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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 116 123
Rank change year-on-year +35 +7 +49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 3 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.26% 0.28% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.35% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £62,375 - -
25th Percentile £64,063 £62,500 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £66,250 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +1.38% +54.34%
75th Percentile £74,063 £75,938 £68,535
90th Percentile £76,125 £77,500 £69,414
South West median annual salary £71,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.62% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and 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 897 1,715 1,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 78.07% 79.11% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 647 1,025 1,331
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £35,733
25th Percentile £39,068 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
South West median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

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 14 October 2025.

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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat