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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 510 546
Rank change year-on-year +54 +36 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 397 163 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.33% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.37% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 259 114 167
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,800 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £75,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +8.70% -1.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,250 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 86,281 44,107 61,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.16% 89.14% 81.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,444 24,402 33,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,274
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £79,091 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 1 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 1 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 +49 355 £72,500 -3.33% 532
UK excluding London +13 221 £65,000 +4.00% 274
London -6 137 £85,000 +4.62% 288
Work from Home -13 100 £70,000 -1.75% 197
North of England -24 85 £57,500 -8.00% 79
South East -24 48 £65,000 -13.33% 99
South West -32 48 £75,000 - 32
North West -15 42 £70,400 +8.31% 48
Yorkshire -13 25 £57,500 -8.00% 20
North East -46 24 £55,000 -16.98% 12
East of England -18 13 £45,000 -10.00% 17
Midlands -39 13 £63,500 +9.01% 25
Wales -65 11 £64,750 +15.11% 2
West Midlands -44 7 £62,000 +3.33% 13
East Midlands -30 6 £65,000 +11.59% 12
Scotland +8 2 - - 21
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 (2.77%) OpenStack
2 10 (2.52%) Apache
3 9 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.02%) nginx
4 8 (2.02%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.76%) Confluence
5 7 (1.76%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.26%) IIS
7 4 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.01%) SAS
8 3 (0.76%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.50%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.25%) JBoss
10 1 (0.25%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.25%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 191 (48.11%) Azure
2 154 (38.79%) AWS
3 88 (22.17%) GitHub
4 66 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
5 55 (13.85%) Entra ID
6 54 (13.60%) GitHub Actions
7 49 (12.34%) GCP
8 48 (12.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 47 (11.84%) Amazon S3
10 44 (11.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (10.33%) Serverless
12 40 (10.08%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (8.31%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (8.31%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (7.81%) SaaS
16 30 (7.56%) Azure AKS
17 22 (5.54%) PaaS
18 19 (4.79%) Microsoft 365
19 18 (4.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (15.87%) Firewall
2 39 (9.82%) VPN
3 24 (6.05%) DNS
4 23 (5.79%) Kerberos
5 20 (5.04%) Network Security
6 13 (3.27%) TCP/IP
7 11 (2.77%) DHCP
8 9 (2.27%) WAN
9 6 (1.51%) LAN
10 4 (1.01%) NAS
10 4 (1.01%) VLAN
10 4 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (1.01%) Wireless
11 3 (0.76%) BGP
12 2 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.50%) SAN
12 2 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.50%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.50%) VSAN
12 2 (0.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
1 22 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (2.02%) DynamoDB
3 8 (2.02%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.51%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.01%) Ataccama
6 4 (1.01%) IBM InfoSphere
6 4 (1.01%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.01%) MySQL
6 4 (1.01%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.01%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.01%) TIBCO EBX
7 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 51 (12.85%) GitLab
2 47 (11.84%) Jenkins
3 43 (10.83%) Git
4 17 (4.28%) JIRA
5 6 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.76%) Snyk
8 3 (0.76%) Subversion
9 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.50%) Flyway
9 2 (0.50%) JMeter
9 2 (0.50%) Postman
9 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.25%) JUnit
10 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 75 (18.89%) Social Skills
2 70 (17.63%) Finance
3 37 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (4.53%) Law
7 14 (3.53%) Retail
8 13 (3.27%) Banking
9 11 (2.77%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.01%) Legal
12 4 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.76%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.76%) Police
14 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Marketing
15 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Legal Technology
15 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 100 (25.19%) Senior
2 95 (23.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 81 (20.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 58 (14.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 56 (14.11%) Azure Engineer
6 51 (12.85%) Platform Engineer
7 39 (9.82%) Architect
8 34 (8.56%) AWS Engineer
9 26 (6.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.55%) Lead
9 26 (6.55%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 24 (6.05%) Senior DevOps
11 22 (5.54%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 21 (5.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 19 (4.79%) Administrator
14 18 (4.53%) Automation Engineer
