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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 512 551
Rank change year-on-year +52 +39 -74
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 399 159 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.32% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.36% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 266 110 170
10th Percentile £45,500 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £75,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +7.91% +1.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,750 £110,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year +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 86,432 44,324 60,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.10% 81.90%
Number of salaries quoted 59,358 24,582 33,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%
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 4 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 4 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 +48 358 £70,400 -6.13% 579
UK excluding London +17 226 £65,000 +1.96% 368
London -15 135 £85,000 +1.49% 284
Work from Home -10 98 £70,000 -3.45% 287
North of England -4 90 £57,500 -8.00% 95
South East -11 50 £65,000 -13.33% 109
North West +1 46 £70,200 +8.00% 55
South West -29 45 £75,000 - 47
Yorkshire -19 27 £60,000 -4.00% 27
North East -38 26 £55,000 -16.98% 13
Midlands -36 14 £65,000 +11.59% 28
East of England -24 13 £45,000 -10.00% 18
Wales -65 11 £64,750 +15.11% 15
West Midlands -36 7 £62,000 +3.33% 15
East Midlands -40 7 £65,000 +11.59% 13
Scotland -5 2 - - 50
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 (2.76%) Apache
1 11 (2.76%) OpenStack
2 10 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.26%) nginx
4 8 (2.01%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.75%) Confluence
5 7 (1.75%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.25%) IIS
6 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.00%) SAS
8 3 (0.75%) 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 (47.87%) Azure
2 155 (38.85%) AWS
3 87 (21.80%) GitHub
4 66 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
5 54 (13.53%) Entra ID
6 53 (13.28%) GitHub Actions
7 52 (13.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 49 (12.28%) Amazon S3
9 48 (12.03%) GCP
10 44 (11.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (10.28%) Serverless
12 38 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
13 36 (9.02%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (8.27%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (8.02%) SaaS
16 30 (7.52%) Azure AKS
17 24 (6.02%) PaaS
18 21 (5.26%) IaaS
18 21 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 61 (15.29%) Firewall
2 41 (10.28%) VPN
3 26 (6.52%) DNS
4 21 (5.26%) Kerberos
5 18 (4.51%) Network Security
6 13 (3.26%) TCP/IP
7 12 (3.01%) DHCP
8 10 (2.51%) WAN
9 6 (1.50%) LAN
10 5 (1.25%) VLAN
11 4 (1.00%) NAS
11 4 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (1.00%) Wireless
12 3 (0.75%) BGP
12 3 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.75%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.75%) VSAN
13 2 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
13 2 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
13 2 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
1 23 (5.76%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (2.01%) DynamoDB
4 8 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 7 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 7 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.25%) MySQL
7 5 (1.25%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.00%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.00%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.00%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.00%) TIBCO EBX
9 3 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (0.75%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 54 (13.53%) GitLab
2 46 (11.53%) Jenkins
3 43 (10.78%) Git
4 18 (4.51%) JIRA
5 6 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (1.25%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.75%) Snyk
7 3 (0.75%) Subversion
7 3 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.50%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.50%) Flyway
8 2 (0.50%) JMeter
8 2 (0.50%) Postman
8 2 (0.50%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.25%) JUnit
9 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 77 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 69 (17.29%) Finance
3 40 (10.03%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (9.77%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.26%) Law
7 14 (3.51%) Banking
8 13 (3.26%) Retail
9 12 (3.01%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.00%) Legal
12 4 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.75%) Police
14 2 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.50%) Marketing
15 1 (0.25%) Automotive
15 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 99 (24.81%) Senior
2 97 (24.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 83 (20.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 61 (15.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 56 (14.04%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (13.03%) Platform Engineer
7 36 (9.02%) Architect
7 36 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (7.02%) Lead
