Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in Southampton

Infrastructure Automation
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 77
Rank change year-on-year - - -18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 3 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.46% - 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% - 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £39,166
25th Percentile £57,500 - £41,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £60,000
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 488 259 803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 74.50% 92.50% 79.11%
Number of salaries quoted 372 179 677
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,400 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,625 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,675 £72,500 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Southampton

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Datadog
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Loki
1 3 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Management
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Scalr
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform