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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 511 561
Rank change year-on-year +49 +50 -64
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 382 165 230
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.38% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 243 117 167
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £75,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000

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 84,843 43,391 61,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.66% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 58,659 24,441 34,825
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,250
25th Percentile £41,969 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 17 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 22 September 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 +33 342 £70,400 -9.16% 432
UK excluding London -1 211 £65,000 - 228
London -20 133 £85,000 - 234
Work from Home -8 101 £70,000 -3.45% 166
North of England -25 78 £55,000 -12.00% 82
South West -30 51 £75,000 - 23
South East -12 45 £65,000 -13.33% 75
North West -28 37 £70,400 -2.90% 43
Yorkshire -26 22 £58,750 -6.00% 25
North East -46 22 £55,000 -16.98% 14
East of England -17 13 £45,000 -10.00% 5
Wales -67 11 £64,750 +15.11% 1
Midlands -41 10 £62,000 +6.44% 17
West Midlands -46 7 £62,000 +3.33% 7
East Midlands -27 3 £41,000 -29.61% 10
Scotland +1 2 - - 23
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 10 (2.62%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.36%) Apache
3 8 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.83%) Confluence
4 7 (1.83%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.83%) nginx
4 7 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.57%) IIS
6 4 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.05%) SAS
7 2 (0.52%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.26%) JBoss
8 1 (0.26%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.26%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.26%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 191 (50.00%) Azure
2 149 (39.01%) AWS
3 89 (23.30%) GitHub
4 68 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (14.66%) GitHub Actions
6 51 (13.35%) Entra ID
7 49 (12.83%) GCP
8 46 (12.04%) Amazon S3
9 45 (11.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 44 (11.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (10.73%) Serverless
12 40 (10.47%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (9.16%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (8.12%) Azure AKS
16 29 (7.59%) SaaS
17 22 (5.76%) PaaS
18 19 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (4.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (15.97%) Firewall
2 37 (9.69%) VPN
3 23 (6.02%) DNS
4 20 (5.24%) Kerberos
5 18 (4.71%) Network Security
6 13 (3.40%) TCP/IP
7 11 (2.88%) DHCP
8 10 (2.62%) WAN
9 7 (1.83%) LAN
10 4 (1.05%) NAS
10 4 (1.05%) VLAN
10 4 (1.05%) Wireless
11 3 (0.79%) BGP
11 3 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.79%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.79%) WebEx
11 3 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.52%) SAN
12 2 (0.52%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.36%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.31%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.31%) MySQL
6 5 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.05%) Ataccama
7 4 (1.05%) IBM InfoSphere
7 4 (1.05%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.05%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.05%) TIBCO EBX
8 3 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (12.83%) Jenkins
2 47 (12.30%) GitLab
3 46 (12.04%) Git
4 16 (4.19%) JIRA
5 7 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (1.31%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.79%) Snyk
8 3 (0.79%) Subversion
9 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.52%) JMeter
9 2 (0.52%) Postman
9 2 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.26%) Flyway
10 1 (0.26%) git-flow
10 1 (0.26%) Maven
10 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 73 (19.11%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.06%) Finance
3 37 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.97%) Law
7 13 (3.40%) Retail
8 12 (3.14%) Banking
9 10 (2.62%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.57%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.31%) Legal
13 3 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.79%) Marketing
13 3 (0.79%) Police
14 2 (0.52%) Automotive
14 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Legal Technology
14 2 (0.52%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (25.65%) Senior
2 94 (24.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (19.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (15.97%) Azure Engineer
5 59 (15.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 53 (13.87%) Platform Engineer
7 36 (9.42%) Architect
8 31 (8.12%) AWS Engineer
9 28 (7.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 26 (6.81%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 24 (6.28%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 24 (6.28%) Lead
11 24 (6.28%) Senior DevOps
12 23 (6.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.97%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
15 17 (4.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 16 (4.19%) Administrator
17 14 (3.66%) Systems Administrator
18 13 (3.40%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (60.47%) Terraform
2 24 (6.28%) OpenID
3 23 (6.02%) ARM Templates
3 23 (6.02%) SAML
4 22 (5.76%) OAuth
5 18 (4.71%) Node.js
6 17 (4.45%) LDAP
7 16 (4.19%) REST
8 11 (2.88%) RESTful
9 9 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (2.09%) .NET
11 7 (1.83%) PySpark
12 6 (1.57%) AWS CDK
12 6 (1.57%) Kafka
12 6 (1.57%) Loki
12 6 (1.57%) OAuth2
12 6 (1.57%) Pulumi
13 5 (1.31%) OpenTofu
13 5 (1.31%) React
14 4 (1.05%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 96 (25.13%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.33%) Linux Command Line
4 26 (6.81%) Private Cloud
5 21 (5.50%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.40%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.62%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (2.62%) Security Posture
9 9 (2.36%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (2.09%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.09%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.09%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.57%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 120 (31.41%) Linux
2 74 (19.37%) Windows
3 32 (8.38%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.14%) Unix
6 9 (2.36%) Debian
7 7 (1.83%) Rocky
7 7 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.83%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.52%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.26%) Android
10 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.26%) CentOS
10 1 (0.26%) Solaris
10 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (68.85%) CI/CD
2 253 (66.23%) DevOps
3 225 (58.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (32.72%) Platform Engineering
5 117 (30.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 104 (27.23%) Problem-Solving
7 94 (24.61%) Cloud Security
7 94 (24.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 91 (23.82%) Containerisation
9 90 (23.56%) Agile
10 89 (23.30%) Observability
11 67 (17.54%) Mentoring
12 61 (15.97%) Migration
13 59 (15.45%) AI
14 50 (13.09%) Technical Leadership
15 49 (12.83%) Roadmaps
16 48 (12.57%) Disaster Recovery
17 47 (12.30%) Deployment Automation
18 46 (12.04%) Identity Access Management
18 46 (12.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 190 (49.74%) Python
2 127 (33.25%) PowerShell
3 124 (32.46%) Bash
4 48 (12.57%) SQL
5 34 (8.90%) Bicep
6 23 (6.02%) Go
7 17 (4.45%) Java
8 9 (2.36%) PHP
9 7 (1.83%) C#
10 6 (1.57%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.31%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.79%) Ruby
14 2 (0.52%) C
14 2 (0.52%) C++
14 2 (0.52%) Fortran
14 2 (0.52%) Groovy
14 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.52%) Rust
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 121 (31.68%) Security Cleared
2 66 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.64%) DV Cleared
4 29 (7.59%) Degree
5 22 (5.76%) Azure Certification
6 20 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (4.71%) AWS Certification
8 16 (4.19%) CISSP
9 12 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.57%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.52%) CCNP
13 2 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.52%) RHCSA
13 2 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.66%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.40%) QA
3 10 (2.62%) NIST
4 7 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.52%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) GDPR
8 1 (0.26%) GxP
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 98 (25.65%) Docker
2 58 (15.18%) Active Directory
3 29 (7.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.93%) vSphere
5 12 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.09%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.83%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.83%) VMware NSX
8 6 (1.57%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.05%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.52%) Xen
12 1 (0.26%) Firmware
12 1 (0.26%) GPFS
12 1 (0.26%) NFS
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 147 (38.48%) Kubernetes
2 111 (29.06%) Ansible
3 52 (13.61%) Grafana
4 44 (11.52%) Prometheus
5 19 (4.97%) Puppet
6 16 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 14 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.62%) Argo
9 8 (2.09%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.83%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.57%) Istio
11 6 (1.57%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.31%) Packer
12 5 (1.31%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.79%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.52%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 2 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.52%) Podman
14 2 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 107 (28.01%) Microsoft
2 45 (11.78%) VMware
3 21 (5.50%) Google
4 18 (4.71%) Cisco
5 14 (3.66%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.09%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.83%) Citrix
7 7 (1.83%) NetApp
7 7 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.57%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.57%) Databricks
8 6 (1.57%) IBM
8 6 (1.57%) Okta
9 5 (1.31%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.31%) EMC
9 5 (1.31%) ForgeRock
9 5 (1.31%) Splunk
9 5 (1.31%) Tenable
10 4 (1.05%) Oracle
10 4 (1.05%) Ping Identity