Infrastructure Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 653 567
Rank change year-on-year +138 -86 +152
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 56 112 193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.15% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.18% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 36 87 86
10th Percentile £45,625 £42,500 £38,999
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £76,250 £74,375
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +18.52% - -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Automation
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
North of England +41 26 £61,250 +2.08% 43
South East +63 19 £77,500 +24.00% 24
North West +5 18 £60,000 -4.00% 25
Yorkshire +55 5 £62,500 +4.17% 15
South West +111 3 - - 7
North East +49 3 £57,500 -28.13% 3
Scotland +122 2 £55,000 -3.51% 11
Wales +45 2 £57,500 +6.98%
East of England +35 2 £45,000 -35.71% 17
West Midlands +58 1 £77,500 +14.81% 3
Midlands +49 1 £77,500 +14.81% 10
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -
Infrastructure Automation
UK

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (10.71%) IIS
2 4 (7.14%) Apache
3 3 (5.36%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (55.36%) Azure
2 23 (41.07%) AWS
3 19 (33.93%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (28.57%) GitHub
5 11 (19.64%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (19.64%) Serverless
6 10 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (17.86%) Entra ID
6 10 (17.86%) GCP
7 7 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
8 6 (10.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (8.93%) IaaS
9 5 (8.93%) PaaS
10 4 (7.14%) SaaS
11 3 (5.36%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.00%) DNS
1 14 (25.00%) Firewall
2 12 (21.43%) VPN
3 4 (7.14%) DHCP
4 3 (5.36%) Network Security
4 3 (5.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.57%) SAN
6 1 (1.79%) BGP
6 1 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (1.79%) Internet
6 1 (1.79%) NAS
6 1 (1.79%) OSPF
6 1 (1.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (5.36%) Big Data
4 2 (3.57%) Power BI
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) DB2
5 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.79%) MySQL
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) GitLab
2 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) Git
3 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.36%) Law
5 2 (3.57%) Advertising
5 2 (3.57%) Banking
5 2 (3.57%) Games
5 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.79%) Automotive
6 1 (1.79%) Electronics
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (50.00%) Senior
2 20 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 12 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (16.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (10.71%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (8.93%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
11 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 4 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 3 (5.36%) Architect
12 3 (5.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 3 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
12 3 (5.36%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 3 (5.36%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) ARM Templates
2 6 (10.71%) YAML
3 4 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.79%) Azure Blueprints
4 1 (1.79%) JSON
4 1 (1.79%) Kafka
4 1 (1.79%) Middleware
4 1 (1.79%) React
4 1 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (1.79%) Spring
4 1 (1.79%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.36%) Clustering
2 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.57%) IoT
3 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.79%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.79%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.79%) Life Science
4 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.79%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Linux
2 11 (19.64%) Windows
3 4 (7.14%) Unix
3 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.36%) CentOS
4 3 (5.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (3.57%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (66.07%) DevOps
2 32 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (55.36%) CI/CD
4 14 (25.00%) Analytics
4 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (23.21%) Agile
5 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (23.21%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 12 (21.43%) High Availability
7 10 (17.86%) Cost Management
7 10 (17.86%) Mentoring
8 9 (16.07%) Configuration Management
8 9 (16.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (14.29%) Task Automation
10 7 (12.50%) Community of Practice
10 7 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 7 (12.50%) GitOps
10 7 (12.50%) Observability
10 7 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 29 (51.79%) Python
2 26 (46.43%) PowerShell
3 16 (28.57%) Bash
4 12 (21.43%) SQL
5 11 (19.64%) Bicep
6 6 (10.71%) Java
7 5 (8.93%) C#
8 3 (5.36%) Scala
9 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (30.36%) Azure Certification
2 9 (16.07%) Degree
3 7 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) CCNP
7 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.57%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.79%) GDPR
4 1 (1.79%) NCSC
4 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 11 (19.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.36%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.57%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (80.36%) Terraform
2 26 (46.43%) Kubernetes
3 24 (42.86%) Ansible
4 7 (12.50%) Grafana
5 4 (7.14%) Argo
5 4 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 4 (7.14%) Puppet
6 3 (5.36%) SCCM
7 2 (3.57%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.79%) Nessus
8 1 (1.79%) OpenVAS
8 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.79%) QRadar
8 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.86%) VMware
3 7 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 6 (10.71%) Databricks
5 3 (5.36%) Oracle
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco
6 2 (3.57%) Google
7 1 (1.79%) DataCore
7 1 (1.79%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.79%) IBM
7 1 (1.79%) Mellanox
7 1 (1.79%) NVIDIA
7 1 (1.79%) Qualys
7 1 (1.79%) SAP
7 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.79%) Splunk
7 1 (1.79%) Veeam