Infrastructure Automation Jobs in England

Infrastructure Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 665 634
Rank change year-on-year +98 -31 +80
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 123 166 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.19% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.23% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 85 133 179
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -2.86% -3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £77,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £95,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +14.81% -3.57% -

All Process and 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 45,979 73,257 86,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.14% 85.46% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,654 53,821 51,155
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,410 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Automation in England

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 2025. 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 +110 65 £82,500 +10.00% 226
North of England +52 24 £60,000 - 55
South East +78 21 £75,000 +20.00% 92
North West +10 16 £60,000 - 30
Yorkshire +69 6 £62,500 +4.17% 21
South West +105 3 - - 13
North East +44 2 £57,000 -28.75% 4
Midlands +51 1 £77,500 +21.57% 13
West Midlands +49 1 £77,500 +14.81% 7
East of England +39 1 £72,500 +7.41% 7
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (5.69%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.88%) IIS
3 5 (4.07%) Apache
4 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.81%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 80 (65.04%) Azure
2 52 (42.28%) AWS
3 35 (28.46%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (26.83%) GitHub
5 29 (23.58%) GCP
6 20 (16.26%) PaaS
7 18 (14.63%) Serverless
8 17 (13.82%) Entra ID
9 16 (13.01%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (11.38%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (9.76%) IaaS
12 12 (9.76%) SaaS
13 10 (8.13%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (8.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (7.32%) Amazon S3
15 8 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (6.50%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (5.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 27 (21.95%) Firewall
2 20 (16.26%) VPN
3 13 (10.57%) DNS
4 10 (8.13%) Network Security
5 5 (4.07%) DHCP
5 5 (4.07%) TCP/IP
6 4 (3.25%) WAN
7 3 (2.44%) BGP
8 2 (1.63%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.63%) LAN
8 2 (1.63%) OSPF
9 1 (0.81%) SAN
9 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.81%) SSL
9 1 (0.81%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.69%) Big Data
3 6 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.25%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.44%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.63%) HDInsight
6 2 (1.63%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.63%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.63%) Redis
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.81%) DB2
7 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.81%) Power BI
7 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (17.07%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.26%) GitLab
3 12 (9.76%) Git
4 6 (4.88%) JIRA
5 4 (3.25%) Maven
6 3 (2.44%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.44%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.44%) JUnit
6 3 (2.44%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.44%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.63%) Gradle
7 2 (1.63%) Mockito
7 2 (1.63%) Postman
7 2 (1.63%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.63%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.63%) Subversion
7 2 (1.63%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.63%) Xcode
7 2 (1.63%) XCTest
General
1 34 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.02%) Finance
3 12 (9.76%) Banking
4 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.07%) Front Office
6 4 (3.25%) Law
7 3 (2.44%) Advertising
7 3 (2.44%) Marketing
7 3 (2.44%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.63%) Automotive
8 2 (1.63%) Games
8 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.81%) Electronics
9 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (27.64%) Senior
2 27 (21.95%) Azure Engineer
2 27 (21.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (20.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (16.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (13.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 13 (10.57%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.94%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.94%) Lead
8 9 (7.32%) Architect
8 9 (7.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.50%) Network Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) Infrastructure Manager
10 6 (4.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (4.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.94%) YAML
2 10 (8.13%) ARM Templates
2 10 (8.13%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.88%) RESTful
4 3 (2.44%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.44%) REST
4 3 (2.44%) Web Services
5 2 (1.63%) Bootstrap
5 2 (1.63%) CSS
5 2 (1.63%) CSS3
5 2 (1.63%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.63%) HTML
5 2 (1.63%) HTML5
5 2 (1.63%) J2EE
5 2 (1.63%) JPA
5 2 (1.63%) Kafka
5 2 (1.63%) SOAP
5 2 (1.63%) Spring
5 2 (1.63%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (1.63%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Data Centre
1 13 (10.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.69%) Clustering
3 7 (5.69%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.07%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (4.07%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.07%) Replication
6 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.63%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.63%) Life Science
7 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.81%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.81%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (33.33%) Linux
2 26 (21.14%) Windows
3 9 (7.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.50%) Unix
5 4 (3.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.44%) CentOS
6 3 (2.44%) VMS
6 3 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.63%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (65.04%) DevOps
2 75 (60.98%) CI/CD
3 64 (52.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (32.52%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (27.64%) Agile
6 29 (23.58%) Containerisation
7 25 (20.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (18.70%) Platform Engineering
9 22 (17.89%) High Availability
10 17 (13.82%) Analytics
10 17 (13.82%) Configuration Management
11 15 (12.20%) Computer Science
11 15 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (11.38%) Mentoring
12 14 (11.38%) Observability
12 14 (11.38%) Test Automation
13 13 (10.57%) Cost Management
13 13 (10.57%) Incident Management
13 13 (10.57%) Infrastructure Management
14 12 (9.76%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 62 (50.41%) Python
2 38 (30.89%) PowerShell
3 35 (28.46%) Bash
4 19 (15.45%) SQL
5 16 (13.01%) Bicep
6 12 (9.76%) Java
7 7 (5.69%) C#
7 7 (5.69%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.25%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.25%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.44%) Groovy
9 3 (2.44%) Scala
10 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.81%) Go
11 1 (0.81%) Perl
11 1 (0.81%) R
11 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (13.82%) Azure Certification
2 16 (13.01%) Degree
3 12 (9.76%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (6.50%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.63%) CCNP
7 2 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.81%) PhD
8 1 (0.81%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.44%) GDPR
2 3 (2.44%) NIST
2 3 (2.44%) QA
3 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) Basel III
4 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.81%) IFRS
4 1 (0.81%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
4 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (33.33%) Docker
2 23 (18.70%) Active Directory
3 14 (11.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (8.94%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (3.25%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.25%) vSphere
7 3 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (2.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 86 (69.92%) Terraform
2 54 (43.90%) Kubernetes
3 38 (30.89%) Ansible
4 13 (10.57%) Prometheus
5 10 (8.13%) Grafana
6 8 (6.50%) Puppet
7 5 (4.07%) Argo
7 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (4.07%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.07%) SCCM
8 4 (3.25%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (1.63%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (1.63%) SCOM
10 1 (0.81%) Bugsnag
10 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.81%) Istio
10 1 (0.81%) Packer
10 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.81%) vRealize
10 1 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (24.39%) VMware
2 29 (23.58%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.94%) Databricks
4 8 (6.50%) Red Hat
5 7 (5.69%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.07%) Citrix
7 4 (3.25%) Google
7 4 (3.25%) Oracle
8 3 (2.44%) Cisco
8 3 (2.44%) Splunk
9 2 (1.63%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.63%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.63%) IBM
9 2 (1.63%) Mellanox
9 2 (1.63%) NVIDIA
9 2 (1.63%) Pure Storage
10 1 (0.81%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.81%) SAP