Infrastructure Automation Job Trends in London

Infrastructure Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 341 369
Rank change year-on-year +37 +28 +31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 70 87 74
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.50% 0.56% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.59% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 54 61 61
10th Percentile £49,875 £65,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £63,250 £70,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £91,875 £110,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,365 14,682 16,817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.68% 94.64% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,912 8,070 13,469
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,125 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in London

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in London

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London +31 8 £82,500 +7.84% 4
West London - 1 £107,500 -
Infrastructure Automation
England

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 8 (11.43%) IIS
2 5 (7.14%) Tomcat
3 4 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.71%) Confluence
4 3 (4.29%) Apache Spark
5 2 (2.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 42 (60.00%) Azure
2 29 (41.43%) AWS
3 11 (15.71%) GitHub
4 10 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 10 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (14.29%) GCP
5 9 (12.86%) OpenShift
5 9 (12.86%) PaaS
6 6 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (8.57%) SaaS
7 5 (7.14%) Serverless
8 4 (5.71%) IaaS
9 3 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.29%) Firewall
2 6 (8.57%) DNS
3 5 (7.14%) LAN
3 5 (7.14%) Network Security
3 5 (7.14%) WAN
4 4 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.86%) DHCP
5 2 (2.86%) Kerberos
5 2 (2.86%) VPN
6 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.43%) VLAN
6 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.29%) Apache Hive
3 3 (4.29%) Big Data
3 3 (4.29%) Hadoop
3 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.86%) MySQL
4 2 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (24.29%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.14%) Git
3 11 (15.71%) GitLab
4 6 (8.57%) Bitbucket
5 5 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (5.71%) JIRA
7 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (24.29%) Finance
2 14 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.00%) Law
4 6 (8.57%) Banking
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.29%) Advertising
8 2 (2.86%) Legal
9 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Senior
5 6 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Network Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) CloudOps Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Product Owner
7 4 (5.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Senior Operations Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Environment Manager
8 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) RESTful
2 7 (10.00%) Kafka
3 5 (7.14%) Node.js
3 5 (7.14%) REST
4 4 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (5.71%) Middleware
4 4 (5.71%) OAuth
4 4 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (5.71%) YAML
5 3 (4.29%) JDBC
5 3 (4.29%) LDAP
5 3 (4.29%) NestJS
5 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
5 3 (4.29%) ODBC
6 2 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.86%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.86%) Loki
6 2 (2.86%) React
7 1 (1.43%) gRPC
7 1 (1.43%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 6 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.43%) IoT
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.43%) PKI
7 1 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.43%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 34 (48.57%) Linux
2 17 (24.29%) Windows
2 17 (24.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (5.71%) Unix
6 3 (4.29%) SUSE
7 1 (1.43%) CentOS
7 1 (1.43%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (67.14%) CI/CD
2 36 (51.43%) DevOps
3 31 (44.29%) Platform Engineering
4 26 (37.14%) Agile
5 23 (32.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (22.86%) Configuration Management
6 16 (22.86%) Containerisation
6 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (20.00%) Observability
9 13 (18.57%) AI
10 10 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (12.86%) Machine Learning
12 8 (11.43%) Cloud Security
12 8 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (11.43%) Mentoring
12 8 (11.43%) Microservices
13 7 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
13 7 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
13 7 (10.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.00%) Python
2 28 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 21 (30.00%) Bash
4 5 (7.14%) Java
5 4 (5.71%) C#
5 4 (5.71%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.29%) SQL
7 2 (2.86%) Go
7 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.86%) Perl
8 1 (1.43%) Bicep
8 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.14%) CCNP
2 5 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.71%) CCIE
3 4 (5.71%) Degree
3 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) CCNA
4 1 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.43%) MCP
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.43%) RHCE
4 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.71%) GDPR
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) GRC
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (27.14%) Docker
2 14 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (18.57%) Active Directory
4 5 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.43%) Postfix
5 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (65.71%) Terraform
2 43 (61.43%) Kubernetes
3 42 (60.00%) Ansible
4 16 (22.86%) Prometheus
5 14 (20.00%) Grafana
6 5 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 5 (7.14%) Puppet
7 4 (5.71%) CASB
7 4 (5.71%) Kubeflow
8 3 (4.29%) Argo
8 3 (4.29%) Rancher
9 1 (1.43%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 25 (35.71%) VMware
2 12 (17.14%) Cisco
2 12 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.14%) ServiceNow
3 8 (11.43%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.57%) Oracle
5 5 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 5 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 5 (7.14%) Splunk
6 4 (5.71%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.71%) Foundry
6 4 (5.71%) Meraki
6 4 (5.71%) Palantir
7 3 (4.29%) Databricks
7 3 (4.29%) Dell
7 3 (4.29%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.86%) Ping Identity
8 2 (2.86%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.43%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.43%) CyberArk