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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 96 116
Rank change year-on-year -47 +20 -35
Contract jobs citing Ansible 351 369 391
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 2.91% 2.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.08% 18.58% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 228 266
10th Percentile £401 £425 £384
25th Percentile £464 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £629 £688 £693
90th Percentile £716 £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 2,683 1,986 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.03% 15.64% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,861 1,325 1,691
10th Percentile £358 £350 £330
25th Percentile £438 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
England median daily rate £514 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.29% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 36
10th Percentile £25.65 £26.45 £20.00
25th Percentile £34.50 £27.88 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.72 £40.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.79% +60.00% -60.94%
75th Percentile £76.56 £53.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £69.13
England median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +72.13% -43.70%

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 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 26 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 -33 40 £550 - 7
South London -12 4 £505 -15.83%
West London -21 4 £500 +20.48% 4
East London +1 2 £551 -18.44% 2
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 (3.42%) Confluence
2 8 (2.28%) Apache
3 4 (1.14%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.14%) WordPress
4 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.85%) JBoss
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.85%) 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 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) MTS
6 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.71%) 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 (48.15%) AWS
2 124 (35.33%) Azure
3 75 (21.37%) GitHub
4 43 (12.25%) GCP
5 39 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 37 (10.54%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (7.69%) OpenShift
8 26 (7.41%) Amazon S3
9 24 (6.84%) Datadog
9 24 (6.84%) Serverless
10 23 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (5.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (5.70%) Entra ID
14 18 (5.13%) Azure AKS
15 15 (4.27%) PaaS
16 14 (3.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (21.08%) Firewall
2 40 (11.40%) VPN
3 38 (10.83%) BGP
4 32 (9.12%) WAN
5 31 (8.83%) DNS
6 25 (7.12%) Network Security
7 22 (6.27%) OSPF
8 17 (4.84%) TCP/IP
9 14 (3.99%) VXLAN
10 13 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (3.70%) MPLS
10 13 (3.70%) Wireless
11 11 (3.13%) DHCP
11 11 (3.13%) IOS XR
11 11 (3.13%) Multicast
11 11 (3.13%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.85%) Ethernet VPN
12 10 (2.85%) NX-OS
12 10 (2.85%) SSL
12 10 (2.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.56%) MongoDB
1 16 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.85%) Redis
5 7 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (1.99%) MySQL
6 6 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (1.71%) Big Data
6 6 (1.71%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.42%) Amazon QuickSight
7 5 (1.42%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.85%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.85%) Power BI
9 2 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.57%) Sybase ASE
10 1 (0.28%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.28%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.28%) KDB
Development Applications
1 90 (25.64%) Jenkins
2 70 (19.94%) GitLab
3 63 (17.95%) Git
4 24 (6.84%) JIRA
5 9 (2.56%) Artifactory
6 8 (2.28%) Snyk
6 8 (2.28%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.99%) CircleCI
7 7 (1.99%) Postman
8 6 (1.71%) JMeter
8 6 (1.71%) JUnit
9 5 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.14%) Ant
10 4 (1.14%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.85%) Gradle
11 3 (0.85%) Mockito
12 2 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.57%) GoCD
General
1 69 (19.66%) Finance
2 54 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 32 (9.12%) Public Sector
4 26 (7.41%) Banking
5 21 (5.98%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.28%) Financial Institution
8 7 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.99%) Law
9 6 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.42%) Police
10 5 (1.42%) Retail
11 4 (1.14%) Front Office
11 4 (1.14%) Military
11 4 (1.14%) Publishing
12 3 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.57%) Legal
13 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (25.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (13.11%) Architect
3 41 (11.68%) Senior
4 37 (10.54%) Network Engineer
5 30 (8.55%) AWS Engineer
6 26 (7.41%) Developer
7 24 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (6.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 22 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 21 (5.98%) Lead
10 20 (5.70%) Automation Engineer
10 20 (5.70%) AWS DevOps
10 20 (5.70%) Linux Engineer
11 19 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.84%) Java Developer
12 17 (4.84%) Site Engineer
13 14 (3.99%) Platform Engineer
14 13 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
14 13 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
15 11 (3.13%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.12%) Kafka
2 24 (6.84%) REST
3 16 (4.56%) YAML
4 12 (3.42%) Middleware
5 11 (3.13%) .NET
5 11 (3.13%) Spring
6 10 (2.85%) JSON
7 9 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.28%) ARM Templates
8 8 (2.28%) cloud-init
8 8 (2.28%) React
8 8 (2.28%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.99%) OpenTelemetry
9 7 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.99%) Swagger
10 6 (1.71%) OAuth
10 6 (1.71%) RESTful
10 6 (1.71%) SAML
10 6 (1.71%) Web Services
11 5 (1.42%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.10%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.97%) Data Centre
3 20 (5.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 17 (4.84%) PKI
5 14 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 14 (3.99%) Security Posture
6 13 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.85%) Enterprise Storage
8 9 (2.56%) Clustering
9 7 (1.99%) CMDB
9 7 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.42%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.42%) Low-Code
12 4 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
12 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 122 (34.76%) Linux
2 50 (14.25%) Windows
3 32 (9.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (6.84%) Unix
5 23 (6.55%) Ubuntu
6 21 (5.98%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.99%) VMS
8 6 (1.71%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.57%) CentOS
10 2 (0.57%) Debian
10 2 (0.57%) Solaris
11 1 (0.28%) AIX
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.28%) Rocky
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (57.55%) DevOps
2 178 (50.71%) CI/CD
3 172 (49.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (25.36%) Containerisation
5 75 (21.37%) Configuration Management
6 68 (19.37%) Observability
7 67 (19.09%) Agile
8 51 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
9 49 (13.96%) Migration
10 46 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (11.97%) AI
12 40 (11.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 39 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 36 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (9.97%) Mentoring
16 34 (9.69%) Infrastructure Automation
17 31 (8.83%) Cloud Security
18 30 (8.55%) Load Balancing
19 29 (8.26%) Runbook
20 28 (7.98%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 172 (49.00%) Python
2 97 (27.64%) Bash
3 61 (17.38%) PowerShell
4 41 (11.68%) Java
5 23 (6.55%) SQL
6 13 (3.70%) Shell Script
7 12 (3.42%) Bicep
8 11 (3.13%) JavaScript
9 10 (2.85%) Go
10 7 (1.99%) Ruby
11 5 (1.42%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.14%) C
12 4 (1.14%) C#
13 3 (0.85%) C++
13 3 (0.85%) Groovy
13 3 (0.85%) Perl
14 2 (0.57%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.57%) Scala
15 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 117 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 100 (28.49%) SC Cleared
3 27 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
4 26 (7.41%) Degree
5 23 (6.55%) CCNP
6 17 (4.84%) DV Cleared
7 16 (4.56%) AWS Certification
8 15 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (3.99%) Azure Certification
10 12 (3.42%) CCIE
11 9 (2.56%) CISSP
12 7 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (1.14%) CCNA
14 4 (1.14%) ISSAP
15 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 3 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 3 (0.85%) JNCIP
15 3 (0.85%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.13%) QA
2 9 (2.56%) NIST
3 6 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.85%) GDPR
4 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.57%) NCSC
5 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.28%) PSD2
6 1 (0.28%) SEPA
6 1 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 84 (23.93%) Docker
2 27 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (6.27%) Active Directory
4 18 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (3.42%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.13%) Hyper-V
7 10 (2.85%) vSphere
8 8 (2.28%) BitLocker
8 8 (2.28%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (2.28%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.42%) NFS
10 4 (1.14%) Postfix
10 4 (1.14%) Varnish
11 3 (0.85%) IAG
11 3 (0.85%) KVM
11 3 (0.85%) Sendmail
11 3 (0.85%) Squid
11 3 (0.85%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.57%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 200 (56.98%) Terraform
2 151 (43.02%) Kubernetes
3 75 (21.37%) Prometheus
4 68 (19.37%) Grafana
5 37 (10.54%) Puppet
6 16 (4.56%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.42%) Packer
7 12 (3.42%) vCenter Server
8 9 (2.56%) Salt
9 8 (2.28%) FortiGate
9 8 (2.28%) vMotion
10 7 (1.99%) systemd
11 6 (1.71%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (1.71%) vRealize
12 5 (1.42%) Data Guard
13 4 (1.14%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.14%) Nagios
14 3 (0.85%) Argo
14 3 (0.85%) Consul
14 3 (0.85%) yum
Vendors
1 50 (14.25%) Cisco
2 43 (12.25%) Microsoft
3 37 (10.54%) VMware
4 34 (9.69%) Splunk
5 31 (8.83%) Palo Alto
6 28 (7.98%) Arista
7 22 (6.27%) Fortinet
8 19 (5.41%) F5
9 15 (4.27%) Google
9 15 (4.27%) Oracle
9 15 (4.27%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.70%) ServiceNow
11 11 (3.13%) Juniper
12 10 (2.85%) Aruba
12 10 (2.85%) Okta
12 10 (2.85%) Zscaler
13 9 (2.56%) IBM
13 9 (2.56%) NetApp
14 8 (2.28%) Citrix
14 8 (2.28%) Dynatrace