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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 124 127
Rank change year-on-year +49 +3 +59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 4 7 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.36% 0.29% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.36% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.29% +54.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £68,535
90th Percentile - - £69,414
South West median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +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 874 1,933 1,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 78.74% 78.93% 94.52%
Number of salaries quoted 631 1,267 1,340
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £35,733
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,875 £71,969 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,419
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

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation 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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (75.00%) Culture Change
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (75.00%) GitOps
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft