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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 529 709
Rank change year-on-year +13 +180 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 203 125 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.29% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.32% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 117 84 139
10th Percentile £47,617 £51,625 £52,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £64,188 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £111,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.08% +18.00% -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 67,118 39,358 81,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.74% 92.84% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,692 22,603 59,642
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,344 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 30 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 15 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 30 April 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 +13 180 £75,000 -6.25% 91
UK excluding London -35 95 £70,000 -5.08% 80
London +20 85 £80,500 -10.56% 27
Work from Home +46 73 £70,000 -9.68% 31
South West -24 28 £62,500 - 14
South East -29 24 £62,500 -16.67% 20
North of England -65 23 £71,450 +16.65% 18
North West -32 14 £80,000 - 7
Midlands -25 10 £72,500 -6.45% 7
Yorkshire -59 9 £47,500 -24.00% 6
West Midlands -18 5 £72,500 -6.45% 1
East of England -20 5 £85,000 +17.24% 11
East Midlands - 5 £64,000 - 6
Wales - 3 - - 4
Scotland -19 2 - - 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 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.45%) IIS
3 5 (2.46%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.97%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.48%) Confluence
5 3 (1.48%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.99%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.49%) Apache
7 1 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Weka
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 104 (51.23%) Azure
2 86 (42.36%) AWS
3 49 (24.14%) GitHub
4 32 (15.76%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (13.79%) Amazon EKS
7 25 (12.32%) GCP
8 23 (11.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (10.34%) Entra ID
10 20 (9.85%) Serverless
11 19 (9.36%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (8.87%) PaaS
12 18 (8.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (7.88%) Amazon S3
13 16 (7.88%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (7.88%) IaaS
13 16 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (6.90%) OpenShift
14 14 (6.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (20.20%) Firewall
2 24 (11.82%) VPN
3 15 (7.39%) Network Security
4 12 (5.91%) Kerberos
5 11 (5.42%) DNS
6 9 (4.43%) WAN
7 8 (3.94%) VLAN
8 6 (2.96%) LAN
9 5 (2.46%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (2.46%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (2.46%) Unified Communications
9 5 (2.46%) WebEx
10 4 (1.97%) DHCP
11 3 (1.48%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.99%) SAN
12 2 (0.99%) Wireless
13 1 (0.49%) BGP
13 1 (0.49%) OSPF
13 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.42%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.97%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.97%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.99%) Big Data
5 2 (0.99%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.99%) MySQL
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.49%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.49%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (15.76%) Git
2 31 (15.27%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.37%) GitLab
4 9 (4.43%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (3.94%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.96%) JIRA
7 4 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.48%) Subversion
9 1 (0.49%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.49%) git-flow
9 1 (0.49%) Maven
9 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 43 (21.18%) Finance
3 25 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.90%) Aerospace
5 13 (6.40%) Retail
6 10 (4.93%) Legal
7 9 (4.43%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.94%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.45%) Banking
9 7 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.45%) Law
10 5 (2.46%) Marketing
11 3 (1.48%) Advertising
11 3 (1.48%) Automotive
11 3 (1.48%) Electronics
11 3 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (23.15%) Senior
2 40 (19.70%) Platform Engineer
3 38 (18.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (16.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (15.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (15.27%) Azure Engineer
7 20 (9.85%) Architect
8 17 (8.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 16 (7.88%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (5.91%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (4.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 10 (4.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.43%) Lead
