Infrastructure Automation Job Trends

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 506 529 695
Rank change year-on-year +23 +166 -103
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 229 140 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.34% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 133 99 160
10th Percentile £48,000 £52,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,000 £108,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,400 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.64% - -0.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,040 40,758 85,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.42% 93.05% 83.05%
Number of salaries quoted 45,181 21,501 61,227
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 June 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
England +28 205 £75,000 -4.76% 136
UK excluding London -11 108 £70,400 +12.64% 74
London +3 92 £85,000 +3.03% 70
Work from Home +51 86 £70,000 -5.08% 87
South West -19 34 £75,000 - 12
North of England -51 30 £70,400 +17.33% 18
South East -32 23 £62,500 -16.67% 20
North West -5 20 £74,500 +24.17% 11
Midlands -23 11 £72,500 -6.45% 11
Yorkshire -39 8 £50,000 -20.00% 5
West Midlands -29 7 £72,500 -6.45% 6
East of England -16 6 £65,000 +44.44% 6
East Midlands - 4 £69,500 - 5
Wales -39 3 - - 2
North East -49 2 £55,000 -6.38% 2
Scotland +7 1 - - 5

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.31%) Apache
4 3 (1.31%) IIS
4 3 (1.31%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 114 (49.78%) Azure
2 90 (39.30%) AWS
3 61 (26.64%) GitHub
4 39 (17.03%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (12.66%) Amazon S3
6 29 (12.66%) Entra ID
7 28 (12.23%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (11.35%) Serverless
9 25 (10.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (10.48%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (10.48%) GCP
11 21 (9.17%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (8.30%) PaaS
13 17 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (6.99%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (6.99%) IaaS
15 15 (6.55%) Azure AKS
15 15 (6.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 53 (23.14%) Firewall
2 25 (10.92%) VPN
3 17 (7.42%) Network Security
4 15 (6.55%) Kerberos
5 10 (4.37%) DNS
6 9 (3.93%) WAN
7 8 (3.49%) VLAN
8 7 (3.06%) LAN
9 6 (2.62%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.62%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.62%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.62%) WebEx
10 4 (1.75%) DHCP
11 2 (0.87%) SAN
11 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.87%) Wireless
12 1 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.44%) NGFW
12 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.49%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.31%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.31%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.31%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.87%) Big Data
6 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.87%) MySQL
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.44%) Trino
Development Applications
1 34 (14.85%) Git
2 25 (10.92%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.55%) GitLab
4 9 (3.93%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.31%) Subversion
7 2 (0.87%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.44%) git-flow
8 1 (0.44%) JIRA
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.16%) Finance
3 24 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.11%) Retail
6 12 (5.24%) Aerospace
7 10 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.37%) Legal
8 9 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.49%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.06%) Banking
11 6 (2.62%) Law
11 6 (2.62%) Marketing
12 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.31%) Automotive
13 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.31%) Electronics
13 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.87%) Advertising
15 1 (0.44%) German Language
Job Titles
1 63 (27.51%) Senior
2 50 (21.83%) Platform Engineer
3 43 (18.78%) Azure Engineer
4 42 (18.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 39 (17.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 37 (16.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (10.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 21 (9.17%) Architect
9 20 (8.73%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 18 (7.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 16 (6.99%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (6.55%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (5.24%) Lead
13 12 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (4.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 11 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (4.37%) Data Engineer
15 10 (4.37%) Security Engineer
16 9 (3.93%) AWS DevOps
16 9 (3.93%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.99%) Node.js
2 15 (6.55%) LDAP
2 15 (6.55%) OAuth
3 14 (6.11%) OpenID
3 14 (6.11%) SAML
4 13 (5.68%) REST
5 8 (3.49%) ARM Templates
5 8 (3.49%) YAML
6 7 (3.06%) Loki
7 6 (2.62%) XMPP
8 5 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.18%) RESTful
9 4 (1.75%) Kafka
10 3 (1.31%) .NET
10 3 (1.31%) PySpark
10 3 (1.31%) React
11 2 (0.87%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.87%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.27%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (8.30%) Private Cloud
4 16 (6.99%) Public Cloud
5 15 (6.55%) Data Centre
6 14 (6.11%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.37%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.93%) CMDB
8 9 (3.93%) Replication
9 8 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.49%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.62%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.62%) Podcast
10 6 (2.62%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.18%) PKI
12 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 70 (30.57%) Linux
2 47 (20.52%) Windows
3 20 (8.73%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.75%) Unix
5 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Android
6 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (65.94%) CI/CD
2 143 (62.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 137 (59.83%) DevOps
4 71 (31.00%) Platform Engineering
5 57 (24.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 55 (24.02%) Observability
7 54 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 53 (23.14%) Cloud Security
9 52 (22.71%) Containerisation
10 49 (21.40%) Agile
11 44 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (18.78%) Mentoring
13 35 (15.28%) Disaster Recovery
14 33 (14.41%) Configuration Management
15 32 (13.97%) Test Automation
16 29 (12.66%) Roadmaps
17 28 (12.23%) AI
17 28 (12.23%) RBAC
18 27 (11.79%) Migration
19 26 (11.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 118 (51.53%) Python
2 77 (33.62%) PowerShell
3 66 (28.82%) Bash
4 29 (12.66%) Bicep
5 24 (10.48%) SQL
6 17 (7.42%) Go
7 15 (6.55%) Java
8 6 (2.62%) C#
9 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.31%) Elixir
10 3 (1.31%) Erlang
11 2 (0.87%) Groovy
11 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.44%) ABAP
12 1 (0.44%) C
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (24.89%) Security Cleared
2 34 (14.85%) Degree
3 25 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.86%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.55%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.55%) CISSP
6 13 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.24%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.87%) CCIE
10 2 (0.87%) CCNP
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.44%) CCNA
11 1 (0.44%) CISM
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.37%) NIST
2 5 (2.18%) QA
3 4 (1.75%) GDPR
3 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.31%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) GxP
System Software
1 47 (20.52%) Docker
2 37 (16.16%) Active Directory
3 25 (10.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (6.99%) vSphere
5 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 9 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.93%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.06%) BitLocker
6 7 (3.06%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.75%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 166 (72.49%) Terraform
2 85 (37.12%) Kubernetes
3 83 (36.24%) Ansible
4 51 (22.27%) Grafana
5 39 (17.03%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (5.24%) Puppet
7 10 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (3.49%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.06%) Packer
9 7 (3.06%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.62%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (2.18%) Argo
12 4 (1.75%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.31%) Scalr
14 2 (0.87%) Rancher
14 2 (0.87%) yum
15 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.44%) Istio
15 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 62 (27.07%) Microsoft
2 41 (17.90%) VMware
3 16 (6.99%) Cisco
4 14 (6.11%) Palo Alto
5 8 (3.49%) Citrix
6 7 (3.06%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.06%) Google
6 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.06%) Splunk
7 6 (2.62%) EMC
7 6 (2.62%) F5
7 6 (2.62%) NetApp
7 6 (2.62%) Tenable
8 4 (1.75%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.31%) Databricks
9 3 (1.31%) Dell
9 3 (1.31%) IFS
9 3 (1.31%) Oracle
9 3 (1.31%) SolarWinds