Infrastructure Automation Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 276 269
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +44
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 17 14 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.22% 0.14% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.17% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 12
10th Percentile £55,500 £55,375 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,938 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -5.66% +61.59%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £73,438
90th Percentile - £71,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £67,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.08% +0.37% -6.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,473 8,217 7,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.96% 82.22% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3,785 6,230 3,866
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,375
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the North West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the North West over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the North West

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Manchester +65 17 £60,000 -4.00% 27
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Apache
1 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
1 3 (17.65%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
1 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (17.65%) Serverless
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.88%) Kong
4 1 (5.88%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) DHCP
1 3 (17.65%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (17.65%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Games
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Automotive
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Senior
2 8 (47.06%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (41.18%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (35.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 5 (29.41%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (29.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (17.65%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
7 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (17.65%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
8 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (17.65%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) CentOS
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Server
1 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (17.65%) ETL
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) MapReduce
6 3 (17.65%) OO
6 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Game Development
7 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) C#
2 3 (17.65%) Java
2 3 (17.65%) Scala
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) Terraform
2 9 (52.94%) Kubernetes
3 6 (35.29%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Hitachi
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) SAP