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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 543 616
Rank change year-on-year +35 +73 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 166 155 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.34% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 115 99 133
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £66,113 £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 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £69,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.08% +11.20% +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 54,175 45,213 65,719
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 79.32% 92.48% 88.31%
Number of salaries quoted 32,471 22,205 50,855
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,750 £29,440
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 19 February 2026.

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 19 February 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 +13 144 £75,000 - 104
UK excluding London +14 79 £68,750 -1.08% 76
London +33 76 £80,000 -3.03% 43
Work from Home +55 64 £74,875 -0.17% 49
North of England -22 25 £71,250 +23.91% 13
South East -19 16 £62,500 -15.25% 23
North West +5 15 £75,000 +50.00% 8
South West +4 12 £60,000 -11.11% 23
Scotland -3 11 - - 3
Yorkshire -33 9 £47,500 -25.33% 5
Midlands - 9 £72,500 - 6
East Midlands - 6 £67,000 - 2
East of England +17 5 £85,000 +17.24% 4
West Midlands - 3 £105,000 - 4
Wales -4 1 £47,500 -
North East -9 1 £85,000 +47.83%

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 (5.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.82%) IIS
3 5 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.01%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.41%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.41%) Confluence
5 3 (1.81%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.81%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.60%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (3.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.60%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 93 (56.02%) Azure
2 79 (47.59%) AWS
3 36 (21.69%) GitHub
4 33 (19.88%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (15.06%) GCP
6 21 (12.65%) Amazon EKS
6 21 (12.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (12.65%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (10.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 16 (9.64%) PaaS
9 15 (9.04%) OpenShift
10 13 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (7.23%) IaaS
11 12 (7.23%) SaaS
11 12 (7.23%) Serverless
12 10 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
13 9 (5.42%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.42%) Entra ID
13 9 (5.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (4.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 31 (18.67%) Firewall
2 23 (13.86%) VPN
3 12 (7.23%) DNS
4 10 (6.02%) Network Security
5 9 (5.42%) WAN
6 6 (3.61%) Kerberos
6 6 (3.61%) LAN
6 6 (3.61%) VLAN
7 4 (2.41%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.81%) DHCP
9 2 (1.20%) SAN
9 2 (1.20%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.20%) Wireless
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (0.60%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.60%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.60%) VSAN
10 1 (0.60%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.41%) Big Data
5 3 (1.81%) Apache Hive
5 3 (1.81%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.81%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.81%) MySQL
5 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.60%) Power BI
7 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (16.87%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.05%) GitLab
3 16 (9.64%) Git
4 9 (5.42%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.22%) JIRA
6 6 (3.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.20%) Subversion
7 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.60%) JUnit
8 1 (0.60%) Mockito
8 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 54 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 39 (23.49%) Finance
3 17 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.82%) Aerospace
4 8 (4.82%) Retail
5 5 (3.01%) Banking
5 5 (3.01%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.01%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.41%) Advertising
7 3 (1.81%) Law
8 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Legal
8 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.60%) German Language
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (24.10%) Platform Engineer
2 35 (21.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 35 (21.08%) Senior
3 33 (19.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (10.84%) Azure Engineer
4 18 (10.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (8.43%) Architect
5 14 (8.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 12 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.82%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.82%) Lead
9 7 (4.22%) Administrator
9 7 (4.22%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) CloudOps Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Network Engineer
9 7 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (3.61%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 6 (3.61%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.02%) RESTful
2 9 (5.42%) ARM Templates
3 8 (4.82%) Kafka
3 8 (4.82%) OAuth
3 8 (4.82%) REST
4 7 (4.22%) LDAP
4 7 (4.22%) Loki
4 7 (4.22%) Node.js
5 5 (3.01%) Middleware
5 5 (3.01%) React
6 4 (2.41%) OpenID
6 4 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.41%) SAML
6 4 (2.41%) YAML
7 3 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.81%) GraphQL
7 3 (1.81%) NestJS
7 3 (1.81%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.81%) ODBC
7 3 (1.81%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.66%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.83%) Private Cloud
3 11 (6.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.01%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.41%) PKI
6 4 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.81%) CMDB
7 3 (1.81%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.20%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.20%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.20%) Synthetic Data
9 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 67 (40.36%) Linux
2 27 (16.27%) Windows
3 15 (9.04%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.61%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.01%) VMS
6 5 (3.01%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.41%) Unix
8 3 (1.81%) SUSE
9 2 (1.20%) CentOS
10 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (71.69%) CI/CD
2 114 (68.67%) DevOps
3 90 (54.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (28.92%) Platform Engineering
6 46 (27.71%) Containerisation
7 44 (26.51%) Agile
8 43 (25.90%) Cloud Security
9 41 (24.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (19.88%) Observability
11 32 (19.28%) Configuration Management
12 29 (17.47%) Disaster Recovery
13 28 (16.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 26 (15.66%) AI
15 19 (11.45%) Task Automation
16 18 (10.84%) High Availability
17 17 (10.24%) Analytics
17 17 (10.24%) Continuous Integration
17 17 (10.24%) DevSecOps
18 16 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 87 (52.41%) Python
2 63 (37.95%) PowerShell
3 49 (29.52%) Bash
4 19 (11.45%) Bicep
4 19 (11.45%) SQL
5 15 (9.04%) Go
5 15 (9.04%) Java
6 8 (4.82%) C#
7 7 (4.22%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.41%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.81%) Elixir
9 3 (1.81%) Erlang
10 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.60%) C
11 1 (0.60%) C++
11 1 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 27 (16.27%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.06%) Degree
3 13 (7.83%) AWS Certification
4 12 (7.23%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (6.02%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.82%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.61%) CISSP
8 6 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.01%) CCIE
9 5 (3.01%) CCNP
10 2 (1.20%) CCNA
10 2 (1.20%) CISM
10 2 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.60%) GCIH
11 1 (0.60%) GIAC
11 1 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.60%) RHCE
11 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.02%) QA
2 8 (4.82%) NIST
3 6 (3.61%) GDPR
4 5 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.41%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.81%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.20%) GxP
8 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.60%) GRC
8 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
System Software
1 54 (32.53%) Docker
2 20 (12.05%) Active Directory
3 18 (10.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.02%) vSphere
5 7 (4.22%) VMware NSX
6 5 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.60%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 122 (73.49%) Terraform
2 98 (59.04%) Kubernetes
3 74 (44.58%) Ansible
4 41 (24.70%) Grafana
5 38 (22.89%) Prometheus
6 17 (10.24%) Puppet
7 11 (6.63%) Progress Chef
8 6 (3.61%) Argo
8 6 (3.61%) Proxmox
9 5 (3.01%) Rancher
10 4 (2.41%) CASB
10 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.41%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.20%) Kubeflow
12 2 (1.20%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.20%) yum
13 1 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
13 1 (0.60%) Control-M
13 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 43 (25.90%) Microsoft
2 38 (22.89%) VMware
3 11 (6.63%) Cisco
4 10 (6.02%) Oracle
4 10 (6.02%) Red Hat
5 9 (5.42%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.82%) ServiceNow
7 7 (4.22%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.61%) SolarWinds
8 6 (3.61%) Splunk
9 5 (3.01%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.01%) Foundry
10 4 (2.41%) Cribl.io
10 4 (2.41%) Databricks
10 4 (2.41%) IFS
10 4 (2.41%) Meraki
11 3 (1.81%) Dell
11 3 (1.81%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.81%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.81%) Palantir