Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in Bristol

Infrastructure Automation
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 81 120
Rank change year-on-year -32 +39 +6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 12 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.36% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.33% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 6
10th Percentile £41,250 £62,375 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £64,063 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £68,750 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% +3.77% +1.38%
75th Percentile £90,625 £74,063 £75,938
90th Percentile £92,735 £76,125 £77,500
South West median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +15.38% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,335 898 1,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 70.57% 78.77% 79.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,727 641 1,084
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +0.75%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in Bristol

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Bristol

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Google Compute Engine
3 1 (8.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) IT Technician
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Educational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Debian
2 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) DevOps
2 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Asset Management
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Observability
4 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (8.33%) Software Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
1 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) PHP
2 2 (16.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Packer
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (8.33%) Google
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat