Ansible Contracts in London

Ansible
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Ansible skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Ansible over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 116 80
Rank change year-on-year +30 -36 -5
Contract jobs citing Ansible 381 369 790
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.13% 2.11% 3.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.05% 16.44% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 255 587
10th Percentile £425 £381 £475
25th Percentile £500 £503 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £689 £689 £798
90th Percentile £815 £763 £823
England median daily rate £550 £550 £611
% change year-on-year - -9.95% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £36.85 - £57.50
25th Percentile £37.75 - £68.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £74.00
75th Percentile £44.88 - £86.50
90th Percentile £47.80 - £90.00
England median hourly rate £44.50 £66.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year -32.83% -9.25% +24.26%

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 1,900 2,245 4,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.63% 12.82% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 1,637 3,049
10th Percentile £363 £325 £400
25th Percentile £425 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £653 £650 £713
90th Percentile £762 £750 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 33 47
10th Percentile £26.45 £20.00 £23.05
25th Percentile £27.31 £20.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £38.75 £24.18 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.26% -62.22% +167.67%
75th Percentile £52.75 £50.25 £82.75
90th Percentile £54.70 £70.40 £90.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% -50.00% +155.81%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Ansible as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Ansible in London

Ansible
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Ansible in London.

Daily rate trend for Ansible in London

Ansible
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Ansible in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Ansible in London

Ansible
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Ansible in London.

Hourly rate trend for Ansible in London

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 2 June 2025. 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 +34 56 £550 -15.38% 49
South London +8 9 £600 +14.29% 8
West London +9 1 - - 78
East London - 1 £675 - 10
Ansible
England

