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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 513 463
Rank change year-on-year +17 -50 +69
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 154 227 273
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.34% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.41% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 113 164 150
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £48,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,313 £83,438
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,125 £100,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,225 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.31% +7.56% -

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 43,588 55,894 49,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.96% 82.57% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 26,305 29,396 38,125
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £43,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £54,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.43% +2.86% -

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 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 16 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 6 November 2025. 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 +12 138 £75,000 +7.14% 272
London +25 85 £80,000 +4.58% 136
UK excluding London +31 64 £65,000 -3.31% 200
Work from Home +12 62 £72,500 +3.57% 117
North of England +19 25 £65,000 +4.00% 28
North West +41 19 £67,500 +28.57% 17
South East -3 12 £75,000 +20.00% 107
Scotland +9 10 - - 6
Midlands +49 6 £58,250 -14.34% 23
South West +22 4 £71,250 +9.62% 25
Wales +10 4 £56,250 - 5
North East +8 4 £66,250 -5.36% 4
West Midlands +50 3 £52,500 -22.79% 9
East of England +22 3 £50,000 -28.57% 9
East Midlands - 3 £62,500 - 13
Yorkshire +7 2 £46,250 -27.29% 7

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 8 (5.19%) IIS
2 5 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.95%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.30%) Confluence
5 2 (1.30%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.65%) Apache
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.65%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 98 (63.64%) Azure
2 69 (44.81%) AWS
3 35 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (20.78%) GitHub
5 25 (16.23%) GCP
6 21 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (11.69%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (11.04%) Serverless
9 14 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (7.79%) Amazon S3
10 12 (7.79%) PaaS
11 11 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (7.14%) SaaS
12 10 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (5.19%) OpenShift
14 7 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (4.55%) IaaS
15 6 (3.90%) Snowflake
16 5 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.23%) Firewall
2 14 (9.09%) DNS
3 11 (7.14%) VPN
4 9 (5.84%) Network Security
5 6 (3.90%) LAN
5 6 (3.90%) WAN
6 4 (2.60%) SAN
6 4 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.95%) DHCP
7 3 (1.95%) VLAN
8 2 (1.30%) Internet
8 2 (1.30%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.30%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.65%) VSAN
9 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.44%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (3.25%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.95%) Apache Hive
5 3 (1.95%) Big Data
5 3 (1.95%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.30%) MySQL
6 2 (1.30%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 31 (20.13%) Git
2 29 (18.83%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.39%) GitLab
4 8 (5.19%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.55%) JIRA
6 5 (3.25%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (2.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.60%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.95%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.95%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.30%) JUnit
9 2 (1.30%) Maven
9 2 (1.30%) Mockito
10 1 (0.65%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.65%) Postman
10 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.65%) Subversion
10 1 (0.65%) Xcode
General
1 52 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 41 (26.62%) Finance
3 19 (12.34%) Law
4 15 (9.74%) Banking
5 9 (5.84%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.95%) Advertising
9 2 (1.30%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (19.48%) DevOps Engineer
1 30 (19.48%) Platform Engineer
2 28 (18.18%) Senior
3 21 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 11 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 10 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (6.49%) Network Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Data Engineer
7 9 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (5.19%) Lead
8 8 (5.19%) Software Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (3.25%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.49%) YAML
2 8 (5.19%) ARM Templates
3 7 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (4.55%) RESTful
4 6 (3.90%) React
4 6 (3.90%) REST
5 5 (3.25%) .NET
5 5 (3.25%) Kafka
5 5 (3.25%) Node.js
6 4 (2.60%) Jinja
6 4 (2.60%) LDAP
6 4 (2.60%) OAuth
6 4 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.60%) Spring
6 4 (2.60%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.60%) Web Services
7 3 (1.95%) LAMP
7 3 (1.95%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.95%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 10 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.90%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.90%) Public Cloud
6 5 (3.25%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.95%) IoT
8 3 (1.95%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.30%) CMDB
9 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.30%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.30%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 58 (37.66%) Linux
2 31 (20.13%) Windows
3 21 (13.64%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.25%) CentOS
5 5 (3.25%) Unix
5 5 (3.25%) VMS
6 3 (1.95%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.65%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (65.58%) DevOps
2 100 (64.94%) CI/CD
3 76 (49.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (35.06%) Containerisation
5 51 (33.12%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (25.97%) Agile
7 39 (25.32%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (18.18%) AI
9 25 (16.23%) Observability
10 24 (15.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (14.94%) Cloud Security
11 23 (14.94%) Mentoring
12 21 (13.64%) High Availability
13 20 (12.99%) Configuration Management
13 20 (12.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 19 (12.34%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (12.34%) Software Engineering
15 16 (10.39%) Cloud Operations
15 16 (10.39%) Disaster Recovery
15 16 (10.39%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 82 (53.25%) Python
2 62 (40.26%) PowerShell
3 36 (23.38%) Bash
4 18 (11.69%) SQL
5 15 (9.74%) Java
6 13 (8.44%) Bicep
7 12 (7.79%) C#
8 11 (7.14%) Go
9 7 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.25%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.65%) Groovy
12 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.65%) Perl
12 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (7.79%) Azure Certification
2 11 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 10 (6.49%) Degree
4 8 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.90%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.25%) CCNP
6 5 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.25%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.60%) CCIE
8 3 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.95%) RHCE
9 2 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.30%) CISSP
9 2 (1.30%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.65%) CCNA
10 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.09%) QA
2 12 (7.79%) GDPR
3 6 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.60%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.95%) NIST
7 2 (1.30%) GRC
7 2 (1.30%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.30%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (31.82%) Docker
2 21 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.90%) vSphere
5 5 (3.25%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.60%) vCloud
6 4 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.65%) Postfix
7 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 99 (64.29%) Terraform
2 88 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 72 (46.75%) Ansible
4 23 (14.94%) Prometheus
5 20 (12.99%) Grafana
6 7 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (4.55%) Puppet
7 6 (3.90%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.60%) CASB
8 4 (2.60%) Kubeflow
8 4 (2.60%) Rundeck
9 3 (1.95%) Control-M
10 1 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (25.32%) VMware
2 31 (20.13%) Microsoft
3 20 (12.99%) Cisco
4 16 (10.39%) ServiceNow
5 12 (7.79%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.19%) Foundry
6 8 (5.19%) Oracle
7 7 (4.55%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.90%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.90%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.25%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.60%) Commvault
10 4 (2.60%) Google
10 4 (2.60%) Meraki
10 4 (2.60%) Palantir
10 4 (2.60%) Pure Storage
10 4 (2.60%) Splunk
11 3 (1.95%) Databricks
11 3 (1.95%) Dell
12 2 (1.30%) SolarWinds