Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 176 188
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.099% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.16% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £54,000
25th Percentile £73,125 £85,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £105,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.19% +55.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £83,125 £112,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,750 - £85,500
South East median annual salary £71,250 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.72% +16.00% -3.85%

All Process & 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 3,245 3,106 3,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.48% 91.78% 89.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,770 1,383 2,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £39,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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
Buckinghamshire +10 3 £70,000 - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £85,000 - 2
Infrastructure Automation
South East

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Bioinformatics
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (50.00%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
3 2 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (50.00%) Rundeck
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat