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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 478 536 649
Rank change year-on-year +58 +113 -80
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 276 145 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.34% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 168 104 186
10th Percentile £47,089 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,625 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +14.81% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,750 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +3.31%

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 71,035 42,845 86,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.51% 91.34% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 49,086 23,535 61,317
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.00% - -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 2 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 15 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 2 July 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 +34 249 £74,750 -6.56% 129
UK excluding London +18 137 £68,750 +10.00% 92
London +2 106 £85,000 +3.03% 53
Work from Home +36 100 £70,000 - 52
South West -24 41 £75,000 - 19
North of England -34 38 £70,400 +17.33% 26
South East -10 33 £62,500 -16.67% 31
North West +4 23 £74,500 +24.17% 16
Midlands -20 12 £68,250 +30.00% 5
Yorkshire -30 11 £62,500 - 8
East of England -11 8 £45,000 - 1
West Midlands -23 7 £72,500 +38.10% 5
Wales -41 5 £64,750 +12.61% 3
East Midlands - 5 £64,000 -
North East -51 4 £55,000 -8.33% 2

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 9 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.17%) Apache
3 6 (2.17%) IIS
3 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.17%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.81%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.45%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.09%) nginx
6 3 (1.09%) SAS
7 1 (0.36%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.36%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (52.54%) Azure
2 103 (37.32%) AWS
3 71 (25.72%) GitHub
4 51 (18.48%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (14.49%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (13.04%) Entra ID
7 32 (11.59%) GCP
8 31 (11.23%) Amazon S3
9 29 (10.51%) Amazon EKS
10 28 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (9.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (8.70%) PaaS
12 24 (8.70%) Serverless
13 23 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (7.97%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (7.25%) Azure AKS
16 19 (6.88%) IaaS
17 17 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (6.16%) SaaS
18 16 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (21.74%) Firewall
2 28 (10.14%) VPN
3 22 (7.97%) Kerberos
4 19 (6.88%) Network Security
5 12 (4.35%) DNS
6 10 (3.62%) WAN
7 8 (2.90%) LAN
8 7 (2.54%) VLAN
9 6 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.17%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.17%) WebEx
10 4 (1.45%) DHCP
10 4 (1.45%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.09%) NAS
11 3 (1.09%) Wireless
12 2 (0.72%) BGP
12 2 (0.72%) SAN
13 1 (0.36%) MPLS
13 1 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.07%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.81%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.09%) MySQL
8 2 (0.72%) Big Data
8 2 (0.72%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.36%) Ataccama
9 1 (0.36%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.36%) Power BI
9 1 (0.36%) TIBCO EBX
9 1 (0.36%) Trino
Development Applications
1 40 (14.49%) Git
2 29 (10.51%) Jenkins
3 23 (8.33%) GitLab
4 9 (3.26%) Visual Studio Code
5 6 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.81%) JIRA
7 4 (1.45%) Subversion
8 3 (1.09%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.72%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.36%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.36%) git-flow
10 1 (0.36%) Maven
General
1 51 (18.48%) Social Skills
2 49 (17.75%) Finance
3 28 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.07%) Retail
6 12 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 12 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.62%) Legal
8 9 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.90%) Law
9 8 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.17%) Banking
10 6 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.17%) Legal Technology
10 6 (2.17%) Marketing
11 3 (1.09%) Automotive
11 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Electronics
11 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.72%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 73 (26.45%) Senior
2 54 (19.57%) Azure Engineer
2 54 (19.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 51 (18.48%) Platform Engineer
4 49 (17.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 46 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (9.42%) Architect
7 25 (9.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 20 (7.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 20 (7.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 18 (6.52%) Automation Engineer
10 17 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (6.16%) Lead
