Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 - -
75th Percentile £69,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £58,750 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% -8.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,071 445 787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 62.38% 74.41% 76.71%
Number of salaries quoted 805 298 395
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,262 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -12.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,188 £64,999
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,625 £78,450
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -8.65% -0.95%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Sheffield - 2 £66,000 - 4
Doncaster - 1 - -
Infrastructure Automation
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Thales
1 1 (33.33%) VMware