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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 25 43
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -7
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 17 10 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 7.52% 7.81% 6.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.17% 18.87% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 14
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,563 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £57,500 £84,375 £60,813
90th Percentile £69,375 £96,250 £77,640
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%

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 47 53 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 20.80% 41.41% 29.20%
Number of salaries quoted 35 25 53
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,750 £30,925
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -13.93%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,000 £85,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £56,695 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.78% +23.81% -9.09%

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

Ansible
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 19 February 2026.

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 13 (76.47%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) DHCP
1 4 (23.53%) DNS
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
1 4 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 3 (17.65%) VLAN
3 2 (11.76%) LAN
3 2 (11.76%) Unified Communications
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
3 2 (11.76%) WebEx
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (5.88%) VPN
4 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 4 (23.53%) Marketing
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
1 4 (23.53%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Electronics
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Collaboration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) XMPP
2 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Blockchain
1 2 (11.76%) FlexPod
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
1 2 (11.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Windows
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.88%) CentOS
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
5 3 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
5 3 (17.65%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Agile
7 1 (5.88%) Analytics
7 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.88%) Data Management
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
7 1 (5.88%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) Python
2 10 (58.82%) Bash
3 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
4 3 (17.65%) Elixir
4 3 (17.65%) Erlang
4 3 (17.65%) Java
5 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.88%) C
6 1 (5.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (52.94%) DV Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (17.65%) vSphere
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Terraform
2 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 6 (35.29%) Grafana
4 4 (23.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.88%) NetBackup
6 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 3 (17.65%) Fortinet
3 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
3 3 (17.65%) SAP
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 2 (11.76%) Google
4 2 (11.76%) Juniper
4 2 (11.76%) NetApp
5 1 (5.88%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) F5
5 1 (5.88%) HP
5 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.88%) NetScout
5 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.88%) Veeam