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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 522 613
Rank change year-on-year +54 +91 -88
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 320 156 216
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 207 116 165
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,625 £58,438 £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 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £105,500
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 76,038 44,320 69,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.68% 89.51% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 52,466 25,228 46,329
10th Percentile £30,603 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 1 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 1 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 +52 287 £72,500 -6.45% 248
UK excluding London +27 173 £65,000 +4.00% 165
London -2 113 £85,000 +3.03% 110
Work from Home +33 111 £66,250 -1.85% 116
North of England -17 53 £70,000 +14.29% 52
South West -27 47 £75,000 - 38
South East -12 40 £65,000 -13.33% 43
North West +2 27 £73,500 +22.50% 32
Yorkshire -21 13 £62,500 - 12
North East -42 13 £55,000 -8.33% 8
Midlands -24 12 £64,000 +18.52% 9
Wales -53 11 £64,750 +12.61% 5
East of England -10 10 £45,000 -10.00% 5
West Midlands -25 8 £67,250 +12.08% 7
East Midlands -25 4 £64,000 +18.52% 2

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 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.81%) Apache
2 9 (2.81%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.50%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.19%) IIS
4 7 (2.19%) Jupyter
5 6 (1.88%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.56%) nginx
7 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.25%) 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
1 176 (55.00%) Azure
2 123 (38.44%) AWS
3 73 (22.81%) GitHub
4 57 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (14.38%) Entra ID
6 43 (13.44%) GCP
6 43 (13.44%) GitHub Actions
7 40 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 33 (10.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (9.69%) Serverless
10 29 (9.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
13 25 (7.81%) PaaS
14 23 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (6.88%) Azure AKS
16 21 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
16 21 (6.56%) SaaS
17 19 (5.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (19.06%) Firewall
2 26 (8.13%) Kerberos
3 23 (7.19%) VPN
4 20 (6.25%) Network Security
5 13 (4.06%) DNS
6 12 (3.75%) WAN
7 11 (3.44%) LAN
8 7 (2.19%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (2.19%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (2.19%) Unified Communications
8 7 (2.19%) VLAN
8 7 (2.19%) WebEx
9 6 (1.88%) TCP/IP
10 5 (1.56%) DHCP
11 4 (1.25%) NAS
11 4 (1.25%) Wireless
12 2 (0.63%) BGP
12 2 (0.63%) SAN
13 1 (0.31%) MPLS
13 1 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.81%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.56%) MySQL
8 5 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.25%) Ataccama
9 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.25%) IBM InfoSphere
9 4 (1.25%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.25%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.25%) TIBCO EBX
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 41 (12.81%) Git
2 34 (10.63%) Jenkins
3 33 (10.31%) GitLab
4 9 (2.81%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.88%) JIRA
7 3 (0.94%) Subversion
8 2 (0.63%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.63%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.63%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.31%) git-flow
9 1 (0.31%) Maven
9 1 (0.31%) Snyk
General
1 54 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.25%) Finance
3 34 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (4.06%) Law
7 12 (3.75%) Retail
8 9 (2.81%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.81%) Legal
8 9 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.19%) Banking
9 7 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.19%) Marketing
10 6 (1.88%) Legal Technology
11 3 (0.94%) Automotive
11 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.94%) Electronics
11 3 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 80 (25.00%) Senior
2 65 (20.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 59 (18.44%) Azure Engineer
4 54 (16.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 53 (16.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 48 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
7 32 (10.00%) Architect
8 25 (7.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 25 (7.81%) Lead
9 22 (6.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 19 (5.94%) Automation Engineer
11 19 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
12 18 (5.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
13 16 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
14 13 (4.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (3.75%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 12 (3.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 11 (3.44%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.13%) OAuth
2 25 (7.81%) OpenID
2 25 (7.81%) SAML
3 22 (6.88%) ARM Templates
3 22 (6.88%) LDAP
4 20 (6.25%) REST
5 17 (5.31%) Node.js
6 10 (3.13%) RESTful
7 9 (2.81%) .NET
7 9 (2.81%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.50%) Loki
8 8 (2.50%) YAML
9 7 (2.19%) PySpark
9 7 (2.19%) React
9 7 (2.19%) XMPP
10 6 (1.88%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (1.56%) Kafka
11 5 (1.56%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.25%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.25%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 87 (27.19%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (5.94%) Private Cloud
4 17 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
6 15 (4.69%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.75%) Data Centre
8 11 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 10 (3.13%) Replication
10 9 (2.81%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (2.19%) FlexPod
12 7 (2.19%) Security Posture
12 7 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (1.88%) CMDB
13 6 (1.88%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 94 (29.38%) Linux
2 65 (20.31%) Windows
3 33 (10.31%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.81%) Debian
4 9 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.88%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.88%) Unix
6 4 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.94%) 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
1 219 (68.44%) CI/CD
2 195 (60.94%) DevOps
3 188 (58.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 88 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 80 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (24.69%) Containerisation
8 75 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 74 (23.13%) Agile
10 68 (21.25%) Observability
11 65 (20.31%) Mentoring
12 64 (20.00%) Cloud Security
13 47 (14.69%) Identity Access Management
14 45 (14.06%) Roadmaps
15 44 (13.75%) Migration
16 43 (13.44%) Test Automation
17 41 (12.81%) AI
18 40 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
19 39 (12.19%) Disaster Recovery
19 39 (12.19%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 156 (48.75%) Python
2 106 (33.13%) PowerShell
3 83 (25.94%) Bash
4 38 (11.88%) Bicep
5 36 (11.25%) SQL
6 19 (5.94%) Go
7 12 (3.75%) Java
8 8 (2.50%) C#
9 7 (2.19%) PHP
10 6 (1.88%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.94%) Ruby
11 3 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.63%) C
12 2 (0.63%) C++
12 2 (0.63%) Fortran
12 2 (0.63%) Groovy
12 2 (0.63%) Rust
12 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.31%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 80 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 33 (10.31%) Degree
4 21 (6.56%) CISSP
5 20 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 20 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.94%) CCNP
9 3 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.63%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.31%) CCIE
11 1 (0.31%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.44%) NIST
2 11 (3.44%) QA
3 8 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.94%) GDPR
5 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.63%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.31%) GxP
System Software
1 84 (26.25%) Docker
2 55 (17.19%) Active Directory
3 31 (9.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (5.94%) vSphere
5 12 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.19%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (2.19%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.88%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.94%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.63%) Xen
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 205 (64.06%) Terraform
2 121 (37.81%) Kubernetes
3 98 (30.63%) Ansible
4 50 (15.63%) Grafana
5 38 (11.88%) Prometheus
6 15 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (4.06%) Puppet
8 7 (2.19%) Argo
8 7 (2.19%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (2.19%) Packer
9 6 (1.88%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.88%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.25%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.94%) Scalr
12 2 (0.63%) FlexNet
12 2 (0.63%) Istio
12 2 (0.63%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.63%) Rancher
13 1 (0.31%) VxRail
Vendors
1 93 (29.06%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.50%) VMware
3 23 (7.19%) Cisco
4 15 (4.69%) Google
5 14 (4.38%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.81%) NetApp
7 8 (2.50%) Citrix
7 8 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.50%) Splunk
8 7 (2.19%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.88%) EMC
9 6 (1.88%) F5
9 6 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.88%) Tenable
10 5 (1.56%) Databricks
10 5 (1.56%) Okta
11 4 (1.25%) Dell
11 4 (1.25%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.25%) IBM
11 4 (1.25%) Informatica