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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 505 560
Rank change year-on-year +33 +55 -64
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 370 169 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.38% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 236 120 174
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,438 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,200 £76,250 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% +12.13% +0.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,750 £110,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 82,520 44,009 63,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.04% 88.59% 80.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57,449 24,888 36,814
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,875
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £96,288 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 10 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 10 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 +27 329 £70,400 -9.16% 247
UK excluding London +17 207 £65,000 +4.00% 136
London -28 123 £85,000 -0.58% 135
Work from Home -5 101 £70,000 - 100
North of England -15 72 £55,000 -12.00% 41
South West -32 52 £75,000 - 15
South East +10 45 £65,000 -13.33% 48
North West -4 35 £70,400 +2.40% 23
North East -42 20 £51,000 -15.00% 3
Yorkshire -32 17 £52,500 -16.00% 15
East of England -18 13 £45,000 -10.00% 7
Midlands -39 12 £62,000 +6.44% 13
Wales -68 11 £64,750 +15.11%
West Midlands -25 8 £62,000 +3.33% 4
East Midlands -22 4 £52,500 -9.87% 9
Scotland +3 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 9

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 (2.70%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.43%) Apache
2 9 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.89%) IIS
4 7 (1.89%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.62%) Confluence
5 6 (1.62%) nginx
6 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.08%) SAS
7 1 (0.27%) JBoss
7 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.27%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 186 (50.27%) Azure
2 141 (38.11%) AWS
3 81 (21.89%) GitHub
4 64 (17.30%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (13.78%) GitHub Actions
6 49 (13.24%) Entra ID
7 47 (12.70%) Amazon S3
8 46 (12.43%) GCP
9 42 (11.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 41 (11.08%) Serverless
11 39 (10.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 39 (10.54%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (9.46%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (9.19%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (8.11%) Azure AKS
15 27 (7.30%) SaaS
16 24 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 21 (5.68%) PaaS
18 19 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 60 (16.22%) Firewall
2 34 (9.19%) VPN
3 22 (5.95%) DNS
4 20 (5.41%) Kerberos
5 17 (4.59%) Network Security
6 13 (3.51%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.70%) DHCP
7 10 (2.70%) WAN
8 7 (1.89%) LAN
9 5 (1.35%) VLAN
10 4 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (1.08%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (1.08%) NAS
10 4 (1.08%) Unified Communications
10 4 (1.08%) WebEx
11 3 (0.81%) BGP
11 3 (0.81%) Wireless
12 2 (0.54%) SAN
13 1 (0.27%) MPLS
13 1 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (5.95%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.43%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.35%) MySQL
7 5 (1.35%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.08%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.08%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.08%) TIBCO EBX
9 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (12.43%) Git
2 42 (11.35%) Jenkins
3 38 (10.27%) GitLab
4 13 (3.51%) JIRA
5 9 (2.43%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (2.16%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.08%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.81%) Subversion
9 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.54%) Snyk
9 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.27%) git-flow
10 1 (0.27%) JUnit
10 1 (0.27%) Maven
General
1 67 (18.11%) Social Skills
2 66 (17.84%) Finance
3 40 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (5.95%) Law
6 13 (3.51%) Retail
7 11 (2.97%) Aerospace
7 11 (2.97%) Banking
8 9 (2.43%) Legal
8 9 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.35%) Legal Technology
12 4 (1.08%) Marketing
13 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.54%) Automotive
14 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.54%) Electronics
14 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (26.22%) Senior
2 87 (23.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 72 (19.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 63 (17.03%) Azure Engineer
5 59 (15.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 55 (14.86%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (8.65%) Architect
8 30 (8.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 27 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (7.03%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 26 (7.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 23 (6.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 23 (6.22%) Lead
11 23 (6.22%) Senior DevOps
12 18 (4.86%) Automation Engineer
13 17 (4.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.32%) AWS DevOps
15 14 (3.78%) Administrator
