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 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 499 527 632
Rank change year-on-year +28 +105 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 163 155 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.34% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 112 99 134
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,113 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £89,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £110,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £69,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% +10.40% +2.46%

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 53,424 45,785 66,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.46% 92.29% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 31,947 22,286 51,175
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 15 February 2026.

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 15 February 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 +55 141 £75,000 - 85
UK excluding London +14 77 £67,500 -2.17% 58
London +20 74 £80,000 -3.03% 29
Work from Home +45 62 £74,875 -0.17% 43
North of England +1 25 £71,250 +23.91% 15
South East -15 16 £62,500 -13.79% 24
North West +18 15 £75,000 +50.00% 8
South West +3 11 £60,000 -11.11% 6
Scotland -4 11 - - 1
Yorkshire -27 9 £47,500 -25.33% 7
Midlands - 8 £72,500 - 8
East Midlands - 6 £67,000 - 2
East of England +23 5 £85,000 +17.24% 3
West Midlands - 2 £105,000 - 7
Wales +1 1 £47,500 -
North East -6 1 £85,000 +47.83%

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 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.91%) IIS
3 5 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.07%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.07%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.45%) Confluence
5 3 (1.84%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.84%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.61%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Weka
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.61%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 90 (55.21%) Azure
2 79 (48.47%) AWS
3 36 (22.09%) GitHub
4 32 (19.63%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (15.34%) GCP
6 22 (13.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (13.50%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (12.88%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (11.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (9.20%) OpenShift
9 15 (9.20%) PaaS
10 13 (7.98%) Serverless
11 12 (7.36%) IaaS
12 11 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
12 11 (6.75%) SaaS
13 10 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (5.52%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (5.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (4.91%) Azure AKS
15 8 (4.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 31 (19.02%) Firewall
2 23 (14.11%) VPN
3 12 (7.36%) DNS
4 11 (6.75%) Network Security
5 8 (4.91%) WAN
6 5 (3.07%) Kerberos
6 5 (3.07%) LAN
6 5 (3.07%) VLAN
7 4 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.84%) DHCP
9 2 (1.23%) SAN
9 2 (1.23%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.23%) Wireless
10 1 (0.61%) Broadband
10 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.61%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.45%) Big Data
4 3 (1.84%) Apache Hive
4 3 (1.84%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.84%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.84%) MySQL
4 3 (1.84%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.61%) Power BI
6 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (17.18%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.27%) GitLab
3 16 (9.82%) Git
4 9 (5.52%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.29%) JIRA
6 6 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.23%) Subversion
7 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.61%) JUnit
8 1 (0.61%) Mockito
8 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (33.13%) Social Skills
2 39 (23.93%) Finance
3 15 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.91%) Aerospace
5 7 (4.29%) Retail
6 5 (3.07%) Banking
6 5 (3.07%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.45%) Advertising
7 4 (2.45%) Law
8 3 (1.84%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.61%) German Language
10 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (24.54%) Platform Engineer
2 34 (20.86%) Senior
3 33 (20.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 33 (20.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (10.43%) Azure Engineer
4 17 (10.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.98%) Architect
5 13 (7.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 12 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.91%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (4.91%) Lead
8 8 (4.91%) Network Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) Administrator
9 7 (4.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) CloudOps Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.68%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.13%) RESTful
2 9 (5.52%) ARM Templates
3 8 (4.91%) Kafka
3 8 (4.91%) REST
4 7 (4.29%) Loki
4 7 (4.29%) Node.js
4 7 (4.29%) OAuth
5 6 (3.68%) LDAP
6 5 (3.07%) Middleware
6 5 (3.07%) React
7 4 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.45%) YAML
8 3 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.84%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.84%) HTML
8 3 (1.84%) JDBC
8 3 (1.84%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.84%) ODBC
8 3 (1.84%) OpenID
8 3 (1.84%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.72%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.98%) Private Cloud
3 10 (6.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.07%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.45%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.45%) PKI
6 4 (2.45%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.84%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.84%) CMDB
7 3 (1.84%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.23%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.23%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 66 (40.49%) Linux
2 25 (15.34%) Windows
3 14 (8.59%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.07%) VMS
6 5 (3.07%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.45%) Unix
8 3 (1.84%) SUSE
9 2 (1.23%) CentOS
10 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (71.78%) CI/CD
2 113 (69.33%) DevOps
3 86 (52.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (30.67%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (29.45%) Platform Engineering
6 46 (28.22%) Containerisation
7 45 (27.61%) Agile
8 42 (25.77%) Cloud Security
8 42 (25.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (20.86%) Observability
10 32 (19.63%) Configuration Management
11 28 (17.18%) AI
11 28 (17.18%) Disaster Recovery
12 27 (16.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 19 (11.66%) Task Automation
14 18 (11.04%) High Availability
15 17 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
16 16 (9.82%) DevSecOps
17 15 (9.20%) RBAC
17 15 (9.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (52.76%) Python
2 61 (37.42%) PowerShell
3 50 (30.67%) Bash
4 18 (11.04%) Bicep
4 18 (11.04%) SQL
5 15 (9.20%) Go
5 15 (9.20%) Java
6 8 (4.91%) C#
7 7 (4.29%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.45%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.84%) Elixir
9 3 (1.84%) Erlang
10 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (16.56%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.34%) Degree
3 13 (7.98%) AWS Certification
4 12 (7.36%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (6.13%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.91%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.07%) CCIE
9 5 (3.07%) CCNP
9 5 (3.07%) CISSP
10 2 (1.23%) CCNA
10 2 (1.23%) CISM
10 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.61%) GCIH
11 1 (0.61%) GIAC
11 1 (0.61%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.61%) RHCE
11 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.13%) QA
2 8 (4.91%) NIST
3 6 (3.68%) GDPR
4 5 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.45%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.45%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.23%) GxP
8 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.61%) GRC
8 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
System Software
1 55 (33.74%) Docker
2 19 (11.66%) Active Directory
3 17 (10.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (5.52%) vSphere
5 7 (4.29%) VMware NSX
6 5 (3.07%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.84%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.23%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.61%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 119 (73.01%) Terraform
2 97 (59.51%) Kubernetes
3 73 (44.79%) Ansible
4 40 (24.54%) Grafana
5 38 (23.31%) Prometheus
6 17 (10.43%) Puppet
7 11 (6.75%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.68%) Argo
8 6 (3.68%) Proxmox
9 5 (3.07%) Rancher
10 4 (2.45%) CASB
10 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.45%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.84%) Kubeflow
12 2 (1.23%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.23%) yum
13 1 (0.61%) Control-M
13 1 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 39 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 37 (22.70%) VMware
3 10 (6.13%) Cisco
3 10 (6.13%) Oracle
3 10 (6.13%) Red Hat
4 8 (4.91%) Palo Alto
4 8 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.68%) Fortinet
5 6 (3.68%) SolarWinds
6 5 (3.07%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.07%) Foundry
6 5 (3.07%) Splunk
7 4 (2.45%) Cribl.io
7 4 (2.45%) Databricks
7 4 (2.45%) IFS
7 4 (2.45%) Meraki
8 3 (1.84%) Dell
8 3 (1.84%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.84%) LogicMonitor
8 3 (1.84%) Palantir