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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 108 129
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 +17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 1 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.049% 0.070% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.080% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £63,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £75,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.77% +54.34%
75th Percentile £63,750 £77,500 £68,535
90th Percentile - - £69,414
South West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,175
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.57% +13.35%

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 1,322 1,254 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 64.33% 88.25% 93.16%
Number of salaries quoted 995 680 1,325
10th Percentile £28,750 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £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 £70,000 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,150 £85,475 £89,500
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,720 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.62% +4.23% +2.94%

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
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat