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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 515 599
Rank change year-on-year +44 +84 -98
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 349 162 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.36% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 225 119 167
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,125 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +10.29% +0.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 79,395 44,464 67,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.29% 89.01% 80.73%
Number of salaries quoted 54,845 25,271 42,444
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +42 312 £71,450 -7.81% 129
UK excluding London +12 196 £65,000 +4.00% 99
London -2 117 £85,000 +3.03% 45
Work from Home +4 105 £67,500 -3.57% 72
North of England -12 65 £62,500 - 37
South West -21 54 £75,000 - 18
South East 0 40 £65,000 -13.33% 27
North West -5 30 £71,450 +14.32% 18
North East -40 19 £55,000 -8.33% 5
Yorkshire -31 16 £57,500 -8.00% 14
East of England -12 12 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Midlands -26 12 £62,000 +6.44% 8
Wales -50 11 £64,750 +12.61% 1
West Midlands -26 8 £62,000 +3.33% 3
East Midlands -26 4 £52,500 -9.87% 5
Scotland +6 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 (2.58%) Apache
1 9 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.58%) Apache Spark
1 9 (2.58%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.01%) IIS
2 7 (2.01%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.72%) nginx
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.15%) SAS
5 3 (0.86%) Confluence
6 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 179 (51.29%) Azure
2 135 (38.68%) AWS
3 73 (20.92%) GitHub
4 61 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.47%) Entra ID
6 46 (13.18%) Amazon S3
7 43 (12.32%) GCP
8 42 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
9 40 (11.46%) AWS CloudFormation
9 40 (11.46%) Serverless
10 34 (9.74%) Amazon EC2
11 33 (9.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
11 33 (9.46%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
13 25 (7.16%) Azure AKS
14 24 (6.88%) SaaS
15 23 (6.59%) PaaS
15 23 (6.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 21 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (16.91%) Firewall
2 24 (6.88%) VPN
3 22 (6.30%) Kerberos
4 17 (4.87%) DNS
4 17 (4.87%) Network Security
5 11 (3.15%) WAN
6 10 (2.87%) LAN
6 10 (2.87%) TCP/IP
7 7 (2.01%) DHCP
8 6 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (1.72%) Unified Communications
8 6 (1.72%) VLAN
8 6 (1.72%) WebEx
9 4 (1.15%) NAS
9 4 (1.15%) Wireless
10 3 (0.86%) BGP
11 2 (0.57%) SAN
12 1 (0.29%) HTTP
12 1 (0.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (5.44%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.58%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.01%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.43%) MySQL
7 5 (1.43%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.15%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.15%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.15%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.15%) TIBCO EBX
9 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 46 (13.18%) Git
2 38 (10.89%) GitLab
3 37 (10.60%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.58%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (2.29%) JIRA
5 8 (2.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.86%) Subversion
8 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.57%) Snyk
8 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.29%) git-flow
9 1 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 61 (17.48%) Finance
2 59 (16.91%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.31%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (6.02%) Law
6 10 (2.87%) Legal
6 10 (2.87%) Retail
7 9 (2.58%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.58%) Banking
7 9 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.29%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.72%) Legal Technology
9 6 (1.72%) Marketing
10 3 (0.86%) Automotive
10 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.86%) Electronics
10 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (24.93%) Senior
2 79 (22.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (18.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (17.19%) Azure Engineer
5 59 (16.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (14.90%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (8.60%) Architect
8 27 (7.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (7.45%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (6.59%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 23 (6.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 22 (6.30%) Lead
12 21 (6.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 19 (5.44%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (5.44%) Senior DevOps
14 16 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (4.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.72%) Data Engineer
15 13 (3.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.44%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (63.61%) Terraform
