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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 510 568
Rank change year-on-year +33 +58 -71
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 365 171 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.39% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 233 121 174
10th Percentile £45,200 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £77,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +13.97% +0.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £110,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 81,751 43,862 64,233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.96% 88.49% 80.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,872 24,813 38,457
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,475 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.59%

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 7 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 17 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 7 September 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 +18 326 £70,400 -9.16% 416
UK excluding London +18 205 £65,000 +4.00% 202
London -25 122 £85,000 -0.58% 245
Work from Home -3 100 £68,750 -1.79% 154
North of England -21 70 £55,000 -12.00% 57
South West -30 53 £75,000 - 31
South East -12 45 £65,000 -13.33% 64
North West -8 33 £70,400 +2.40% 30
North East -50 20 £51,000 -15.00% 4
Yorkshire -32 17 £52,500 -16.00% 24
East of England -22 12 £45,000 -10.00% 15
Midlands -32 12 £62,000 +6.44% 16
Wales -57 11 £64,750 +15.11%
West Midlands -29 8 £62,000 +3.33% 5
East Midlands -28 4 £52,500 -9.87% 11
Scotland +1 1 - - 11
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9

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 10 (2.74%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.47%) Apache
2 9 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.19%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.92%) IIS
4 7 (1.92%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.64%) nginx
6 5 (1.37%) Confluence
7 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.10%) SAS
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 184 (50.41%) Azure
2 142 (38.90%) AWS
3 81 (22.19%) GitHub
4 63 (17.26%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (13.97%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (13.15%) Amazon S3
6 48 (13.15%) Entra ID
7 46 (12.60%) GCP
8 42 (11.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 42 (11.51%) Serverless
9 39 (10.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (10.68%) Amazon EKS
10 36 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (9.04%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (8.22%) Azure AKS
14 26 (7.12%) SaaS
15 25 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 21 (5.75%) PaaS
17 19 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (16.16%) Firewall
2 32 (8.77%) VPN
3 21 (5.75%) DNS
4 20 (5.48%) Kerberos
5 16 (4.38%) Network Security
6 12 (3.29%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.74%) WAN
8 9 (2.47%) DHCP
9 7 (1.92%) LAN
10 4 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (1.10%) NAS
10 4 (1.10%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.10%) VLAN
10 4 (1.10%) WebEx
11 3 (0.82%) BGP
11 3 (0.82%) Wireless
12 2 (0.55%) SAN
13 1 (0.27%) MPLS
13 1 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (6.03%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.47%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.37%) MySQL
7 5 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.10%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.10%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.10%) TIBCO EBX
9 3 (0.82%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (12.88%) Git
2 43 (11.78%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.68%) GitLab
4 12 (3.29%) JIRA
5 9 (2.47%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (2.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.82%) Subversion
9 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.55%) Snyk
9 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.55%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.27%) git-flow
10 1 (0.27%) JUnit
10 1 (0.27%) Maven
General
1 66 (18.08%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.81%) Finance
3 40 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.40%) Public Sector
5 22 (6.03%) Law
6 20 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.01%) Retail
8 10 (2.74%) Banking
9 9 (2.47%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.47%) Legal
9 9 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.92%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.37%) Legal Technology
13 4 (1.10%) Marketing
14 3 (0.82%) Automotive
14 3 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Electronics
14 3 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 95 (26.03%) Senior
2 84 (23.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 70 (19.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (16.71%) Azure Engineer
5 60 (16.44%) Cloud Engineer
6 55 (15.07%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (8.77%) Architect
8 30 (8.22%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 28 (7.67%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (7.12%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 26 (7.12%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 23 (6.30%) Senior DevOps
