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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 507 552
Rank change year-on-year +75 +45 -66
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 410 157 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.32% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.36% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 275 109 167
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +7.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £95,750 £100,000 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% -1.92% +4.00%

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 86,487 44,218 59,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.02% 81.93%
Number of salaries quoted 59,402 24,461 32,381
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +62 368 £72,500 -3.33% 517
UK excluding London +36 230 £65,000 +1.96% 272
London -16 141 £85,000 +3.03% 278
Work from Home -17 100 £70,000 -3.45% 196
North of England 0 92 £57,500 -8.00% 76
South East -6 49 £65,000 -13.33% 95
North West 0 48 £70,200 +8.00% 48
South West -31 46 £75,000 - 36
Yorkshire -8 27 £60,000 -4.00% 18
North East -47 26 £55,000 -16.98% 10
Midlands -28 15 £65,000 +11.59% 19
East of England -24 14 £45,000 -10.00% 15
Wales -59 11 £64,750 +15.11% 4
West Midlands -42 8 £62,000 +3.33% 9
East Midlands -25 7 £65,000 +11.59% 10
Scotland -1 2 - - 26
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 (2.68%) Apache
1 11 (2.68%) OpenStack
2 10 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.20%) nginx
3 9 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.71%) Confluence
4 7 (1.71%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.22%) IIS
6 4 (0.98%) SAS
7 3 (0.73%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.49%) WebLogic Portal
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.24%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 195 (47.56%) Azure
2 154 (37.56%) AWS
3 89 (21.71%) GitHub
4 67 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (14.15%) Entra ID
6 56 (13.66%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (11.71%) Amazon S3
8 48 (11.71%) GCP
9 43 (10.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (10.24%) Serverless
11 38 (9.27%) Amazon EKS
12 35 (8.54%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (8.05%) SaaS
14 32 (7.80%) Amazon ECS
14 32 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (7.56%) Azure AKS
16 25 (6.10%) PaaS
17 23 (5.61%) IaaS
17 23 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 64 (15.61%) Firewall
2 43 (10.49%) VPN
3 28 (6.83%) DNS
4 23 (5.61%) Kerberos
5 19 (4.63%) Network Security
6 13 (3.17%) DHCP
6 13 (3.17%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.44%) WAN
8 6 (1.46%) LAN
8 6 (1.46%) VLAN
9 5 (1.22%) NAS
9 5 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.98%) Wireless
11 3 (0.73%) BGP
11 3 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.73%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.73%) VSAN
12 2 (0.49%) Cisco Firepower
12 2 (0.49%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.85%) SQL Server
2 22 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (1.95%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.71%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.22%) MySQL
8 5 (1.22%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.98%) Ataccama
9 4 (0.98%) IBM InfoSphere
9 4 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.98%) TIBCO EBX
10 3 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 54 (13.17%) GitLab
2 46 (11.22%) Jenkins
3 44 (10.73%) Git
4 18 (4.39%) JIRA
5 5 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.73%) Snyk
6 3 (0.73%) Subversion
6 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.49%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.49%) Flyway
7 2 (0.49%) JMeter
7 2 (0.49%) Postman
7 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (19.27%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.83%) Finance
3 40 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.51%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.63%) Law
7 14 (3.41%) Banking
8 13 (3.17%) Retail
9 12 (2.93%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.98%) Police
12 4 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.73%) Legal
14 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.49%) Marketing
15 1 (0.24%) Automotive
15 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 99 (24.15%) Senior
2 98 (23.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 89 (21.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (14.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 56 (13.66%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (12.93%) Platform Engineer
7 39 (9.51%) Architect
8 36 (8.78%) AWS Engineer
9 28 (6.83%) Lead
10 26 (6.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 26 (6.34%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.37%) Automation Engineer
11 22 (5.37%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.37%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (5.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.39%) Administrator
13 18 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.90%) Systems Administrator
15 14 (3.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (59.51%) Terraform
2 29 (7.07%) OpenID
2 29 (7.07%) SAML
3 26 (6.34%) OAuth
