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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 467 511 589
Rank change year-on-year +44 +78 -95
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 363 170 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.38% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 235 123 171
10th Percentile £45,400 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,125 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £77,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +13.97% +0.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £111,250
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 80,269 44,315 65,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.06% 88.64% 80.88%
Number of salaries quoted 55,761 25,263 40,217
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -6.86% -6.87%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +35 323 £70,400 -9.16% 414
UK excluding London +31 205 £65,000 +4.00% 217
London -20 119 £85,000 - 242
Work from Home +14 103 £67,500 -5.26% 170
North of England -10 69 £55,000 -12.00% 69
South West -23 55 £75,000 - 30
South East -9 44 £65,000 -13.33% 57
North West -12 32 £70,400 +2.40% 37
North East -43 20 £51,000 -15.00% 8
Yorkshire -25 17 £52,500 -16.00% 26
East of England -11 12 £45,000 -10.00% 17
Midlands -37 12 £62,000 +6.44% 13
Wales -59 11 £64,750 +15.11% 1
West Midlands -19 8 £62,000 +3.33% 4
East Midlands -18 4 £52,500 -9.87% 9
Scotland -5 1 - - 17
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 13

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 10 (2.75%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.48%) Apache
2 9 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.93%) IIS
4 7 (1.93%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.93%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.65%) nginx
6 4 (1.10%) Confluence
6 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.10%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 182 (50.14%) Azure
2 142 (39.12%) AWS
3 78 (21.49%) GitHub
4 62 (17.08%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (13.22%) Amazon S3
5 48 (13.22%) GitHub Actions
6 47 (12.95%) Entra ID
7 44 (12.12%) GCP
8 42 (11.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 42 (11.57%) Serverless
9 39 (10.74%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (10.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 36 (9.92%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
14 28 (7.71%) Azure AKS
15 25 (6.89%) SaaS
15 25 (6.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 21 (5.79%) PaaS
17 20 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (16.25%) Firewall
2 29 (7.99%) VPN
3 20 (5.51%) Kerberos
4 19 (5.23%) DNS
5 16 (4.41%) Network Security
6 11 (3.03%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.03%) WAN
7 8 (2.20%) DHCP
7 8 (2.20%) LAN
8 5 (1.38%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (1.38%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (1.38%) Unified Communications
8 5 (1.38%) VLAN
8 5 (1.38%) WebEx
9 4 (1.10%) NAS
10 3 (0.83%) BGP
10 3 (0.83%) Wireless
11 2 (0.55%) SAN
12 1 (0.28%) MPLS
12 1 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.61%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (5.79%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.48%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.93%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.38%) MySQL
7 5 (1.38%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.10%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.10%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.10%) TIBCO EBX
9 3 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.28%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 47 (12.95%) Git
2 41 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 39 (10.74%) GitLab
4 11 (3.03%) JIRA
5 9 (2.48%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (1.10%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.83%) Subversion
9 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.55%) Snyk
9 2 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.55%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.28%) git-flow
10 1 (0.28%) JUnit
10 1 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 65 (17.91%) Finance
2 62 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 40 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 23 (6.34%) Law
6 21 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.31%) Retail
8 10 (2.75%) Banking
8 10 (2.75%) Legal
9 9 (2.48%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.20%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.65%) Legal Technology
12 5 (1.38%) Marketing
13 3 (0.83%) Automotive
13 3 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.83%) Electronics
13 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 93 (25.62%) Senior
2 84 (23.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 71 (19.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (16.80%) Azure Engineer
5 60 (16.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 54 (14.88%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (8.26%) Architect
8 29 (7.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 28 (7.71%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (6.89%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 25 (6.89%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 23 (6.34%) Senior DevOps
12 22 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 22 (6.06%) Lead
13 18 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
14 17 (4.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 16 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