15 14 (3.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.24%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (62.16%) Terraform
2 22 (5.95%) ARM Templates
3 21 (5.68%) OpenID
3 21 (5.68%) SAML
4 20 (5.41%) OAuth
5 18 (4.86%) Node.js
6 16 (4.32%) LDAP
6 16 (4.32%) REST
7 9 (2.43%) .NET
7 9 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.43%) YAML
8 8 (2.16%) Loki
8 8 (2.16%) RESTful
9 7 (1.89%) OpenTofu
9 7 (1.89%) PySpark
10 6 (1.62%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (1.62%) React
11 5 (1.35%) Kafka
12 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 97 (26.22%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (7.84%) Linux Command Line
4 25 (6.76%) Private Cloud
5 21 (5.68%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.32%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.97%) Enterprise Cloud
8 11 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.43%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.43%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.43%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.43%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (2.16%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.89%) Replication
12 6 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.62%) CMDB
12 6 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.35%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 114 (30.81%) Linux
2 78 (21.08%) Windows
3 34 (9.19%) Windows Server
4 13 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.70%) Unix
6 9 (2.43%) Debian
7 7 (1.89%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.62%) Rocky
9 5 (1.35%) Windows 10
10 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.27%) Android
12 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.27%) CentOS
12 1 (0.27%) Solaris
12 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (68.92%) CI/CD
2 240 (64.86%) DevOps
3 217 (58.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 123 (33.24%) Platform Engineering
5 114 (30.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 96 (25.95%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (24.05%) Containerisation
7 89 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 85 (22.97%) Cloud Security
9 83 (22.43%) Observability
10 82 (22.16%) Agile
11 69 (18.65%) Mentoring
12 62 (16.76%) Migration
13 54 (14.59%) AI
14 51 (13.78%) Roadmaps
14 51 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
15 46 (12.43%) Identity Access Management
16 45 (12.16%) Disaster Recovery
16 45 (12.16%) Test Automation
17 43 (11.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 188 (50.81%) Python
2 127 (34.32%) PowerShell
3 120 (32.43%) Bash
4 46 (12.43%) SQL
5 33 (8.92%) Bicep
6 21 (5.68%) Go
7 17 (4.59%) Java
8 8 (2.16%) C#
8 8 (2.16%) PHP
9 4 (1.08%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.81%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.81%) Ruby
11 2 (0.54%) C
11 2 (0.54%) C++
11 2 (0.54%) Fortran
11 2 (0.54%) Groovy
11 2 (0.54%) Rust
12 1 (0.27%) ABAP
12 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 106 (28.65%) Security Cleared
2 54 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.38%) Degree
4 29 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 19 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.32%) CISSP
8 15 (4.05%) AWS Certification
9 11 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.35%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.54%) CCNP
12 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.54%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.78%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.97%) QA
3 10 (2.70%) NIST
4 7 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.81%) GDPR
5 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 99 (26.76%) Docker
2 59 (15.95%) Active Directory
3 34 (9.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.59%) vSphere
5 12 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.16%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.89%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.89%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (1.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (1.08%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.54%) Xen
10 1 (0.27%) Firmware
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 140 (37.84%) Kubernetes
2 111 (30.00%) Ansible
3 49 (13.24%) Grafana
4 40 (10.81%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.59%) Puppet
6 16 (4.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.16%) Argo
9 7 (1.89%) Packer
9 7 (1.89%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.62%) Istio
10 6 (1.62%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.62%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.35%) vCenter Server
12 4 (1.08%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.81%) Scalr
14 2 (0.54%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.54%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.54%) Podman
14 2 (0.54%) Rancher
Vendors
1 106 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 48 (12.97%) VMware
3 21 (5.68%) Cisco
4 20 (5.41%) Google
5 12 (3.24%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.70%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.16%) Citrix
8 7 (1.89%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.62%) EMC
9 6 (1.62%) F5
9 6 (1.62%) NetApp
9 6 (1.62%) Okta
9 6 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.62%) Tenable
10 5 (1.35%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.35%) Databricks
10 5 (1.35%) Splunk
11 4 (1.08%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.08%) IBM
11 4 (1.08%) Informatica