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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 512 538 501
Rank change year-on-year +26 -37 +38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 149 214 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.32% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.37% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 111 149 147
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,000 £49,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £86,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -1.96%

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 45,724 57,096 47,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 85.02% 93.78%
Number of salaries quoted 27,947 29,808 36,597
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £54,714 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +4.22% -0.94%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +25 134 £75,000 +3.45% 89
London +35 82 £80,000 -1.54% 29
UK excluding London +50 62 £65,000 - 81
Work from Home +58 52 £72,500 +3.57% 50
North of England +63 25 £65,000 +8.33% 16
North West +66 18 £70,000 +33.33% 10
Scotland +19 11 - - 4
South East +10 10 £75,000 +20.00% 35
Midlands +48 7 £62,500 -8.09% 13
South West +18 6 £65,000 +4.00% 7
West Midlands +62 4 £60,000 -11.76% 5
Yorkshire -1 4 £47,500 -25.33% 6
North East +20 3 £60,000 -14.29%
East Midlands - 3 £62,500 - 7
Wales +9 2 £52,500 - 1
East of England +26 1 £55,000 -21.43% 10

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 (7.38%) IIS
2 5 (3.36%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.68%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.68%) Confluence
4 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.01%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) SAS
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.67%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 100 (67.11%) Azure
2 69 (46.31%) AWS
3 35 (23.49%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (18.79%) GitHub
5 24 (16.11%) GCP
6 17 (11.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.74%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (8.05%) OpenShift
8 12 (8.05%) Serverless
9 11 (7.38%) PaaS
9 11 (7.38%) SaaS
10 9 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (4.03%) IaaS
13 6 (4.03%) Snowflake
14 5 (3.36%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (3.36%) Amazon S3
14 5 (3.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 4 (2.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.11%) Firewall
2 15 (10.07%) DNS
3 11 (7.38%) VPN
4 9 (6.04%) Network Security
5 7 (4.70%) WAN
6 6 (4.03%) LAN
7 4 (2.68%) SAN
7 4 (2.68%) VLAN
7 4 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (2.01%) DHCP
9 2 (1.34%) Kerberos
9 2 (1.34%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.67%) Internet
10 1 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.67%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.67%) VSAN
10 1 (0.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.41%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.03%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.03%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.01%) Apache Hive
4 3 (2.01%) Big Data
4 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.01%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.34%) MySQL
5 2 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (20.13%) Jenkins
2 27 (18.12%) Git
3 19 (12.75%) GitLab
4 11 (7.38%) JIRA
5 8 (5.37%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.37%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (3.36%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.01%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.01%) TeamCity
8 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.34%) JUnit
9 2 (1.34%) Maven
9 2 (1.34%) Mockito
10 1 (0.67%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.67%) Postman
10 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.67%) Subversion
10 1 (0.67%) Xcode
General
1 48 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 40 (26.85%) Finance
3 16 (10.74%) Law
4 12 (8.05%) Banking
5 8 (5.37%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.36%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.36%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.01%) Advertising
8 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.34%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.67%) Retail
9 1 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (22.15%) Platform Engineer
2 28 (18.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 22 (14.77%) Senior
4 21 (14.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (9.40%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Network Engineer
8 9 (6.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.70%) Lead
10 6 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Architect
11 5 (3.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) CloudOps Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.36%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.71%) YAML
2 9 (6.04%) ARM Templates
3 8 (5.37%) Kafka
3 8 (5.37%) RESTful
4 7 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (4.03%) Node.js
6 5 (3.36%) .NET
6 5 (3.36%) React
6 5 (3.36%) REST
7 4 (2.68%) HTML
7 4 (2.68%) Jinja
7 4 (2.68%) LDAP
7 4 (2.68%) Middleware
7 4 (2.68%) OAuth
7 4 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
7 4 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.01%) CSS
8 3 (2.01%) JDBC
8 3 (2.01%) LAMP
8 3 (2.01%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.42%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.72%) Private Cloud
3 9 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.36%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.68%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.34%) CMDB
8 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.34%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.67%) Clustering
9 1 (0.67%) IoT
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 56 (37.58%) Linux
2 34 (22.82%) Windows
3 23 (15.44%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (4.03%) VMS
5 6 (4.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (4.03%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.36%) CentOS
6 5 (3.36%) Unix
6 5 (3.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (2.01%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.34%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (1.34%) SUSE
9 1 (0.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (69.13%) CI/CD
2 97 (65.10%) DevOps
3 71 (47.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (33.56%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (32.21%) Containerisation
6 43 (28.86%) Platform Engineering
7 42 (28.19%) Agile
8 29 (19.46%) AI
9 27 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (17.45%) Observability
11 25 (16.78%) Cloud Security
12 23 (15.44%) Configuration Management
13 22 (14.77%) High Availability
13 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (13.42%) Mentoring
15 19 (12.75%) Disaster Recovery
16 17 (11.41%) Root Cause Analysis
17 16 (10.74%) Continuous Integration
18 15 (10.07%) Cloud Operations
18 15 (10.07%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (50.34%) Python
2 66 (44.30%) PowerShell
3 35 (23.49%) Bash
4 18 (12.08%) SQL
5 13 (8.72%) Bicep
6 12 (8.05%) C#
6 12 (8.05%) Java
7 9 (6.04%) Go
8 7 (4.70%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.03%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.34%) Perl
10 2 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.67%) Groovy
11 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (7.38%) Azure Certification
1 11 (7.38%) Degree
2 10 (6.71%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.70%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.36%) CCNP
6 5 (3.36%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.36%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.68%) CCIE
7 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.01%) CISSP
8 3 (2.01%) RHCE
9 2 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.34%) RHCSA
10 1 (0.67%) CCNA
10 1 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.67%) GAWN
10 1 (0.67%) GREM
10 1 (0.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.71%) GDPR
1 10 (6.71%) QA
2 5 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.68%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.01%) NIST
5 2 (1.34%) GRC
5 2 (1.34%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.34%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.67%) GxP
6 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 52 (34.90%) Docker
2 21 (14.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (11.41%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.70%) vSphere
5 5 (3.36%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.68%) vCloud
6 4 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.67%) Postfix
7 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (63.09%) Terraform
2 85 (57.05%) Kubernetes
3 68 (45.64%) Ansible
4 23 (15.44%) Prometheus
5 21 (14.09%) Grafana
6 9 (6.04%) Puppet
7 8 (5.37%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.70%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.68%) CASB
9 4 (2.68%) Kubeflow
9 4 (2.68%) Rundeck
10 3 (2.01%) Control-M
11 2 (1.34%) Argo
11 2 (1.34%) Rancher
12 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (26.85%) VMware
2 33 (22.15%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.41%) Cisco
4 16 (10.74%) Red Hat
5 15 (10.07%) ServiceNow
6 12 (8.05%) Oracle
7 8 (5.37%) Foundry
8 7 (4.70%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.70%) Palo Alto
9 6 (4.03%) Dynatrace
9 6 (4.03%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.36%) Splunk
11 4 (2.68%) Databricks
11 4 (2.68%) Meraki
11 4 (2.68%) Palantir
12 3 (2.01%) Dell
12 3 (2.01%) Google
13 2 (1.34%) Commvault
13 2 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
13 2 (1.34%) SolarWinds