Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Automation
West Midlands > Staffordshire

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - 82
Rank change year-on-year - - -20
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.074% - 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% - 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.75%
75th Percentile £82,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £76,250 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -1.61% +14.81% +25.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,017 381 821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 75.45% 66.49% 82.60%
Number of salaries quoted 540 248 578
10th Percentile £27,694 £28,822 £23,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,580 £28,119
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £62,919 £53,688 £55,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,250 £62,500
West Midlands median annual salary £54,798 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.38% +5.00% -5.88%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £80,000 -
Infrastructure Automation
West Midlands

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Nutanix
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix