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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 156 277
Rank change year-on-year -27 +121 -57
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 32 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.41% 0.11% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.12% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 16 0 6
10th Percentile £45,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £59,063 - £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £75,000
90th Percentile £88,125 - £76,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +17.65% +0.74%

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 5,286 2,447 7,446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.44% 91.00% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,478 1,506 5,600
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,952
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.04% -3.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 - 23 £68,750 - 2
Bristol -17 6 £87,500 - 2
Wiltshire - 3 £75,000 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.13%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 5 (15.63%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (9.38%) Serverless
5 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.13%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (3.13%) IaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Firewall
2 6 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (18.75%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (18.75%) LAN
2 6 (18.75%) Unified Communications
2 6 (18.75%) VLAN
2 6 (18.75%) WAN
2 6 (18.75%) WebEx
3 1 (3.13%) DHCP
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
1 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Banking
2 6 (18.75%) Marketing
2 6 (18.75%) Retail
2 6 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 5 (15.63%) Aerospace
4 3 (9.38%) Automotive
4 3 (9.38%) Electronics
4 3 (9.38%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Collaboration Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Infrastructure Tester
6 1 (3.13%) Lead
6 1 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) XMPP
2 2 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (3.13%) Middleware
3 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (21.88%) Cloud Native
3 6 (18.75%) FlexPod
3 6 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 6 (18.75%) Replication
3 6 (18.75%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (9.38%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (6.25%) Blockchain
6 1 (3.13%) PKI
6 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (40.63%) Linux
2 12 (37.50%) Windows
3 6 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (50.00%) DevOps
3 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 14 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.88%) Containerisation
4 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
5 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (18.75%) Data Management
5 6 (18.75%) DevSecOps
5 6 (18.75%) Performance Management
5 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
6 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 4 (12.50%) SDLC
8 3 (9.38%) Configuration Management
8 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
8 3 (9.38%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (9.38%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) Bash
3 3 (9.38%) Elixir
3 3 (9.38%) Erlang
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) Kotlin
4 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.13%) C
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) C++
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) DV Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
2 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (18.75%) Virtual Servers
3 6 (18.75%) vSphere
4 1 (3.13%) Firmware
4 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (62.50%) Ansible
2 18 (56.25%) Terraform
3 11 (34.38%) Grafana
4 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
5 6 (18.75%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
7 2 (6.25%) Puppet
8 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
8 1 (3.13%) Packer
8 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Cisco
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Fortinet
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) NetApp
3 6 (18.75%) Palo Alto
3 6 (18.75%) Splunk
4 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.25%) Dell
6 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.13%) Google
6 1 (3.13%) HP
6 1 (3.13%) Juniper
6 1 (3.13%) Veeam