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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 512 571
Rank change year-on-year +41 +59 -87
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 361 170 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.35% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.39% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 233 121 171
10th Percentile £45,200 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £77,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +13.97% +0.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £111,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 80,539 43,404 64,098
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.01% 88.47% 80.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56,017 24,525 38,712
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,650 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -5.04%

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 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 4 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 +45 322 £70,400 -9.16% 417
UK excluding London +26 204 £65,000 +4.00% 212
London -21 119 £85,000 -0.58% 245
Work from Home -13 100 £68,750 -1.79% 152
North of England -20 70 £55,000 -12.00% 60
South West -24 53 £75,000 - 33
South East -13 44 £65,000 -13.33% 62
North West -11 33 £70,400 +2.40% 32
North East -45 20 £51,000 -15.00% 6
Yorkshire -28 17 £52,500 -16.00% 23
East of England -15 12 £45,000 -10.00% 16
Midlands -31 12 £62,000 +6.44% 15
Wales -64 11 £64,750 +15.11%
West Midlands -23 8 £62,000 +3.33% 5
East Midlands -32 4 £52,500 -9.87% 10
Scotland +3 1 - - 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 12

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 (2.77%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.49%) Apache
2 9 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.94%) IIS
4 7 (1.94%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.94%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.66%) nginx
6 4 (1.11%) Confluence
6 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.11%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 182 (50.42%) Azure
2 141 (39.06%) AWS
3 79 (21.88%) GitHub
4 62 (17.17%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (13.57%) GitHub Actions
6 48 (13.30%) Amazon S3
7 47 (13.02%) Entra ID
8 45 (12.47%) GCP
9 42 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 42 (11.63%) Serverless
10 38 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (9.97%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (9.70%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (9.14%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (7.76%) Azure AKS
15 25 (6.93%) SaaS
15 25 (6.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 21 (5.82%) PaaS
17 19 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (16.07%) Firewall
2 30 (8.31%) VPN
3 20 (5.54%) DNS
3 20 (5.54%) Kerberos
4 16 (4.43%) Network Security
5 11 (3.05%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.77%) WAN
7 8 (2.22%) DHCP
8 7 (1.94%) LAN
9 4 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (1.11%) Cisco Firepower
9 4 (1.11%) NAS
9 4 (1.11%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.11%) VLAN
9 4 (1.11%) WebEx
10 3 (0.83%) BGP
10 3 (0.83%) Wireless
11 2 (0.55%) SAN
12 1 (0.28%) MPLS
12 1 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.65%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (5.82%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.49%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.39%) MySQL
7 5 (1.39%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.11%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.11%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.11%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.11%) TIBCO EBX
9 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (13.02%) Git
2 42 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.80%) GitLab
4 11 (3.05%) JIRA
5 9 (2.49%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.83%) Subversion
9 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.55%) Snyk
9 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.55%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.28%) git-flow
10 1 (0.28%) JUnit
10 1 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 64 (17.73%) Finance
1 64 (17.73%) Social Skills
2 40 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (7.48%) Public Sector
4 22 (6.09%) Law
5 20 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.77%) Retail
7 9 (2.49%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.49%) Banking
7 9 (2.49%) Legal
7 9 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.39%) Legal Technology
11 4 (1.11%) Marketing
12 3 (0.83%) Automotive
12 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.83%) Electronics
12 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (25.48%) Senior
2 84 (23.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 70 (19.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (16.62%) Azure Engineer
4 60 (16.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 54 (14.96%) Platform Engineer
6 31 (8.59%) Architect
7 29 (8.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 28 (7.76%) AWS Engineer
9 25 (6.93%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 25 (6.93%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 22 (6.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 22 (6.09%) Lead
10 22 (6.09%) Senior DevOps
11 18 (4.99%) Automation Engineer
