Infrastructure Automation Jobs

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 726 657 675
Rank change year-on-year -69 +18 -131
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 178 331 651
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.34% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 141 185 239
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,700 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
England -39 162 £68,450 -2.21% 61
UK excluding London -61 95 £62,500 -3.85% 32
Work from Home -10 81 £72,500 +7.41% 31
London +15 69 £75,000 -11.76% 32
South East -9 43 £62,500 -3.85% 5
North of England +34 23 £60,000 +14.29% 9
Yorkshire +80 12 £60,000 +41.70% 2
North West +5 11 £60,000 -9.43% 7
Midlands -11 11 £63,750 +27.50% 3
West Midlands +9 6 £67,500 +25.58% 3
East of England - 6 £62,500 - 4
East Midlands -14 5 £60,000 +20.00%
South West -59 5 £67,500 +17.39% 6
Wales - 4 £53,750 - 2
Scotland -69 3 £57,000 -24.00% 1
North East -3 2 £80,000 +33.33%

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (6.18%) Confluence
2 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.12%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.56%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.56%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 106 (59.55%) Azure
2 95 (53.37%) AWS
3 41 (23.03%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (18.54%) SaaS
5 32 (17.98%) GitHub
6 26 (14.61%) Serverless
7 23 (12.92%) Amazon S3
7 23 (12.92%) Cloud Computing
8 20 (11.24%) GCP
9 19 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (10.67%) IaaS
10 17 (9.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (7.30%) Route 53
14 12 (6.74%) Nutanix
15 9 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (4.49%) PaaS
17 6 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.24%) Firewall
2 19 (10.67%) DNS
3 15 (8.43%) Network Security
4 4 (2.25%) HTTP
4 4 (2.25%) VPN
5 3 (1.69%) VoIP
5 3 (1.69%) WAN
5 3 (1.69%) Wireless
6 2 (1.12%) Internet
6 2 (1.12%) LAN
6 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.56%) DHCP
7 1 (0.56%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.11%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.49%) CockroachDB
2 8 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.37%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.25%) MySQL
5 4 (2.25%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.12%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.12%) Metadata
7 2 (1.12%) Tableau
8 1 (0.56%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 59 (33.15%) Jenkins
2 20 (11.24%) Bitbucket
3 18 (10.11%) Git
3 18 (10.11%) JIRA
3 18 (10.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (7.87%) Subversion
5 9 (5.06%) CircleCI
5 9 (5.06%) Selenium
6 8 (4.49%) Jaeger
7 7 (3.93%) GitLab
7 7 (3.93%) JMeter
7 7 (3.93%) JUnit
7 7 (3.93%) TestNG
8 6 (3.37%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (3.37%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.37%) Serenity BDD
9 5 (2.81%) SoapUI
10 4 (2.25%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.69%) Hudson
11 3 (1.69%) Travis CI
General
1 57 (32.02%) Social Skills
2 47 (26.40%) Finance
3 41 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (5.06%) Law
6 8 (4.49%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.93%) Retail
8 6 (3.37%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.69%) Legal
11 2 (1.12%) Automotive
11 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.56%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) Local Government
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
12 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (25.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (21.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (21.35%) Senior
4 35 (19.66%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (15.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 22 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (11.80%) Architect
7 21 (11.80%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (8.43%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (7.87%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (7.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 13 (7.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 13 (7.30%) Technical Architect
12 12 (6.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 12 (6.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (5.62%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 10 (5.62%) Lead
14 9 (5.06%) Infrastructure Manager
15 8 (4.49%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.74%) Kafka
2 9 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (5.06%) RESTful
3 8 (4.49%) Middleware
3 8 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (4.49%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.93%) Web Services
5 5 (2.81%) Node.js
5 5 (2.81%) React
5 5 (2.81%) SAML
5 5 (2.81%) SOAP
6 4 (2.25%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.25%) Compass CSS Framework
6 4 (2.25%) REST
6 4 (2.25%) web3js
7 3 (1.69%) .NET
7 3 (1.69%) Celery
7 3 (1.69%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.12%) WireMock
8 2 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.24%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (9.55%) Management Information System
3 15 (8.43%) IoT
4 11 (6.18%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (5.06%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.93%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.37%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.37%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.81%) Blockchain
8 5 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.25%) Blog
9 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.25%) NFT
9 4 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.25%) Web3
10 3 (1.69%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) PMI
11 2 (1.12%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.10%) Linux
2 29 (16.29%) Windows
3 8 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.25%) CentOS
4 4 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Unix
5 2 (1.12%) VMS
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (71.91%) DevOps
2 106 (59.55%) CI/CD
3 98 (55.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 58 (32.58%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (23.03%) Containerisation
6 39 (21.91%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (21.35%) Agile
8 35 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (19.10%) Configuration Management
10 32 (17.98%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (17.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 30 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
13 26 (14.61%) ITIL
13 26 (14.61%) Network Virtualisation
14 25 (14.04%) Test Automation
15 24 (13.48%) Infrastructure Management
16 22 (12.36%) Cloud Security
16 22 (12.36%) Decision-Making
16 22 (12.36%) Mentoring
17 21 (11.80%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 83 (46.63%) Python
2 52 (29.21%) Bash
3 41 (23.03%) PowerShell
4 32 (17.98%) Java
5 30 (16.85%) SQL
6 14 (7.87%) Bicep
7 12 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.74%) Perl
8 9 (5.06%) Go
9 7 (3.93%) C#
9 7 (3.93%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.37%) Ruby
11 3 (1.69%) MATLAB
11 3 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.12%) PHP
12 2 (1.12%) R
13 1 (0.56%) VB
13 1 (0.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.11%) Degree
2 11 (6.18%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.69%) CCNA
6 3 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.12%) MCSA
7 2 (1.12%) MCSE
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.25%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.25%) NCSC
4 3 (1.69%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (48.88%) Docker
2 23 (12.92%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (10.11%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.93%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.69%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.12%) XenApp
6 2 (1.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 96 (53.93%) Terraform
2 95 (53.37%) Kubernetes
3 56 (31.46%) Ansible
4 23 (12.92%) Puppet
5 18 (10.11%) Progress Chef
6 10 (5.62%) Packer
7 8 (4.49%) Kiali
8 7 (3.93%) Salt
9 6 (3.37%) Kibana
9 6 (3.37%) Nagios
9 6 (3.37%) ZABBIX
10 5 (2.81%) Grafana
10 5 (2.81%) logstash
10 5 (2.81%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.69%) Argo
11 3 (1.69%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (1.69%) Graphite
12 2 (1.12%) Consul
12 2 (1.12%) SCCM
13 1 (0.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (11.80%) VMware
2 18 (10.11%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.55%) Splunk
4 11 (6.18%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.49%) AppDynamics
6 7 (3.93%) New Relic
6 7 (3.93%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.81%) Oracle
8 4 (2.25%) Google
8 4 (2.25%) Veeam
9 3 (1.69%) Acronis
10 2 (1.12%) Citrix
10 2 (1.12%) SAP
11 1 (0.56%) Cisco
11 1 (0.56%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.56%) IBM
11 1 (0.56%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.56%) PTC
11 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.56%) TOWER Software