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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 535 648
Rank change year-on-year +16 +113 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 156 136 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.30% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 110 90 131
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,313 £65,556 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £108,875 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% +2.46%

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 55,531 42,488 69,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.63% 93.22% 87.90%
Number of salaries quoted 33,358 21,624 53,124
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,900 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +5 138 £75,000 -0.99% 161
London +30 73 £80,000 -3.03% 41
UK excluding London +4 73 £70,000 - 134
Work from Home +40 59 £74,875 -2.12% 69
North of England -28 21 £67,500 +18.42% 37
South East -38 16 £62,500 -13.79% 38
South West -8 14 £61,250 -18.33% 29
North West +10 11 £75,000 +36.36% 18
Scotland -3 9 - - 4
Yorkshire -36 9 £47,500 -15.56% 15
Midlands - 8 £73,750 - 9
East of England +10 5 £85,000 +17.24% 14
East Midlands - 5 £70,000 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £105,000 - 5
North East -17 1 £85,000 +47.83% 4

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 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.85%) IIS
3 5 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.21%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.21%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.56%) Confluence
5 3 (1.92%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.28%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.64%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (3.85%) Weka
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.64%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 83 (53.21%) Azure
2 76 (48.72%) AWS
3 33 (21.15%) GitHub
4 27 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (15.38%) GCP
6 21 (13.46%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (12.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (12.18%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (10.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 17 (10.90%) PaaS
9 16 (10.26%) OpenShift
10 14 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (8.33%) IaaS
12 12 (7.69%) Serverless
13 11 (7.05%) SaaS
14 10 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (5.77%) Azure AKS
15 9 (5.77%) Entra ID
15 9 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.95%) Firewall
2 21 (13.46%) VPN
3 10 (6.41%) DNS
4 9 (5.77%) Network Security
5 8 (5.13%) WAN
6 7 (4.49%) Kerberos
6 7 (4.49%) VLAN
7 6 (3.85%) LAN
8 3 (1.92%) DHCP
8 3 (1.92%) Wireless
9 2 (1.28%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.28%) Cisco Firepower
9 2 (1.28%) SAN
9 2 (1.28%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.28%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.28%) WebEx
9 2 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (0.64%) NGFW
10 1 (0.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.21%) Big Data
5 4 (2.56%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.56%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.92%) MySQL
6 3 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.64%) Power BI
8 1 (0.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (17.95%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.18%) GitLab
3 14 (8.97%) Git
4 10 (6.41%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.49%) JIRA
6 6 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.28%) Subversion
7 2 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.64%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.64%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.44%) Finance
3 17 (10.90%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.13%) Aerospace
4 8 (5.13%) Retail
5 6 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.21%) Banking
6 5 (3.21%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.92%) Advertising
8 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.28%) Law
8 2 (1.28%) Legal
8 2 (1.28%) Marketing
8 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) German Language
9 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 35 (22.44%) Senior
3 32 (20.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 31 (19.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
5 18 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (8.97%) Architect
7 12 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 10 (6.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (4.49%) Administrator
11 7 (4.49%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.49%) Lead
12 6 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Network Engineer
12 6 (3.85%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 6 (3.85%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.77%) ARM Templates
1 9 (5.77%) OAuth
2 8 (5.13%) Kafka
2 8 (5.13%) LDAP
2 8 (5.13%) REST
2 8 (5.13%) RESTful
3 7 (4.49%) Loki
4 6 (3.85%) Node.js
5 5 (3.21%) Middleware
6 4 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.56%) JDBC
6 4 (2.56%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.56%) ODBC
6 4 (2.56%) OpenID
6 4 (2.56%) React
6 4 (2.56%) SAML
7 3 (1.92%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.92%) NestJS
7 3 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 12 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.85%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.56%) PKI
6 4 (2.56%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.92%) CMDB
7 3 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
7 3 (1.92%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.28%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.28%) FlexPod
8 2 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.28%) Replication
8 2 (1.28%) Synthetic Data
8 2 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 68 (43.59%) Linux
2 27 (17.31%) Windows
3 14 (8.97%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.21%) Unix
6 5 (3.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.92%) SUSE
7 3 (1.92%) VMS
8 2 (1.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (70.51%) CI/CD
2 103 (66.03%) DevOps
3 89 (57.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (29.49%) Platform Engineering
4 46 (29.49%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (27.56%) Cloud Security
6 41 (26.28%) Agile
6 41 (26.28%) Containerisation
7 38 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (21.79%) Configuration Management
9 30 (19.23%) Observability
10 28 (17.95%) Disaster Recovery
11 26 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 25 (16.03%) AI
13 18 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (11.54%) DevSecOps
13 18 (11.54%) High Availability
13 18 (11.54%) Task Automation
14 17 (10.90%) Analytics
15 16 (10.26%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 84 (53.85%) Python
2 56 (35.90%) PowerShell
3 49 (31.41%) Bash
4 19 (12.18%) Bicep
5 16 (10.26%) SQL
6 15 (9.62%) Java
7 14 (8.97%) Go
8 6 (3.85%) C#
8 6 (3.85%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.56%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.92%) Elixir
10 3 (1.92%) Erlang
11 2 (1.28%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.64%) C
12 1 (0.64%) C++
12 1 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.67%) Degree
3 13 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (7.05%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.13%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.85%) CISSP
7 6 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.56%) CCIE
9 4 (2.56%) CCNP
10 2 (1.28%) CCNA
10 2 (1.28%) CISM
10 2 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.64%) GCIH
11 1 (0.64%) GIAC
11 1 (0.64%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.64%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.13%) NIST
1 8 (5.13%) QA
2 5 (3.21%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.56%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.92%) GDPR
4 3 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.28%) GxP
6 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.64%) GRC
6 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
System Software
1 47 (30.13%) Docker
2 21 (13.46%) Active Directory
3 17 (10.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (7.05%) vSphere
5 7 (4.49%) VMware NSX
6 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (3.21%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (3.21%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.28%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.64%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 114 (73.08%) Terraform
2 88 (56.41%) Kubernetes
3 71 (45.51%) Ansible
4 40 (25.64%) Grafana
5 35 (22.44%) Prometheus
6 15 (9.62%) Puppet
7 9 (5.77%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.85%) Argo
8 6 (3.85%) Proxmox
9 5 (3.21%) Rancher
10 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.56%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.28%) CASB
12 2 (1.28%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (1.28%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.28%) yum
13 1 (0.64%) Kubeflow
13 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 37 (23.72%) VMware
3 11 (7.05%) Cisco
4 10 (6.41%) Oracle
4 10 (6.41%) Red Hat
5 9 (5.77%) Palo Alto
6 7 (4.49%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.85%) SolarWinds
7 6 (3.85%) Splunk
8 5 (3.21%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.56%) Cribl.io
9 4 (2.56%) Databricks
9 4 (2.56%) Dell
9 4 (2.56%) Foundry
9 4 (2.56%) IFS
10 3 (1.92%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.92%) Palantir
11 2 (1.28%) Meraki
11 2 (1.28%) Ping Identity