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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 458 508 559
Rank change year-on-year +50 +51 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 378 171 237
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.35% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.39% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 241 122 173
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,813 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £75,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,750 £112,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £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 84,848 43,853 63,499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.08% 88.72% 81.26%
Number of salaries quoted 58,707 24,746 35,929
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £42,500
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 19 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 19 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 +33 338 £70,400 -9.16% 500
UK excluding London -4 211 £65,000 - 251
London -29 129 £85,000 - 276
Work from Home -13 99 £70,000 -3.45% 182
North of England -27 78 £55,000 -12.00% 86
South West -30 50 £75,000 - 26
South East -15 46 £65,000 -13.33% 78
North West -8 37 £70,400 -2.90% 47
Yorkshire -25 22 £58,750 -6.00% 26
North East -50 22 £55,000 -16.98% 13
East of England -16 13 £45,000 -10.00% 8
Wales -66 11 £64,750 +15.11% 1
Midlands -43 10 £62,000 +6.44% 24
West Midlands -42 7 £62,000 +3.33% 11
East Midlands -35 3 £41,000 -29.61% 13
Scotland +1 2 - - 23
Northern Ireland - 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 10 (2.65%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.38%) Apache
3 8 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.85%) Confluence
4 7 (1.85%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.85%) nginx
4 7 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.59%) IIS
6 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.06%) SAS
7 2 (0.53%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.26%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 189 (50.00%) Azure
2 146 (38.62%) AWS
3 84 (22.22%) GitHub
4 66 (17.46%) Azure DevOps
5 53 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (12.96%) Entra ID
7 48 (12.70%) GCP
8 47 (12.43%) Amazon S3
9 45 (11.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (11.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (10.85%) Serverless
12 40 (10.58%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (9.26%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (8.99%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (8.99%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (8.20%) Azure AKS
16 27 (7.14%) SaaS
17 21 (5.56%) PaaS
18 20 (5.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 18 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (15.08%) Firewall
2 34 (8.99%) VPN
3 21 (5.56%) DNS
4 20 (5.29%) Kerberos
5 16 (4.23%) Network Security
6 13 (3.44%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.65%) DHCP
8 9 (2.38%) WAN
9 6 (1.59%) LAN
10 4 (1.06%) NAS
10 4 (1.06%) VLAN
11 3 (0.79%) BGP
11 3 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.79%) WebEx
11 3 (0.79%) Wireless
12 2 (0.53%) SAN
12 2 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
13 1 (0.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.32%) MySQL
6 5 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.06%) Ataccama
7 4 (1.06%) IBM InfoSphere
7 4 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.06%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.06%) TIBCO EBX
8 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (12.70%) Jenkins
2 46 (12.17%) GitLab
3 45 (11.90%) Git
4 16 (4.23%) JIRA
5 7 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.79%) Snyk
7 3 (0.79%) Subversion
8 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.53%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.53%) JMeter
8 2 (0.53%) Postman
8 2 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.53%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.26%) Flyway
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 69 (18.25%) Finance
1 69 (18.25%) Social Skills
2 36 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (7.67%) Public Sector
4 21 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.29%) Law
6 13 (3.44%) Retail
7 12 (3.17%) Aerospace
7 12 (3.17%) Banking
8 7 (1.85%) Legal
8 7 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.79%) Legal Technology
10 3 (0.79%) Marketing
11 2 (0.53%) Automotive
11 2 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 95 (25.13%) Senior
2 94 (24.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 73 (19.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (16.14%) Azure Engineer
5 60 (15.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 53 (14.02%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (8.73%) Architect
8 30 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
9 28 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 26 (6.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 24 (6.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 24 (6.35%) Lead
11 24 (6.35%) Senior DevOps
12 23 (6.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (4.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 15 (3.97%) Administrator
