Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Automation
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 77 88
Rank change year-on-year +24 +11 +34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 2 11 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.37% 1.17% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 1.36% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £67,625 - £51,800
25th Percentile £73,438 £33,750 £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £37,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +143.33% -35.34% +0.87%
75th Percentile £113,438 £41,250 £64,750
90th Percentile £121,875 £53,125 £66,400
South West median annual salary £71,250 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.62% +4.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 446 809 858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 82.75% 85.70% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 308 382 488
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,625 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,750 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,313 £72,108
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,400 £82,500
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Gloucestershire

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2025. 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
Cheltenham +13 1 £67,500 +80.00% 1
Infrastructure Automation
South West

Infrastructure Automation
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) VMware