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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 512 671
Rank change year-on-year -6 +159 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 179 118 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.31% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 120 88 142
10th Percentile £47,481 £51,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +12.00% -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 59,772 38,266 76,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.27% 93.41% 86.72%
Number of salaries quoted 36,377 22,223 57,143
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.42%

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 26 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 14 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 26 March 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 +1 160 £75,000 -1.96% 74
UK excluding London -27 83 £70,000 - 47
London +23 81 £80,000 -7.25% 31
Work from Home +37 71 £72,500 -5.23% 42
South West -12 21 £65,000 -13.33% 14
South East -34 21 £62,500 -15.25% 14
North of England -47 21 £67,500 +18.42% 14
North West -19 12 £76,250 +38.64% 5
Midlands - 10 £72,500 - 3
Yorkshire -42 9 £47,500 -15.56% 3
East Midlands - 6 £67,000 - 1
East of England -14 5 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Scotland -24 5 - -
West Midlands - 4 £88,750 - 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 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.91%) IIS
3 5 (2.79%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.79%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.23%) Confluence
5 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (3.35%) Weka
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.56%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 91 (50.84%) Azure
2 83 (46.37%) AWS
3 39 (21.79%) GitHub
4 27 (15.08%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (14.53%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (13.97%) GCP
7 23 (12.85%) Amazon EKS
8 21 (11.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (11.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (10.06%) Serverless
11 17 (9.50%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (8.94%) OpenShift
12 16 (8.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (8.38%) PaaS
14 13 (7.26%) IaaS
15 12 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (6.70%) Azure AKS
15 12 (6.70%) Entra ID
15 12 (6.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.88%) Firewall
2 24 (13.41%) VPN
3 12 (6.70%) DNS
4 11 (6.15%) Network Security
5 9 (5.03%) VLAN
6 8 (4.47%) Kerberos
6 8 (4.47%) WAN
7 6 (3.35%) LAN
8 4 (2.23%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (2.23%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (2.23%) DHCP
8 4 (2.23%) Unified Communications
8 4 (2.23%) WebEx
9 3 (1.68%) Wireless
10 2 (1.12%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.56%) NGFW
11 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.70%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (3.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.79%) Big Data
6 4 (2.23%) Apache Hive
6 4 (2.23%) Hadoop
6 4 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.12%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.12%) MySQL
8 2 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.56%) Power BI
9 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (16.76%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.29%) Git
3 19 (10.61%) GitLab
4 9 (5.03%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.35%) JIRA
5 6 (3.35%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (2.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.12%) Subversion
9 1 (0.56%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.56%) git-flow
9 1 (0.56%) Maven
9 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (27.37%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.67%) Finance
3 22 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.70%) Aerospace
5 11 (6.15%) Retail
6 8 (4.47%) Legal
6 8 (4.47%) Telecoms
7 7 (3.91%) Banking
7 7 (3.91%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.35%) Law
9 4 (2.23%) Marketing
9 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.68%) Advertising
10 3 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Automotive
11 2 (1.12%) Electronics
11 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.56%) German Language
Job Titles
1 40 (22.35%) Senior
2 39 (21.79%) Platform Engineer
3 35 (19.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (17.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (13.97%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (8.38%) Architect
8 14 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (7.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 10 (5.59%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (5.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Lead
13 7 (3.91%) Administrator
13 7 (3.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Data Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) DevOps Administrator
13 7 (3.91%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 7 (3.91%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.59%) OAuth
2 9 (5.03%) ARM Templates
2 9 (5.03%) LDAP
2 9 (5.03%) Loki
2 9 (5.03%) REST
3 8 (4.47%) Kafka
3 8 (4.47%) RESTful
4 7 (3.91%) Node.js
5 6 (3.35%) YAML
6 5 (2.79%) Middleware
6 5 (2.79%) OpenID
6 5 (2.79%) React
6 5 (2.79%) SAML
7 4 (2.23%) JDBC
7 4 (2.23%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.23%) ODBC
7 4 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.23%) XMPP
8 3 (1.68%) .NET
8 3 (1.68%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.67%) Cloud Native
2 18 (10.06%) Private Cloud
3 16 (8.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.59%) Data Centre
6 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
6 9 (5.03%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.91%) Product Ownership
8 6 (3.35%) CMDB
9 5 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (2.79%) Podcast
10 4 (2.23%) FlexPod
10 4 (2.23%) PKI
10 4 (2.23%) Replication
10 4 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.68%) Driving Licence
12 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (1.12%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 77 (43.02%) Linux
2 37 (20.67%) Windows
3 17 (9.50%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.79%) Unix
6 5 (2.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.68%) SUSE
8 2 (1.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.56%) CentOS
9 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (68.72%) CI/CD
2 108 (60.34%) DevOps
2 108 (60.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 51 (28.49%) Platform Engineering
4 49 (27.37%) Containerisation
5 46 (25.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (25.70%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (24.02%) Cloud Security
7 41 (22.91%) Observability
8 40 (22.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 39 (21.79%) Agile
10 36 (20.11%) Configuration Management
11 34 (18.99%) Disaster Recovery
12 28 (15.64%) AI
13 20 (11.17%) DevSecOps
14 19 (10.61%) Analytics
14 19 (10.61%) Incident Response
14 19 (10.61%) Migration
15 18 (10.06%) High Availability
15 18 (10.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 95 (53.07%) Python
2 61 (34.08%) PowerShell
3 55 (30.73%) Bash
4 23 (12.85%) Bicep
5 15 (8.38%) Go
5 15 (8.38%) SQL
6 14 (7.82%) Java
7 6 (3.35%) C#
7 6 (3.35%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.23%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.68%) Elixir
9 3 (1.68%) Erlang
10 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.56%) C
11 1 (0.56%) C++
11 1 (0.56%) Groovy
11 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (18.99%) Degree
2 28 (15.64%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.82%) AWS Certification
4 13 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.70%) Azure Certification
5 12 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.91%) CISSP
8 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.12%) CCIE
10 2 (1.12%) CCNA
10 2 (1.12%) CCNP
10 2 (1.12%) CISM
10 2 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.56%) GCIH
11 1 (0.56%) GIAC
11 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.47%) NIST
1 8 (4.47%) QA
2 5 (2.79%) GDPR
2 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.23%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.68%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) GxP
5 2 (1.12%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.56%) Data Quality
System Software
1 50 (27.93%) Docker
2 26 (14.53%) Active Directory
3 20 (11.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (7.82%) vSphere
5 8 (4.47%) VMware NSX
6 7 (3.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (3.91%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.68%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.68%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 133 (74.30%) Terraform
2 95 (53.07%) Kubernetes
3 80 (44.69%) Ansible
4 46 (25.70%) Grafana
5 35 (19.55%) Prometheus
6 15 (8.38%) Puppet
7 10 (5.59%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.91%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.35%) Argo
10 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.79%) Rancher
11 4 (2.23%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (2.23%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.68%) Packer
13 2 (1.12%) PowerCLI
13 2 (1.12%) Scalr
13 2 (1.12%) yum
14 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (25.70%) Microsoft
2 40 (22.35%) VMware
3 16 (8.94%) Cisco
4 12 (6.70%) Palo Alto
5 10 (5.59%) Oracle
5 10 (5.59%) Red Hat
6 9 (5.03%) ServiceNow
7 8 (4.47%) Splunk
8 7 (3.91%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.35%) Dell
9 6 (3.35%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.23%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.23%) Cribl.io
10 4 (2.23%) Databricks
10 4 (2.23%) F5
10 4 (2.23%) IFS
10 4 (2.23%) NetApp
11 3 (1.68%) EMC
11 3 (1.68%) LogicMonitor
12 2 (1.12%) Ping Identity