3 (1.01%) RStudio
9 3 (1.01%) Snyk
9 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.67%) Gatling
10 2 (0.67%) Gradle
10 2 (0.67%) REST Assured
General
1 67 (22.48%) Social Skills
2 50 (16.78%) Finance
3 29 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.03%) Banking
6 13 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.01%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.01%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.01%) Social Science
11 2 (0.67%) Front Office
11 2 (0.67%) Military
11 2 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Law
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 71 (23.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (13.76%) Senior
3 40 (13.42%) Architect
4 32 (10.74%) Developer
4 32 (10.74%) Network Engineer
5 24 (8.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 22 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (6.71%) Site Engineer
8 19 (6.38%) Java Developer
9 16 (5.37%) Automation Engineer
9 16 (5.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.70%) Lead
10 14 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.03%) Senior Network Engineer
13 11 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
14 10 (3.36%) AWS Architect
14 10 (3.36%) Senior DevOps
14 10 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.03%) Kafka
1 15 (5.03%) REST
2 11 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (3.36%) Node.js
3 10 (3.36%) Spring
4 9 (3.02%) OAuth
5 7 (2.35%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (2.35%) YAML
6 6 (2.01%) JWT
6 6 (2.01%) Middleware
6 6 (2.01%) Web Services
7 5 (1.68%) AWS CDK
7 5 (1.68%) JSON
7 5 (1.68%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.34%) Jinja
8 4 (1.34%) WebSphere MQ
9 3 (1.01%) .NET
9 3 (1.01%) J2EE
9 3 (1.01%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (10.40%) Data Centre
2 26 (8.72%) Cloud Native
3 22 (7.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (5.37%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.69%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (3.36%) PKI
8 8 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (2.01%) Clustering
10 6 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.01%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.01%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.68%) Fixed Income
12 4 (1.34%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.01%) Blockchain
13 3 (1.01%) CMDB
13 3 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 97 (32.55%) Linux
2 37 (12.42%) Windows
3 21 (7.05%) Unix
4 20 (6.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.03%) Windows Server
6 13 (4.36%) VMS
7 6 (2.01%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.67%) AIX
8 2 (0.67%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Rocky
9 1 (0.34%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (49.33%) CI/CD
2 143 (47.99%) DevOps
2 143 (47.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (22.15%) Containerisation
4 59 (19.80%) Agile
5 44 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 43 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (13.76%) Configuration Management
7 41 (13.76%) Migration
7 41 (13.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 40 (13.42%) Observability
9 35 (11.74%) Infrastructure Automation
10 33 (11.07%) High Availability
11 29 (9.73%) Load Balancing
12 27 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 27 (9.06%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (8.72%) Mentoring
13 26 (8.72%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (8.05%) ITIL
15 22 (7.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 132 (44.30%) Python
2 75 (25.17%) Bash
3 36 (12.08%) PowerShell
4 34 (11.41%) Java
5 20 (6.71%) SQL
6 9 (3.02%) Go
7 7 (2.35%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.68%) Bicep
8 5 (1.68%) JavaScript
9 4 (1.34%) C++
9 4 (1.34%) Perl
10 3 (1.01%) PHP
10 3 (1.01%) Ruby
11 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
11 2 (0.67%) C
11 2 (0.67%) C#
11 2 (0.67%) Rust
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) Scala
12 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (31.21%) Security Cleared
2 78 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.04%) AWS Certification
4 17 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (5.37%) Azure Certification
5 16 (5.37%) CCNP
6 14 (4.70%) Degree
6 14 (4.70%) DV Cleared
7 10 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (3.02%) CCIE
9 7 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.68%) VCAP
11 4 (1.34%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (1.01%) CCSE
12 3 (1.01%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.67%) CCNA
13 2 (0.67%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.35%) QA
2 5 (1.68%) NIST
3 4 (1.34%) GDPR
3 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.34%) NCSC
4 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
4 2 (0.67%) ISO 8583
4 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
4 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.67%) PSD2
4 2 (0.67%) SEPA
5 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 87 (29.19%) Docker
2 22 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.04%) Active Directory
4 16 (5.37%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (3.69%) VMware NSX
6 9 (3.02%) vSphere
7 8 (2.68%) Hyper-V
7 8 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.01%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.67%) Ceph
9 2 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.67%) IAG
9 2 (0.67%) KVM
9 2 (0.67%) Lustre
9 2 (0.67%) NFS
9 2 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.67%) Xen
10 1 (0.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 181 (60.74%) Terraform
2 111 (37.25%) Kubernetes
3 52 (17.45%) Grafana
4 48 (16.11%) Prometheus
5 26 (8.72%) Puppet
6 15 (5.03%) Progress Chef
7 12 (4.03%) vCenter Server
8 10 (3.36%) Argo
9 7 (2.35%) Kibana
9 7 (2.35%) Salt
9 7 (2.35%) SCCM
10 6 (2.01%) SCOM
10 6 (2.01%) vMotion
11 5 (1.68%) Rancher
11 5 (1.68%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (1.01%) FortiGate
12 3 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (1.01%) Packer
12 3 (1.01%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 39 (13.09%) Cisco
2 31 (10.40%) Microsoft
3 30 (10.07%) Splunk
3 30 (10.07%) VMware
4 29 (9.73%) Arista
5 22 (7.38%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.71%) F5
7 19 (6.38%) Google
8 18 (6.04%) Red Hat
9 15 (5.03%) Aruba
10 13 (4.36%) ServiceNow
11 12 (4.03%) CheckPoint
11 12 (4.03%) Fortinet
12 10 (3.36%) Juniper
12 10 (3.36%) NetApp
13 9 (3.02%) Citrix
13 9 (3.02%) Dynatrace
13 9 (3.02%) IBM
14 8 (2.68%) Zscaler
15 7 (2.35%) Pure Storage