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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 579 715 657
Rank change year-on-year +136 -58 +2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 132 182 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.18% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.21% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 91 143 180
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +18.18%

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 52,098 84,818 95,320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.84% 85.52% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,512 59,706 56,022
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +113 126 £80,000 +17.65% 304
London +104 66 £82,500 +10.00% 195
UK excluding London +144 56 £62,500 - 166
Work from Home +87 44 £77,500 +6.90% 153
North of England +52 25 £60,000 - 46
South East +77 21 £75,000 +20.00% 81
North West +11 17 £60,000 - 22
Yorkshire +62 6 £62,500 +4.17% 18
South West +107 3 - - 12
Scotland +109 2 £55,000 -3.51% 8
North East +45 2 £57,000 -28.75% 6
East of England +37 2 £58,750 -12.96% 8
Midlands +54 1 £77,500 +21.57% 9
West Midlands +52 1 £77,500 +14.81% 5
Wales +35 1 £55,000 +2.33%
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 -

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 7 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.55%) Apache
2 6 (4.55%) IIS
3 2 (1.52%) Confluence
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 84 (63.64%) Azure
2 56 (42.42%) AWS
3 37 (28.03%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (26.52%) GitHub
5 31 (23.48%) GCP
6 20 (15.15%) PaaS
6 20 (15.15%) Serverless
7 18 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (12.88%) Entra ID
9 16 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (9.85%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (9.09%) IaaS
11 12 (9.09%) SaaS
12 11 (8.33%) Amazon S3
13 10 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (6.06%) Azure Key Vault
15 7 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (22.73%) Firewall
2 22 (16.67%) VPN
3 15 (11.36%) DNS
4 10 (7.58%) Network Security
5 6 (4.55%) DHCP
6 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.03%) WAN
8 3 (2.27%) BGP
9 2 (1.52%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (1.52%) LAN
9 2 (1.52%) OSPF
9 2 (1.52%) SAN
10 1 (0.76%) NAS
10 1 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.76%) SSL
10 1 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.61%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.30%) Big Data
4 4 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.03%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.52%) HDInsight
6 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.52%) Power BI
6 2 (1.52%) Redis
7 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (17.42%) Jenkins
2 22 (16.67%) GitLab
3 14 (10.61%) Git
4 6 (4.55%) JIRA
5 4 (3.03%) Maven
6 3 (2.27%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.27%) CircleCI
6 3 (2.27%) JUnit
6 3 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.52%) Gradle
7 2 (1.52%) Mockito
7 2 (1.52%) Postman
7 2 (1.52%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.52%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.52%) Subversion
7 2 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.52%) Xcode
7 2 (1.52%) XCTest
General
1 35 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 33 (25.00%) Finance
3 13 (9.85%) Banking
4 7 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.79%) Front Office
6 5 (3.79%) Law
7 4 (3.03%) Advertising
8 3 (2.27%) Marketing
8 3 (2.27%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.52%) Automotive
9 2 (1.52%) Games
9 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.76%) Electronics
10 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (28.03%) Senior
2 29 (21.97%) Azure Engineer
2 29 (21.97%) Cloud Engineer
3 28 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (13.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 16 (12.12%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (8.33%) Lead
9 9 (6.82%) Architect
9 9 (6.82%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (6.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) Network Engineer
10 8 (6.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.30%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (5.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.09%) YAML
2 11 (8.33%) ARM Templates
3 10 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (4.55%) RESTful
5 3 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.27%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.27%) Kafka
5 3 (2.27%) REST
5 3 (2.27%) Spring
5 3 (2.27%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.27%) Web Services
6 2 (1.52%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.52%) CSS
6 2 (1.52%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.52%) HTML
6 2 (1.52%) J2EE
6 2 (1.52%) Material-UI
6 2 (1.52%) PySpark
6 2 (1.52%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (9.85%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.82%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.30%) Clustering
4 7 (5.30%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (5.30%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.55%) Replication
6 5 (3.79%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.27%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.52%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.52%) Life Science
9 2 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.52%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.76%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.76%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 46 (34.85%) Linux
2 28 (21.21%) Windows
3 11 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.06%) Unix
6 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.27%) CentOS
7 3 (2.27%) VMS
7 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.52%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (63.64%) DevOps
2 78 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 70 (53.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (27.27%) Agile
6 31 (23.48%) Containerisation
7 26 (19.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (19.70%) Platform Engineering
8 23 (17.42%) High Availability
9 18 (13.64%) Analytics
9 18 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 17 (12.88%) Computer Science
10 17 (12.88%) Configuration Management
11 16 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (12.12%) Observability
12 15 (11.36%) Infrastructure Management
13 14 (10.61%) Cloud Security
13 14 (10.61%) Cost Management
14 13 (9.85%) Incident Management
14 13 (9.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (51.52%) Python
2 42 (31.82%) PowerShell
3 39 (29.55%) Bash
4 20 (15.15%) SQL
5 16 (12.12%) Bicep
6 13 (9.85%) Java
7 7 (5.30%) C#
8 6 (4.55%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.03%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.03%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.27%) Groovy
10 3 (2.27%) Scala
11 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.76%) Go
12 1 (0.76%) Perl
12 1 (0.76%) R
12 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (15.15%) Azure Certification
2 19 (14.39%) Degree
3 13 (9.85%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.79%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.03%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.52%) CCNP
8 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.76%) CCNA
9 1 (0.76%) PhD
9 1 (0.76%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.03%) GDPR
2 4 (3.03%) QA
3 3 (2.27%) NIST
4 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.76%) Basel III
5 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (32.58%) Docker
2 25 (18.94%) Active Directory
3 15 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (3.79%) Hyper-V
7 4 (3.03%) vSphere
8 3 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (71.97%) Terraform
2 60 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 42 (31.82%) Ansible
4 14 (10.61%) Prometheus
5 12 (9.09%) Grafana
6 8 (6.06%) Puppet
7 6 (4.55%) Argo
8 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (3.79%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.79%) SCCM
9 4 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (1.52%) SCOM
11 1 (0.76%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.76%) Istio
11 1 (0.76%) Kiali
11 1 (0.76%) Nessus
11 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.76%) vRealize
11 1 (0.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 32 (24.24%) Microsoft
1 32 (24.24%) VMware
2 11 (8.33%) Databricks
3 8 (6.06%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.30%) Atlassian
5 6 (4.55%) Google
6 5 (3.79%) Cisco
6 5 (3.79%) Citrix
6 5 (3.79%) Oracle
6 5 (3.79%) Splunk
7 2 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.52%) IBM
7 2 (1.52%) Mellanox
7 2 (1.52%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.52%) Pure Storage
8 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.76%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.76%) ServiceNow