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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 25 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 12 21 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 8.22% 8.05% 9.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.29% 27.63% 29.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 14
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,000 £41,125
25th Percentile £47,813 £59,375 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% -2.61%
75th Percentile £72,188 £88,750 £78,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,500 £78,675
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +18.18%

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 35 76 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 23.97% 29.12% 31.69%
Number of salaries quoted 27 37 38
10th Percentile £47,750 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £51,250 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.45% +0.87%
75th Percentile £88,125 £81,500 £78,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £83,625
Gloucestershire median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - +16.07% +1.82%

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 20 November 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 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Administrator
1 5 (41.67%) Linux Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Linux Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) CentOS
2 3 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (16.67%) CoreOS
4 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (8.33%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Time Management
5 1 (8.33%) Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Identity Management
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (8.33%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (8.33%) F5
2 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) NetScout
2 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) VMware