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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 510 523 536
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 -2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 144 181 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.32% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.36% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 103 122 132
10th Percentile £47,844 £53,979 £51,375
25th Percentile £56,875 £67,225 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,500 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +8.80% -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 49,171 50,180 47,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.02% 89.77% 91.92%
Number of salaries quoted 28,914 25,122 36,044
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.67%

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 26 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 26 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 +25 123 £72,500 -3.33% 376
London +28 73 £80,000 -3.61% 48
UK excluding London +45 62 £65,000 -4.41% 355
Work from Home +36 50 £76,250 +1.67% 127
North of England +29 22 £67,500 +8.00% 80
North West +39 16 £72,500 +31.82% 33
Scotland +14 12 - - 12
South East -2 10 £70,000 +1.45% 91
Midlands +30 7 £67,500 -0.74% 64
South West +13 6 £61,250 -9.26% 50
Yorkshire -19 5 £47,500 -25.33% 43
East Midlands - 4 £61,250 - 24
West Midlands +35 3 £105,000 +54.41% 36
East of England +21 3 £55,000 -21.43% 54
Wales +11 2 £52,500 - 7
North East +14 1 £85,000 +21.43% 6

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 (6.94%) IIS
2 5 (3.47%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.78%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.78%) Confluence
3 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.69%) SAS
5 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Weka
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 94 (65.28%) Azure
2 70 (48.61%) AWS
3 36 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (18.06%) GitHub
5 22 (15.28%) GCP
6 20 (13.89%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (9.03%) OpenShift
9 12 (8.33%) PaaS
10 11 (7.64%) Serverless
11 10 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (6.94%) SaaS
12 9 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (4.86%) IaaS
15 6 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (4.17%) Azure AKS
15 6 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.58%) Firewall
2 12 (8.33%) DNS
2 12 (8.33%) VPN
3 8 (5.56%) WAN
4 7 (4.86%) Network Security
5 6 (4.17%) LAN
6 5 (3.47%) VLAN
7 4 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.39%) DHCP
8 2 (1.39%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.39%) SAN
8 2 (1.39%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.69%) VSAN
9 1 (0.69%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.08%) Apache Hive
4 3 (2.08%) Big Data
4 3 (2.08%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.39%) MySQL
5 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 20 (13.89%) Git
3 18 (12.50%) GitLab
4 7 (4.86%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.86%) JIRA
5 6 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.08%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.69%) JUnit
8 1 (0.69%) Mockito
8 1 (0.69%) Subversion
8 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 38 (26.39%) Finance
3 10 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (6.94%) Law
4 6 (4.17%) Banking
5 5 (3.47%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.78%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.08%) Advertising
8 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Legal
8 2 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (23.61%) Platform Engineer
2 29 (20.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (18.06%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (15.28%) Senior
5 13 (9.03%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Architect
8 9 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Network Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Data Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) CloudOps Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Security Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
13 4 (2.78%) Product Owner
13 4 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 8 (5.56%) RESTful
2 7 (4.86%) Kafka
2 7 (4.86%) YAML
3 5 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (3.47%) Node.js
3 5 (3.47%) REST
4 4 (2.78%) Middleware
4 4 (2.78%) OAuth
4 4 (2.78%) OpenTelemetry
4 4 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (2.08%) HTML
5 3 (2.08%) JDBC
5 3 (2.08%) LDAP
5 3 (2.08%) Loki
5 3 (2.08%) OAuth2
5 3 (2.08%) ODBC
5 3 (2.08%) React
6 2 (1.39%) Redux
6 2 (1.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.64%) Private Cloud
3 7 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.47%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) CMDB
8 2 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.69%) IoT
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.69%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (38.89%) Linux
2 31 (21.53%) Windows
3 22 (15.28%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.17%) VMS
5 6 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.47%) Unix
6 5 (3.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.08%) SUSE
8 2 (1.39%) CentOS
9 1 (0.69%) Solaris
9 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (71.53%) CI/CD
2 96 (66.67%) DevOps
3 68 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 44 (30.56%) Platform Engineering
7 41 (28.47%) Agile
8 31 (21.53%) Cloud Security
8 31 (21.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (19.44%) AI
10 24 (16.67%) Configuration Management
10 24 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
10 24 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 24 (16.67%) Observability
11 20 (13.89%) High Availability
12 17 (11.81%) Task Automation
13 16 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (11.11%) Incident Response
14 15 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
15 14 (9.72%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.83%) Python
2 61 (42.36%) PowerShell
3 36 (25.00%) Bash
4 16 (11.11%) SQL
5 13 (9.03%) Bicep
6 10 (6.94%) Java
7 7 (4.86%) C#
8 5 (3.47%) Go
9 4 (2.78%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.78%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.39%) Perl
11 1 (0.69%) C
11 1 (0.69%) Elixir
11 1 (0.69%) Erlang
11 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.42%) Degree
3 10 (6.94%) Azure Certification
4 9 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.56%) DV Cleared
6 7 (4.86%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.86%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.47%) CCNP
7 5 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.78%) CCIE
8 4 (2.78%) CISSP
8 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.39%) CISM
9 2 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.69%) GAWN
10 1 (0.69%) GREM
10 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) QA
2 9 (6.25%) GDPR
3 6 (4.17%) NIST
4 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.39%) GRC
6 2 (1.39%) GxP
6 2 (1.39%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (36.81%) Docker
2 17 (11.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 8 (5.56%) vSphere
5 6 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.39%) vCloud
7 2 (1.39%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.69%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 100 (69.44%) Terraform
2 85 (59.03%) Kubernetes
3 65 (45.14%) Ansible
4 28 (19.44%) Prometheus
5 24 (16.67%) Grafana
6 11 (7.64%) Puppet
7 7 (4.86%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.78%) Argo
8 4 (2.78%) CASB
8 4 (2.78%) Kubeflow
8 4 (2.78%) Rancher
9 3 (2.08%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.39%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.69%) Control-M
11 1 (0.69%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.69%) yum
Vendors
1 33 (22.92%) VMware
2 32 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.72%) Cisco
3 14 (9.72%) ServiceNow
4 12 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.56%) Foundry
5 8 (5.56%) Oracle
6 7 (4.86%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.17%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.47%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.47%) Dynatrace
8 5 (3.47%) Splunk
9 4 (2.78%) Databricks
9 4 (2.78%) Meraki
9 4 (2.78%) Palantir
10 3 (2.08%) Dell
10 3 (2.08%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (1.39%) Ping Identity
12 1 (0.69%) Zscaler