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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 81 111
Rank change year-on-year -64 +30 -44
Contract jobs citing Ansible 295 426 400
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 3.15% 2.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.28% 20.71% 17.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 280 294
10th Percentile £350 £449 £413
25th Percentile £425 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £615 £566
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +8.61% -12.88%
75th Percentile £650 £703 £688
90th Percentile £763 £816 £763
England median daily rate £520 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.33% +9.09% -9.28%
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% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £49.75 £65.00
90th Percentile - - £68.00
England median hourly rate £80.50 £74.44 £68.63
% change year-on-year +8.14% +8.46% -5.98%

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 2,403 2,057 2,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.34% 15.23% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,647 1,374 1,731
10th Percentile £350 £366 £319
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -10.20%
75th Percentile £637 £680 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £750
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.72% +2.10% -9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 36
10th Percentile £21.93 £21.78 £13.16
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.80 £22.08
Median hourly rate £54.00 £36.75 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% +15.75% +23.49%
75th Percentile £63.32 £63.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.65 £106.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £53.25 £26.00 £40.31
% change year-on-year +104.81% -35.50% -16.02%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -20 48 £550 -8.33% 23
South London -13 8 £530 -26.90% 1
West London -20 4 £688 +44.74% 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 17 (5.76%) Confluence
2 6 (2.03%) Apache
3 4 (1.36%) Appian
4 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.02%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.02%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.02%) nginx
4 3 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.02%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.68%) JBoss
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.34%) FileNet
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 137 (46.44%) AWS
2 90 (30.51%) Azure
3 71 (24.07%) GitHub
4 60 (20.34%) GCP
5 36 (12.20%) Amazon S3
6 32 (10.85%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (9.49%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (9.49%) OpenShift
8 26 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (8.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 25 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (8.14%) Serverless
11 22 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
13 16 (5.42%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (3.73%) IaaS
15 8 (2.71%) Amazon ECR
15 8 (2.71%) Amazon ELB
16 7 (2.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 57 (19.32%) Firewall
2 38 (12.88%) DNS
2 38 (12.88%) VPN
3 26 (8.81%) Network Security
4 24 (8.14%) TCP/IP
5 20 (6.78%) WAN
6 16 (5.42%) BGP
7 15 (5.08%) SD-WAN
8 12 (4.07%) DHCP
9 11 (3.73%) Ethernet VPN
9 11 (3.73%) LAN
9 11 (3.73%) OSPF
10 10 (3.39%) NetScaler
10 10 (3.39%) SSL
11 8 (2.71%) Multicast
11 8 (2.71%) SAN
11 8 (2.71%) VXLAN
12 7 (2.37%) Ethernet
12 7 (2.37%) InfiniBand
12 7 (2.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (4.07%) MySQL
2 12 (4.07%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.37%) DynamoDB
3 7 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.37%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.37%) Redis
4 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.68%) Big Data
6 2 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.68%) Hazelcast
6 2 (0.68%) ImageNet
6 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (28.81%) Jenkins
2 64 (21.69%) GitLab
3 50 (16.95%) Git
4 23 (7.80%) JIRA
5 11 (3.73%) Cucumber
5 11 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (2.71%) JUnit
7 6 (2.03%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.36%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.36%) JMeter
8 4 (1.36%) RStudio
8 4 (1.36%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.36%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.02%) Ant
9 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.02%) Gradle
9 3 (1.02%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.02%) Maven
9 3 (1.02%) Robot Framework
9 3 (1.02%) Selenium
General
1 75 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 60 (20.34%) Finance
3 30 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.12%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.44%) Banking
6 10 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.39%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.36%) Social Science
9 3 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.02%) Military
9 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.68%) International Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Private Banking
10 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.34%) Billing
11 1 (0.34%) Front Office
11 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (23.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (12.88%) Senior
3 36 (12.20%) Architect
4 30 (10.17%) Developer
4 30 (10.17%) Network Engineer
5 23 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
