Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 194 183
Rank change year-on-year +23 -11 +76
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 6 18 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.30% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.39% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 6 13 8
10th Percentile £56,875 - £52,125
25th Percentile £58,438 £33,750 £53,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,938 £76,250 £67,178
90th Percentile £102,500 £77,500 £68,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,307 4,613 4,220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 78.07% 76.37% 93.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,184 2,600 3,188
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,725
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,600 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the South West over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the South West

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Bristol +21 2 £68,750 -8.33% 2
Gloucestershire +21 2 £91,250 +143.33% 4
Wiltshire - 1 £60,000 - 2
Devon - 1 £57,500 - 1
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (16.67%) Datadog
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) VMS
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) CentOS
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) RBAC
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bash
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
3 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware