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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 507 578
Rank change year-on-year +45 +71 -73
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 361 171 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.38% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 235 124 171
10th Percentile £45,400 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,438 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £76,250 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.67% +12.13% +0.74%
75th Percentile £86,875 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% -1.92%

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 80,048 44,438 65,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.13% 88.74% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 55,528 25,365 40,468
10th Percentile £31,125 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,803
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.50% -6.94%

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 29 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 17 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 29 August 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 +49 321 £70,400 -9.16% 409
UK excluding London +28 202 £65,000 +4.00% 209
London -20 120 £85,000 - 237
Work from Home +2 104 £67,500 -5.26% 171
North of England -19 68 £55,000 -12.00% 63
South West -15 55 £75,000 - 32
South East -10 42 £65,000 -13.33% 62
North West -9 31 £70,400 +2.40% 28
North East -44 20 £51,000 -15.00% 8
Yorkshire -27 17 £52,500 -16.00% 28
East of England -4 12 £45,000 -10.00% 15
Midlands -29 12 £62,000 +6.44% 15
Wales -59 11 £64,750 +15.11% 2
West Midlands -17 8 £62,000 +3.33% 5
East Midlands -24 4 £52,500 -9.87% 10
Scotland -5 1 - - 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 (2.77%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.49%) Apache
2 9 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.94%) IIS
4 7 (1.94%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.66%) nginx
6 4 (1.11%) Confluence
6 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.11%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 182 (50.42%) Azure
2 139 (38.50%) AWS
3 76 (21.05%) GitHub
4 62 (17.17%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (13.30%) Amazon S3
5 48 (13.30%) Entra ID
6 45 (12.47%) GitHub Actions
7 44 (12.19%) GCP
8 42 (11.63%) Serverless
9 41 (11.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 37 (10.25%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (9.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (9.97%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (9.14%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (7.48%) Azure AKS
15 25 (6.93%) SaaS
15 25 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 22 (6.09%) PaaS
17 20 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (16.34%) Firewall
2 27 (7.48%) VPN
3 21 (5.82%) Kerberos
4 19 (5.26%) DNS
5 17 (4.71%) Network Security
6 11 (3.05%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.05%) WAN
7 9 (2.49%) LAN
8 8 (2.22%) DHCP
9 5 (1.39%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (1.39%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (1.39%) Unified Communications
9 5 (1.39%) VLAN
9 5 (1.39%) WebEx
10 4 (1.11%) NAS
10 4 (1.11%) Wireless
11 3 (0.83%) BGP
12 2 (0.55%) SAN
13 1 (0.28%) MPLS
13 1 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.65%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.49%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.39%) MySQL
7 5 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.11%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.11%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.11%) TIBCO EBX
9 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (13.02%) Git
2 40 (11.08%) Jenkins
3 38 (10.53%) GitLab
4 11 (3.05%) JIRA
5 9 (2.49%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.83%) Subversion
9 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.55%) Snyk
9 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.55%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.28%) git-flow
10 1 (0.28%) JUnit
10 1 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 65 (18.01%) Finance
2 60 (16.62%) Social Skills
3 40 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.37%) Law
6 21 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.77%) Banking
7 10 (2.77%) Legal
7 10 (2.77%) Retail
8 9 (2.49%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.66%) Legal Technology
11 5 (1.39%) Marketing
12 3 (0.83%) Automotive
12 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Electronics
12 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 90 (24.93%) Senior
2 83 (22.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 71 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (16.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 60 (16.62%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (14.68%) Platform Engineer
7 31 (8.59%) Architect
8 28 (7.76%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (7.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 24 (6.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 24 (6.65%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 22 (6.09%) Lead
11 21 (5.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.54%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (4.99%) Automation Engineer
14 16 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (4.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 14 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.32%) Data Engineer
16 12 (3.32%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (63.16%) Terraform
2 22 (6.09%) ARM Templates
2 22 (6.09%) OpenID
2 22 (6.09%) SAML
3 21 (5.82%) OAuth
4 17 (4.71%) LDAP
4 17 (4.71%) Node.js
4 17 (4.71%) REST
5 9 (2.49%) .NET
5 9 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.49%) YAML
6 8 (2.22%) Loki
6 8 (2.22%) RESTful
7 7 (1.94%) OpenTofu
7 7 (1.94%) PySpark
8 6 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (1.66%) React
9 5 (1.39%) AWS CDK
9 5 (1.39%) Kafka
9 5 (1.39%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (26.87%) Cloud Native
2 42 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (7.48%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (6.09%) Private Cloud
5 20 (5.54%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.43%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.05%) Data Centre
8 11 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.77%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.49%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.22%) Replication
11 8 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.94%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.66%) CMDB
13 6 (1.66%) Podcast
14 5 (1.39%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 109 (30.19%) Linux
2 78 (21.61%) Windows
3 35 (9.70%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.49%) Debian
6 8 (2.22%) Unix
7 6 (1.66%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.39%) Rocky
9 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.28%) Android
12 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.28%) Solaris
12 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 232 (64.27%) DevOps
3 213 (59.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 118 (32.69%) Platform Engineering
5 114 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 93 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (24.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (24.10%) Containerisation
9 80 (22.16%) Agile
9 80 (22.16%) Observability
10 77 (21.33%) Cloud Security
11 68 (18.84%) Mentoring
12 61 (16.90%) Migration
13 50 (13.85%) Roadmaps
14 49 (13.57%) Technical Leadership
15 48 (13.30%) AI
16 46 (12.74%) Test Automation
17 45 (12.47%) Disaster Recovery
18 44 (12.19%) Identity Access Management
19 40 (11.08%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 178 (49.31%) Python
2 121 (33.52%) PowerShell
3 113 (31.30%) Bash
4 44 (12.19%) SQL
5 34 (9.42%) Bicep
6 17 (4.71%) Java
7 16 (4.43%) Go
8 8 (2.22%) C#
8 8 (2.22%) PHP
9 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.83%) Ruby
10 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.55%) C
11 2 (0.55%) C++
11 2 (0.55%) Fortran
11 2 (0.55%) Groovy
11 2 (0.55%) Rust
12 1 (0.28%) ABAP
12 1 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 104 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 52 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.86%) Degree
4 28 (7.76%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (4.71%) CISSP
7 12 (3.32%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.83%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.83%) CCNP
11 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.55%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.28%) CCIE
13 1 (0.28%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.05%) QA
3 10 (2.77%) NIST
4 7 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.83%) GDPR
5 3 (0.83%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.55%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 96 (26.59%) Docker
2 57 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 35 (9.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.71%) vSphere
5 13 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.22%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.94%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.94%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.55%) Xen
11 1 (0.28%) Firmware
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 136 (37.67%) Kubernetes
2 107 (29.64%) Ansible
3 46 (12.74%) Grafana
4 36 (9.97%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.71%) Puppet
6 16 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.60%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.22%) Argo
9 7 (1.94%) Packer
10 6 (1.66%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.66%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (1.11%) Istio
12 4 (1.11%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.11%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.83%) Scalr
14 2 (0.55%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.55%) Rancher
15 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 99 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 46 (12.74%) VMware
3 22 (6.09%) Cisco
4 18 (4.99%) Google
5 12 (3.32%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.49%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.22%) Citrix
8 7 (1.94%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.94%) NetApp
9 6 (1.66%) EMC
9 6 (1.66%) F5
9 6 (1.66%) Okta
9 6 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.66%) Splunk
9 6 (1.66%) Tenable
10 5 (1.39%) Databricks
11 4 (1.11%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.11%) IBM
11 4 (1.11%) Ping Identity
11 4 (1.11%) TIBCO