Ansible
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (3.15%) Confluence
2 10 (2.62%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.36%) Apache
4 6 (1.57%) nginx
4 6 (1.57%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.05%) JBoss
6 3 (0.79%) IIS
6 3 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.05%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 180 (47.24%) AWS
2 112 (29.40%) Azure
3 69 (18.11%) GCP
4 57 (14.96%) GitHub
5 37 (9.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 33 (8.66%) OpenShift
7 23 (6.04%) Amazon S3
8 22 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (5.51%) PaaS
10 20 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (5.25%) Serverless
11 18 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (4.72%) IaaS
12 16 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.94%) Entra ID
13 15 (3.94%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (3.15%) SaaS
14 12 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (2.62%) Azure AKS
16 9 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 78 (20.47%) Firewall
2 47 (12.34%) DNS
3 43 (11.29%) BGP
4 39 (10.24%) OSPF
4 39 (10.24%) VPN
5 30 (7.87%) TCP/IP
6 24 (6.30%) Multicast
6 24 (6.30%) WAN
7 22 (5.77%) Network Security
8 18 (4.72%) MPLS
9 17 (4.46%) LAN
10 15 (3.94%) Cisco Nexus
10 15 (3.94%) DHCP
11 14 (3.67%) Internet
12 12 (3.15%) IPsec
13 11 (2.89%) HTTP
13 11 (2.89%) VXLAN
14 10 (2.62%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (2.62%) SSL
15 9 (2.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.62%) MySQL
3 10 (2.62%) SQL Server
4 9 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (2.36%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (1.57%) Hadoop
6 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.05%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.79%) Big Data
8 3 (0.79%) Hazelcast
8 3 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.79%) Redis
9 2 (0.52%) CockroachDB
9 2 (0.52%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 107 (28.08%) Jenkins
2 71 (18.64%) Git
3 65 (17.06%) GitLab
4 22 (5.77%) JIRA
5 18 (4.72%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (3.41%) Artifactory
7 11 (2.89%) Maven
7 11 (2.89%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.36%) Subversion
8 9 (2.36%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.57%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.57%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.57%) Gradle
10 5 (1.31%) CircleCI
11 4 (1.05%) git-flow
12 3 (0.79%) JMeter
12 3 (0.79%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.52%) Ant
13 2 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 94 (24.67%) Finance
2 85 (22.31%) Social Skills
3 61 (16.01%) Banking
4 43 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 25 (6.56%) Investment Banking
7 19 (4.99%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 9 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.57%) Multimedia
12 5 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.05%) Front Office
13 4 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.05%) Law
13 4 (1.05%) Retail
14 2 (0.52%) Military
15 1 (0.26%) Back Office
15 1 (0.26%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 72 (18.90%) Network Engineer
2 70 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (13.12%) Developer
4 49 (12.86%) Senior
5 42 (11.02%) Architect
6 34 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
7 24 (6.30%) Python Developer
8 22 (5.77%) AWS DevOps
8 22 (5.77%) Linux Engineer
9 21 (5.51%) Automation Engineer
9 21 (5.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 20 (5.25%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (4.99%) Gen AI Developer
11 19 (4.99%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 18 (4.72%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
12 18 (4.72%) Cisco Engineer
12 18 (4.72%) Lead
12 18 (4.72%) Python Engineer
13 17 (4.46%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 17 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.09%) React
2 25 (6.56%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (6.56%) REST
3 20 (5.25%) Django
3 20 (5.25%) FastAPI
4 19 (4.99%) .NET
5 16 (4.20%) Kafka
6 14 (3.67%) Spring
7 10 (2.62%) RESTful
8 9 (2.36%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.10%) LDAP
9 8 (2.10%) Node.js
9 8 (2.10%) XML
10 7 (1.84%) JSON
10 7 (1.84%) OAuth
10 7 (1.84%) OpenID
11 6 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (1.57%) Web Services
12 5 (1.31%) ARM Templates
12 5 (1.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.92%) Cloud Native
2 30 (7.87%) Data Centre
3 21 (5.51%) Public Cloud
4 19 (4.99%) Hedge funds
5 16 (4.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (3.67%) Clustering
7 13 (3.41%) Replication
8 9 (2.36%) Linux Command Line
9 6 (1.57%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.05%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.05%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.79%) Digital Signage
12 3 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.79%) Podcast
12 3 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 143 (37.53%) Linux
2 32 (8.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (8.14%) Windows
4 23 (6.04%) Unix
5 15 (3.94%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.62%) CentOS
7 9 (2.36%) Solaris
8 6 (1.57%) Rocky
9 5 (1.31%) SUSE
9 5 (1.31%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.26%) AIX
11 1 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.26%) Debian
11 1 (0.26%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (51.18%) DevOps
2 168 (44.09%) CI/CD
3 120 (31.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (25.20%) Configuration Management
5 83 (21.78%) Containerisation
6 68 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (17.32%) Agile
8 59 (15.49%) High Availability
9 44 (11.55%) Migration
10 41 (10.76%) Infrastructure Automation
10 41 (10.76%) Task Automation
11 37 (9.71%) Continuous Integration
12 34 (8.92%) Test Automation
13 32 (8.40%) Deployment Automation
14 31 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 30 (7.87%) Observability
16 27 (7.09%) Microservices
16 27 (7.09%) SDLC
16 27 (7.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 26 (6.82%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 256 (67.19%) Python
2 85 (22.31%) Bash
3 54 (14.17%) Java
4 48 (12.60%) PowerShell
5 44 (11.55%) SQL
6 29 (7.61%) Go
7 28 (7.35%) C#
8 22 (5.77%) Perl
8 22 (5.77%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.46%) Shell Script
10 15 (3.94%) JavaScript
11 12 (3.15%) Groovy
12 6 (1.57%) C++
12 6 (1.57%) Ruby
13 5 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.52%) Bicep
14 2 (0.52%) C
14 2 (0.52%) Scala
15 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (24.67%) Security Cleared
2 73 (19.16%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.40%) Degree
4 31 (8.14%) Cisco Certification
5 26 (6.82%) CCNP
6 19 (4.99%) DV Cleared
7 17 (4.46%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (3.15%) CCIE
10 7 (1.84%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.57%) CCNA
12 5 (1.31%) JNCIA
13 3 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.79%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.79%) RHCE
13 3 (0.79%) RHCSA
13 3 (0.79%) VCAP
14 2 (0.52%) OCP
14 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.94%) QA
2 13 (3.41%) GDPR
3 9 (2.36%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.79%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.79%) NIST
4 3 (0.79%) SLA
5 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 110 (28.87%) Docker
2 19 (4.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (4.46%) Active Directory
4 12 (3.15%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.10%) Firmware
6 7 (1.84%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.79%) FreeRADIUS
8 3 (0.79%) iptables
8 3 (0.79%) NFS
8 3 (0.79%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (0.79%) Veritas File System
8 3 (0.79%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 3 (0.79%) vSphere
9 2 (0.52%) Ceph
9 2 (0.52%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.26%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.26%) HDFS
10 1 (0.26%) RACF
10 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 196 (51.44%) Terraform
2 173 (45.41%) Kubernetes
3 73 (19.16%) Puppet
4 38 (9.97%) Grafana
5 36 (9.45%) Progress Chef
6 32 (8.40%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.41%) Rancher
8 11 (2.89%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (2.62%) Podman
10 9 (2.36%) Packer
11 8 (2.10%) Nagios
12 7 (1.84%) QRadar
12 7 (1.84%) ZABBIX
13 6 (1.57%) Argo
13 6 (1.57%) Istio
13 6 (1.57%) Salt
13 6 (1.57%) Tivoli
14 5 (1.31%) EMC NetWorker
14 5 (1.31%) Netcool
14 5 (1.31%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 59 (15.49%) Cisco
2 44 (11.55%) Red Hat
3 41 (10.76%) VMware
4 35 (9.19%) Arista
5 30 (7.87%) Oracle
6 28 (7.35%) F5
7 26 (6.82%) Microsoft
8 25 (6.56%) Fortinet
8 25 (6.56%) Splunk
9 20 (5.25%) CheckPoint
10 17 (4.46%) Google
10 17 (4.46%) ServiceNow
11 14 (3.67%) IBM
12 13 (3.41%) Palo Alto
13 11 (2.89%) CyberArk
13 11 (2.89%) SolarWinds
14 10 (2.62%) EMC
15 9 (2.36%) Infoblox
16 8 (2.10%) Juniper
16 8 (2.10%) Qualys