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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 459 519 548
Rank change year-on-year +60 +29 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 389 166 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.38% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 251 117 168
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% -1.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,000 £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 85,591 43,838 62,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.02% 88.74% 81.52%
Number of salaries quoted 59,105 24,621 34,654
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%
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 25 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 25 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 +41 349 £72,500 -3.33% 505
UK excluding London +7 216 £65,000 - 258
London -2 135 £85,000 +3.03% 283
Work from Home -13 98 £70,000 -3.45% 199
North of England -21 81 £57,500 -8.00% 81
South West -29 51 £75,000 - 25
South East -19 46 £65,000 -13.33% 90
North West -16 39 £70,400 -2.90% 48
Yorkshire -15 24 £58,750 -6.00% 22
North East -50 24 £55,000 -16.98% 12
East of England -11 13 £45,000 -10.00% 10
Midlands -38 11 £62,000 +6.44% 22
Wales -62 11 £64,750 +15.11% 1
West Midlands -42 7 £62,000 +3.33% 10
East Midlands -30 4 £53,000 -9.01% 12
Scotland +3 2 - - 25
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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 (2.57%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.31%) Apache
3 8 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.06%) nginx
4 7 (1.80%) Confluence
4 7 (1.80%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.80%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.54%) IIS
6 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.03%) SAS
7 2 (0.51%) 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
1 189 (48.59%) Azure
2 150 (38.56%) AWS
3 88 (22.62%) GitHub
4 68 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (14.14%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (13.88%) Entra ID
7 48 (12.34%) GCP
8 47 (12.08%) Amazon S3
9 46 (11.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 44 (11.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (10.54%) Serverless
12 40 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (9.25%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (8.74%) Amazon ECS
15 33 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (7.71%) Azure AKS
16 30 (7.71%) SaaS
17 22 (5.66%) PaaS
18 19 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 62 (15.94%) Firewall
2 37 (9.51%) VPN
3 23 (5.91%) DNS
4 22 (5.66%) Kerberos
5 19 (4.88%) Network Security
6 13 (3.34%) TCP/IP
7 11 (2.83%) DHCP
8 10 (2.57%) WAN
9 7 (1.80%) LAN
10 5 (1.29%) VLAN
11 4 (1.03%) NAS
11 4 (1.03%) Wireless
12 3 (0.77%) BGP
12 3 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.77%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.77%) WebEx
12 3 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.51%) Reverse Proxy
13 2 (0.51%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
1 22 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.31%) DynamoDB
4 7 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (1.80%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.29%) MySQL
6 5 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.03%) Ataccama
7 4 (1.03%) IBM InfoSphere
7 4 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.03%) TIBCO EBX
8 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 50 (12.85%) GitLab
2 49 (12.60%) Jenkins
3 44 (11.31%) Git
4 17 (4.37%) JIRA
5 6 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.29%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.77%) Snyk
7 3 (0.77%) Subversion
8 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.51%) JMeter
8 2 (0.51%) Postman
8 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.26%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.26%) Flyway
9 1 (0.26%) git-flow
General
1 73 (18.77%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.74%) Finance
3 39 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (4.63%) Law
7 14 (3.60%) Banking
7 14 (3.60%) Retail
8 11 (2.83%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.03%) Legal
12 3 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.77%) Marketing
12 3 (0.77%) Police
13 2 (0.51%) Automotive
13 2 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (25.19%) Senior
2 95 (24.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 78 (20.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 58 (14.91%) Azure Engineer
4 58 (14.91%) Cloud Engineer
5 52 (13.37%) Platform Engineer
6 38 (9.77%) Architect
7 32 (8.23%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (6.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.68%) Lead
9 26 (6.68%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 24 (6.17%) Senior DevOps
11 23 (5.91%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 22 (5.66%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
15 17 (4.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 16 (4.11%) Administrator
17 14 (3.60%) Systems Administrator
18 13 (3.34%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 234 (60.15%) Terraform
