Infrastructure Automation Job Trends

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 558 508
Rank change year-on-year +51 -50 +78
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 171 237 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.30% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.37% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 122 173 158
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £57,813 £58,750 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £69,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,750 £112,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 43,840 63,484 57,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 88.70% 81.24% 94.33%
Number of salaries quoted 24,733 35,914 43,040
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +2.86%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +41 156 £77,500 +12.32% 90
London +58 88 £85,000 +3.03% 48
UK excluding London +51 73 £65,000 +4.00% 66
Work from Home +50 68 £72,500 +3.57% 48
North of England +37 35 £62,500 +4.17% 15
North West +20 27 £72,500 +23.40% 8
South East +15 13 £75,000 +20.00% 28
Scotland +51 7 - - 7
Midlands +42 6 £58,250 -13.70% 6
South West +58 5 £75,000 +15.38% 4
West Midlands +40 4 £60,000 -11.76% 2
Wales +22 4 £56,250 +4.65% 1
Yorkshire +3 4 £62,500 +4.17% 4
North East - 4 £66,250 - 3
East of England -25 3 £50,000 -28.57% 4
East Midlands +25 2 £58,250 -2.92% 4

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.02%) IIS
2 6 (3.51%) Apache
2 6 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.58%) nginx
5 1 (0.58%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 106 (61.99%) Azure
2 77 (45.03%) AWS
3 46 (26.90%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (23.39%) GitHub
5 32 (18.71%) GCP
6 26 (15.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (14.04%) Serverless
8 22 (12.87%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (9.36%) PaaS
11 14 (8.19%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (8.19%) Amazon S3
11 14 (8.19%) SaaS
12 11 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (5.26%) IaaS
14 8 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (4.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.45%) Firewall
2 13 (7.60%) DNS
3 11 (6.43%) VPN
4 7 (4.09%) Network Security
5 5 (2.92%) LAN
5 5 (2.92%) WAN
6 4 (2.34%) DHCP
6 4 (2.34%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.75%) SAN
8 2 (1.17%) Internet
9 1 (0.58%) SSL
9 1 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.94%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.19%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.92%) Big Data
4 5 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.92%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.34%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.75%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.17%) Redis
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.58%) HDInsight
8 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (19.88%) Git
2 29 (16.96%) Jenkins
3 19 (11.11%) GitLab
4 9 (5.26%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.68%) JIRA
6 5 (2.92%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.92%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (2.34%) Maven
8 3 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.75%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.75%) JUnit
8 3 (1.75%) Mockito
8 3 (1.75%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.17%) Postman
9 2 (1.17%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.17%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.17%) Subversion
9 2 (1.17%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.17%) Xcode
9 2 (1.17%) XCTest
General
1 51 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 43 (25.15%) Finance
3 22 (12.87%) Law
4 18 (10.53%) Banking
5 6 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.92%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.92%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.34%) Front Office
8 3 (1.75%) Advertising
9 2 (1.17%) Games
9 2 (1.17%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.17%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Automotive
10 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (25.73%) Senior
2 37 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (18.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (16.96%) Azure Engineer
5 22 (12.87%) Platform Engineer
6 21 (12.28%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 20 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (9.36%) AWS Engineer
9 14 (8.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.43%) Lead
11 10 (5.85%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (5.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (5.26%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.26%) Software Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.09%) Network Engineer
14 6 (3.51%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.77%) ARM Templates
2 14 (8.19%) YAML
3 7 (4.09%) REST
4 6 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (3.51%) RESTful
4 6 (3.51%) Spring
4 6 (3.51%) Spring Boot
5 5 (2.92%) .NET
5 5 (2.92%) React
5 5 (2.92%) Web Services
6 4 (2.34%) HTML
6 4 (2.34%) Jinja
6 4 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.75%) CSS
7 3 (1.75%) Hibernate
7 3 (1.75%) J2EE
7 3 (1.75%) LAMP
7 3 (1.75%) Node.js
7 3 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.36%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 8 (4.68%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.09%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.51%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.34%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.34%) Clustering
7 4 (2.34%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.17%) CMDB
9 2 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.17%) IoT
9 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 59 (34.50%) Linux
2 31 (18.13%) Windows
3 18 (10.53%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (4.09%) CentOS
5 7 (4.09%) Unix
6 6 (3.51%) VMS
7 4 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.75%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.17%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (1.17%) Solaris
10 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (64.33%) DevOps
2 103 (60.23%) CI/CD
3 83 (48.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 53 (30.99%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (26.90%) Agile
7 32 (18.71%) Mentoring
7 32 (18.71%) Platform Engineering
8 31 (18.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (15.20%) Observability
10 25 (14.62%) Cloud Security
11 23 (13.45%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (12.28%) Configuration Management
12 21 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (11.70%) Cloud Operations
13 20 (11.70%) Software Engineering
14 19 (11.11%) Microservices
14 19 (11.11%) Migration
15 18 (10.53%) High Availability
16 16 (9.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 85 (49.71%) Python
2 60 (35.09%) PowerShell
3 45 (26.32%) Bash
4 24 (14.04%) SQL
5 19 (11.11%) Java
6 17 (9.94%) Bicep
7 16 (9.36%) C#
8 11 (6.43%) Go
9 6 (3.51%) TypeScript
10 5 (2.92%) JavaScript
10 5 (2.92%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.34%) Scala
12 3 (1.75%) Groovy
13 2 (1.17%) Perl
13 2 (1.17%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.53%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.77%) Degree
3 10 (5.85%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.68%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.51%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.34%) CCIE
8 4 (2.34%) CCNP
8 4 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.75%) RHCE
10 2 (1.17%) CISSP
10 2 (1.17%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.60%) QA
2 12 (7.02%) GDPR
3 6 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.75%) NIST
6 2 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.17%) GRC
6 2 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.17%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.58%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (29.82%) Docker
2 16 (9.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (8.19%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.34%) vCloud
4 4 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.34%) vSphere
5 2 (1.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.58%) Postfix
6 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (67.25%) Terraform
2 95 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 70 (40.94%) Ansible
4 20 (11.70%) Grafana
4 20 (11.70%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.26%) Puppet
6 7 (4.09%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (2.92%) Argo
8 4 (2.34%) CASB
8 4 (2.34%) Kubeflow
8 4 (2.34%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.34%) Rundeck
9 3 (1.75%) Control-M
9 3 (1.75%) SCCM
10 1 (0.58%) Kiali
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.58%) Packer
10 1 (0.58%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 37 (21.64%) VMware
2 33 (19.30%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.77%) Cisco
4 12 (7.02%) Red Hat
4 12 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 7 (4.09%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.09%) Oracle
6 5 (2.92%) Foundry
6 5 (2.92%) Google
6 5 (2.92%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.92%) Splunk
7 4 (2.34%) Commvault
7 4 (2.34%) Databricks
7 4 (2.34%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.34%) Meraki
7 4 (2.34%) Pure Storage
8 3 (1.75%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.17%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.17%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.17%) Palantir