16 14 (3.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 13 (3.58%) Administrator
18 12 (3.31%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (63.36%) Terraform
2 22 (6.06%) ARM Templates
3 21 (5.79%) OpenID
3 21 (5.79%) SAML
4 20 (5.51%) OAuth
5 18 (4.96%) Node.js
6 16 (4.41%) LDAP
6 16 (4.41%) REST
7 9 (2.48%) .NET
7 9 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (2.48%) YAML
8 8 (2.20%) Loki
8 8 (2.20%) RESTful
9 7 (1.93%) OpenTofu
9 7 (1.93%) PySpark
10 6 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (1.65%) React
11 5 (1.38%) AWS CDK
11 5 (1.38%) Kafka
11 5 (1.38%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 97 (26.72%) Cloud Native
2 44 (12.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (7.44%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (6.61%) Private Cloud
5 20 (5.51%) Onboarding
6 16 (4.41%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.75%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.75%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.48%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.20%) Replication
11 8 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.93%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.65%) CMDB
13 6 (1.65%) Podcast
14 5 (1.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 111 (30.58%) Linux
2 78 (21.49%) Windows
3 35 (9.64%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.48%) Debian
6 8 (2.20%) Unix
7 6 (1.65%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.38%) Rocky
9 4 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.83%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.55%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.28%) Android
12 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.28%) Solaris
12 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (68.87%) CI/CD
2 234 (64.46%) DevOps
3 214 (58.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 119 (32.78%) Platform Engineering
5 115 (31.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 95 (26.17%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (24.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 88 (24.24%) Containerisation
9 83 (22.87%) Observability
10 80 (22.04%) Agile
11 79 (21.76%) Cloud Security
12 68 (18.73%) Mentoring
13 60 (16.53%) Migration
14 52 (14.33%) AI
15 50 (13.77%) Roadmaps
16 48 (13.22%) Technical Leadership
17 46 (12.67%) Test Automation
18 45 (12.40%) Disaster Recovery
19 44 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
20 41 (11.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 181 (49.86%) Python
2 122 (33.61%) PowerShell
3 115 (31.68%) Bash
4 45 (12.40%) SQL
5 33 (9.09%) Bicep
6 19 (5.23%) Go
7 17 (4.68%) Java
8 8 (2.20%) C#
8 8 (2.20%) PHP
9 4 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.83%) Ruby
10 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.55%) C
11 2 (0.55%) C++
11 2 (0.55%) Fortran
11 2 (0.55%) Groovy
11 2 (0.55%) Rust
12 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 104 (28.65%) Security Cleared
2 52 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 32 (8.82%) Degree
4 28 (7.71%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.23%) Azure Certification
5 19 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.41%) CISSP
7 14 (3.86%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.83%) A+ Certification
11 3 (0.83%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.55%) CCNP
12 2 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.55%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.86%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.03%) QA
3 10 (2.75%) NIST
4 7 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.93%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.83%) GDPR
5 3 (0.83%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.55%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 97 (26.72%) Docker
2 57 (15.70%) Active Directory
3 35 (9.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.68%) vSphere
5 13 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.20%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.93%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.93%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.55%) Xen
11 1 (0.28%) Firmware
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 139 (38.29%) Kubernetes
2 110 (30.30%) Ansible
3 48 (13.22%) Grafana
4 38 (10.47%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.68%) Puppet
6 16 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (3.31%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.20%) Argo
9 7 (1.93%) Packer
9 7 (1.93%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.65%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.65%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.38%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (1.10%) Istio
12 4 (1.10%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.83%) Scalr
14 2 (0.55%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.55%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.55%) Rancher
15 1 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 100 (27.55%) Microsoft
2 48 (13.22%) VMware
3 21 (5.79%) Cisco
4 18 (4.96%) Google
5 11 (3.03%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.20%) Citrix
8 7 (1.93%) NetApp
9 6 (1.65%) EMC
9 6 (1.65%) F5
9 6 (1.65%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.65%) Okta
9 6 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.65%) Splunk
9 6 (1.65%) Tenable
10 5 (1.38%) Databricks
11 4 (1.10%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.10%) IBM
11 4 (1.10%) Informatica
11 4 (1.10%) TIBCO