12 22 (6.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 22 (6.03%) Lead
13 18 (4.93%) Automation Engineer
14 17 (4.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 16 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.84%) Administrator
17 13 (3.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 12 (3.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (63.29%) Terraform
2 22 (6.03%) ARM Templates
3 21 (5.75%) OpenID
3 21 (5.75%) SAML
4 20 (5.48%) OAuth
5 18 (4.93%) Node.js
6 16 (4.38%) LDAP
6 16 (4.38%) REST
7 9 (2.47%) .NET
7 9 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.47%) YAML
8 8 (2.19%) Loki
8 8 (2.19%) RESTful
9 7 (1.92%) OpenTofu
9 7 (1.92%) PySpark
10 6 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (1.64%) React
11 5 (1.37%) AWS CDK
11 5 (1.37%) Kafka
12 4 (1.10%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 98 (26.85%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.67%) Linux Command Line
4 25 (6.85%) Private Cloud
5 20 (5.48%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.38%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.01%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.47%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.47%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.47%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.19%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (1.92%) Replication
12 6 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.64%) CMDB
12 6 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.37%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 112 (30.68%) Linux
2 78 (21.37%) Windows
3 34 (9.32%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.47%) Debian
5 9 (2.47%) Unix
6 6 (1.64%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.37%) Rocky
8 4 (1.10%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.27%) Android
10 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.27%) Solaris
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (69.32%) CI/CD
2 237 (64.93%) DevOps
3 215 (58.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 123 (33.70%) Platform Engineering
5 113 (30.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 96 (26.30%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (24.38%) Containerisation
8 88 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 84 (23.01%) Cloud Security
10 83 (22.74%) Observability
11 80 (21.92%) Agile
12 68 (18.63%) Mentoring
13 61 (16.71%) Migration
14 53 (14.52%) AI
15 50 (13.70%) Roadmaps
16 49 (13.42%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (12.60%) Identity Access Management
17 46 (12.60%) Test Automation
18 45 (12.33%) Disaster Recovery
19 41 (11.23%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 183 (50.14%) Python
2 124 (33.97%) PowerShell
3 117 (32.05%) Bash
4 46 (12.60%) SQL
5 32 (8.77%) Bicep
6 19 (5.21%) Go
7 17 (4.66%) Java
8 8 (2.19%) C#
8 8 (2.19%) PHP
9 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.82%) Ruby
10 3 (0.82%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.55%) C
11 2 (0.55%) C++
11 2 (0.55%) Fortran
11 2 (0.55%) Groovy
11 2 (0.55%) Rust
12 1 (0.27%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 104 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 52 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.49%) Degree
4 28 (7.67%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.38%) CISSP
7 14 (3.84%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.10%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.55%) CCNP
11 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.55%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.01%) QA
3 10 (2.74%) NIST
4 7 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.82%) GDPR
5 3 (0.82%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.55%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 98 (26.85%) Docker
2 58 (15.89%) Active Directory
3 34 (9.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.38%) vSphere
5 12 (3.29%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.19%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.92%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.92%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.55%) Xen
10 1 (0.27%) Firmware
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 141 (38.63%) Kubernetes
2 110 (30.14%) Ansible
3 48 (13.15%) Grafana
4 39 (10.68%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.66%) Puppet
6 16 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.19%) Argo
9 7 (1.92%) Packer
9 7 (1.92%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.64%) Istio
10 6 (1.64%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.64%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.82%) Scalr
13 2 (0.55%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.55%) Rancher
14 1 (0.27%) VxRail
Vendors
1 104 (28.49%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.88%) VMware
3 20 (5.48%) Cisco
3 20 (5.48%) Google
4 10 (2.74%) Palo Alto
5 9 (2.47%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.19%) Citrix
7 6 (1.64%) EMC
7 6 (1.64%) F5
7 6 (1.64%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.64%) NetApp
7 6 (1.64%) Okta
7 6 (1.64%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.64%) Tenable
8 5 (1.37%) Databricks
8 5 (1.37%) Splunk
9 4 (1.10%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.10%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.10%) IBM
9 4 (1.10%) Informatica