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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 516 676
Rank change year-on-year -9 +160 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 173 121 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.29% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.31% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 117 85 141
10th Percentile £47,070 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £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 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £111,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -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 58,981 39,507 74,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.68% 93.49% 87.04%
Number of salaries quoted 35,808 22,230 56,250
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,887 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
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 21 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 14 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 21 March 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 +11 154 £75,000 - 83
UK excluding London -16 81 £70,000 - 54
London +15 78 £80,000 -3.03% 32
Work from Home +45 67 £73,625 -3.76% 44
North of England -46 21 £67,500 +18.42% 17
South East -30 20 £62,500 -15.25% 18
South West -15 19 £62,500 -16.67% 17
North West -11 12 £76,250 +38.64% 6
Midlands - 10 £72,500 - 1
Yorkshire -38 9 £47,500 -15.56% 4
Scotland -12 6 - -
East Midlands - 6 £67,000 - 1
East of England -5 5 £85,000 +17.24% 1
West Midlands - 4 £88,750 -

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 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.05%) IIS
3 5 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.89%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.31%) Confluence
5 3 (1.73%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.58%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (3.47%) Weka
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.58%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 87 (50.29%) Azure
2 82 (47.40%) AWS
3 36 (20.81%) GitHub
4 25 (14.45%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (13.87%) GCP
5 24 (13.87%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (13.29%) Amazon EKS
7 19 (10.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 19 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (9.83%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (9.83%) PaaS
9 16 (9.25%) OpenShift
9 16 (9.25%) Serverless
10 15 (8.67%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (8.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (7.51%) IaaS
13 12 (6.94%) SaaS
14 11 (6.36%) Azure AKS
14 11 (6.36%) Entra ID
15 10 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.50%) Firewall
2 24 (13.87%) VPN
3 12 (6.94%) DNS
4 11 (6.36%) Network Security
5 9 (5.20%) VLAN
6 8 (4.62%) Kerberos
6 8 (4.62%) WAN
7 6 (3.47%) LAN
8 4 (2.31%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (2.31%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (2.31%) DHCP
8 4 (2.31%) Unified Communications
8 4 (2.31%) WebEx
9 3 (1.73%) Wireless
10 2 (1.16%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.16%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.58%) Broadband
11 1 (0.58%) NGFW
11 1 (0.58%) VSAN
11 1 (0.58%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.94%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.05%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.89%) Big Data
5 4 (2.31%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.31%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.31%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.16%) MySQL
6 2 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.58%) Power BI
7 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (16.76%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.98%) Git
2 19 (10.98%) GitLab
3 9 (5.20%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.47%) JIRA
5 5 (2.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (2.31%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.16%) Subversion
8 1 (0.58%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
General
1 49 (28.32%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.23%) Finance
3 23 (13.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.94%) Aerospace
5 11 (6.36%) Retail
6 9 (5.20%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.05%) Banking
7 7 (4.05%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.47%) Legal
9 5 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.89%) Law
10 4 (2.31%) Marketing
11 3 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Advertising
12 2 (1.16%) Automotive
12 2 (1.16%) Electronics
12 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.58%) German Language
Job Titles
1 41 (23.70%) Platform Engineer
2 38 (21.97%) Senior
3 33 (19.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (16.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (12.14%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (8.67%) Architect
8 13 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (6.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.78%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (5.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.62%) Data Engineer
12 8 (4.62%) Lead
13 7 (4.05%) Administrator
13 7 (4.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.05%) DevOps Administrator
13 7 (4.05%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 7 (4.05%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.78%) OAuth
2 9 (5.20%) ARM Templates
2 9 (5.20%) LDAP
2 9 (5.20%) REST
3 8 (4.62%) Kafka
3 8 (4.62%) Loki
3 8 (4.62%) RESTful
4 7 (4.05%) Node.js
5 5 (2.89%) Middleware
5 5 (2.89%) OpenID
5 5 (2.89%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (2.89%) React
5 5 (2.89%) SAML
5 5 (2.89%) YAML
6 4 (2.31%) JDBC
6 4 (2.31%) OAuth2
6 4 (2.31%) ODBC
6 4 (2.31%) XMPP
7 3 (1.73%) .NET
7 3 (1.73%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (9.25%) Private Cloud
4 11 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.20%) Data Centre
5 9 (5.20%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.05%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.47%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.89%) CMDB
9 4 (2.31%) FlexPod
9 4 (2.31%) PKI
9 4 (2.31%) Podcast
9 4 (2.31%) Replication
9 4 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.73%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.73%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.16%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 75 (43.35%) Linux
2 36 (20.81%) Windows
3 17 (9.83%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (2.89%) Unix
5 5 (2.89%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (2.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.73%) SUSE
7 2 (1.16%) VMS
8 1 (0.58%) CentOS
8 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (69.36%) CI/CD
2 105 (60.69%) DevOps
2 105 (60.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (30.06%) Platform Engineering
4 47 (27.17%) Containerisation
5 46 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (26.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (24.86%) Cloud Security
8 41 (23.70%) Agile
9 38 (21.97%) Observability
10 37 (21.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (20.81%) Configuration Management
12 32 (18.50%) Disaster Recovery
13 28 (16.18%) AI
14 20 (11.56%) DevSecOps
15 19 (10.98%) Analytics
15 19 (10.98%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (10.40%) High Availability
16 18 (10.40%) Incident Response
17 17 (9.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (52.60%) Python
2 58 (33.53%) PowerShell
3 54 (31.21%) Bash
4 22 (12.72%) Bicep
5 15 (8.67%) Go
5 15 (8.67%) SQL
6 14 (8.09%) Java
7 6 (3.47%) C#
7 6 (3.47%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.31%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.73%) Elixir
9 3 (1.73%) Erlang
10 2 (1.16%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.58%) C
11 1 (0.58%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (18.50%) Degree
2 28 (16.18%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.09%) AWS Certification
4 12 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.94%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.36%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.78%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.05%) CISSP
8 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.16%) CCIE
10 2 (1.16%) CCNA
10 2 (1.16%) CCNP
10 2 (1.16%) CISM
10 2 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.58%) GCIH
11 1 (0.58%) GIAC
11 1 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.62%) NIST
1 8 (4.62%) QA
2 5 (2.89%) GDPR
2 5 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.73%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.16%) GxP
5 2 (1.16%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (28.32%) Docker
2 24 (13.87%) Active Directory
3 21 (12.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (8.09%) vSphere
5 8 (4.62%) VMware NSX
6 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (4.05%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (2.89%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.73%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.58%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 129 (74.57%) Terraform
2 93 (53.76%) Kubernetes
3 78 (45.09%) Ansible
4 45 (26.01%) Grafana
5 36 (20.81%) Prometheus
6 14 (8.09%) Puppet
7 9 (5.20%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.05%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.47%) Argo
10 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.89%) Rancher
11 4 (2.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (2.31%) ZABBIX
12 2 (1.16%) Packer
12 2 (1.16%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.16%) yum
13 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.58%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.58%) Scalr
Vendors
1 45 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 41 (23.70%) VMware
3 14 (8.09%) Cisco
4 11 (6.36%) Palo Alto
5 10 (5.78%) Oracle
6 8 (4.62%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.62%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.62%) Splunk
7 7 (4.05%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.47%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.89%) Dell
10 4 (2.31%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.31%) Cribl.io
10 4 (2.31%) Databricks
10 4 (2.31%) Foundry
10 4 (2.31%) IFS
10 4 (2.31%) NetApp
11 3 (1.73%) F5
11 3 (1.73%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.73%) Palantir