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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 474 527 658
Rank change year-on-year +53 +131 -97
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 289 148 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.33% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 185 107 180
10th Percentile £48,500 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +14.81% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,563
90th Percentile £92,500 £103,000 £95,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +3.31%

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 72,817 44,332 83,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 90.20% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50,259 24,803 58,175
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +38 259 £72,500 -6.45% 143
UK excluding London +24 150 £65,000 +4.00% 114
Work from Home +37 106 £65,000 -1.89% 84
London -11 105 £85,000 +3.03% 50
South East +2 41 £65,000 -13.33% 35
South West -28 40 £75,000 - 10
North of England -20 39 £70,400 +17.33% 41
North West -4 23 £74,500 +24.17% 26
Midlands -21 13 £64,000 +18.52% 12
Yorkshire -24 11 £62,500 - 12
East of England -13 9 £45,000 - 5
West Midlands -23 8 £67,250 +12.08% 8
Wales -48 8 £55,000 -4.35% 4
East Midlands -20 5 £64,000 +18.52% 4
North East -56 5 £55,000 -8.33% 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 10 (3.46%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.77%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.77%) IIS
3 7 (2.42%) Apache
4 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.08%) OpenStack
4 6 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.73%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.73%) nginx
6 4 (1.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Confluence
7 1 (0.35%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.35%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 161 (55.71%) Azure
2 107 (37.02%) AWS
3 73 (25.26%) GitHub
4 57 (19.72%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (14.88%) GitHub Actions
6 40 (13.84%) Entra ID
7 36 (12.46%) GCP
8 31 (10.73%) Amazon S3
9 27 (9.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (9.34%) Amazon EKS
10 25 (8.65%) PaaS
11 24 (8.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (8.30%) Serverless
12 23 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (7.27%) Azure AKS
14 20 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (6.92%) IaaS
14 20 (6.92%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (21.45%) Firewall
2 28 (9.69%) VPN
3 23 (7.96%) Kerberos
4 18 (6.23%) Network Security
5 12 (4.15%) DNS
6 11 (3.81%) WAN
7 9 (3.11%) LAN
8 7 (2.42%) VLAN
9 6 (2.08%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.08%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.08%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.08%) WebEx
10 4 (1.38%) DHCP
10 4 (1.38%) NAS
10 4 (1.38%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.38%) Wireless
11 2 (0.69%) BGP
11 2 (0.69%) SAN
12 1 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (1.38%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.38%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.04%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.04%) MySQL
6 3 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.04%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.69%) Ataccama
7 2 (0.69%) Big Data
7 2 (0.69%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.69%) IBM InfoSphere
7 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.69%) TIBCO EBX
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 39 (13.49%) Git
2 30 (10.38%) Jenkins
3 26 (9.00%) GitLab
4 9 (3.11%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (2.77%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.08%) JIRA
7 3 (1.04%) Subversion
8 2 (0.69%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.69%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.69%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.35%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.35%) git-flow
9 1 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 50 (17.30%) Social Skills
2 49 (16.96%) Finance
3 28 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.84%) Retail
7 10 (3.46%) Legal
8 9 (3.11%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.77%) Law
9 8 (2.77%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.08%) Banking
10 6 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.08%) Legal Technology
10 6 (2.08%) Marketing
11 3 (1.04%) Automotive
11 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.04%) Electronics
11 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 73 (25.26%) Senior
2 59 (20.42%) Azure Engineer
3 54 (18.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 49 (16.96%) Cloud Engineer
5 48 (16.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 47 (16.26%) Platform Engineer
7 29 (10.03%) Architect
8 24 (8.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 21 (7.27%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 20 (6.92%) Automation Engineer
10 20 (6.92%) Lead
11 19 (6.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (6.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 15 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
14 14 (4.84%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 14 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
15 13 (4.50%) Administrator
15 13 (4.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (4.15%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.61%) OAuth
2 21 (7.27%) OpenID
2 21 (7.27%) SAML
3 20 (6.92%) ARM Templates
4 19 (6.57%) LDAP
5 16 (5.54%) REST
6 15 (5.19%) Node.js
7 9 (3.11%) .NET
7 9 (3.11%) Loki
8 8 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.77%) RESTful
8 8 (2.77%) YAML
9 7 (2.42%) React
10 6 (2.08%) PySpark
10 6 (2.08%) XMPP
11 5 (1.73%) Kafka
11 5 (1.73%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (1.38%) OAuth2
13 3 (1.04%) AngularJS
13 3 (1.04%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 80 (27.68%) Cloud Native
2 29 (10.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.27%) Private Cloud
4 16 (5.54%) Public Cloud
5 15 (5.19%) Onboarding
6 13 (4.50%) Data Centre
7 11 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.81%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.46%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.11%) Replication
10 8 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.77%) CMDB
11 6 (2.08%) FlexPod
11 6 (2.08%) Podcast
11 6 (2.08%) Security Posture
11 6 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.73%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 90 (31.14%) Linux
2 60 (20.76%) Windows
3 28 (9.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.42%) Debian
4 7 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.73%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.38%) Unix
7 3 (1.04%) Rocky
8 1 (0.35%) Android
8 1 (0.35%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (69.20%) CI/CD
2 178 (61.59%) DevOps
3 176 (60.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (30.45%) Platform Engineering
5 73 (25.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 70 (24.22%) Containerisation
6 70 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (22.84%) Observability
9 65 (22.49%) Agile
10 64 (22.15%) Cloud Security
11 56 (19.38%) Mentoring
12 42 (14.53%) Identity Access Management
13 40 (13.84%) Roadmaps
14 39 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
15 38 (13.15%) Migration
15 38 (13.15%) Test Automation
16 36 (12.46%) AI
16 36 (12.46%) Configuration Management
16 36 (12.46%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 142 (49.13%) Python
2 101 (34.95%) PowerShell
3 76 (26.30%) Bash
4 41 (14.19%) Bicep
5 34 (11.76%) SQL
6 20 (6.92%) Go
7 11 (3.81%) Java
8 8 (2.77%) C#
9 6 (2.08%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.08%) PHP
10 3 (1.04%) Ruby
11 2 (0.69%) Groovy
11 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.35%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 75 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.80%) SC Cleared
3 33 (11.42%) Degree
4 18 (6.23%) CISSP
4 18 (6.23%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.84%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.69%) CCIE
10 2 (0.69%) CCNP
10 2 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.69%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.35%) CCNA
11 1 (0.35%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.50%) NIST
2 10 (3.46%) QA
3 9 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.77%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.38%) GDPR
7 3 (1.04%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.69%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.69%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) GxP
System Software
1 68 (23.53%) Docker
2 50 (17.30%) Active Directory
3 27 (9.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (5.54%) vSphere
5 13 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 8 (2.77%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (2.42%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.08%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.73%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.69%) Xen
11 1 (0.35%) Firmware
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 194 (67.13%) Terraform
2 115 (39.79%) Kubernetes
3 96 (33.22%) Ansible
4 55 (19.03%) Grafana
5 43 (14.88%) Prometheus
6 13 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (4.15%) Puppet
7 12 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.77%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.42%) Packer
10 6 (2.08%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (2.08%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.73%) Argo
11 5 (1.73%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.04%) Scalr
13 2 (0.69%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.69%) Istio
13 2 (0.69%) Rancher
14 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 84 (29.07%) Microsoft
2 41 (14.19%) VMware
3 18 (6.23%) Cisco
4 14 (4.84%) Palo Alto
5 11 (3.81%) Google
6 8 (2.77%) Citrix
6 8 (2.77%) NetApp
7 7 (2.42%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.42%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.08%) EMC
8 6 (2.08%) F5
8 6 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.08%) Splunk
8 6 (2.08%) Tenable
9 5 (1.73%) Databricks
10 4 (1.38%) Okta
11 3 (1.04%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.04%) ForgeRock
11 3 (1.04%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.04%) SolarWinds