Infrastructure Automation Jobs

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 625 551 612
Rank change year-on-year -74 +61 -11
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 221 369 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.46% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.48% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 170 178 243
10th Percentile £47,125 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,688 £87,188 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £105,000 £114,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +8.70%

All Process and 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 73,969 76,929 168,958
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.84% 95.34% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 48,628 50,249 85,709
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -80 206 £68,000 +0.74% 31
UK excluding London -90 122 £62,500 +4.17% 27
Work from Home -52 90 £68,900 +2.07% 18
London 0 83 £80,000 -4.48% 11
South East +6 40 £62,500 -3.85% 6
North of England -16 26 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Midlands -19 17 £67,500 +12.50% 7
North West -20 17 £61,250 -9.26% 2
South West -54 17 £65,000 +26.21% 6
East of England +11 16 £70,000 +233.33% 2
West Midlands -2 12 £68,000 +13.33% 7
Yorkshire +46 9 £60,000 +41.70% 2
East Midlands -27 5 £60,000 +9.09%
Wales - 4 £53,750 -
Scotland -50 2 £47,500 -26.92% 1

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.36%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) SAS
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 125 (56.56%) Azure
2 117 (52.94%) AWS
3 37 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (15.38%) GCP
4 34 (15.38%) SaaS
5 28 (12.67%) Serverless
6 24 (10.86%) GitHub
7 20 (9.05%) IaaS
8 19 (8.60%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (7.69%) PaaS
10 16 (7.24%) Amazon S3
11 15 (6.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (4.98%) Nutanix
15 10 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (4.52%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.14%) Firewall
2 16 (7.24%) Network Security
3 14 (6.33%) Internet
4 12 (5.43%) DNS
5 10 (4.52%) Remote Desktop
6 9 (4.07%) WAN
6 9 (4.07%) Wireless
7 7 (3.17%) VPN
8 6 (2.71%) HTTP
9 4 (1.81%) BGP
9 4 (1.81%) LAN
10 3 (1.36%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.36%) OSPF
11 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.90%) VoIP
12 1 (0.45%) 3GPP
12 1 (0.45%) DAB
12 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
12 1 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.95%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (2.26%) CockroachDB
3 5 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.81%) DynamoDB
4 4 (1.81%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.81%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.36%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.90%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.90%) Metadata
6 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.90%) Power BI
6 2 (0.90%) Tableau
7 1 (0.45%) MySQL
7 1 (0.45%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 46 (20.81%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.41%) GitLab
3 19 (8.60%) Git
4 10 (4.52%) CircleCI
5 7 (3.17%) JIRA
6 5 (2.26%) Jaeger
6 5 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.81%) Selenium
7 4 (1.81%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.36%) JMeter
9 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.90%) Hudson
9 2 (0.90%) JUnit
9 2 (0.90%) Postman
9 2 (0.90%) Subversion
9 2 (0.90%) TestNG
9 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 80 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 65 (29.41%) Finance
3 46 (20.81%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (6.79%) Banking
6 14 (6.33%) Legal
7 10 (4.52%) Automotive
8 7 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.71%) Law
9 6 (2.71%) Retail
10 5 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.26%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Marketing
12 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.45%) Billing
13 1 (0.45%) Games
13 1 (0.45%) Local Government
13 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (21.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (19.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 40 (18.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 33 (14.93%) Senior
5 31 (14.03%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (12.67%) Platform Engineer
7 26 (11.76%) Architect
8 19 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (8.14%) Automation Engineer
9 18 (8.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 14 (6.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 12 (5.43%) Lead
12 11 (4.98%) Analyst
12 11 (4.98%) Citrix Analyst
12 11 (4.98%) Citrix Engineer
12 11 (4.98%) Cloud Technical Analyst
12 11 (4.98%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (4.98%) Technical Engineer
13 10 (4.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.52%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.07%) Node.js
2 7 (3.17%) ARM Templates
2 7 (3.17%) React
2 7 (3.17%) RESTful
3 6 (2.71%) Compass CSS Framework
3 6 (2.71%) Kafka
3 6 (2.71%) web3js
4 5 (2.26%) ADO
4 5 (2.26%) Middleware
4 5 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 5 (2.26%) Spring Boot
5 4 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.36%) REST
6 3 (1.36%) Web Services
7 2 (0.90%) .NET
7 2 (0.90%) JSON
7 2 (0.90%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (0.90%) YAML
8 1 (0.45%) Jest
8 1 (0.45%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.31%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.95%) IoT
3 14 (6.33%) Cyberattack
4 11 (4.98%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (4.98%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.07%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.62%) Blockchain
7 6 (2.71%) NFT
7 6 (2.71%) Web3
8 5 (2.26%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.81%) Blog
9 4 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
9 4 (1.81%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.65%) Linux
2 25 (11.31%) Windows
3 7 (3.17%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.81%) VMS
5 3 (1.36%) CentOS
5 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.90%) Unix
6 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (63.35%) DevOps
2 116 (52.49%) CI/CD
3 114 (51.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 76 (34.39%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (27.15%) Containerisation
6 53 (23.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 48 (21.72%) Platform Engineering
8 46 (20.81%) Configuration Management
9 43 (19.46%) Agile
10 40 (18.10%) Continuous Integration
11 36 (16.29%) Cloud Security
12 26 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
12 26 (11.76%) Roadmaps
12 26 (11.76%) Task Automation
13 22 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (9.50%) ITIL
15 20 (9.05%) Disaster Recovery
15 20 (9.05%) Microservices
16 19 (8.60%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 104 (47.06%) Python
2 88 (39.82%) PowerShell
3 57 (25.79%) Bash
4 25 (11.31%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.95%) Go
6 20 (9.05%) Java
7 19 (8.60%) C++
7 19 (8.60%) SQL
8 17 (7.69%) Ruby
9 14 (6.33%) Bicep
10 11 (4.98%) Perl
11 8 (3.62%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.36%) C#
13 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.90%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.90%) R
14 1 (0.45%) JSX
14 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (9.05%) Degree
2 13 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 11 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (3.62%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.71%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.36%) CCNP
10 2 (0.90%) CCNA
10 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.62%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.62%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.81%) NCSC
5 3 (1.36%) GDPR
5 3 (1.36%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.36%) QA
5 3 (1.36%) SLA
6 2 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 87 (39.37%) Docker
2 29 (13.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.50%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (9.50%) XenApp
3 21 (9.50%) XenDesktop
4 19 (8.60%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.81%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.90%) vSphere
7 1 (0.45%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 123 (55.66%) Terraform
2 85 (38.46%) Kubernetes
3 74 (33.48%) Ansible
4 20 (9.05%) Puppet
5 12 (5.43%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.17%) Grafana
6 7 (3.17%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.26%) Kiali
8 4 (1.81%) Argo
8 4 (1.81%) Nagios
8 4 (1.81%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.36%) Graphite
10 2 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.90%) Kibana
10 2 (0.90%) Salt
11 1 (0.45%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.45%) logstash
11 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (18.55%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.93%) VMware
3 21 (9.50%) Citrix
4 14 (6.33%) Splunk
5 13 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.52%) Google
7 8 (3.62%) Databricks
8 6 (2.71%) Cisco
9 5 (2.26%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.26%) New Relic
10 3 (1.36%) Mellanox
10 3 (1.36%) NVIDIA
10 3 (1.36%) Veeam
11 2 (0.90%) Acronis
11 2 (0.90%) Oracle
11 2 (0.90%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.90%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.90%) SAP
12 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.45%) xMatters