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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 512 676
Rank change year-on-year -9 +164 -63
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 194 123 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.32% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 120 90 142
10th Percentile £47,481 £51,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +12.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £78,438
90th Percentile £92,500 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.41% +13.60% -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 62,747 38,173 78,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.19% 93.03% 86.26%
Number of salaries quoted 38,762 22,528 58,201
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,290 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,557
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

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 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 14 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 7 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 -5 174 £75,000 -3.23% 74
UK excluding London -37 93 £70,000 -1.41% 47
London +17 83 £80,000 -11.11% 31
Work from Home +32 76 £72,500 -5.23% 42
South West -24 27 £65,000 -13.33% 14
South East -40 24 £62,500 -16.67% 14
North of England -51 23 £70,000 +22.81% 14
North West -23 14 £80,000 +18.52% 5
Midlands - 10 £72,500 - 3
Yorkshire -53 9 £47,500 -9.52% 3
East Midlands - 6 £67,000 - 1
East of England -21 5 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Scotland -24 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 £88,750 - 2

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 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.12%) IIS
3 5 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.58%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.06%) Confluence
5 2 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.03%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.52%) Apache
6 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (3.09%) Weka
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 100 (51.55%) Azure
2 85 (43.81%) AWS
3 44 (22.68%) GitHub
4 28 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (12.89%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 23 (11.86%) GCP
8 20 (10.31%) AWS CloudFormation
8 20 (10.31%) Serverless
9 19 (9.79%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (9.28%) Entra ID
10 18 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (9.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (7.73%) PaaS
12 13 (6.70%) Amazon S3
12 13 (6.70%) IaaS
12 13 (6.70%) OpenShift
13 12 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (19.07%) Firewall
2 26 (13.40%) VPN
3 14 (7.22%) DNS
4 12 (6.19%) Network Security
5 10 (5.15%) VLAN
6 9 (4.64%) WAN
7 8 (4.12%) Kerberos
8 7 (3.61%) LAN
9 6 (3.09%) DHCP
10 5 (2.58%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.58%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.58%) Unified Communications
10 5 (2.58%) WebEx
11 3 (1.55%) SAN
11 3 (1.55%) Wireless
12 2 (1.03%) SD-WAN
12 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
13 1 (0.52%) NGFW
13 1 (0.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.70%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.19%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.06%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.55%) MySQL
6 2 (1.03%) Big Data
6 2 (1.03%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.52%) Power BI
7 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (15.98%) Jenkins
2 27 (13.92%) Git
3 18 (9.28%) GitLab
4 9 (4.64%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.12%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (3.09%) JIRA
7 5 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.06%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.03%) Subversion
10 1 (0.52%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.52%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.52%) git-flow
10 1 (0.52%) Maven
10 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.13%) Finance
3 25 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.70%) Aerospace
4 13 (6.70%) Retail
5 10 (5.15%) Legal
6 9 (4.64%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.12%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.61%) Banking
8 7 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.61%) Law
9 5 (2.58%) Marketing
9 5 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Advertising
10 3 (1.55%) Automotive
10 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Electronics
10 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (23.20%) Senior
2 41 (21.13%) Platform Engineer
3 37 (19.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (17.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (14.95%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (14.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (8.25%) Architect
8 15 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
10 11 (5.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.12%) Administrator
12 8 (4.12%) DevOps Administrator
12 8 (4.12%) Lead
12 8 (4.12%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 8 (4.12%) Systems Administrator
13 7 (3.61%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.67%) REST
2 10 (5.15%) ARM Templates
2 10 (5.15%) Loki
3 9 (4.64%) OAuth
4 8 (4.12%) LDAP
5 7 (3.61%) Node.js
5 7 (3.61%) OpenID
5 7 (3.61%) RESTful
5 7 (3.61%) SAML
5 7 (3.61%) YAML
6 6 (3.09%) Kafka
7 5 (2.58%) Middleware
7 5 (2.58%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (2.58%) React
7 5 (2.58%) XMPP
8 3 (1.55%) .NET
8 3 (1.55%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.55%) NestJS
9 2 (1.03%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.10%) Cloud Native
2 21 (10.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 21 (10.82%) Private Cloud
3 11 (5.67%) Public Cloud
4 10 (5.15%) Data Centre
4 10 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.64%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.61%) CMDB
7 6 (3.09%) Podcast
8 5 (2.58%) FlexPod
8 5 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.58%) Replication
8 5 (2.58%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.06%) PKI
10 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.55%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.55%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (1.03%) Blockchain
11 2 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 79 (40.72%) Linux
2 47 (24.23%) Windows
3 22 (11.34%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.58%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.55%) SUSE
8 2 (1.03%) Unix
8 2 (1.03%) VMS
9 1 (0.52%) CentOS
9 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (67.53%) CI/CD
2 117 (60.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 113 (58.25%) DevOps
4 55 (28.35%) Platform Engineering
5 52 (26.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (26.29%) Containerisation
7 48 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (24.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 46 (23.71%) Cloud Security
10 44 (22.68%) Observability
11 38 (19.59%) Agile
12 37 (19.07%) Configuration Management
13 34 (17.53%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (12.89%) AI
15 22 (11.34%) DevSecOps
15 22 (11.34%) Migration
16 21 (10.82%) Identity Access Management
17 20 (10.31%) Incident Response
18 19 (9.79%) RBAC
18 19 (9.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 98 (50.52%) Python
2 70 (36.08%) PowerShell
3 55 (28.35%) Bash
4 27 (13.92%) Bicep
5 17 (8.76%) SQL
6 16 (8.25%) Go
7 11 (5.67%) Java
8 6 (3.09%) C#
8 6 (3.09%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.06%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.55%) Elixir
10 3 (1.55%) Erlang
11 2 (1.03%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.52%) C
12 1 (0.52%) C++
12 1 (0.52%) Groovy
12 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (19.07%) Degree
2 31 (15.98%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.25%) AWS Certification
4 14 (7.22%) Azure Certification
5 13 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (6.70%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.64%) CISSP
6 9 (4.64%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.03%) CCIE
9 2 (1.03%) CCNA
9 2 (1.03%) CCNP
9 2 (1.03%) CISM
9 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.52%) GCIH
10 1 (0.52%) GIAC
10 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.15%) NIST
2 7 (3.61%) QA
3 5 (2.58%) GDPR
3 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.58%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.55%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.03%) GxP
5 2 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
System Software
1 52 (26.80%) Docker
2 32 (16.49%) Active Directory
3 26 (13.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (8.76%) vSphere
5 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 8 (4.12%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (4.12%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.55%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.55%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.52%) Firmware
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 140 (72.16%) Terraform
2 97 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 81 (41.75%) Ansible
4 48 (24.74%) Grafana
5 35 (18.04%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.73%) Puppet
7 10 (5.15%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.12%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (3.09%) Argo
11 5 (2.58%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (2.58%) Rancher
11 5 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (2.06%) Packer
12 4 (2.06%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.55%) Scalr
14 2 (1.03%) PowerCLI
14 2 (1.03%) yum
15 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.52%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 54 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 47 (24.23%) VMware
3 18 (9.28%) Cisco
4 14 (7.22%) Palo Alto
5 10 (5.15%) Oracle
5 10 (5.15%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.15%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.12%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.12%) Splunk
7 6 (3.09%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.58%) F5
8 5 (2.58%) NetApp
9 4 (2.06%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.06%) Citrix
9 4 (2.06%) Cribl.io
9 4 (2.06%) EMC
9 4 (2.06%) IFS
10 3 (1.55%) Dell
10 3 (1.55%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.55%) Tenable