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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 532 585
Rank change year-on-year +67 +53 -83
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 347 158 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.35% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 222 118 167
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,813 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +13.97% +0.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 78,515 44,640 67,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.47% 89.25% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 54,079 25,322 43,171
10th Percentile £30,975 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,236 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 16 August 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 16 August 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 +50 310 £72,500 -6.45% 114
UK excluding London +28 193 £65,000 +4.00% 96
London -15 118 £85,000 +3.03% 34
Work from Home +17 107 £67,500 -3.57% 65
North of England -22 62 £62,500 - 37
South West -27 53 £75,000 - 17
South East -18 40 £65,000 -13.33% 29
North West -1 29 £72,500 +16.00% 21
North East -48 18 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Yorkshire -20 15 £62,500 - 11
Midlands -18 13 £63,000 +16.67% 5
East of England -21 12 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Wales -53 11 £64,750 +12.61% 1
West Midlands -23 9 £67,250 +12.08% 4
East Midlands -21 4 £52,500 -2.78% 1
Scotland +2 1 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.59%) Apache
2 9 (2.59%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.59%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.02%) IIS
3 7 (2.02%) Jupyter
3 7 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.73%) nginx
5 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (1.15%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Confluence
6 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 182 (52.45%) Azure
2 135 (38.90%) AWS
3 73 (21.04%) GitHub
4 61 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.26%) Entra ID
6 45 (12.97%) Amazon S3
7 44 (12.68%) GCP
8 41 (11.82%) GitHub Actions
9 39 (11.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (10.95%) Serverless
11 33 (9.51%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (9.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (9.22%) Amazon EKS
12 32 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (8.36%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (7.49%) Azure AKS
15 25 (7.20%) PaaS
16 24 (6.92%) SaaS
17 23 (6.63%) Microsoft 365
18 22 (6.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 60 (17.29%) Firewall
2 23 (6.63%) Kerberos
3 22 (6.34%) VPN
4 17 (4.90%) Network Security
5 15 (4.32%) DNS
6 12 (3.46%) WAN
7 11 (3.17%) LAN
8 8 (2.31%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.02%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (2.02%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (2.02%) Unified Communications
9 7 (2.02%) VLAN
9 7 (2.02%) WebEx
10 5 (1.44%) DHCP
11 4 (1.15%) NAS
11 4 (1.15%) Wireless
12 3 (0.86%) BGP
13 2 (0.58%) SAN
14 1 (0.29%) HTTP
14 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.05%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.59%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.44%) MySQL
6 5 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.15%) Ataccama
7 4 (1.15%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.15%) IBM InfoSphere
7 4 (1.15%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.15%) TIBCO EBX
8 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 46 (13.26%) Git
2 37 (10.66%) GitLab
3 36 (10.37%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.59%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.73%) JIRA
7 3 (0.86%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.86%) Subversion
8 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.58%) Snyk
8 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.58%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.29%) git-flow
9 1 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 59 (17.00%) Finance
1 59 (17.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (8.65%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (5.76%) Law
6 11 (3.17%) Retail
7 10 (2.88%) Legal
8 9 (2.59%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.59%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.31%) Banking
10 7 (2.02%) Marketing
11 6 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.73%) Legal Technology
12 3 (0.86%) Automotive
12 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Electronics
12 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (25.07%) Senior
2 76 (21.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (18.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (17.58%) Azure Engineer
5 60 (17.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 51 (14.70%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (8.65%) Architect
8 27 (7.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 25 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (6.63%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 22 (6.34%) Lead
11 22 (6.34%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 21 (6.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 19 (5.48%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
15 16 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
16 15 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 13 (3.75%) Data Engineer
17 13 (3.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 12 (3.46%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.63%) OAuth
1 23 (6.63%) OpenID
1 23 (6.63%) SAML
2 22 (6.34%) ARM Templates
3 19 (5.48%) LDAP
4 17 (4.90%) Node.js
4 17 (4.90%) REST
5 10 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (2.59%) .NET
6 9 (2.59%) RESTful
6 9 (2.59%) YAML
7 8 (2.31%) Loki
8 7 (2.02%) PySpark
8 7 (2.02%) XMPP
9 6 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (1.73%) React
10 5 (1.44%) Kafka
10 5 (1.44%) OAuth2
11 4 (1.15%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.15%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 95 (27.38%) Cloud Native
2 39 (11.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (6.34%) Linux Command Line
4 19 (5.48%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.48%) Private Cloud
5 15 (4.32%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.46%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.88%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.88%) Replication
9 9 (2.59%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (2.02%) FlexPod
11 7 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.73%) CMDB
12 6 (1.73%) Podcast
12 6 (1.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 105 (30.26%) Linux
2 76 (21.90%) Windows
3 36 (10.37%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.59%) Debian
6 6 (1.73%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.73%) Unix
7 4 (1.15%) Rocky
7 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.29%) Android
9 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.29%) Solaris
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (68.30%) CI/CD
2 216 (62.25%) DevOps
3 208 (59.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (31.70%) Platform Engineering
5 106 (30.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 88 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (24.50%) Containerisation
8 84 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (23.05%) Agile
10 75 (21.61%) Observability
11 70 (20.17%) Cloud Security
12 66 (19.02%) Mentoring
13 57 (16.43%) Migration
14 46 (13.26%) Roadmaps
14 46 (13.26%) Technical Leadership
14 46 (13.26%) Test Automation
15 43 (12.39%) AI
15 43 (12.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 43 (12.39%) Identity Access Management
16 38 (10.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 171 (49.28%) Python
2 116 (33.43%) PowerShell
3 104 (29.97%) Bash
4 43 (12.39%) SQL
5 36 (10.37%) Bicep
6 17 (4.90%) Java
7 15 (4.32%) Go
8 8 (2.31%) C#
8 8 (2.31%) PHP
9 4 (1.15%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.86%) Ruby
11 2 (0.58%) C
11 2 (0.58%) C++
11 2 (0.58%) Fortran
11 2 (0.58%) Groovy
11 2 (0.58%) Rust
11 2 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 49 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.51%) Degree
4 29 (8.36%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (5.48%) Azure Certification
7 18 (5.19%) CISSP
8 11 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (2.88%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.86%) CCNP
11 3 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.58%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.29%) CCIE
13 1 (0.29%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.03%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.46%) QA
3 10 (2.88%) NIST
4 7 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.86%) GDPR
6 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 92 (26.51%) Docker
2 55 (15.85%) Active Directory
3 37 (10.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (5.48%) vSphere
5 14 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.02%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.02%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (2.02%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.02%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (0.58%) Xen
9 1 (0.29%) Firmware
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 225 (64.84%) Terraform
2 133 (38.33%) Kubernetes
3 107 (30.84%) Ansible
4 47 (13.54%) Grafana
5 35 (10.09%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.19%) Puppet
7 16 (4.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (4.03%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.31%) Argo
10 7 (2.02%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (2.02%) Packer
10 7 (2.02%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.73%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.15%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.86%) Istio
13 3 (0.86%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.86%) Scalr
14 2 (0.58%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.58%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.58%) Rancher
Vendors
1 97 (27.95%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.54%) VMware
3 24 (6.92%) Cisco
4 17 (4.90%) Google
5 14 (4.03%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.59%) NetApp
7 8 (2.31%) Citrix
7 8 (2.31%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.31%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.31%) Splunk
8 6 (1.73%) EMC
8 6 (1.73%) F5
8 6 (1.73%) Okta
8 6 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.73%) Tenable
9 5 (1.44%) Databricks
10 4 (1.15%) Dell
10 4 (1.15%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.15%) IBM
10 4 (1.15%) Informatica