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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 504 533 688
Rank change year-on-year +29 +155 -114
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 241 140 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.34% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 143 98 166
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,750 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +19.32% -2.22%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £94,500 £108,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - +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 67,701 41,203 88,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.85% 92.64% 82.16%
Number of salaries quoted 46,469 21,965 62,595
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,613
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 14 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 15 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 14 June 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 +24 217 £75,000 -6.25% 80
UK excluding London -24 114 £70,000 +12.00% 56
London +2 96 £85,000 +3.03% 25
Work from Home +50 90 £70,000 -5.08% 42
South West -17 36 £75,000 - 7
North of England -36 33 £70,400 +17.33% 17
South East -18 24 £62,500 -16.67% 19
North West -7 22 £73,500 +22.50% 9
Midlands -9 12 £68,250 -11.94% 10
Yorkshire -42 8 £50,000 -20.00% 6
West Midlands -13 7 £72,500 -6.45% 7
East of England -17 6 £65,000 +44.44% 5
East Midlands - 5 £64,000 - 3
Wales -42 3 - -
North East -44 3 £55,000 -6.38% 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 8 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.49%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.07%) Apache
3 5 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.66%) IIS
5 3 (1.24%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.24%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.41%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 122 (50.62%) Azure
2 96 (39.83%) AWS
3 65 (26.97%) GitHub
4 43 (17.84%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (15.35%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (12.45%) Amazon S3
7 29 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (12.03%) Entra ID
8 28 (11.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (11.20%) GCP
10 25 (10.37%) Serverless
11 24 (9.96%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (9.13%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (9.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (7.88%) PaaS
14 17 (7.05%) Azure AKS
14 17 (7.05%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (6.64%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (6.64%) IaaS
16 15 (6.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 54 (22.41%) Firewall
2 25 (10.37%) VPN
3 17 (7.05%) Network Security
4 16 (6.64%) Kerberos
5 11 (4.56%) DNS
6 9 (3.73%) WAN
7 8 (3.32%) VLAN
8 7 (2.90%) LAN
9 6 (2.49%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.49%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.49%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.49%) WebEx
10 4 (1.66%) DHCP
11 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
12 2 (0.83%) SAN
12 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.83%) Wireless
13 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
13 1 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
13 1 (0.41%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.73%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.66%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.66%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.24%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.83%) Big Data
7 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.83%) MySQL
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.41%) Power BI
8 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.41%) Trino
Development Applications
1 36 (14.94%) Git
2 26 (10.79%) Jenkins
3 19 (7.88%) GitLab
4 9 (3.73%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.24%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.24%) Subversion
7 2 (0.83%) JIRA
7 2 (0.83%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.41%) git-flow
8 1 (0.41%) Maven
8 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 37 (15.35%) Finance
3 25 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.81%) Retail
6 12 (4.98%) Aerospace
7 11 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (4.15%) Legal
9 9 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.32%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.90%) Banking
12 6 (2.49%) Law
12 6 (2.49%) Legal Technology
12 6 (2.49%) Marketing
13 4 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.24%) Automotive
14 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.24%) Electronics
14 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.83%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 66 (27.39%) Senior
2 51 (21.16%) Platform Engineer
3 47 (19.50%) Azure Engineer
4 46 (19.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 45 (18.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 39 (16.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (10.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 21 (8.71%) Architect
9 20 (8.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 19 (7.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 18 (7.47%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (6.22%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (5.39%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (4.98%) Lead
14 12 (4.98%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 11 (4.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 11 (4.56%) Data Engineer
15 11 (4.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (4.15%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.64%) Node.js
2 15 (6.22%) LDAP
2 15 (6.22%) OAuth
3 14 (5.81%) OpenID
3 14 (5.81%) SAML
4 13 (5.39%) REST
5 9 (3.73%) ARM Templates
6 8 (3.32%) Loki
6 8 (3.32%) YAML
7 6 (2.49%) RESTful
7 6 (2.49%) XMPP
8 5 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.07%) Kafka
8 5 (2.07%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.66%) .NET
9 4 (1.66%) PySpark
10 3 (1.24%) React
11 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET Core
11 2 (0.83%) Flask
11 2 (0.83%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 59 (24.48%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (8.30%) Private Cloud
4 16 (6.64%) Public Cloud
5 15 (6.22%) Data Centre
6 14 (5.81%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.15%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.73%) CMDB
8 9 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.73%) Replication
9 8 (3.32%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.49%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.49%) Podcast
10 6 (2.49%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.66%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (30.29%) Linux
2 48 (19.92%) Windows
3 21 (8.71%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.66%) Unix
5 2 (0.83%) Debian
5 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.41%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (67.63%) CI/CD
2 151 (62.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 150 (62.24%) DevOps
4 74 (30.71%) Platform Engineering
5 57 (23.65%) Cloud Security
5 57 (23.65%) Observability
6 56 (23.24%) Agile
6 56 (23.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 55 (22.82%) Containerisation
8 54 (22.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (18.26%) Mentoring
11 34 (14.11%) Disaster Recovery
11 34 (14.11%) Test Automation
12 32 (13.28%) Configuration Management
13 30 (12.45%) Migration
13 30 (12.45%) Roadmaps
14 28 (11.62%) AI
14 28 (11.62%) RBAC
15 26 (10.79%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (51.87%) Python
2 82 (34.02%) PowerShell
3 69 (28.63%) Bash
4 30 (12.45%) Bicep
5 27 (11.20%) SQL
6 17 (7.05%) Go
7 14 (5.81%) Java
8 6 (2.49%) C#
9 4 (1.66%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.24%) Elixir
10 3 (1.24%) Erlang
11 2 (0.83%) Groovy
11 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.83%) PHP
11 2 (0.83%) Ruby
12 1 (0.41%) ABAP
12 1 (0.41%) C
12 1 (0.41%) C++
12 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 33 (13.69%) Degree
3 31 (12.86%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.05%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.81%) AWS Certification
5 14 (5.81%) CISSP
6 12 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.56%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.83%) CCIE
10 2 (0.83%) CCNP
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.41%) CCNA
11 1 (0.41%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.41%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.15%) NIST
2 5 (2.07%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.07%) QA
3 4 (1.66%) GDPR
3 4 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.66%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.83%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.83%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 51 (21.16%) Docker
2 38 (15.77%) Active Directory
3 25 (10.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (6.22%) vSphere
5 10 (4.15%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (3.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (3.73%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (2.90%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.90%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.66%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.41%) Firmware
9 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 173 (71.78%) Terraform
2 90 (37.34%) Kubernetes
3 86 (35.68%) Ansible
4 53 (21.99%) Grafana
5 41 (17.01%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (4.98%) Puppet
7 10 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (3.32%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.90%) Packer
9 7 (2.90%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.49%) Argo
10 6 (2.49%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.66%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.24%) Scalr
13 1 (0.41%) Istio
13 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.41%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.41%) Rancher
13 1 (0.41%) yum
Vendors
1 63 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 41 (17.01%) VMware
3 16 (6.64%) Cisco
4 14 (5.81%) Palo Alto
5 8 (3.32%) Citrix
5 8 (3.32%) Google
6 7 (2.90%) Fortinet
6 7 (2.90%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.49%) EMC
7 6 (2.49%) F5
7 6 (2.49%) NetApp
7 6 (2.49%) Splunk
7 6 (2.49%) Tenable
8 4 (1.66%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.66%) Databricks
8 4 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.24%) Dell
9 3 (1.24%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.24%) IFS
9 3 (1.24%) SolarWinds