Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in the City of London

Infrastructure Automation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 153 160
Rank change year-on-year +27 +7 +83
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 7 16 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.33% 0.59% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.62% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 8
10th Percentile £69,000 £69,300 £78,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £75,750 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £76,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.58% -10.00% -6.85%
75th Percentile £93,125 £99,375 £97,813
90th Percentile £100,750 £113,500 £107,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £76,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +4.58% -10.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,833 2,593 2,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.54% 95.47% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,694 2,415
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,350
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the City of London

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) Apigee
5 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Advertising
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) OAuth
2 1 (14.29%) JDBC
2 1 (14.29%) JWT
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (14.29%) Loki
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
2 1 (14.29%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) AI
5 1 (14.29%) BCP
5 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk