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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 519 702
Rank change year-on-year +3 +183 -99
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 227 139 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.34% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 131 98 154
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £49,125
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,400 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.64% - -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 68,833 40,438 84,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.92% 93.25% 83.74%
Number of salaries quoted 44,981 21,310 60,621
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,200
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,871 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% +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 30 May 2026.

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 30 May 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 +3 202 £75,000 -6.25% 59
UK excluding London -4 107 £70,400 +12.64% 49
London -14 91 £85,000 +3.03% 18
Work from Home +60 88 £70,000 -6.67% 37
South West -23 33 £75,000 - 6
North of England -53 29 £71,450 +19.08% 13
South East -14 23 £62,500 -16.67% 16
North West +3 21 £74,500 +24.17% 7
Midlands -24 12 £68,250 -11.94% 7
West Midlands -27 7 £72,500 -6.45% 4
East of England -11 6 £85,000 +88.89% 4
Yorkshire -45 6 £47,500 -24.00% 2
East Midlands - 5 £64,000 - 3
Wales -32 3 - -
North East -45 2 £55,000 -6.38% 4
Scotland +6 1 - - 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 6 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.32%) Apache
4 3 (1.32%) IIS
4 3 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.88%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (2.20%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.44%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 113 (49.78%) Azure
2 92 (40.53%) AWS
3 58 (25.55%) GitHub
4 38 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (14.98%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (13.66%) Amazon EKS
7 29 (12.78%) Entra ID
8 28 (12.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (12.33%) Amazon S3
9 25 (11.01%) GCP
9 25 (11.01%) Serverless
10 24 (10.57%) Amazon EC2
11 22 (9.69%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (9.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (8.81%) PaaS
14 18 (7.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (7.49%) IaaS
15 17 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
16 16 (7.05%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (7.05%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (22.91%) Firewall
2 25 (11.01%) VPN
3 17 (7.49%) Network Security
4 15 (6.61%) Kerberos
5 10 (4.41%) DNS
6 9 (3.96%) WAN
7 8 (3.52%) VLAN
8 7 (3.08%) LAN
9 6 (2.64%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.64%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.64%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.64%) WebEx
10 4 (1.76%) DHCP
11 2 (0.88%) SAN
11 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.88%) Wireless
12 1 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 1 (0.44%) NGFW
12 1 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (3.52%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.88%) Big Data
6 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.88%) MySQL
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) Power BI
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (14.98%) Git
2 24 (10.57%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.61%) GitLab
4 9 (3.96%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (1.76%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.32%) Subversion
7 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.44%) git-flow
8 1 (0.44%) JIRA
8 1 (0.44%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 52 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.74%) Finance
3 24 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.17%) Retail
6 13 (5.73%) Aerospace
7 10 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.41%) Legal
8 9 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.52%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.08%) Banking
11 6 (2.64%) Law
11 6 (2.64%) Marketing
12 4 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.32%) Automotive
13 3 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.32%) Electronics
13 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.88%) Advertising
15 1 (0.44%) German Language
Job Titles
1 62 (27.31%) Senior
2 50 (22.03%) Platform Engineer
3 45 (19.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 40 (17.62%) Azure Engineer
5 37 (16.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 36 (15.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 25 (11.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 21 (9.25%) Architect
9 19 (8.37%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (7.93%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 17 (7.49%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 13 (5.73%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (5.29%) Lead
13 12 (5.29%) Senior DevOps
14 11 (4.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 11 (4.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (4.41%) Data Engineer
16 9 (3.96%) Security Engineer
17 8 (3.52%) Administrator
17 8 (3.52%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.61%) LDAP
1 15 (6.61%) Node.js
1 15 (6.61%) OAuth
2 14 (6.17%) OpenID
2 14 (6.17%) REST
2 14 (6.17%) SAML
3 10 (4.41%) Loki
4 8 (3.52%) YAML
5 7 (3.08%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.64%) RESTful
6 6 (2.64%) XMPP
7 5 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
8 4 (1.76%) Kafka
9 3 (1.32%) .NET
9 3 (1.32%) PySpark
9 3 (1.32%) React
10 2 (0.88%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.88%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.15%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (8.37%) Private Cloud
4 16 (7.05%) Public Cloud
5 15 (6.61%) Data Centre
6 14 (6.17%) Onboarding
7 10 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.96%) CMDB
8 9 (3.96%) Replication
9 8 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.52%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.64%) FlexPod
10 6 (2.64%) Podcast
10 6 (2.64%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (2.20%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.20%) PKI
12 4 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.76%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 74 (32.60%) Linux
2 48 (21.15%) Windows
3 20 (8.81%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.76%) Unix
5 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Android
6 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (66.52%) CI/CD
2 143 (63.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 136 (59.91%) DevOps
4 70 (30.84%) Platform Engineering
5 58 (25.55%) Observability
6 55 (24.23%) Cloud Security
6 55 (24.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 53 (23.35%) Containerisation
7 53 (23.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 48 (21.15%) Agile
9 43 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (18.06%) Mentoring
11 38 (16.74%) Disaster Recovery
12 32 (14.10%) Configuration Management
13 30 (13.22%) Test Automation
14 29 (12.78%) Roadmaps
15 28 (12.33%) AI
16 27 (11.89%) DevSecOps
16 27 (11.89%) RBAC
17 26 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 118 (51.98%) Python
2 78 (34.36%) PowerShell
3 68 (29.96%) Bash
4 28 (12.33%) Bicep
5 25 (11.01%) SQL
6 17 (7.49%) Go
7 16 (7.05%) Java
8 6 (2.64%) C#
9 4 (1.76%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.32%) Elixir
10 3 (1.32%) Erlang
11 2 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.44%) ABAP
12 1 (0.44%) C
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (23.79%) Security Cleared
2 37 (16.30%) Degree
3 24 (10.57%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.05%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.61%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.61%) CISSP
6 13 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (5.29%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.88%) CCIE
10 2 (0.88%) CCNP
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.44%) CCNA
11 1 (0.44%) CISM
11 1 (0.44%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.44%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.41%) NIST
2 5 (2.20%) QA
3 4 (1.76%) GDPR
3 4 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.76%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.32%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.88%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.44%) GxP
System Software
1 48 (21.15%) Docker
2 37 (16.30%) Active Directory
3 25 (11.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (7.49%) vSphere
5 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 9 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.96%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (3.52%) VMware NSX
7 7 (3.08%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.76%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.44%) Firmware
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 167 (73.57%) Terraform
2 88 (38.77%) Kubernetes
3 83 (36.56%) Ansible
4 52 (22.91%) Grafana
5 40 (17.62%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.73%) Puppet
7 12 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (4.41%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.52%) Proxmox
10 7 (3.08%) Packer
11 6 (2.64%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.64%) Progress Chef
12 5 (2.20%) Argo
13 4 (1.76%) ZABBIX
14 3 (1.32%) Scalr
15 2 (0.88%) Rancher
15 2 (0.88%) yum
16 1 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
16 1 (0.44%) Istio
16 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 63 (27.75%) Microsoft
2 41 (18.06%) VMware
3 16 (7.05%) Cisco
4 14 (6.17%) Palo Alto
5 8 (3.52%) Citrix
6 7 (3.08%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.08%) Google
6 7 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.08%) Splunk
7 6 (2.64%) EMC
7 6 (2.64%) F5
7 6 (2.64%) NetApp
7 6 (2.64%) Tenable
8 4 (1.76%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.76%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.32%) Databricks
9 3 (1.32%) Dell
9 3 (1.32%) IFS
9 3 (1.32%) Oracle
9 3 (1.32%) SolarWinds