16 13 (3.44%) Security Engineer
16 13 (3.44%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (60.58%) Terraform
2 22 (5.82%) ARM Templates
2 22 (5.82%) OpenID
2 22 (5.82%) SAML
3 20 (5.29%) OAuth
4 18 (4.76%) Node.js
5 16 (4.23%) LDAP
5 16 (4.23%) REST
6 10 (2.65%) RESTful
7 9 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.12%) .NET
9 7 (1.85%) Loki
9 7 (1.85%) PySpark
9 7 (1.85%) YAML
10 6 (1.59%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.59%) Kafka
10 6 (1.59%) OpenTofu
10 6 (1.59%) Pulumi
11 5 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (1.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 96 (25.40%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (7.67%) Linux Command Line
4 25 (6.61%) Private Cloud
5 21 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.44%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.38%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.38%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.38%) Security Posture
10 9 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (2.12%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.59%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.59%) Replication
13 5 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 118 (31.22%) Linux
2 73 (19.31%) Windows
3 32 (8.47%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.17%) Unix
6 9 (2.38%) Debian
7 7 (1.85%) Rocky
7 7 (1.85%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.59%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.53%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.26%) Android
11 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.26%) CentOS
11 1 (0.26%) Solaris
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (68.52%) CI/CD
2 248 (65.61%) DevOps
3 222 (58.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (33.07%) Platform Engineering
5 116 (30.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 102 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 89 (23.54%) Cloud Security
8 89 (23.54%) Containerisation
9 88 (23.28%) Agile
10 87 (23.02%) Observability
11 67 (17.72%) Mentoring
12 59 (15.61%) AI
12 59 (15.61%) Migration
13 50 (13.23%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (12.43%) Roadmaps
15 46 (12.17%) Identity Access Management
16 45 (11.90%) Disaster Recovery
16 45 (11.90%) Test Automation
17 43 (11.38%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 191 (50.53%) Python
2 128 (33.86%) PowerShell
3 125 (33.07%) Bash
4 48 (12.70%) SQL
5 32 (8.47%) Bicep
6 23 (6.08%) Go
7 17 (4.50%) Java
8 8 (2.12%) PHP
9 7 (1.85%) C#
10 6 (1.59%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.32%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.79%) Ruby
14 2 (0.53%) C
14 2 (0.53%) C++
14 2 (0.53%) Fortran
14 2 (0.53%) Groovy
14 2 (0.53%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.53%) Rust
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 115 (30.42%) Security Cleared
2 63 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.20%) DV Cleared
4 29 (7.67%) Degree
5 19 (5.03%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.50%) AWS Certification
7 16 (4.23%) CISSP
8 12 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.59%) A+ Certification
9 6 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.53%) CCNP
12 2 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.53%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.44%) QA
3 10 (2.65%) NIST
4 7 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.79%) GDPR
5 3 (0.79%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.53%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.26%) GxP
System Software
1 100 (26.46%) Docker
2 57 (15.08%) Active Directory
3 29 (7.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.97%) vSphere
5 12 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.85%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.85%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.59%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.06%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.53%) Xen
12 1 (0.26%) Firmware
12 1 (0.26%) GPFS
12 1 (0.26%) NFS
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 145 (38.36%) Kubernetes
2 110 (29.10%) Ansible
3 48 (12.70%) Grafana
4 43 (11.38%) Prometheus
5 18 (4.76%) Puppet
6 15 (3.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.44%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.65%) Argo
9 8 (2.12%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.85%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.59%) Istio
11 6 (1.59%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.32%) Packer
12 5 (1.32%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.79%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.53%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 2 (0.53%) Podman
14 2 (0.53%) Rancher
14 2 (0.53%) Scalr
Vendors
1 104 (27.51%) Microsoft
2 45 (11.90%) VMware
3 21 (5.56%) Google
4 17 (4.50%) Cisco
5 14 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.85%) Citrix
6 7 (1.85%) Fortinet
6 7 (1.85%) NetApp
6 7 (1.85%) Palo Alto
7 6 (1.59%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.59%) Databricks
7 6 (1.59%) IBM
7 6 (1.59%) Okta
8 5 (1.32%) EMC
8 5 (1.32%) Tenable
9 4 (1.06%) F5
9 4 (1.06%) Informatica
9 4 (1.06%) Oracle
9 4 (1.06%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.06%) TIBCO