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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 541 514
Rank change year-on-year +38 -27 +40
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 146 214 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.33% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.39% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 106 148 144
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,375
25th Percentile £56,563 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +5.36% -3.45%
75th Percentile £85,750 £88,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £66,113 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.68% +5.78% -3.85%

All Process and 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 45,446 55,486 47,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.93% 85.56% 93.75%
Number of salaries quoted 27,712 28,853 36,694
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +42 129 £75,000 - 75
London +32 79 £80,000 -3.03% 25
UK excluding London +42 61 £65,000 -1.68% 63
Work from Home +42 49 £73,750 +5.36% 41
North of England +31 23 £65,000 +8.33% 9
North West +54 17 £71,250 +35.71% 6
Scotland +19 11 - - 1
South East +10 11 £73,750 +15.69% 21
Midlands +54 7 £62,500 -8.09% 13
South West +15 6 £65,000 +4.00% 13
West Midlands +55 4 £60,000 -11.76% 5
Yorkshire -2 4 £47,500 -25.33% 3
East Midlands - 3 £62,500 - 7
North East +15 2 £72,500 +3.57%
Wales +13 2 £52,500 - 1
East of England +21 1 £55,000 -21.43% 10

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 (6.85%) IIS
2 5 (3.42%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.74%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.74%) Confluence
4 3 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.05%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.68%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 99 (67.81%) Azure
2 68 (46.58%) AWS
3 36 (24.66%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (18.49%) GitHub
5 23 (15.75%) GCP
6 17 (11.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (8.90%) OpenShift
9 12 (8.22%) SaaS
9 12 (8.22%) Serverless
10 11 (7.53%) PaaS
11 9 (6.16%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (4.11%) IaaS
14 6 (4.11%) Snowflake
15 5 (3.42%) Azure AKS
15 5 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 4 (2.74%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.75%) Firewall
2 13 (8.90%) DNS
3 10 (6.85%) VPN
4 9 (6.16%) Network Security
5 7 (4.79%) WAN
6 6 (4.11%) LAN
7 4 (2.74%) VLAN
7 4 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.05%) SAN
9 2 (1.37%) DHCP
9 2 (1.37%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.37%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.68%) Internet
10 1 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.68%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.68%) VSAN
10 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.96%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.11%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.05%) Apache Hive
3 3 (2.05%) Big Data
3 3 (2.05%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.05%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.37%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.37%) MySQL
4 2 (1.37%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 31 (21.23%) Jenkins
2 25 (17.12%) Git
3 20 (13.70%) GitLab
4 9 (6.16%) JIRA
5 7 (4.79%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (4.11%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.37%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.37%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.68%) JUnit
10 1 (0.68%) Maven
10 1 (0.68%) Mockito
10 1 (0.68%) MSBuild
General
1 46 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 37 (25.34%) Finance
3 13 (8.90%) Law
4 9 (6.16%) Banking
5 8 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.42%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.42%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.05%) Advertising
7 3 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (21.92%) Platform Engineer
2 28 (19.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (13.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (13.01%) Senior
5 14 (9.59%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.53%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) Network Engineer
7 9 (6.16%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.79%) Architect
8 7 (4.79%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) CloudOps Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Lead
10 5 (3.42%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
10 5 (3.42%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Security Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.85%) YAML
2 9 (6.16%) ARM Templates
3 8 (5.48%) RESTful
4 7 (4.79%) Kafka
5 6 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (4.11%) Node.js
6 5 (3.42%) .NET
6 5 (3.42%) React
7 4 (2.74%) Jinja
7 4 (2.74%) LDAP
7 4 (2.74%) Middleware
7 4 (2.74%) OAuth
7 4 (2.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (2.74%) REST
8 3 (2.05%) HTML
8 3 (2.05%) JDBC
8 3 (2.05%) LAMP
8 3 (2.05%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.05%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.22%) Private Cloud
3 7 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.42%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.37%) CMDB
7 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.68%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 56 (38.36%) Linux
2 32 (21.92%) Windows
3 22 (15.07%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.11%) VMS
5 6 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.42%) Unix
6 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.74%) CentOS
8 3 (2.05%) SUSE
8 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.37%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.68%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (71.23%) CI/CD
2 97 (66.44%) DevOps
3 69 (47.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (32.19%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (30.82%) Containerisation
6 42 (28.77%) Agile
6 42 (28.77%) Platform Engineering
7 30 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (19.86%) AI
9 26 (17.81%) Cloud Security
10 25 (17.12%) Configuration Management
10 25 (17.12%) Observability
11 22 (15.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 21 (14.38%) High Availability
13 19 (13.01%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (11.64%) Continuous Integration
14 17 (11.64%) Mentoring
15 16 (10.96%) Root Cause Analysis
15 16 (10.96%) Task Automation
16 15 (10.27%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 72 (49.32%) Python
2 64 (43.84%) PowerShell
3 36 (24.66%) Bash
4 17 (11.64%) SQL
5 13 (8.90%) Bicep
6 11 (7.53%) C#
7 10 (6.85%) Java
8 7 (4.79%) Go
8 7 (4.79%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.42%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.37%) Perl
11 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.68%) Scala
11 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 11 (7.53%) Azure Certification
2 11 (7.53%) Degree
3 8 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.79%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.42%) CCNP
6 5 (3.42%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.74%) CCIE
7 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.05%) CISSP
8 3 (2.05%) RHCE
9 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.37%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.68%) CCNA
10 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.68%) GAWN
10 1 (0.68%) GREM
10 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.85%) GDPR
1 10 (6.85%) QA
2 5 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.74%) NIST
4 2 (1.37%) GRC
4 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.37%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.68%) GxP
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (36.30%) Docker
2 20 (13.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.96%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.79%) vSphere
5 6 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.74%) vCloud
6 4 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.68%) Postfix
7 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (63.70%) Terraform
2 82 (56.16%) Kubernetes
3 69 (47.26%) Ansible
4 24 (16.44%) Prometheus
5 21 (14.38%) Grafana
6 10 (6.85%) Puppet
7 8 (5.48%) Progress Chef
8 6 (4.11%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.74%) CASB
9 4 (2.74%) Kubeflow
9 4 (2.74%) Rundeck
10 3 (2.05%) Argo
10 3 (2.05%) Rancher
11 2 (1.37%) Control-M
12 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.68%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (26.03%) VMware
2 33 (22.60%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.64%) Red Hat
4 15 (10.27%) Cisco
5 14 (9.59%) ServiceNow
6 11 (7.53%) Oracle
7 8 (5.48%) Foundry
8 7 (4.79%) Palo Alto
9 6 (4.11%) Atlassian
9 6 (4.11%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.42%) Dynatrace
11 4 (2.74%) Databricks
11 4 (2.74%) Meraki
11 4 (2.74%) Palantir
11 4 (2.74%) Splunk
12 3 (2.05%) Dell
12 3 (2.05%) SolarWinds
13 2 (1.37%) Google
13 2 (1.37%) LogicMonitor
14 1 (0.68%) Ping Identity