2 22 (6.30%) ARM Templates
2 22 (6.30%) OAuth
2 22 (6.30%) OpenID
2 22 (6.30%) SAML
3 18 (5.16%) LDAP
4 17 (4.87%) Node.js
4 17 (4.87%) REST
5 10 (2.87%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (2.58%) .NET
6 9 (2.58%) YAML
7 8 (2.29%) Loki
7 8 (2.29%) RESTful
8 7 (2.01%) OpenTofu
8 7 (2.01%) PySpark
9 6 (1.72%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (1.72%) React
9 6 (1.72%) XMPP
10 5 (1.43%) Kafka
10 5 (1.43%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 94 (26.93%) Cloud Native
2 39 (11.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (7.16%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (5.73%) Onboarding
4 20 (5.73%) Private Cloud
5 15 (4.30%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.15%) Data Centre
8 10 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (2.87%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.58%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.58%) Replication
10 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
10 8 (2.29%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.72%) CMDB
11 6 (1.72%) FlexPod
11 6 (1.72%) Podcast
11 6 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 107 (30.66%) Linux
2 76 (21.78%) Windows
3 35 (10.03%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.58%) Debian
6 8 (2.29%) Unix
7 6 (1.72%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.15%) Rocky
8 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.29%) Android
10 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.29%) Solaris
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (68.19%) CI/CD
2 220 (63.04%) DevOps
3 206 (59.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 111 (31.81%) Platform Engineering
5 108 (30.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 88 (25.21%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (24.07%) Containerisation
9 80 (22.92%) Agile
10 75 (21.49%) Observability
11 71 (20.34%) Cloud Security
12 67 (19.20%) Mentoring
13 58 (16.62%) Migration
14 47 (13.47%) Roadmaps
14 47 (13.47%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (13.47%) Test Automation
15 45 (12.89%) AI
16 43 (12.32%) Disaster Recovery
17 42 (12.03%) Identity Access Management
18 38 (10.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 172 (49.28%) Python
2 116 (33.24%) PowerShell
3 108 (30.95%) Bash
4 43 (12.32%) SQL
5 35 (10.03%) Bicep
6 17 (4.87%) Java
7 15 (4.30%) Go
8 8 (2.29%) C#
8 8 (2.29%) PHP
9 4 (1.15%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.86%) Ruby
11 2 (0.57%) C
11 2 (0.57%) C++
11 2 (0.57%) Fortran
11 2 (0.57%) Groovy
11 2 (0.57%) Rust
11 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (28.94%) Security Cleared
2 50 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.46%) Degree
4 29 (8.31%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (5.44%) Azure Certification
7 17 (4.87%) CISSP
8 11 (3.15%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.86%) CCNP
11 3 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.57%) A+ Certification
12 2 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.57%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.29%) CCIE
13 1 (0.29%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.01%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.44%) QA
3 10 (2.87%) NIST
4 7 (2.01%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.86%) GDPR
6 3 (0.86%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.57%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 93 (26.65%) Docker
2 56 (16.05%) Active Directory
3 36 (10.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (5.16%) vSphere
5 13 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.01%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.01%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.01%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (1.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.57%) Xen
10 1 (0.29%) Firmware
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 132 (37.82%) Kubernetes
2 106 (30.37%) Ansible
3 46 (13.18%) Grafana
4 35 (10.03%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.16%) Puppet
6 16 (4.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.29%) Argo
9 7 (2.01%) Packer
9 7 (2.01%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (1.72%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.15%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.86%) Istio
12 3 (0.86%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.86%) Scalr
13 2 (0.57%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.57%) Rancher
14 1 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 95 (27.22%) Microsoft
2 46 (13.18%) VMware
3 23 (6.59%) Cisco
4 17 (4.87%) Google
5 13 (3.72%) Palo Alto
6 8 (2.29%) Citrix
6 8 (2.29%) NetApp
6 8 (2.29%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.01%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.01%) Splunk
8 6 (1.72%) EMC
8 6 (1.72%) F5
8 6 (1.72%) Okta
8 6 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.72%) Tenable
9 5 (1.43%) Databricks
10 4 (1.15%) Dell
10 4 (1.15%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.15%) IBM
10 4 (1.15%) Informatica