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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 537 690
Rank change year-on-year +35 +153 -118
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 245 139 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.31% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.33% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 146 99 173
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,875 £80,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +18.52% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% - +2.46%

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 68,746 41,496 89,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.03% 92.46% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,319 22,262 63,244
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

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 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 15 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 20 June 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 +8 222 £74,750 -6.56% 71
UK excluding London +17 118 £70,000 +12.00% 58
London -3 97 £85,000 +3.03% 23
Work from Home +52 91 £70,000 -3.45% 38
South West -24 40 £75,000 - 5
North of England -18 32 £70,400 +14.94% 17
South East -15 25 £62,500 -19.35% 23
North West +8 22 £73,500 +22.50% 8
Midlands -17 11 £64,000 -1.54% 7
East of England -7 7 £45,000 - 7
Yorkshire -35 7 £47,500 -24.00% 7
West Midlands -14 6 £67,250 +3.46% 6
East Midlands - 5 £64,000 - 1
Wales -44 3 - -
North East -50 3 £55,000 -6.38% 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 8 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.04%) Apache
3 5 (2.04%) IIS
3 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.04%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.63%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.82%) nginx
7 1 (0.41%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.41%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (50.20%) Azure
2 92 (37.55%) AWS
3 65 (26.53%) GitHub
4 44 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (14.69%) GitHub Actions
6 30 (12.24%) Amazon S3
6 30 (12.24%) Entra ID
7 28 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (11.02%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (10.61%) GCP
10 24 (9.80%) Serverless
11 23 (9.39%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (8.98%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (8.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 20 (8.16%) PaaS
14 17 (6.94%) Azure AKS
14 17 (6.94%) IaaS
15 16 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (6.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (5.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (22.04%) Firewall
2 25 (10.20%) VPN
3 18 (7.35%) Network Security
4 17 (6.94%) Kerberos
5 11 (4.49%) DNS
6 8 (3.27%) WAN
7 7 (2.86%) LAN
7 7 (2.86%) VLAN
8 6 (2.45%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (2.45%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (2.45%) Unified Communications
8 6 (2.45%) WebEx
9 4 (1.63%) DHCP
9 4 (1.63%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.82%) SAN
10 2 (0.82%) Wireless
11 1 (0.41%) BGP
11 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.41%) NAS
11 1 (0.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.08%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.63%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.63%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.22%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.82%) Big Data
7 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.82%) MySQL
8 1 (0.41%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.41%) Power BI
8 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.41%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.41%) Trino
Development Applications
1 38 (15.51%) Git
2 24 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 18 (7.35%) GitLab
4 9 (3.67%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.63%) Subversion
7 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.82%) JIRA
8 2 (0.82%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.41%) git-flow
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (19.18%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.33%) Finance
3 23 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.71%) Retail
6 11 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.08%) Aerospace
7 10 (4.08%) Legal
8 9 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.27%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.45%) Banking
10 6 (2.45%) Law
10 6 (2.45%) Legal Technology
10 6 (2.45%) Marketing
11 5 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Automotive
12 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Electronics
12 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.82%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 66 (26.94%) Senior
2 51 (20.82%) Platform Engineer
3 49 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 46 (18.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 45 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
6 42 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (10.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 20 (8.16%) Architect
8 20 (8.16%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 19 (7.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 18 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (6.53%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (5.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 13 (5.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 13 (5.31%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (4.90%) Lead
13 12 (4.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (4.49%) Administrator
14 11 (4.49%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.53%) LDAP
1 16 (6.53%) Node.js
1 16 (6.53%) OAuth
2 15 (6.12%) OpenID
2 15 (6.12%) SAML
3 14 (5.71%) REST
4 11 (4.49%) ARM Templates
5 9 (3.67%) Loki
6 8 (3.27%) YAML
7 6 (2.45%) RESTful
7 6 (2.45%) XMPP
8 5 (2.04%) .NET
8 5 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.04%) Kafka
8 5 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (1.63%) PySpark
10 3 (1.22%) React
11 2 (0.82%) Flask
11 2 (0.82%) Hugging Face
11 2 (0.82%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.90%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (8.16%) Private Cloud
4 16 (6.53%) Public Cloud
5 14 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 14 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 10 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.67%) CMDB
7 9 (3.67%) Replication
8 8 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.27%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.45%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.45%) FlexPod
9 6 (2.45%) Podcast
9 6 (2.45%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (2.04%) Security Posture
11 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 75 (30.61%) Linux
2 50 (20.41%) Windows
3 22 (8.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.63%) Unix
5 3 (1.22%) Debian
5 3 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.41%) Android
7 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (66.94%) CI/CD
2 154 (62.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 153 (62.45%) DevOps
4 76 (31.02%) Platform Engineering
5 59 (24.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 58 (23.67%) Cloud Security
7 57 (23.27%) Observability
8 55 (22.45%) Agile
8 55 (22.45%) Containerisation
9 53 (21.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (17.55%) Mentoring
12 35 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
13 34 (13.88%) Test Automation
14 32 (13.06%) Configuration Management
15 30 (12.24%) RBAC
15 30 (12.24%) Roadmaps
16 28 (11.43%) AI
16 28 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
16 28 (11.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 127 (51.84%) Python
2 84 (34.29%) PowerShell
3 71 (28.98%) Bash
4 32 (13.06%) Bicep
5 28 (11.43%) SQL
6 17 (6.94%) Go
7 14 (5.71%) Java
8 7 (2.86%) C#
9 3 (1.22%) Elixir
9 3 (1.22%) Erlang
9 3 (1.22%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.22%) PHP
9 3 (1.22%) Ruby
10 2 (0.82%) Groovy
10 2 (0.82%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.41%) ABAP
11 1 (0.41%) C
11 1 (0.41%) C++
11 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 65 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.88%) Degree
3 31 (12.65%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.12%) CISSP
6 13 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 13 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.49%) Azure Certification
8 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.82%) CCIE
10 2 (0.82%) CCNP
11 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.41%) CCNA
11 1 (0.41%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.41%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.08%) NIST
2 7 (2.86%) QA
3 5 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.04%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.63%) GDPR
4 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.82%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.82%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 53 (21.63%) Docker
2 39 (15.92%) Active Directory
3 26 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (6.12%) vSphere
5 11 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (3.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (3.67%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (3.27%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.86%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.41%) Firmware
10 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 173 (70.61%) Terraform
2 92 (37.55%) Kubernetes
3 87 (35.51%) Ansible
4 54 (22.04%) Grafana
5 42 (17.14%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.90%) Puppet
7 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.27%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.86%) Packer
10 7 (2.86%) Progress Chef
11 6 (2.45%) Argo
11 6 (2.45%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (1.63%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.22%) Scalr
14 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.41%) Rancher
14 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 65 (26.53%) Microsoft
2 42 (17.14%) VMware
3 16 (6.53%) Cisco
4 14 (5.71%) Palo Alto
5 8 (3.27%) Citrix
5 8 (3.27%) Google
6 7 (2.86%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.45%) EMC
7 6 (2.45%) F5
7 6 (2.45%) NetApp
7 6 (2.45%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.45%) Splunk
7 6 (2.45%) Tenable
8 4 (1.63%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.63%) Databricks
8 4 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.22%) Dell
9 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.22%) IFS
9 3 (1.22%) Oracle