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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 15 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 +6
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 23 9 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 5.29% 10.23% 5.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.07% 32.14% 22.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13 5 18
10th Percentile £42,500 - £45,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -14.98%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £78,488
90th Percentile £68,000 £82,500 £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £69,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.29% +25.45% -12.00%

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 56 28 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 12.87% 31.82% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 37 20 63
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,750 £32,175
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +23.81% -16.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £77,600
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,375 £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -13.22%

Ansible
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 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in Cheltenham

Ansible
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 18 (78.26%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (26.09%) Azure
4 5 (21.74%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Firewall
2 9 (39.13%) LAN
2 9 (39.13%) Unified Communications
2 9 (39.13%) VLAN
2 9 (39.13%) WAN
2 9 (39.13%) WebEx
3 8 (34.78%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (34.78%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (26.09%) DHCP
4 6 (26.09%) DNS
4 6 (26.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (47.83%) Marketing
1 11 (47.83%) Public Sector
1 11 (47.83%) Telecoms
2 8 (34.78%) Banking
2 8 (34.78%) Retail
3 3 (13.04%) Electronics
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Collaboration Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Network Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Voice Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Voice Network Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Telephony Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Linux Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Linux Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) XMPP
2 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) FlexPod
1 9 (39.13%) Hybrid Cloud
1 9 (39.13%) Onboarding
1 9 (39.13%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (26.09%) Replication
3 2 (8.70%) Blockchain
3 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Linux
2 8 (34.78%) Windows
3 5 (21.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (47.83%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (39.13%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure Automation
4 8 (34.78%) Data Management
4 8 (34.78%) Performance Management
5 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 4 (17.39%) DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps
7 3 (13.04%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (13.04%) Programme Management
7 3 (13.04%) Security Monitoring
8 2 (8.70%) Customer Requirements
8 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
9 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
9 1 (4.35%) Task Automation
9 1 (4.35%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) Bash
3 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.04%) Elixir
4 3 (13.04%) Erlang
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.35%) C
6 1 (4.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) DV Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (26.09%) vSphere
3 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (21.74%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (17.39%) Docker
5 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Grafana
1 13 (56.52%) Terraform
2 9 (39.13%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
4 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
5 2 (8.70%) NetBackup
5 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 12 (52.17%) Cisco
3 10 (43.48%) Splunk
4 9 (39.13%) Fortinet
4 9 (39.13%) Palo Alto
5 8 (34.78%) VMware
6 6 (26.09%) NetApp
7 3 (13.04%) Juniper
7 3 (13.04%) SAP
8 2 (8.70%) Dell
8 2 (8.70%) Google
8 2 (8.70%) HP
8 2 (8.70%) Veeam
9 1 (4.35%) F5
9 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
9 1 (4.35%) NetScout
9 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds