Ansible Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Ansible
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Ansible skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 41 25
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 +7
Permanent jobs citing Ansible 85 28 133
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 4.92% 5.16% 8.02%
As % of the Systems Management category 47.75% 31.82% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 28 19 75
10th Percentile £46,925 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,500 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -11.96%
75th Percentile £96,250 £83,750 £65,750
90th Percentile £110,050 £95,500 £81,250
South West median annual salary £67,500 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.20% +2.08% -

All Systems Management Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 178 88 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.31% 16.21% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 89 50 173
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,500 £34,400
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -15.93%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,500 £95,000 £81,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%

Ansible
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Ansible job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Ansible
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Ansible.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Ansible

Ansible
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Ansible in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Ansible in Gloucestershire

Ansible
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Ansible within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 10 July 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester +4 46 £60,000 -36.84% 15
Cheltenham -22 21 £92,500 +45.10% 14
Ansible
South West

Ansible
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (16.47%) Apache
2 4 (4.71%) Confluence
3 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.53%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 61 (71.76%) AWS
2 18 (21.18%) Azure
2 18 (21.18%) GCP
3 15 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 14 (16.47%) Serverless
5 11 (12.94%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (10.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (4.71%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (4.71%) Azure AKS
11 2 (2.35%) GitHub
11 2 (2.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) Firewall
2 10 (11.76%) LAN
2 10 (11.76%) Unified Communications
2 10 (11.76%) VLAN
2 10 (11.76%) WAN
2 10 (11.76%) WebEx
3 9 (10.59%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (10.59%) Cisco Firepower
4 8 (9.41%) Software-Defined Networking
5 4 (4.71%) DHCP
5 4 (4.71%) DNS
5 4 (4.71%) IPv4
5 4 (4.71%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.71%) VXLAN
6 3 (3.53%) AMQP
7 2 (2.35%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.35%) Network Security
7 2 (2.35%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.12%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (8.24%) InfluxDB
3 6 (7.06%) Big Data
4 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.71%) MySQL
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.53%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (3.53%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.35%) Flink
7 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 31 (36.47%) GitLab
3 24 (28.24%) Git
4 10 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 10 (11.76%) SonarQube
5 9 (10.59%) Bitbucket
6 7 (8.24%) Cypress.io
6 7 (8.24%) JIRA
6 7 (8.24%) Robot Framework
6 7 (8.24%) Selenium
6 7 (8.24%) TestRail
7 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (23.53%) Aerospace
2 13 (15.29%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Banking
3 9 (10.59%) Marketing
3 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.59%) Retail
3 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.53%) Automotive
5 3 (3.53%) Electronics
5 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) Lead
4 9 (10.59%) Test Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Collaboration Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Network Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Senior
6 7 (8.24%) Test Automation Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Lead DevOps
7 6 (7.06%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.88%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (12.94%) Apache NiFi
2 11 (12.94%) Spring
2 11 (12.94%) Spring Boot
3 10 (11.76%) XMPP
4 9 (10.59%) Vue
5 8 (9.41%) pytest
6 7 (8.24%) Playwright
7 5 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.71%) boto
8 4 (4.71%) React
9 3 (3.53%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.53%) gRPC
9 3 (3.53%) Material-UI
9 3 (3.53%) Node.js
9 3 (3.53%) OpenAPI
9 3 (3.53%) REST
9 3 (3.53%) RESTful
9 3 (3.53%) Swagger
10 2 (2.35%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (15.29%) Cloud Native
3 10 (11.76%) FlexPod
3 10 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 10 (11.76%) Video Conferencing
4 7 (8.24%) Product Ownership
4 7 (8.24%) Replication
5 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.53%) Fat Client
6 3 (3.53%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (3.53%) Thin Client
7 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.35%) PKI
8 1 (1.18%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (57.65%) Linux
2 28 (32.94%) Windows
3 13 (15.29%) Windows Server
4 10 (11.76%) CentOS
5 5 (5.88%) Unix
6 3 (3.53%) Debian
6 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (68.24%) CI/CD
2 56 (65.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 43 (50.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 41 (48.24%) DevOps
5 39 (45.88%) Agile
6 37 (43.53%) Containerisation
7 24 (28.24%) Collaborative Culture
8 22 (25.88%) Test Automation
9 19 (22.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 19 (22.35%) Software Engineering
10 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure Automation
11 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (16.47%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (15.29%) Configuration Management
14 12 (14.12%) Analytics
14 12 (14.12%) Collaborative Working
14 12 (14.12%) Software Testing
15 10 (11.76%) DevSecOps
15 10 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
16 9 (10.59%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 68 (80.00%) Python
2 36 (42.35%) Bash
3 30 (35.29%) Java
4 20 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 18 (21.18%) PowerShell
6 10 (11.76%) C++
7 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
8 8 (9.41%) Go
8 8 (9.41%) Rust
9 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.35%) C#
10 2 (2.35%) SQL
11 1 (1.18%) Elixir
11 1 (1.18%) Erlang
11 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 65 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 32 (37.65%) DV Cleared
3 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
4 8 (9.41%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (8.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.71%) CCIE
6 4 (4.71%) CCNA
6 4 (4.71%) CCNP
6 4 (4.71%) ISTQB
6 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.71%) OSCP
6 4 (4.71%) RHCE
6 4 (4.71%) RHCSA
6 4 (4.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.35%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (1.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) QA
System Software
1 38 (44.71%) Docker
2 24 (28.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (12.94%) vSphere
4 8 (9.41%) VMware NSX
5 7 (8.24%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (7.06%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
7 4 (4.71%) Squid
8 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.18%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 72 (84.71%) Terraform
2 51 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 34 (40.00%) Grafana
4 17 (20.00%) Kibana
4 17 (20.00%) logstash
5 10 (11.76%) Cisco CUCM
5 10 (11.76%) Puppet
6 7 (8.24%) Packer
6 7 (8.24%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.24%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.71%) ZABBIX
8 3 (3.53%) SCCM
8 3 (3.53%) SCOM
8 3 (3.53%) SCOrch
9 2 (2.35%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.35%) Rancher
9 2 (2.35%) vRealize
10 1 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.18%) linkerd
10 1 (1.18%) Mesos
Vendors
1 24 (28.24%) VMware
2 21 (24.71%) Splunk
3 20 (23.53%) Microsoft
4 17 (20.00%) Cisco
4 17 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 10 (11.76%) Fortinet
5 10 (11.76%) Palo Alto
6 9 (10.59%) Atlassian
7 7 (8.24%) NetApp
8 4 (4.71%) Oracle
9 3 (3.53%) Dell
9 3 (3.53%) Google
9 3 (3.53%) SaltStack
10 2 (2.35%) HP
10 2 (2.35%) Juniper
10 2 (2.35%) Veeam