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 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 184 211
Rank change year-on-year +17 +27 +14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 10 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 7
10th Percentile - £56,750 £52,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +15.56%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £96,500 £76,250 £68,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

All Process & 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 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 January 2026.

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 January 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
Gloucestershire +25 6 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Bristol +12 2 £75,000 - 3
Devon - 1 £57,500 - 2
Wiltshire - 1 £60,000 - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (70.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (40.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (20.00%) Agile
6 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
6 2 (20.00%) RBAC
6 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
7 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
7 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Bash
2 7 (70.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (30.00%) Elixir
4 3 (30.00%) Erlang
5 2 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (20.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (10.00%) Bicep
6 1 (10.00%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (70.00%) Ansible
2 7 (70.00%) Terraform
3 3 (30.00%) Grafana
3 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
4 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) VMware