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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 535 597
Rank change year-on-year +67 +62 -102
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 346 159 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.36% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 222 118 166
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,813 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,450 £76,250 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +12.13% +0.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £110,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% -1.92%

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 78,808 44,479 67,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.30% 89.14% 80.83%
Number of salaries quoted 54,325 25,171 42,850
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 20 August 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 20 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 +45 309 £72,500 -6.45% 179
UK excluding London +36 194 £65,000 +4.00% 114
London -18 116 £85,000 +3.03% 85
Work from Home +20 105 £67,500 -5.26% 89
North of England 0 64 £62,500 - 37
South West -21 53 £75,000 - 17
South East -8 40 £65,000 -13.33% 37
North West -8 29 £72,500 +16.00% 16
North East -43 19 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Yorkshire -20 16 £57,500 -8.00% 15
East of England -11 12 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Midlands -19 12 £62,000 +14.81% 7
Wales -54 11 £64,750 +12.61% 1
West Midlands -24 8 £62,000 +3.33% 4
East Midlands -23 4 £52,500 -2.78% 3
Scotland -2 1 - - 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 9 (2.60%) Apache
1 9 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (2.60%) Apache Spark
1 9 (2.60%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.02%) IIS
2 7 (2.02%) Jupyter
2 7 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.73%) nginx
4 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.16%) SAS
5 2 (0.58%) Confluence
6 1 (0.29%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.29%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 178 (51.45%) Azure
2 135 (39.02%) AWS
3 72 (20.81%) GitHub
4 60 (17.34%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.29%) Amazon S3
5 46 (13.29%) Entra ID
6 43 (12.43%) GCP
7 41 (11.85%) GitHub Actions
8 40 (11.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 40 (11.56%) Serverless
9 34 (9.83%) Amazon EC2
10 33 (9.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 33 (9.54%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (9.54%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (8.67%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (7.23%) Azure AKS
13 23 (6.65%) PaaS
13 23 (6.65%) SaaS
13 23 (6.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (17.05%) Firewall
2 23 (6.65%) VPN
3 22 (6.36%) Kerberos
4 17 (4.91%) Network Security
5 16 (4.62%) DNS
6 11 (3.18%) WAN
7 10 (2.89%) LAN
8 9 (2.60%) TCP/IP
9 6 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (1.73%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (1.73%) DHCP
9 6 (1.73%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.73%) VLAN
9 6 (1.73%) WebEx
10 4 (1.16%) NAS
10 4 (1.16%) Wireless
11 3 (0.87%) BGP
12 2 (0.58%) SAN
13 1 (0.29%) MPLS
13 1 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (5.49%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.60%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.45%) MySQL
7 5 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.16%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.16%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.16%) TIBCO EBX
9 3 (0.87%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.58%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 46 (13.29%) Git
2 38 (10.98%) GitLab
3 37 (10.69%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.60%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (2.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 7 (2.02%) JIRA
7 4 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.87%) Subversion
9 2 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.58%) Snyk
9 2 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.58%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.29%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.29%) git-flow
10 1 (0.29%) Maven
General
1 60 (17.34%) Finance
2 58 (16.76%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (6.07%) Law
6 10 (2.89%) Legal
6 10 (2.89%) Retail
7 9 (2.60%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.31%) Banking
8 8 (2.31%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.73%) Legal Technology
9 6 (1.73%) Marketing
10 3 (0.87%) Automotive
10 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (0.87%) Electronics
10 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.87%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (24.86%) Senior
2 78 (22.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (18.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (17.34%) Azure Engineer
5 59 (17.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 51 (14.74%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (8.67%) Architect
8 27 (7.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (6.65%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 22 (6.36%) Lead
11 22 (6.36%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 21 (6.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 19 (5.49%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (5.49%) Senior DevOps
