Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in England

Infrastructure Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 485 518 539
Rank change year-on-year +33 +21 +1
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 120 159 145
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.23% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.37% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 98 107 118
10th Percentile £47,207 £53,819 £48,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,363 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £87,500 £94,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,676 43,550 44,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.20% 90.77% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 25,628 21,301 34,459
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
London +38 68 £80,000 -3.03% 33
North of England +28 22 £67,500 +12.50% 26
North West +35 15 £72,500 +31.82% 7
South West +14 9 £60,000 -11.11% 16
South East -11 8 £71,250 -1.04% 40
Midlands +30 6 £66,250 -2.57% 14
Yorkshire -13 6 £47,500 -25.33% 16
East of England +27 5 £85,000 +17.24% 10
East Midlands - 4 £61,250 - 9
West Midlands +24 2 £105,000 +54.41% 3
North East +3 1 £85,000 +34.39% 4
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (6.67%) IIS
2 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.17%) Tomcat
3 4 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.33%) Confluence
4 3 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.50%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 77 (64.17%) Azure
2 64 (53.33%) AWS
3 24 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (18.33%) GCP
5 18 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (14.17%) GitHub
7 13 (10.83%) OpenShift
8 12 (10.00%) PaaS
9 11 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (6.67%) SaaS
11 8 (6.67%) Serverless
12 7 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (5.83%) IaaS
13 6 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 6 (5.00%) Azure AKS
13 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (4.17%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.33%) Firewall
2 8 (6.67%) VPN
3 7 (5.83%) DNS
3 7 (5.83%) Network Security
3 7 (5.83%) WAN
4 5 (4.17%) LAN
4 5 (4.17%) VLAN
5 4 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.67%) DHCP
6 2 (1.67%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.67%) SAN
6 2 (1.67%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.83%) VSAN
7 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.50%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.50%) Big Data
5 3 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.67%) MySQL
6 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 18 (15.00%) GitLab
3 15 (12.50%) Git
4 7 (5.83%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.83%) JIRA
5 6 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.50%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.83%) JUnit
8 1 (0.83%) Mockito
8 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.83%) Finance
3 11 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.67%) Law
5 6 (5.00%) Banking
6 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.50%) Advertising
9 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.67%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (25.83%) Platform Engineer
2 25 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (19.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (12.50%) Senior
5 10 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Architect
9 6 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Network Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) CloudOps Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Security Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.67%) ARM Templates
1 8 (6.67%) RESTful
2 7 (5.83%) Kafka
3 5 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.17%) Loki
3 5 (4.17%) Node.js
3 5 (4.17%) REST
4 4 (3.33%) Middleware
4 4 (3.33%) OAuth
4 4 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.33%) YAML
5 3 (2.50%) HTML
5 3 (2.50%) JDBC
5 3 (2.50%) LDAP
5 3 (2.50%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.50%) ODBC
5 3 (2.50%) React
6 2 (1.67%) CSS
6 2 (1.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.17%) Private Cloud
3 7 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.33%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.83%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 48 (40.00%) Linux
2 26 (21.67%) Windows
3 18 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.17%) Unix
5 5 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.50%) SUSE
7 2 (1.67%) CentOS
7 2 (1.67%) VMS
8 1 (0.83%) Solaris
8 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (72.50%) CI/CD
2 79 (65.83%) DevOps
3 51 (42.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 38 (31.67%) Containerisation
6 37 (30.83%) Agile
7 34 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (23.33%) Cloud Security
9 27 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (20.00%) Observability
11 22 (18.33%) Configuration Management
12 19 (15.83%) AI
12 19 (15.83%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (13.33%) High Availability
13 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (11.67%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (10.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (10.83%) Task Automation
16 12 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
17 11 (9.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 56 (46.67%) Python
2 47 (39.17%) PowerShell
3 35 (29.17%) Bash
4 9 (7.50%) Bicep
4 9 (7.50%) Java
5 6 (5.00%) SQL
6 5 (4.17%) C#
7 4 (3.33%) Go
7 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.50%) Elixir
8 3 (2.50%) Erlang
9 2 (1.67%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.67%) Perl
10 1 (0.83%) C
10 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.67%) Degree
3 9 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.17%) CCNP
6 5 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.33%) CCIE
7 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.83%) GAWN
8 1 (0.83%) GCIH
8 1 (0.83%) GIAC
8 1 (0.83%) GREM
8 1 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.83%) OSCP
8 1 (0.83%) RHCE
8 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) GDPR
1 7 (5.83%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.67%) GRC
4 2 (1.67%) NIST
4 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (36.67%) Docker
2 17 (14.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (4.17%) vSphere
6 3 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.67%) vCloud
7 2 (1.67%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.83%) Postfix
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 85 (70.83%) Terraform
2 74 (61.67%) Kubernetes
3 59 (49.17%) Ansible
4 30 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 27 (22.50%) Grafana
6 8 (6.67%) Puppet
7 7 (5.83%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.33%) CASB
8 4 (3.33%) Kubeflow
9 3 (2.50%) Argo
9 3 (2.50%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (2.50%) Rancher
10 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.67%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.83%) Control-M
11 1 (0.83%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (26.67%) VMware
2 28 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.83%) Cisco
4 12 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 10 (8.33%) Red Hat
6 9 (7.50%) Oracle
7 7 (5.83%) Foundry
7 7 (5.83%) Palo Alto
8 6 (5.00%) Fortinet
9 5 (4.17%) Atlassian
9 5 (4.17%) Splunk
10 4 (3.33%) Meraki
10 4 (3.33%) Palantir
11 3 (2.50%) Databricks
11 3 (2.50%) Dell
11 3 (2.50%) Dynatrace
11 3 (2.50%) SolarWinds
12 2 (1.67%) IFS
12 2 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (1.67%) Ping Identity