5 23 (7.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 19 (6.44%) Site Engineer
7 16 (5.42%) Automation Engineer
8 14 (4.75%) Java Developer
8 14 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
8 14 (4.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (3.73%) AWS Architect
10 11 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (3.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.39%) Consultant
11 10 (3.39%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.10%) Kafka
2 12 (4.07%) REST
3 10 (3.39%) Node.js
3 10 (3.39%) Spring
4 9 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (3.05%) JSON
4 9 (3.05%) OAuth
5 7 (2.37%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (2.37%) YAML
6 6 (2.03%) JWT
6 6 (2.03%) Middleware
6 6 (2.03%) Web Services
7 5 (1.69%) XML
8 4 (1.36%) AWS CDK
8 4 (1.36%) Hibernate
8 4 (1.36%) OpenID
8 4 (1.36%) ZK
9 3 (1.02%) Loki
9 3 (1.02%) NETCONF
9 3 (1.02%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.17%) Cloud Native
2 20 (6.78%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (5.08%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.39%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.05%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.37%) Clustering
9 7 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.37%) PKI
9 7 (2.37%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
11 4 (1.36%) Replication
11 4 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.02%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 102 (34.58%) Linux
2 34 (11.53%) Windows
3 29 (9.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (7.12%) Unix
5 13 (4.41%) VMS
6 12 (4.07%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.37%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.03%) CentOS
9 4 (1.36%) Solaris
9 4 (1.36%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.68%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (51.19%) CI/CD
2 139 (47.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 135 (45.76%) DevOps
4 67 (22.71%) Containerisation
5 51 (17.29%) Agile
6 48 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (14.92%) Observability
8 42 (14.24%) Migration
9 41 (13.90%) Infrastructure Automation
9 41 (13.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 37 (12.54%) High Availability
11 36 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (11.19%) Configuration Management
13 27 (9.15%) Load Balancing
13 27 (9.15%) Test Automation
14 26 (8.81%) Incident Response
15 23 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 23 (7.80%) Project Delivery
15 23 (7.80%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (7.46%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (46.44%) Python
2 80 (27.12%) Bash
3 33 (11.19%) Java
4 32 (10.85%) PowerShell
5 19 (6.44%) SQL
6 12 (4.07%) Go
7 8 (2.71%) JavaScript
7 8 (2.71%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.69%) C++
8 5 (1.69%) Perl
9 3 (1.02%) C#
9 3 (1.02%) PHP
9 3 (1.02%) Rust
10 2 (0.68%) C
10 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.34%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.34%) Bicep
11 1 (0.34%) Groovy
11 1 (0.34%) R
11 1 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 78 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 64 (21.69%) SC Cleared
3 20 (6.78%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (4.07%) CCNP
5 12 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (3.05%) Degree
7 8 (2.71%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.69%) CCIE
8 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.69%) RHCE
9 4 (1.36%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 3 (1.02%) CCNA
10 3 (1.02%) CCSE
10 3 (1.02%) CISSP
10 3 (1.02%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.71%) GDPR
2 6 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.03%) NIST
3 5 (1.69%) QA
4 3 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.68%) ISO 8583
5 2 (0.68%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) PSD2
5 2 (0.68%) SEPA
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (28.14%) Docker
2 26 (8.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.76%) Active Directory
4 15 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (3.39%) VMware NSX
6 7 (2.37%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.37%) vSphere
7 6 (2.03%) Hyper-V
7 6 (2.03%) KVM
8 4 (1.36%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.36%) Microsoft App-V
9 3 (1.02%) NFS
10 2 (0.68%) Ceph
10 2 (0.68%) Lustre
10 2 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.68%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 2 (0.68%) Xen
11 1 (0.34%) iptables
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 174 (58.98%) Terraform
2 101 (34.24%) Kubernetes
3 44 (14.92%) Grafana
4 43 (14.58%) Prometheus
5 20 (6.78%) Puppet
6 16 (5.42%) Progress Chef
7 11 (3.73%) Argo
8 9 (3.05%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.05%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.71%) SCCM
10 7 (2.37%) Kibana
11 6 (2.03%) Rancher
11 6 (2.03%) Salt
11 6 (2.03%) SCOM
12 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (1.36%) Nagios
13 4 (1.36%) Packer
13 4 (1.36%) vMotion
13 4 (1.36%) vRealize
14 3 (1.02%) QRadar
Vendors
1 35 (11.86%) VMware
2 34 (11.53%) Splunk
3 31 (10.51%) Cisco
4 26 (8.81%) Red Hat
5 25 (8.47%) Microsoft
6 23 (7.80%) Arista
7 20 (6.78%) Google
7 20 (6.78%) Palo Alto
8 19 (6.44%) F5
9 17 (5.76%) CheckPoint
9 17 (5.76%) ServiceNow
10 15 (5.08%) Aruba
11 11 (3.73%) Oracle
12 10 (3.39%) Citrix
13 9 (3.05%) Fortinet
13 9 (3.05%) Zscaler
14 8 (2.71%) Dynatrace
15 7 (2.37%) CyberArk
16 6 (2.03%) IBM
16 6 (2.03%) NetApp