12 17 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (3.60%) Administrator
14 13 (3.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.32%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 228 (63.16%) Terraform
2 22 (6.09%) ARM Templates
3 21 (5.82%) OpenID
3 21 (5.82%) SAML
4 20 (5.54%) OAuth
5 18 (4.99%) Node.js
6 16 (4.43%) LDAP
6 16 (4.43%) REST
7 9 (2.49%) .NET
7 9 (2.49%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.49%) YAML
8 8 (2.22%) Loki
8 8 (2.22%) RESTful
9 7 (1.94%) OpenTofu
9 7 (1.94%) PySpark
10 6 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (1.66%) React
11 5 (1.39%) AWS CDK
11 5 (1.39%) Kafka
12 4 (1.11%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 96 (26.59%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (7.48%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (6.65%) Private Cloud
5 19 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.43%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.77%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.49%) Data Centre
10 9 (2.49%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.49%) Product Ownership
11 8 (2.22%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.94%) Replication
12 7 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.66%) CMDB
14 5 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (1.39%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 110 (30.47%) Linux
2 77 (21.33%) Windows
3 34 (9.42%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.49%) Debian
6 8 (2.22%) Unix
7 6 (1.66%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.39%) Rocky
9 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.28%) Android
12 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.28%) Solaris
12 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (69.25%) CI/CD
2 234 (64.82%) DevOps
3 213 (59.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 121 (33.52%) Platform Engineering
5 113 (31.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 96 (26.59%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (24.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 87 (24.10%) Containerisation
9 81 (22.44%) Cloud Security
9 81 (22.44%) Observability
10 80 (22.16%) Agile
11 68 (18.84%) Mentoring
12 60 (16.62%) Migration
13 51 (14.13%) AI
14 49 (13.57%) Roadmaps
15 48 (13.30%) Technical Leadership
16 46 (12.74%) Test Automation
17 45 (12.47%) Disaster Recovery
17 45 (12.47%) Identity Access Management
18 40 (11.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 180 (49.86%) Python
2 122 (33.80%) PowerShell
3 115 (31.86%) Bash
4 45 (12.47%) SQL
5 32 (8.86%) Bicep
6 18 (4.99%) Go
7 17 (4.71%) Java
8 8 (2.22%) C#
8 8 (2.22%) PHP
9 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.83%) Ruby
10 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.55%) C
11 2 (0.55%) C++
11 2 (0.55%) Fortran
11 2 (0.55%) Groovy
11 2 (0.55%) Rust
12 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 104 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 52 (14.40%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.59%) Degree
4 28 (7.76%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.26%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.43%) CISSP
7 13 (3.60%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.83%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.55%) CCNP
12 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.55%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.88%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.05%) QA
3 10 (2.77%) NIST
4 7 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.94%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.83%) GDPR
5 3 (0.83%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.55%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 97 (26.87%) Docker
2 57 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 34 (9.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.43%) vSphere
5 12 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.22%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.94%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.94%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (1.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 4 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.55%) Xen
10 1 (0.28%) Firmware
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 138 (38.23%) Kubernetes
2 109 (30.19%) Ansible
3 47 (13.02%) Grafana
4 38 (10.53%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.71%) Puppet
6 16 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.22%) Argo
9 7 (1.94%) Packer
9 7 (1.94%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.66%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.39%) Istio
11 5 (1.39%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.11%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (1.11%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.83%) Scalr
14 2 (0.55%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.55%) Rancher
15 1 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 101 (27.98%) Microsoft
2 46 (12.74%) VMware
3 20 (5.54%) Cisco
4 19 (5.26%) Google
5 10 (2.77%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.49%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.22%) Citrix
8 6 (1.66%) EMC
8 6 (1.66%) F5
8 6 (1.66%) Fortinet
8 6 (1.66%) NetApp
8 6 (1.66%) Okta
8 6 (1.66%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.66%) Tenable
9 5 (1.39%) Databricks
9 5 (1.39%) Splunk
10 4 (1.11%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.11%) IBM
10 4 (1.11%) Informatica
10 4 (1.11%) TIBCO