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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 523 687
Rank change year-on-year +8 +164 -92
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 225 139 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.34% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 130 98 158
10th Percentile £49,750 £52,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £61,875 £59,063 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -
75th Percentile £85,938 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,400 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.64% - -0.79%

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 68,751 40,768 85,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.84% 93.20% 83.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44,945 21,478 61,112
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,625 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 2 June 2026.

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 2 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 +7 201 £75,000 -6.25% 110
UK excluding London -13 106 £70,400 +12.64% 68
London -9 91 £85,000 +3.03% 51
Work from Home +63 86 £70,000 -3.45% 64
South West -28 34 £75,000 - 9
North of England -31 28 £70,400 +17.33% 18
South East -10 23 £62,500 -16.67% 19
North West -7 20 £74,500 +24.17% 8
Midlands -15 11 £72,500 -6.45% 9
West Midlands -21 7 £72,500 -6.45% 6
East of England -4 6 £85,000 +88.89% 5
Yorkshire -42 6 £47,500 -24.00% 6
East Midlands - 4 £69,500 - 3
Wales -35 3 - - 1
North East -42 2 £55,000 -6.38% 4
Scotland +7 1 - - 7

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 6 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.33%) Apache
4 3 (1.33%) IIS
4 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (49.33%) Azure
2 90 (40.00%) AWS
3 58 (25.78%) GitHub
4 37 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (12.89%) Amazon S3
7 29 (12.89%) Entra ID
8 27 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (11.56%) Serverless
10 24 (10.67%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (10.67%) GCP
11 22 (9.78%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (8.44%) PaaS
14 17 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
14 17 (7.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 16 (7.11%) Amazon ECS
15 16 (7.11%) IaaS
16 15 (6.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (23.56%) Firewall
2 25 (11.11%) VPN
3 17 (7.56%) Network Security
4 15 (6.67%) Kerberos
5 10 (4.44%) DNS
6 9 (4.00%) WAN
7 8 (3.56%) VLAN
8 7 (3.11%) LAN
9 6 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.67%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.67%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.67%) WebEx
10 4 (1.78%) DHCP
11 2 (0.89%) SAN
11 2 (0.89%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.89%) Wireless
12 1 (0.44%) BGP
12 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.44%) NGFW
12 1 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.33%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.89%) Big Data
6 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.89%) MySQL
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (15.11%) Git
2 24 (10.67%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.67%) GitLab
4 9 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.33%) Subversion
7 2 (0.89%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.44%) git-flow
8 1 (0.44%) JIRA
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.44%) Finance
3 24 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.22%) Retail
6 12 (5.33%) Aerospace
7 10 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.44%) Legal
8 9 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.56%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.11%) Banking
11 6 (2.67%) Law
11 6 (2.67%) Marketing
12 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.33%) Automotive
13 3 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.33%) Electronics
13 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.89%) Advertising
15 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (27.56%) Senior
2 50 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 42 (18.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 40 (17.78%) Azure Engineer
5 38 (16.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 35 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (10.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 21 (9.33%) Architect
9 19 (8.44%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 17 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (7.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 14 (6.22%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (5.33%) Lead
12 12 (5.33%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (4.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (4.44%) Data Engineer
14 10 (4.44%) Security Engineer
14 10 (4.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 9 (4.00%) Senior Security Engineer
16 8 (3.56%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.11%) Node.js
2 15 (6.67%) LDAP
2 15 (6.67%) OAuth
3 14 (6.22%) OpenID
3 14 (6.22%) SAML
4 13 (5.78%) REST
5 9 (4.00%) Loki
6 8 (3.56%) YAML
7 7 (3.11%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.67%) XMPP
9 5 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (2.22%) RESTful
10 4 (1.78%) Kafka
11 3 (1.33%) .NET
11 3 (1.33%) PySpark
11 3 (1.33%) React
12 2 (0.89%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.89%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 49 (21.78%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (8.44%) Private Cloud
4 16 (7.11%) Public Cloud
5 15 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 14 (6.22%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (4.00%) CMDB
8 9 (4.00%) Replication
9 8 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.56%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.67%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.67%) Podcast
10 6 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.22%) PKI
12 4 (1.78%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.78%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.33%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 71 (31.56%) Linux
2 47 (20.89%) Windows
3 20 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.78%) Unix
5 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Android
6 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (66.22%) CI/CD
2 141 (62.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 134 (59.56%) DevOps
4 70 (31.11%) Platform Engineering
5 57 (25.33%) Observability
6 55 (24.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 54 (24.00%) Cloud Security
8 53 (23.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 51 (22.67%) Containerisation
10 48 (21.33%) Agile
11 43 (19.11%) Mentoring
11 43 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (16.44%) Disaster Recovery
13 32 (14.22%) Configuration Management
13 32 (14.22%) Test Automation
14 29 (12.89%) Roadmaps
15 28 (12.44%) AI
16 27 (12.00%) RBAC
17 26 (11.56%) DevSecOps
17 26 (11.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 118 (52.44%) Python
2 76 (33.78%) PowerShell
3 68 (30.22%) Bash
4 28 (12.44%) Bicep
5 24 (10.67%) SQL
6 17 (7.56%) Go
7 15 (6.67%) Java
8 6 (2.67%) C#
9 4 (1.78%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.33%) Elixir
10 3 (1.33%) Erlang
11 2 (0.89%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.44%) ABAP
12 1 (0.44%) C
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.00%) Degree
3 23 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.67%) CISSP
6 13 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.33%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.89%) CCIE
10 2 (0.89%) CCNP
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.44%) CCNA
11 1 (0.44%) CISM
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.44%) NIST
2 5 (2.22%) QA
3 4 (1.78%) GDPR
3 4 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.78%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.89%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.89%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) GxP
System Software
1 46 (20.44%) Docker
2 37 (16.44%) Active Directory
3 25 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (7.11%) vSphere
5 9 (4.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 9 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.11%) BitLocker
6 7 (3.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.78%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 164 (72.89%) Terraform
2 85 (37.78%) Kubernetes
3 82 (36.44%) Ansible
4 53 (23.56%) Grafana
5 41 (18.22%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 12 (5.33%) Puppet
7 10 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (3.56%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.11%) Packer
10 6 (2.67%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (2.67%) Progress Chef
11 5 (2.22%) Argo
12 4 (1.78%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.33%) Scalr
14 2 (0.89%) Rancher
14 2 (0.89%) yum
15 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.44%) Istio
15 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 62 (27.56%) Microsoft
2 40 (17.78%) VMware
3 16 (7.11%) Cisco
4 14 (6.22%) Palo Alto
5 8 (3.56%) Citrix
6 7 (3.11%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.11%) Google
6 7 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.11%) Splunk
7 6 (2.67%) EMC
7 6 (2.67%) F5
7 6 (2.67%) NetApp
7 6 (2.67%) Tenable
8 4 (1.78%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.78%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.33%) Databricks
9 3 (1.33%) Dell
9 3 (1.33%) IFS
9 3 (1.33%) Oracle
9 3 (1.33%) SolarWinds