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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 511 514 698
Rank change year-on-year +3 +184 -91
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 229 135 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.34% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 130 94 153
10th Percentile £49,762 £52,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £61,750 £60,313 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,400 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.64% - -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 68,715 39,643 83,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.91% 93.27% 84.01%
Number of salaries quoted 44,731 20,766 60,219
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,839 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +12 203 £75,000 -6.25% 98
UK excluding London -6 107 £70,400 +12.64% 66
London +4 92 £85,000 +3.03% 41
Work from Home +58 87 £70,000 -9.68% 60
South West -28 33 £75,000 - 13
North of England -24 28 £72,500 +18.37% 16
South East -7 25 £62,500 -16.67% 19
North West -9 21 £74,500 +24.17% 7
Midlands -20 12 £68,250 -11.94% 9
West Midlands -30 7 £72,500 -6.45% 4
Yorkshire -39 6 £47,500 -24.00% 5
East of England -23 5 £85,000 +88.89% 3
East Midlands - 5 £64,000 - 5
Wales -37 3 - - 1
Scotland -3 1 - - 6
North East -40 1 £55,000 -4.35% 4

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 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.31%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.31%) IIS
3 3 (1.31%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.87%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 115 (50.22%) Azure
2 93 (40.61%) AWS
3 59 (25.76%) GitHub
4 39 (17.03%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (13.97%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (12.66%) Entra ID
8 27 (11.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (11.79%) GCP
9 26 (11.35%) Amazon S3
9 26 (11.35%) Serverless
10 23 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (9.61%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (9.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 20 (8.73%) PaaS
13 18 (7.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (7.42%) Amazon ECS
14 17 (7.42%) Azure AKS
14 17 (7.42%) IaaS
14 17 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 52 (22.71%) Firewall
2 25 (10.92%) VPN
3 17 (7.42%) Network Security
4 15 (6.55%) Kerberos
5 10 (4.37%) DNS
6 9 (3.93%) WAN
7 8 (3.49%) VLAN
8 7 (3.06%) LAN
9 6 (2.62%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.62%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.62%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.62%) WebEx
10 4 (1.75%) DHCP
11 2 (0.87%) SAN
11 2 (0.87%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.87%) Wireless
12 1 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.44%) NGFW
12 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (3.49%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.31%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.31%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.87%) Big Data
6 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.87%) MySQL
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (15.28%) Git
2 27 (11.79%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.99%) GitLab
4 9 (3.93%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.31%) Subversion
7 2 (0.87%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.44%) git-flow
8 1 (0.44%) JIRA
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.03%) Finance
3 24 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.11%) Aerospace
5 14 (6.11%) Retail
6 10 (4.37%) Legal
7 9 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.49%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.06%) Banking
10 6 (2.62%) Law
10 6 (2.62%) Marketing
11 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.31%) Automotive
12 3 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.31%) Electronics
12 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.87%) Advertising
14 1 (0.44%) German Language
Job Titles
1 61 (26.64%) Senior
2 51 (22.27%) Platform Engineer
3 44 (19.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 40 (17.47%) Azure Engineer
5 37 (16.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 37 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (10.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 23 (10.04%) Architect
8 18 (7.86%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (7.86%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 17 (7.42%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.68%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (5.24%) Lead
11 12 (5.24%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.37%) Data Engineer
13 10 (4.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.93%) Security Engineer
15 8 (3.49%) Administrator
15 8 (3.49%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.55%) LDAP
1 15 (6.55%) Node.js
1 15 (6.55%) OAuth
2 14 (6.11%) OpenID
2 14 (6.11%) REST
2 14 (6.11%) SAML
3 10 (4.37%) Loki
4 8 (3.49%) YAML
5 7 (3.06%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.62%) RESTful
6 6 (2.62%) XMPP
7 5 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.75%) Kafka
9 3 (1.31%) .NET
9 3 (1.31%) React
10 2 (0.87%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.87%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.87%) NestJS
10 2 (0.87%) PySpark
10 2 (0.87%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.40%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (8.30%) Private Cloud
4 16 (6.99%) Public Cloud
5 15 (6.55%) Data Centre
6 14 (6.11%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.37%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.93%) CMDB
8 9 (3.93%) Replication
9 8 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.49%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.62%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.62%) Podcast
10 6 (2.62%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.18%) PKI
12 4 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.31%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 76 (33.19%) Linux
2 48 (20.96%) Windows
3 20 (8.73%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.18%) Unix
5 2 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Android
6 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) SUSE
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (66.81%) CI/CD
2 144 (62.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 136 (59.39%) DevOps
4 71 (31.00%) Platform Engineering
5 59 (25.76%) Observability
6 57 (24.89%) Cloud Security
7 56 (24.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 55 (24.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 52 (22.71%) Containerisation
10 48 (20.96%) Agile
11 44 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (17.47%) Mentoring
13 38 (16.59%) Disaster Recovery
14 34 (14.85%) Configuration Management
15 29 (12.66%) Roadmaps
15 29 (12.66%) Test Automation
16 28 (12.23%) AI
16 28 (12.23%) DevSecOps
17 27 (11.79%) RBAC
18 26 (11.35%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 118 (51.53%) Python
2 78 (34.06%) PowerShell
3 69 (30.13%) Bash
4 28 (12.23%) Bicep
5 24 (10.48%) SQL
6 17 (7.42%) Go
7 16 (6.99%) Java
8 6 (2.62%) C#
9 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.31%) Elixir
10 3 (1.31%) Erlang
11 2 (0.87%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.44%) ABAP
12 1 (0.44%) C
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (24.02%) Security Cleared
2 38 (16.59%) Degree
3 23 (10.04%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.99%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.99%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.55%) CISSP
6 14 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.24%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.87%) CCIE
10 2 (0.87%) CCNP
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.44%) CCNA
11 1 (0.44%) CISM
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.80%) NIST
2 5 (2.18%) QA
3 4 (1.75%) GDPR
3 4 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.87%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.87%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.44%) GxP
System Software
1 49 (21.40%) Docker
2 37 (16.16%) Active Directory
3 26 (11.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (7.86%) vSphere
5 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 9 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.93%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (3.49%) VMware NSX
7 7 (3.06%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.75%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.44%) Firmware
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 168 (73.36%) Terraform
2 90 (39.30%) Kubernetes
3 87 (37.99%) Ansible
4 54 (23.58%) Grafana
5 42 (18.34%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.68%) Puppet
7 12 (5.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.49%) Proxmox
10 7 (3.06%) Packer
11 6 (2.62%) Argo
11 6 (2.62%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.62%) Progress Chef
12 4 (1.75%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.31%) Rancher
13 3 (1.31%) Scalr
14 2 (0.87%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.87%) yum
15 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
15 1 (0.44%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 64 (27.95%) Microsoft
2 43 (18.78%) VMware
3 16 (6.99%) Cisco
4 14 (6.11%) Palo Alto
5 8 (3.49%) Citrix
6 7 (3.06%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.06%) Google
6 7 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.06%) Splunk
7 6 (2.62%) EMC
7 6 (2.62%) F5
7 6 (2.62%) NetApp
7 6 (2.62%) Tenable
8 5 (2.18%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.75%) Cribl.io
9 4 (1.75%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.31%) Databricks
10 3 (1.31%) Dell
10 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.31%) IFS