Ansible Job Trends in Cheltenham

Ansible
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 24 39
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -6
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 10 23 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 8.13% 8.55% 8.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.46% 30.26% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 12
10th Percentile £45,500 £49,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,375 £50,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% +0.87%
75th Percentile £72,500 £83,125 £78,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,500 £78,725
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +22.73%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheltenham

Ansible falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 26 76 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 21.14% 28.25% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 39
10th Percentile £48,250 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.73%
75th Percentile £73,125 £80,375 £78,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £83,250
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +5.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Ansible relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Ansible job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

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Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Ansible

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Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 29 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Ansible in Cheltenham

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) VLAN
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) CentOS
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (20.00%) CoreOS
4 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) VMware