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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 504 569
Rank change year-on-year +35 +65 -76
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 363 171 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.39% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 231 121 173
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +10.29% +0.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.96% +2.00% -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 82,691 43,965 63,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.84% 88.66% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 57,506 24,819 36,681
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -3.23%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +42 323 £70,400 -9.16% 344
UK excluding London +18 205 £65,000 +1.96% 167
London -16 119 £85,000 -0.58% 205
Work from Home -11 96 £70,000 -1.75% 307
North of England -16 73 £55,000 -12.00% 54
South West -22 51 £75,000 - 13
South East -9 44 £65,000 -13.33% 59
North West -7 34 £70,400 -2.90% 26
North East -43 20 £51,000 -15.00% 8
Yorkshire -29 19 £52,500 -16.00% 20
East of England -20 13 £45,000 -10.00% 9
Midlands -51 11 £62,000 +6.44% 16
Wales -67 11 £64,750 +15.11%
West Midlands -36 7 £62,000 +3.33% 7
East Midlands -31 4 £52,500 -9.87% 9
Scotland +3 1 - - 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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 (2.75%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.48%) Apache
3 8 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.93%) IIS
4 7 (1.93%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.65%) Confluence
5 6 (1.65%) nginx
6 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.10%) 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 (50.14%) Azure
2 139 (38.29%) AWS
3 79 (21.76%) GitHub
4 63 (17.36%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (13.50%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (13.22%) Entra ID
7 45 (12.40%) Amazon S3
7 45 (12.40%) GCP
8 40 (11.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 39 (10.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (10.74%) Amazon EKS
9 39 (10.74%) Serverless
10 33 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (8.26%) Azure AKS
13 26 (7.16%) SaaS
14 21 (5.79%) PaaS
14 21 (5.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (4.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (15.70%) Firewall
2 31 (8.54%) VPN
3 20 (5.51%) Kerberos
4 19 (5.23%) DNS
5 16 (4.41%) Network Security
6 12 (3.31%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.75%) WAN
8 9 (2.48%) DHCP
9 7 (1.93%) LAN
10 5 (1.38%) VLAN
11 4 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.10%) NAS
11 4 (1.10%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.10%) WebEx
12 3 (0.83%) BGP
12 3 (0.83%) Wireless
13 2 (0.55%) SAN
14 1 (0.28%) MPLS
14 1 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
1 22 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.48%) DynamoDB
4 7 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (1.93%) Relational Database
5 5 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.38%) MySQL
5 5 (1.38%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.10%) Ataccama
6 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.10%) IBM InfoSphere
6 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.10%) TIBCO EBX
7 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 45 (12.40%) Git
2 43 (11.85%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.74%) GitLab
4 14 (3.86%) JIRA
5 8 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.10%) 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%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.28%) git-flow
10 1 (0.28%) JMeter
10 1 (0.28%) JUnit
10 1 (0.28%) Maven
10 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 66 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 65 (17.91%) Finance
3 37 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.16%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.79%) Law
6 13 (3.58%) Retail
7 12 (3.31%) Aerospace
8 11 (3.03%) Banking
9 8 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.93%) Legal
10 7 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.10%) Legal Technology
12 4 (1.10%) Marketing
13 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.55%) Automotive
14 2 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Electronics
14 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 95 (26.17%) Senior
2 87 (23.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 72 (19.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 62 (17.08%) Azure Engineer
5 58 (15.98%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (14.33%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (8.82%) Architect
8 29 (7.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 28 (7.71%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (7.16%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 25 (6.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 23 (6.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 23 (6.34%) Senior DevOps
13 22 (6.06%) Lead
14 18 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
15 17 (4.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 16 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
17 14 (3.86%) Administrator
18 13 (3.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
19 12 (3.31%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (61.43%) Terraform
2 22 (6.06%) ARM Templates
3 21 (5.79%) OpenID
3 21 (5.79%) SAML
4 20 (5.51%) OAuth
5 18 (4.96%) Node.js
6 16 (4.41%) LDAP
6 16 (4.41%) REST
7 9 (2.48%) .NET
7 9 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.48%) RESTful
8 8 (2.20%) YAML
9 7 (1.93%) Loki
9 7 (1.93%) PySpark
10 6 (1.65%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.65%) OpenTofu
10 6 (1.65%) React
11 5 (1.38%) Kafka
11 5 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (1.10%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 96 (26.45%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.71%) Linux Command Line
4 25 (6.89%) Private Cloud
5 20 (5.51%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.86%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.48%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.48%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.48%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (2.20%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.20%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.93%) Replication
13 6 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (1.38%) CMDB
14 5 (1.38%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 113 (31.13%) Linux
2 76 (20.94%) Windows
3 33 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.75%) Unix
6 9 (2.48%) Debian
7 7 (1.93%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.65%) Rocky
9 5 (1.38%) Windows 10
10 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.28%) Android
12 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.28%) CentOS
12 1 (0.28%) Solaris
12 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (68.60%) CI/CD
2 237 (65.29%) DevOps
3 212 (58.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (33.06%) Platform Engineering
5 113 (31.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 95 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (24.24%) Containerisation
8 86 (23.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 85 (23.42%) Cloud Security
10 82 (22.59%) Agile
11 81 (22.31%) Observability
12 68 (18.73%) Mentoring
13 60 (16.53%) Migration
14 53 (14.60%) AI
15 49 (13.50%) Roadmaps
15 49 (13.50%) Technical Leadership
16 45 (12.40%) Identity Access Management
17 44 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
17 44 (12.12%) Test Automation
18 42 (11.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 181 (49.86%) Python
2 124 (34.16%) PowerShell
3 116 (31.96%) Bash
4 45 (12.40%) SQL
5 32 (8.82%) Bicep
6 21 (5.79%) Go
7 17 (4.68%) Java
8 8 (2.20%) C#
8 8 (2.20%) PHP
9 5 (1.38%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.10%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.83%) Ruby
12 2 (0.55%) C
12 2 (0.55%) C++
12 2 (0.55%) Fortran
12 2 (0.55%) Groovy
12 2 (0.55%) Rust
13 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 106 (29.20%) Security Cleared
2 54 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 30 (8.26%) Degree
4 29 (7.99%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.23%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.41%) CISSP
7 15 (4.13%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.38%) A+ Certification
9 5 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.55%) CCNP
11 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.55%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.31%) QA
3 10 (2.75%) NIST
4 7 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.93%) 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 98 (27.00%) Docker
2 58 (15.98%) Active Directory
3 33 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (4.96%) vSphere
5 12 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.20%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.93%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.93%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (1.10%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.55%) Xen
10 1 (0.28%) Firmware
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 139 (38.29%) Kubernetes
2 108 (29.75%) Ansible
3 46 (12.67%) Grafana
4 39 (10.74%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.68%) Puppet
6 16 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.20%) Argo
9 7 (1.93%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.65%) Istio
10 6 (1.65%) Packer
10 6 (1.65%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.65%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.38%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.10%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.55%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.55%) Podman
13 2 (0.55%) Rancher
13 2 (0.55%) Scalr
14 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 104 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.95%) VMware
3 19 (5.23%) Cisco
3 19 (5.23%) Google
4 13 (3.58%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.48%) Palo Alto
6 8 (2.20%) Citrix
7 7 (1.93%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.93%) NetApp
8 6 (1.65%) Okta
8 6 (1.65%) Tenable
9 5 (1.38%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.38%) Databricks
9 5 (1.38%) EMC
9 5 (1.38%) F5
9 5 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.38%) Splunk
10 4 (1.10%) IBM
10 4 (1.10%) Informatica
10 4 (1.10%) TIBCO