Infrastructure Automation Jobs in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 229 240
Rank change year-on-year +66 +11 +25
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 7 15 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.23% 0.22% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.26% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 15
10th Percentile £44,000 £57,500 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £67,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £112,500 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% +18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,849 5,732 5,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.92% 85.12% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 4,012 3,148
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,087 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,625 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
Berkshire +44 5 £105,000 +23.53% 4
Buckinghamshire +39 1 £50,000 -16.67% 2
Oxfordshire +33 1 £45,000 -37.93% 1
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Law
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Product Management
2 3 (42.86%) Runbook
2 3 (42.86%) Use Case
3 2 (28.57%) GitOps
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Puppet
4 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
4 1 (14.29%) Grafana
4 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Veeam
1 1 (14.29%) VMware