13 8 (3.94%) Administrator
13 8 (3.94%) DevOps Administrator
13 8 (3.94%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 8 (3.94%) Systems Administrator
14 7 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.40%) OAuth
1 13 (6.40%) REST
2 12 (5.91%) LDAP
3 11 (5.42%) OpenID
3 11 (5.42%) SAML
4 10 (4.93%) Loki
5 9 (4.43%) Node.js
6 8 (3.94%) ARM Templates
6 8 (3.94%) RESTful
7 7 (3.45%) Kafka
7 7 (3.45%) YAML
8 5 (2.46%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.46%) XMPP
9 4 (1.97%) Middleware
9 4 (1.97%) React
10 3 (1.48%) .NET
10 3 (1.48%) NestJS
11 2 (0.99%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.99%) LangChain
11 2 (0.99%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 40 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (10.34%) Private Cloud
3 14 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 13 (6.40%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.91%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.43%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.94%) CMDB
7 8 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (3.94%) Replication
8 6 (2.96%) Podcast
9 5 (2.46%) FlexPod
9 5 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.97%) PKI
11 3 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.48%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 82 (40.39%) Linux
2 47 (23.15%) Windows
3 21 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.46%) Unix
5 5 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.48%) SUSE
8 2 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (67.49%) CI/CD
2 123 (60.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 117 (57.64%) DevOps
4 60 (29.56%) Platform Engineering
5 53 (26.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (25.62%) Containerisation
7 51 (25.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 50 (24.63%) Observability
9 48 (23.65%) Cloud Security
9 48 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (20.20%) Agile
11 38 (18.72%) Configuration Management
12 35 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
13 26 (12.81%) Mentoring
14 25 (12.32%) DevSecOps
14 25 (12.32%) Identity Access Management
15 24 (11.82%) AI
15 24 (11.82%) Migration
15 24 (11.82%) Roadmaps
16 23 (11.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 104 (51.23%) Python
2 69 (33.99%) PowerShell
3 56 (27.59%) Bash
4 25 (12.32%) Bicep
5 22 (10.84%) SQL
6 17 (8.37%) Go
7 15 (7.39%) Java
8 6 (2.96%) C#
9 5 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.48%) Elixir
10 3 (1.48%) Erlang
10 3 (1.48%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) C++
12 1 (0.49%) Groovy
12 1 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (20.20%) Security Cleared
2 39 (19.21%) Degree
3 19 (9.36%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.37%) AWS Certification
5 14 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (6.40%) Azure Certification
6 13 (6.40%) CISSP
7 9 (4.43%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.99%) CCIE
10 2 (0.99%) CCNP
10 2 (0.99%) CISM
10 2 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.49%) GAWN
11 1 (0.49%) GIAC
11 1 (0.49%) GREM
11 1 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.93%) NIST
2 7 (3.45%) QA
3 4 (1.97%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.48%) GDPR
4 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.99%) GxP
5 2 (0.99%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.99%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (25.12%) Docker
2 34 (16.75%) Active Directory
3 24 (11.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (7.39%) vSphere
5 8 (3.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 8 (3.94%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (3.94%) VMware NSX
6 7 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.48%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.48%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.49%) Firmware
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 147 (72.41%) Terraform
2 96 (47.29%) Kubernetes
3 81 (39.90%) Ansible
4 47 (23.15%) Grafana
5 34 (16.75%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.39%) Puppet
7 9 (4.43%) Progress Chef
8 8 (3.94%) Proxmox
8 8 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.96%) Argo
10 6 (2.96%) Packer
11 5 (2.46%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (2.46%) Rancher
12 4 (1.97%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.48%) Scalr
14 2 (0.99%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.99%) yum
15 1 (0.49%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.49%) Istio
Vendors
1 55 (27.09%) Microsoft
2 43 (21.18%) VMware
3 16 (7.88%) Cisco
4 12 (5.91%) Palo Alto
5 10 (4.93%) Red Hat
6 8 (3.94%) Oracle
6 8 (3.94%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.45%) Splunk
8 6 (2.96%) Fortinet
9 5 (2.46%) EMC
9 5 (2.46%) F5
9 5 (2.46%) NetApp
10 4 (1.97%) Citrix
10 4 (1.97%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.97%) Google
10 4 (1.97%) IFS
10 4 (1.97%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.48%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.48%) Databricks
11 3 (1.48%) Dell