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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 526 608
Rank change year-on-year +42 +82 -91
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 323 157 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.35% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 206 118 162
10th Percentile £46,064 £52,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,813 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +13.97% +0.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £107,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +6.56%

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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +53 290 £72,500 -6.45% 286
UK excluding London +25 173 £65,000 +4.00% 165
London -8 116 £85,000 +3.03% 144
Work from Home +25 110 £67,500 -1.82% 137
North of England -13 52 £70,000 +14.29% 56
South West -14 48 £75,000 - 30
South East -6 39 £65,000 -13.33% 44
North West 0 27 £73,500 +22.50% 35
North East -42 13 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Yorkshire -25 12 £62,500 - 12
Midlands -32 12 £64,000 +18.52% 12
East of England -17 11 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Wales -43 11 £64,750 +12.61% 1
West Midlands -28 8 £67,250 +12.08% 7
East Midlands -16 4 £64,000 +18.52% 4

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 11 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.79%) Apache
2 9 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.48%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.17%) IIS
4 7 (2.17%) Jupyter
5 6 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.55%) nginx
7 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.24%) SAS
8 1 (0.31%) Confluence
8 1 (0.31%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.31%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 175 (54.18%) Azure
2 125 (38.70%) AWS
3 72 (22.29%) GitHub
4 56 (17.34%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (14.24%) Entra ID
6 43 (13.31%) GCP
7 42 (13.00%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (12.38%) Amazon S3
9 33 (10.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (9.60%) Serverless
11 29 (8.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 28 (8.67%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
14 24 (7.43%) Azure AKS
15 23 (7.12%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (7.12%) PaaS
16 22 (6.81%) SaaS
17 21 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
18 17 (5.26%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (19.20%) Firewall
2 26 (8.05%) Kerberos
3 23 (7.12%) VPN
4 20 (6.19%) Network Security
5 14 (4.33%) DNS
6 12 (3.72%) WAN
7 11 (3.41%) LAN
8 7 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (2.17%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (2.17%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.17%) Unified Communications
8 7 (2.17%) VLAN
8 7 (2.17%) WebEx
9 5 (1.55%) DHCP
10 4 (1.24%) NAS
10 4 (1.24%) Wireless
11 3 (0.93%) BGP
12 2 (0.62%) SAN
13 1 (0.31%) MPLS
13 1 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.79%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.86%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.55%) MySQL
8 5 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.24%) Ataccama
9 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.24%) IBM InfoSphere
9 4 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.24%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.24%) TIBCO EBX
10 2 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.62%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.62%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.31%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 41 (12.69%) Git
2 33 (10.22%) GitLab
2 33 (10.22%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.79%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (2.48%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (1.86%) JIRA
6 3 (0.93%) Subversion
7 2 (0.62%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.62%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.62%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.62%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.31%) git-flow
8 1 (0.31%) Maven
8 1 (0.31%) Snyk
General
1 55 (17.03%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.41%) Finance
3 33 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.74%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.33%) Law
7 12 (3.72%) Retail
8 10 (3.10%) Legal
9 9 (2.79%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.79%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.48%) Banking
11 7 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.17%) Marketing
12 6 (1.86%) Legal Technology
13 3 (0.93%) Automotive
13 3 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Electronics
13 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (24.77%) Senior
2 68 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 58 (17.96%) Azure Engineer
4 53 (16.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 52 (16.10%) Cloud Engineer
6 50 (15.48%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (9.91%) Architect
8 26 (8.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 26 (8.05%) Lead
9 22 (6.81%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 21 (6.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
11 19 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
11 19 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (4.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 13 (4.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.41%) Data Engineer
15 11 (3.41%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.05%) OAuth
2 25 (7.74%) OpenID
2 25 (7.74%) SAML
3 22 (6.81%) LDAP
4 21 (6.50%) ARM Templates
5 20 (6.19%) REST
6 17 (5.26%) Node.js
7 10 (3.10%) RESTful
8 9 (2.79%) .NET
8 9 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.48%) Loki
9 8 (2.48%) YAML
10 7 (2.17%) PySpark
10 7 (2.17%) React
10 7 (2.17%) XMPP
11 6 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (1.55%) Kafka
12 5 (1.55%) OAuth2
13 4 (1.24%) AngularJS
13 4 (1.24%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 89 (27.55%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 17 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (4.95%) Public Cloud
6 15 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.72%) Data Centre
8 11 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (3.10%) Product Ownership
9 10 (3.10%) Replication
10 9 (2.79%) Data Structures
11 7 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
11 7 (2.17%) FlexPod
11 7 (2.17%) Security Posture
11 7 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.86%) CMDB
12 6 (1.86%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 94 (29.10%) Linux
2 65 (20.12%) Windows
3 33 (10.22%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.79%) Debian
4 9 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.86%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.86%) Unix
6 4 (1.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.93%) Rocky
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (68.11%) CI/CD
2 197 (60.99%) DevOps
3 190 (58.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (31.27%) Platform Engineering
5 88 (27.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 80 (24.77%) Containerisation
7 79 (24.46%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (23.84%) Agile
9 76 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 72 (22.29%) Observability
11 65 (20.12%) Mentoring
12 63 (19.50%) Cloud Security
13 46 (14.24%) Identity Access Management
13 46 (14.24%) Migration
14 45 (13.93%) Roadmaps
15 44 (13.62%) Test Automation
16 42 (13.00%) AI
17 40 (12.38%) Technical Leadership
18 38 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
18 38 (11.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 155 (47.99%) Python
2 106 (32.82%) PowerShell
3 84 (26.01%) Bash
4 37 (11.46%) SQL
5 36 (11.15%) Bicep
6 19 (5.88%) Go
7 12 (3.72%) Java
8 8 (2.48%) C#
9 7 (2.17%) PHP
10 5 (1.55%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.93%) Ruby
11 3 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.62%) C
12 2 (0.62%) C++
12 2 (0.62%) Fortran
12 2 (0.62%) Groovy
12 2 (0.62%) Rust
12 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.31%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 82 (25.39%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 32 (9.91%) Degree
4 21 (6.50%) CISSP
4 21 (6.50%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.19%) Azure Certification
6 19 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.10%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.93%) CCNP
10 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.62%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.31%) CCIE
12 1 (0.31%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.72%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.41%) QA
3 10 (3.10%) NIST
4 7 (2.17%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.93%) GDPR
6 3 (0.93%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.62%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.31%) GxP
System Software
1 84 (26.01%) Docker
2 55 (17.03%) Active Directory
3 31 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (5.88%) vSphere
5 12 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.17%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.86%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.93%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.62%) Xen
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 207 (64.09%) Terraform
2 123 (38.08%) Kubernetes
3 99 (30.65%) Ansible
4 50 (15.48%) Grafana
5 38 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (4.64%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (4.02%) Puppet
8 8 (2.48%) Argo
9 7 (2.17%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (2.17%) Packer
10 6 (1.86%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.86%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.24%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.93%) Istio
12 3 (0.93%) Scalr
13 2 (0.62%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.62%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.62%) Rancher
14 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 93 (28.79%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.38%) VMware
3 23 (7.12%) Cisco
4 15 (4.64%) Google
5 14 (4.33%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.79%) NetApp
7 8 (2.48%) Citrix
7 8 (2.48%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.48%) Splunk
8 7 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.86%) EMC
9 6 (1.86%) F5
9 6 (1.86%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.86%) Tenable
10 5 (1.55%) Databricks
10 5 (1.55%) Okta
11 4 (1.24%) Dell
11 4 (1.24%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.24%) IBM
11 4 (1.24%) Informatica