4 25 (6.10%) ARM Templates
5 20 (4.88%) LDAP
6 18 (4.39%) Node.js
6 18 (4.39%) REST
7 14 (3.41%) RESTful
8 10 (2.44%) .NET
8 10 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (2.44%) Kafka
9 8 (1.95%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.71%) PySpark
11 6 (1.46%) Middleware
11 6 (1.46%) Pulumi
12 5 (1.22%) AWS CDK
12 5 (1.22%) Loki
12 5 (1.22%) React
13 4 (0.98%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 103 (25.12%) Cloud Native
2 44 (10.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (6.34%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (5.37%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.37%) Private Cloud
5 15 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (3.66%) Security Posture
6 12 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (2.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 10 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.20%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.20%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.20%) Public Cloud
9 9 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.95%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
11 6 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.46%) Hedge funds
11 6 (1.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 127 (30.98%) Linux
2 81 (19.76%) Windows
3 33 (8.05%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.17%) Unix
6 9 (2.20%) Debian
6 9 (2.20%) Rocky
7 8 (1.95%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.71%) Windows 10
9 6 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.24%) Android
12 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.24%) CentOS
12 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (66.10%) CI/CD
2 266 (64.88%) DevOps
3 241 (58.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 138 (33.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 137 (33.41%) Platform Engineering
6 117 (28.54%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 103 (25.12%) Agile
9 97 (23.66%) Cloud Security
10 93 (22.68%) Observability
11 91 (22.20%) Containerisation
12 70 (17.07%) Mentoring
13 61 (14.88%) AI
13 61 (14.88%) Migration
13 61 (14.88%) Technical Leadership
14 54 (13.17%) Disaster Recovery
15 53 (12.93%) Deployment Automation
15 53 (12.93%) Test Automation
16 50 (12.20%) Identity Access Management
17 49 (11.95%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 198 (48.29%) Python
2 138 (33.66%) Bash
2 138 (33.66%) PowerShell
3 54 (13.17%) SQL
4 34 (8.29%) Bicep
5 24 (5.85%) Java
6 23 (5.61%) Go
7 10 (2.44%) C#
8 9 (2.20%) PHP
9 6 (1.46%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.22%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.73%) Ruby
12 2 (0.49%) C
12 2 (0.49%) C++
12 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.49%) Fortran
12 2 (0.49%) Rust
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 136 (33.17%) Security Cleared
2 74 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.73%) DV Cleared
4 30 (7.32%) Degree
5 24 (5.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (5.12%) Azure Certification
7 20 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (4.39%) AWS Certification
8 18 (4.39%) CISSP
9 6 (1.46%) A+ Certification
9 6 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.49%) CCNP
12 2 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.49%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.17%) QA
3 12 (2.93%) NIST
4 10 (2.44%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.98%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.24%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) GxP
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (24.39%) Docker
2 59 (14.39%) Active Directory
3 36 (8.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (4.39%) vSphere
6 16 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (3.41%) VMware NSX
8 9 (2.20%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.22%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.98%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.49%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.49%) Xen
12 1 (0.24%) GPFS
12 1 (0.24%) NFS
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 154 (37.56%) Kubernetes
2 119 (29.02%) Ansible
3 55 (13.41%) Grafana
4 47 (11.46%) Prometheus
5 26 (6.34%) Puppet
6 19 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
6 19 (4.63%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (3.41%) vCenter Server
8 10 (2.44%) Argo
9 9 (2.20%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.46%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.46%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.22%) Istio
12 4 (0.98%) Packer
13 3 (0.73%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.73%) Podman
13 3 (0.73%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 122 (29.76%) Microsoft
2 55 (13.41%) VMware
3 20 (4.88%) Google
4 16 (3.90%) Cisco
5 13 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.44%) Databricks
7 9 (2.20%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.71%) NetApp
8 7 (1.71%) Okta
8 7 (1.71%) Oracle
9 6 (1.46%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.46%) IBM
10 5 (1.22%) Citrix
10 5 (1.22%) ForgeRock
10 5 (1.22%) Splunk
11 4 (0.98%) Informatica
11 4 (0.98%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.98%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.98%) TIBCO