2 27 (6.94%) OpenID
3 26 (6.68%) SAML
4 24 (6.17%) OAuth
5 23 (5.91%) ARM Templates
6 19 (4.88%) LDAP
7 18 (4.63%) Node.js
7 18 (4.63%) REST
8 11 (2.83%) RESTful
9 9 (2.31%) .NET
9 9 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (1.80%) Kafka
10 7 (1.80%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.80%) PySpark
11 6 (1.54%) AWS CDK
11 6 (1.54%) Loki
11 6 (1.54%) Pulumi
12 5 (1.29%) OpenTofu
12 5 (1.29%) React
13 4 (1.03%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 95 (24.42%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.20%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (6.17%) Private Cloud
5 21 (5.40%) Onboarding
6 14 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.08%) Security Posture
8 11 (2.83%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.31%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.31%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (2.06%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.80%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.80%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.80%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 121 (31.11%) Linux
2 75 (19.28%) Windows
3 30 (7.71%) Windows Server
4 15 (3.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.08%) Unix
6 9 (2.31%) Debian
7 7 (1.80%) Rocky
7 7 (1.80%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.80%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.51%) 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 (67.61%) CI/CD
2 254 (65.30%) DevOps
3 229 (58.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 127 (32.65%) Platform Engineering
5 124 (31.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 104 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
7 95 (24.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 94 (24.16%) Agile
8 94 (24.16%) Cloud Security
9 89 (22.88%) Observability
10 88 (22.62%) Containerisation
11 66 (16.97%) Mentoring
12 61 (15.68%) Migration
13 59 (15.17%) AI
14 54 (13.88%) Technical Leadership
15 49 (12.60%) Deployment Automation
15 49 (12.60%) Roadmaps
15 49 (12.60%) Test Automation
16 47 (12.08%) Identity Access Management
17 46 (11.83%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 192 (49.36%) Python
2 129 (33.16%) PowerShell
3 128 (32.90%) Bash
4 49 (12.60%) SQL
5 33 (8.48%) Bicep
6 23 (5.91%) Go
7 20 (5.14%) Java
8 9 (2.31%) PHP
9 8 (2.06%) C#
10 6 (1.54%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.29%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.77%) Ruby
14 2 (0.51%) C
14 2 (0.51%) C++
14 2 (0.51%) Fortran
14 2 (0.51%) Groovy
14 2 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.51%) Rust
15 1 (0.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 126 (32.39%) Security Cleared
2 68 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 37 (9.51%) DV Cleared
4 27 (6.94%) Degree
5 20 (5.14%) Azure Certification
5 20 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.63%) AWS Certification
7 17 (4.37%) CISSP
8 14 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.54%) A+ Certification
9 6 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.51%) CCNP
12 2 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.51%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.26%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.34%) QA
3 11 (2.83%) NIST
4 8 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.77%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.51%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.26%) GDPR
8 1 (0.26%) GxP
8 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 97 (24.94%) Docker
2 58 (14.91%) Active Directory
3 31 (7.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.11%) vSphere
5 12 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.57%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.80%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.54%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.03%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.51%) Xen
13 1 (0.26%) GPFS
13 1 (0.26%) NFS
13 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 146 (37.53%) Kubernetes
2 112 (28.79%) Ansible
3 53 (13.62%) Grafana
4 45 (11.57%) Prometheus
5 21 (5.40%) Puppet
6 17 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.57%) Argo
9 9 (2.31%) vCenter Server
10 8 (2.06%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.80%) Proxmox
12 6 (1.54%) Istio
12 6 (1.54%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.03%) Packer
14 3 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
15 2 (0.51%) FlexNet
15 2 (0.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
15 2 (0.51%) Oracle RMAN
15 2 (0.51%) PowerCLI
15 2 (0.51%) Rancher
Vendors
1 110 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.60%) VMware
3 21 (5.40%) Google
4 16 (4.11%) Cisco
5 13 (3.34%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.06%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.80%) Citrix
7 7 (1.80%) Databricks
7 7 (1.80%) NetApp
8 6 (1.54%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.54%) IBM
8 6 (1.54%) Okta
8 6 (1.54%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.29%) ForgeRock
9 5 (1.29%) Oracle
9 5 (1.29%) Splunk
9 5 (1.29%) Tenable
10 4 (1.03%) EMC
10 4 (1.03%) Ping Identity