14 16 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 13 (3.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.47%) Data Engineer
16 12 (3.47%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 221 (63.87%) Terraform
2 22 (6.36%) ARM Templates
2 22 (6.36%) OAuth
2 22 (6.36%) OpenID
2 22 (6.36%) SAML
3 18 (5.20%) LDAP
4 17 (4.91%) Node.js
4 17 (4.91%) REST
5 10 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (2.60%) .NET
6 9 (2.60%) YAML
7 8 (2.31%) Loki
7 8 (2.31%) RESTful
8 7 (2.02%) OpenTofu
8 7 (2.02%) PySpark
9 6 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (1.73%) React
9 6 (1.73%) XMPP
10 5 (1.45%) Kafka
10 5 (1.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 94 (27.17%) Cloud Native
2 39 (11.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (6.94%) Linux Command Line
4 20 (5.78%) Private Cloud
5 18 (5.20%) Onboarding
6 15 (4.34%) Public Cloud
7 14 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.18%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.89%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.60%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.60%) Replication
11 8 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.73%) CMDB
13 6 (1.73%) FlexPod
13 6 (1.73%) Podcast
13 6 (1.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 106 (30.64%) Linux
2 75 (21.68%) Windows
3 35 (10.12%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.60%) Debian
6 7 (2.02%) Unix
7 6 (1.73%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.16%) Rocky
8 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.29%) Android
10 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.29%) Solaris
10 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (68.50%) CI/CD
2 218 (63.01%) DevOps
3 205 (59.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 110 (31.79%) Platform Engineering
5 107 (30.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 88 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (24.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 84 (24.28%) Containerisation
9 80 (23.12%) Agile
10 74 (21.39%) Observability
11 71 (20.52%) Cloud Security
12 67 (19.36%) Mentoring
13 58 (16.76%) Migration
14 47 (13.58%) Roadmaps
14 47 (13.58%) Technical Leadership
14 47 (13.58%) Test Automation
15 44 (12.72%) AI
16 42 (12.14%) Disaster Recovery
16 42 (12.14%) Identity Access Management
17 38 (10.98%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 170 (49.13%) Python
2 115 (33.24%) PowerShell
3 106 (30.64%) Bash
4 42 (12.14%) SQL
5 35 (10.12%) Bicep
6 17 (4.91%) Java
7 15 (4.34%) Go
8 8 (2.31%) C#
8 8 (2.31%) PHP
9 4 (1.16%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.87%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.87%) Ruby
11 2 (0.58%) C
11 2 (0.58%) C++
11 2 (0.58%) Fortran
11 2 (0.58%) Groovy
11 2 (0.58%) Rust
11 2 (0.58%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
12 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 50 (14.45%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.54%) Degree
4 29 (8.38%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (5.49%) Azure Certification
7 17 (4.91%) CISSP
8 11 (3.18%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.87%) CCNP
11 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.58%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.29%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.29%) CCIE
13 1 (0.29%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.47%) QA
3 10 (2.89%) NIST
4 7 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.87%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.87%) GDPR
6 3 (0.87%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) GxP
System Software
1 93 (26.88%) Docker
2 55 (15.90%) Active Directory
3 36 (10.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (5.20%) vSphere
5 13 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.02%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.02%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.02%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (1.73%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (1.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.58%) Xen
10 1 (0.29%) Firmware
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 132 (38.15%) Kubernetes
2 106 (30.64%) Ansible
3 46 (13.29%) Grafana
4 35 (10.12%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.20%) Puppet
6 16 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.31%) Argo
9 7 (2.02%) Packer
9 7 (2.02%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.73%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (1.73%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.16%) vCenter Server
12 3 (0.87%) Istio
12 3 (0.87%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.87%) Scalr
13 2 (0.58%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.58%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.58%) Rancher
14 1 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 94 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 46 (13.29%) VMware
3 23 (6.65%) Cisco
4 17 (4.91%) Google
5 13 (3.76%) Palo Alto
6 8 (2.31%) Citrix
6 8 (2.31%) NetApp
6 8 (2.31%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.02%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.02%) Splunk
8 6 (1.73%) EMC
8 6 (1.73%) F5
8 6 (1.73%) Okta
8 6 (1.73%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.73%) Tenable
9 5 (1.45%) Databricks
10 4 (1.16%) Dell
10 4 (1.16%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.16%) IBM
10 4 (1.16%) Informatica