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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 540 527
Rank change year-on-year +35 -13 +18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 150 213 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.34% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.39% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 111 147 140
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,000 £51,125
25th Percentile £56,875 £63,625 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £86,750 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,113 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.68% +5.78% -3.85%

All Process and 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 46,704 54,735 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.99% 86.52% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 28,159 28,437 36,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.15%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +35 133 £75,000 - 156
London +41 80 £80,000 -3.03% 28
UK excluding London +46 64 £65,000 -1.68% 148
Work from Home +39 52 £75,000 +5.63% 119
North of England +47 24 £67,500 +12.50% 37
North West +54 18 £72,500 +38.10% 20
Scotland +25 11 - - 3
South East +2 10 £72,500 +13.73% 43
Midlands +49 8 £61,250 -9.93% 24
South West +13 6 £65,000 - 23
West Midlands +32 4 £60,000 -11.76% 11
Yorkshire -9 4 £47,500 -25.33% 17
East Midlands - 4 £61,250 - 11
East of England +25 3 £55,000 -21.43% 20
North East +11 2 £72,500 +3.57% 2
Wales +10 2 £52,500 - 3

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 (6.67%) IIS
2 5 (3.33%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.67%) Confluence
4 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) SAS
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.67%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 98 (65.33%) Azure
2 72 (48.00%) AWS
3 36 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (18.00%) GitHub
5 23 (15.33%) GCP
6 18 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.67%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (8.67%) OpenShift
8 13 (8.67%) Serverless
9 12 (8.00%) PaaS
9 12 (8.00%) SaaS
10 10 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (4.67%) IaaS
14 6 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (4.00%) Azure AKS
14 6 (4.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.33%) Firewall
2 13 (8.67%) DNS
3 10 (6.67%) VPN
4 8 (5.33%) Network Security
5 7 (4.67%) WAN
6 6 (4.00%) LAN
7 4 (2.67%) VLAN
7 4 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.00%) SAN
9 2 (1.33%) DHCP
9 2 (1.33%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.33%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.67%) Internet
10 1 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.67%) VSAN
10 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (2.00%) Apache Hive
3 3 (2.00%) Big Data
3 3 (2.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.33%) MySQL
4 2 (1.33%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 24 (16.00%) Git
3 20 (13.33%) GitLab
4 9 (6.00%) JIRA
5 7 (4.67%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.33%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.33%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.67%) JUnit
10 1 (0.67%) Mockito
General
1 50 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 37 (24.67%) Finance
3 12 (8.00%) Law
4 8 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.33%) Banking
5 5 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.00%) Advertising
7 2 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.67%) Retail
8 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (24.00%) Platform Engineer
2 27 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (13.33%) Senior
5 14 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.33%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (6.00%) Network Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) Architect
9 7 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.67%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.00%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) CloudOps Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Security Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
11 5 (3.33%) Systems Engineer
12 4 (2.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.67%) YAML
2 9 (6.00%) ARM Templates
2 9 (6.00%) RESTful
3 7 (4.67%) Kafka
3 7 (4.67%) Node.js
4 6 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (3.33%) React
5 5 (3.33%) REST
6 4 (2.67%) .NET
6 4 (2.67%) Jinja
6 4 (2.67%) LDAP
6 4 (2.67%) Middleware
6 4 (2.67%) OAuth
6 4 (2.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.00%) HTML
7 3 (2.00%) JDBC
7 3 (2.00%) LAMP
7 3 (2.00%) OAuth2
7 3 (2.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.00%) Private Cloud
3 7 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.00%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.33%) CMDB
8 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.67%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 60 (40.00%) Linux
2 33 (22.00%) Windows
3 22 (14.67%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.67%) VMS
6 6 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.33%) Unix
7 5 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (2.67%) CentOS
9 3 (2.00%) SUSE
9 3 (2.00%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.33%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 101 (67.33%) DevOps
3 75 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (30.67%) Containerisation
4 46 (30.67%) Platform Engineering
4 46 (30.67%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (28.00%) Agile
6 30 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 30 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (19.33%) AI
8 27 (18.00%) Observability
9 25 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 23 (15.33%) High Availability
10 23 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 21 (14.00%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (11.33%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (11.33%) Mentoring
13 16 (10.67%) Root Cause Analysis
13 16 (10.67%) Task Automation
14 15 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (48.67%) Python
2 64 (42.67%) PowerShell
3 38 (25.33%) Bash
4 18 (12.00%) SQL
5 13 (8.67%) Bicep
6 10 (6.67%) C#
7 9 (6.00%) Java
8 7 (4.67%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.00%) Go
10 4 (2.67%) JavaScript
11 2 (1.33%) Perl
12 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.67%) Scala
12 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (9.33%) Degree
2 12 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.33%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.00%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.33%) CCNP
6 5 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.67%) CCIE
7 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.00%) CISSP
8 3 (2.00%) RHCE
9 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.33%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.67%) GAWN
10 1 (0.67%) GREM
10 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.67%) QA
2 9 (6.00%) GDPR
3 5 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.67%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.67%) NIST
5 2 (1.33%) GRC
5 2 (1.33%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.67%) GxP
6 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (35.33%) Docker
2 20 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.67%) Active Directory
4 8 (5.33%) vSphere
5 6 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.67%) vCloud
6 4 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.33%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 99 (66.00%) Terraform
2 84 (56.00%) Kubernetes
3 71 (47.33%) Ansible
4 27 (18.00%) Prometheus
5 24 (16.00%) Grafana
6 10 (6.67%) Puppet
7 8 (5.33%) Progress Chef
8 6 (4.00%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.67%) CASB
9 4 (2.67%) Kubeflow
9 4 (2.67%) Rundeck
10 3 (2.00%) Argo
10 3 (2.00%) Rancher
11 2 (1.33%) Control-M
12 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.67%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (26.00%) VMware
2 33 (22.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.33%) Red Hat
4 15 (10.00%) Cisco
5 14 (9.33%) ServiceNow
6 11 (7.33%) Oracle
7 8 (5.33%) Foundry
8 7 (4.67%) Palo Alto
9 6 (4.00%) Atlassian
9 6 (4.00%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.33%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.67%) Databricks
11 4 (2.67%) Meraki
11 4 (2.67%) Palantir
11 4 (2.67%) Splunk
12 3 (2.00%) Dell
12 3 (2.00%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.33%) Google
13 2 (1.33%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (1.33%) Ping Identity