Infrastructure Automation Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 357 342
Rank change year-on-year +64 -15 +104
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 19 44 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.26% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.31% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 16 37 40
10th Percentile £46,250 £39,250 £58,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £86,250 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £103,125 £80,750 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £68,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% +0.74% -6.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,876 14,220 13,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.91% 84.27% 94.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4,324 9,861 7,907
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,748 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the South East.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the South East

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley +49 8 £87,500 +20.69% 12
Surrey +44 7 £75,000 +20.00% 3
Berkshire +38 5 £105,000 +23.53% 7
Hampshire +58 4 £55,000 -12.00% 12
Oxfordshire +27 2 £66,250 -8.62% 5
Buckinghamshire +31 1 £50,000 -16.67% 1
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Azure
2 11 (57.89%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (52.63%) GitHub
4 9 (47.37%) Entra ID
5 7 (36.84%) AWS
6 6 (31.58%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (31.58%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (26.32%) GCP
8 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
8 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (5.26%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (5.26%) IaaS
9 1 (5.26%) PaaS
9 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) Firewall
1 9 (47.37%) VPN
2 7 (36.84%) DNS
3 3 (15.79%) Network Security
4 2 (10.53%) BGP
4 2 (10.53%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (10.53%) OSPF
4 2 (10.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Engineer
1 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.26%) VMS
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
1 14 (73.68%) DevOps
2 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (57.89%) Platform Engineering
4 9 (47.37%) Analytics
5 8 (42.11%) High Availability
6 7 (36.84%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (36.84%) Incident Management
7 6 (31.58%) Community of Practice
7 6 (31.58%) Cost Management
7 6 (31.58%) Log Analytics
7 6 (31.58%) Task Automation
8 5 (26.32%) Observability
8 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (21.05%) Agile
10 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
10 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
10 3 (15.79%) Product Management
10 3 (15.79%) Runbook
10 3 (15.79%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) PowerShell
2 9 (47.37%) Python
3 6 (31.58%) Bicep
3 6 (31.58%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) CCNP
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (26.32%) Docker
3 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Terraform
2 8 (42.11%) Ansible
3 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
4 4 (21.05%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
5 1 (5.26%) Grafana
5 1 (5.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (31.58%) Atlassian
2 6 (31.58%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco
3 2 (10.53%) Mellanox
3 2 (10.53%) NVIDIA
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Veeam