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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 166 256
Rank change year-on-year -9 +90 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 18 4 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.28% 0.14% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.15% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 3
10th Percentile £45,000 - £53,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £72,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £75,625 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,625 - -
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 4,521 2,658 6,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.75% 90.16% 86.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,077 1,488 5,102
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 15 March 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 15 March 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 +18 13 £62,500 - 6
Bristol -1 2 £75,000 - 5
Wiltshire - 2 £67,500 - 6
Devon - 1 £57,500 -
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 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) VLAN
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
3 3 (16.67%) LAN
3 3 (16.67%) Unified Communications
3 3 (16.67%) WAN
3 3 (16.67%) WebEx
4 2 (11.11%) DNS
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (5.56%) DHCP
5 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 3 (16.67%) Banking
1 3 (16.67%) Marketing
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 3 (16.67%) Retail
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Electronics
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Collaboration Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) XMPP
2 2 (11.11%) ARM Templates
3 1 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (5.56%) Middleware
3 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (16.67%) FlexPod
2 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 3 (16.67%) Replication
2 3 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (11.11%) Blockchain
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
4 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.56%) CentOS
4 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
1 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) Containerisation
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (27.78%) DevSecOps
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) Data Management
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Management
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (11.11%) High Availability
6 2 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
2 10 (55.56%) Bash
3 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 3 (16.67%) Elixir
4 3 (16.67%) Erlang
4 3 (16.67%) Java
5 2 (11.11%) Kotlin
6 1 (5.56%) Bicep
6 1 (5.56%) C
6 1 (5.56%) C#
6 1 (5.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) vSphere
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
6 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
6 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (77.78%) Ansible
2 12 (66.67%) Terraform
3 10 (55.56%) Kubernetes
4 6 (33.33%) Grafana
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
6 2 (11.11%) Puppet
7 1 (5.56%) NetBackup
7 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
7 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco
1 5 (27.78%) VMware
2 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
3 3 (16.67%) NetApp
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.56%) Dell
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper
5 1 (5.56%) Veeam