11 16 (5.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 14 (5.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 14 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.99%) Administrator
15 11 (3.99%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.25%) OAuth
2 19 (6.88%) LDAP
2 19 (6.88%) OpenID
2 19 (6.88%) SAML
3 16 (5.80%) Node.js
3 16 (5.80%) REST
4 15 (5.43%) ARM Templates
5 9 (3.26%) Loki
6 8 (2.90%) RESTful
6 8 (2.90%) YAML
7 7 (2.54%) .NET
8 6 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (2.17%) XMPP
9 5 (1.81%) Kafka
9 5 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (1.81%) PySpark
9 5 (1.81%) React
10 3 (1.09%) Flask
11 2 (0.72%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 75 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 27 (9.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.61%) Private Cloud
4 16 (5.80%) Public Cloud
5 15 (5.43%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.07%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.26%) CMDB
8 9 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.26%) Replication
9 8 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (2.17%) FlexPod
11 6 (2.17%) Podcast
11 6 (2.17%) Security Posture
11 6 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.45%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 85 (30.80%) Linux
2 55 (19.93%) Windows
3 25 (9.06%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.45%) Debian
4 4 (1.45%) Unix
4 4 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.36%) Android
6 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.36%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (67.75%) CI/CD
2 171 (61.96%) DevOps
3 169 (61.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 83 (30.07%) Platform Engineering
5 67 (24.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 65 (23.55%) Agile
7 64 (23.19%) Containerisation
7 64 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 62 (22.46%) Cloud Security
9 60 (21.74%) Observability
9 60 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 51 (18.48%) Mentoring
11 39 (14.13%) Disaster Recovery
12 37 (13.41%) Identity Access Management
13 36 (13.04%) Configuration Management
13 36 (13.04%) Roadmaps
13 36 (13.04%) Test Automation
14 35 (12.68%) RBAC
15 34 (12.32%) Migration
16 33 (11.96%) AI
Programming Languages
1 139 (50.36%) Python
2 95 (34.42%) PowerShell
3 75 (27.17%) Bash
4 37 (13.41%) Bicep
5 31 (11.23%) SQL
6 19 (6.88%) Go
7 15 (5.43%) Java
8 8 (2.90%) C#
9 5 (1.81%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.45%) PHP
11 3 (1.09%) Ruby
12 2 (0.72%) Elixir
12 2 (0.72%) Erlang
12 2 (0.72%) Groovy
12 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.36%) ABAP
13 1 (0.36%) C++
13 1 (0.36%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 74 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.68%) Degree
2 35 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.52%) CISSP
3 18 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 15 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.07%) AWS Certification
5 14 (5.07%) Azure Certification
6 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) CCIE
8 2 (0.72%) CCNP
8 2 (0.72%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.36%) CCNA
9 1 (0.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.36%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.35%) NIST
2 8 (2.90%) QA
3 7 (2.54%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.54%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.45%) GDPR
5 3 (1.09%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.72%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.36%) GxP
System Software
1 61 (22.10%) Docker
2 46 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 27 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (5.80%) vSphere
5 12 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (3.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (3.26%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (2.90%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.54%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.81%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.36%) Firmware
10 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 188 (68.12%) Terraform
2 108 (39.13%) Kubernetes
3 96 (34.78%) Ansible
4 53 (19.20%) Grafana
5 41 (14.86%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.07%) Puppet
7 12 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.90%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.54%) Packer
9 7 (2.54%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.17%) Argo
10 6 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (1.81%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.09%) Scalr
13 2 (0.72%) Istio
14 1 (0.36%) Cilium
14 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.36%) Rancher
14 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 75 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.58%) VMware
3 17 (6.16%) Cisco
4 14 (5.07%) Palo Alto
5 9 (3.26%) Google
6 8 (2.90%) Citrix
7 7 (2.54%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.17%) EMC
8 6 (2.17%) F5
8 6 (2.17%) NetApp
8 6 (2.17%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.17%) Splunk
8 6 (2.17%) Tenable
9 5 (1.81%) Databricks
9 5 (1.81%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.45%) Cribl.io
11 3 (1.09%) Dell
11 3 (1.09%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.09%) IFS
11 3 (1.09%) SolarWinds