14 18 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
15 17 (4.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 17 (4.28%) Systems Administrator
16 14 (3.53%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (59.45%) Terraform
2 29 (7.30%) OpenID
3 27 (6.80%) SAML
4 26 (6.55%) OAuth
5 23 (5.79%) ARM Templates
6 20 (5.04%) LDAP
7 19 (4.79%) REST
8 18 (4.53%) Node.js
9 12 (3.02%) RESTful
10 9 (2.27%) .NET
10 9 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (2.02%) Kafka
11 8 (2.02%) OAuth2
12 7 (1.76%) PySpark
13 6 (1.51%) Loki
13 6 (1.51%) Pulumi
14 5 (1.26%) AWS CDK
14 5 (1.26%) Middleware
14 5 (1.26%) OpenTofu
14 5 (1.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 98 (24.69%) Cloud Native
2 46 (11.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (6.80%) Linux Command Line
4 24 (6.05%) Private Cloud
5 22 (5.54%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
7 14 (3.53%) Security Posture
8 11 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (2.52%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.52%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.27%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.02%) Management Information System
11 8 (2.02%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.76%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.76%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.76%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.51%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 124 (31.23%) Linux
2 75 (18.89%) Windows
3 32 (8.06%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.27%) Unix
6 9 (2.27%) Debian
6 9 (2.27%) Rocky
7 7 (1.76%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.76%) Windows 10
8 4 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.25%) Android
10 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) Solaris
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (67.51%) CI/CD
2 261 (65.74%) DevOps
3 233 (58.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (32.49%) Platform Engineering
5 126 (31.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 109 (27.46%) Problem-Solving
7 98 (24.69%) Agile
8 96 (24.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 95 (23.93%) Cloud Security
10 91 (22.92%) Observability
11 89 (22.42%) Containerisation
12 68 (17.13%) Mentoring
13 61 (15.37%) AI
13 61 (15.37%) Migration
14 56 (14.11%) Technical Leadership
15 50 (12.59%) Identity Access Management
16 49 (12.34%) Deployment Automation
16 49 (12.34%) Roadmaps
16 49 (12.34%) Test Automation
17 48 (12.09%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 194 (48.87%) Python
2 133 (33.50%) Bash
3 131 (33.00%) PowerShell
4 52 (13.10%) SQL
5 33 (8.31%) Bicep
6 24 (6.05%) Go
7 20 (5.04%) Java
8 9 (2.27%) PHP
9 8 (2.02%) C#
10 6 (1.51%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.51%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.26%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.76%) Ruby
13 2 (0.50%) C
13 2 (0.50%) C++
13 2 (0.50%) Fortran
13 2 (0.50%) Rust
14 1 (0.25%) Perl
14 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 131 (33.00%) Security Cleared
2 71 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.82%) DV Cleared
4 27 (6.80%) Degree
5 21 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (5.04%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.79%) AWS Certification
8 18 (4.53%) CISSP
9 17 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.51%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.50%) CCNP
12 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.50%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.50%) RHCSA
12 2 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.78%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.27%) QA
3 11 (2.77%) NIST
4 8 (2.02%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.76%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.25%) GDPR
8 1 (0.25%) GxP
8 1 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 97 (24.43%) Docker
2 58 (14.61%) Active Directory
3 30 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.03%) vSphere
5 14 (3.53%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.52%) VMware NSX
8 7 (1.76%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.26%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.01%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.50%) Xen
12 1 (0.25%) GPFS
12 1 (0.25%) NFS
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 148 (37.28%) Kubernetes
2 115 (28.97%) Ansible
3 54 (13.60%) Grafana
4 47 (11.84%) Prometheus
5 22 (5.54%) Puppet
6 17 (4.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (4.03%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.52%) Argo
9 9 (2.27%) Progress Chef
9 9 (2.27%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.76%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.51%) Istio
11 6 (1.51%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 3 (0.76%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.76%) Packer
12 3 (0.76%) Podman
13 2 (0.50%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.50%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 111 (27.96%) Microsoft
2 49 (12.34%) VMware
3 21 (5.29%) Google
4 15 (3.78%) Cisco
5 13 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.02%) Databricks
6 8 (2.02%) Fortinet
7 6 (1.51%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.51%) Citrix
7 6 (1.51%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.51%) IBM
7 6 (1.51%) NetApp
7 6 (1.51%) Okta
7 6 (1.51%) Oracle
8 5 (1.26%) ForgeRock
8 5 (1.26%) Splunk
9 4 (1.01%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.01%) Ping Identity
9 4 (1.01%) Tenable
9 4 (1.01%) Thales