9 26 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.52%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.51%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.51%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 20 (5.01%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (4.51%) Administrator
13 18 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (4.01%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.01%) Systems Administrator
15 14 (3.51%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 238 (59.65%) Terraform
2 27 (6.77%) OpenID
3 26 (6.52%) SAML
4 25 (6.27%) ARM Templates
5 24 (6.02%) OAuth
6 18 (4.51%) LDAP
6 18 (4.51%) Node.js
6 18 (4.51%) REST
7 12 (3.01%) RESTful
8 10 (2.51%) .NET
8 10 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (2.51%) Kafka
9 8 (2.01%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.75%) PySpark
11 6 (1.50%) Loki
11 6 (1.50%) Pulumi
12 5 (1.25%) AWS CDK
12 5 (1.25%) Middleware
12 5 (1.25%) OpenTofu
12 5 (1.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 100 (25.06%) Cloud Native
2 45 (11.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 27 (6.77%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (5.51%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.51%) Private Cloud
5 14 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.51%) Security Posture
6 11 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.51%) Enterprise Cloud
7 10 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.26%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.75%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
10 7 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.50%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 123 (30.83%) Linux
2 75 (18.80%) Windows
3 32 (8.02%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (3.26%) Unix
6 9 (2.26%) Debian
6 9 (2.26%) Rocky
7 8 (2.01%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.75%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.25%) Android
11 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.25%) CentOS
11 1 (0.25%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (67.42%) CI/CD
2 264 (66.17%) DevOps
3 236 (59.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 133 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 132 (33.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 118 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
7 102 (25.56%) Agile
8 101 (25.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 96 (24.06%) Cloud Security
10 92 (23.06%) Observability
11 89 (22.31%) Containerisation
12 69 (17.29%) Mentoring
13 60 (15.04%) Migration
14 59 (14.79%) AI
15 55 (13.78%) Technical Leadership
16 53 (13.28%) Deployment Automation
17 52 (13.03%) Disaster Recovery
18 51 (12.78%) Test Automation
19 50 (12.53%) Identity Access Management
20 47 (11.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 196 (49.12%) Python
2 135 (33.83%) Bash
3 131 (32.83%) PowerShell
4 54 (13.53%) SQL
5 34 (8.52%) Bicep
6 23 (5.76%) Go
7 20 (5.01%) Java
8 9 (2.26%) C#
8 9 (2.26%) PHP
9 6 (1.50%) Shell Script
9 6 (1.50%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.25%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.75%) Ruby
12 2 (0.50%) C
12 2 (0.50%) C++
12 2 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.50%) Fortran
12 2 (0.50%) Rust
13 1 (0.25%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 131 (32.83%) Security Cleared
2 73 (18.30%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.03%) DV Cleared
4 27 (6.77%) Degree
5 22 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 18 (4.51%) AWS Certification
8 17 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (4.01%) CISSP
10 6 (1.50%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.00%) 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 16 (4.01%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.26%) QA
3 12 (3.01%) NIST
4 10 (2.51%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.75%) 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
1 100 (25.06%) Docker
2 56 (14.04%) Active Directory
3 31 (7.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.26%) vSphere
5 15 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (2.51%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.01%) Hyper-V
9 5 (1.25%) BitLocker
10 4 (1.00%) 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%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.25%) GPFS
12 1 (0.25%) NFS
12 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 149 (37.34%) Kubernetes
2 115 (28.82%) Ansible
3 55 (13.78%) Grafana
4 48 (12.03%) Prometheus
5 22 (5.51%) Puppet
6 18 (4.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (4.01%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.51%) Argo
8 10 (2.51%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.26%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.50%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.50%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.25%) Istio
12 4 (1.00%) Packer
13 3 (0.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.75%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.75%) Podman
13 3 (0.75%) PowerCLI
14 2 (0.50%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 112 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 50 (12.53%) VMware
3 20 (5.01%) Google
4 15 (3.76%) Cisco
5 13 (3.26%) Red Hat
6 10 (2.51%) Databricks
7 9 (2.26%) Fortinet
8 7 (1.75%) Okta
8 7 (1.75%) Oracle
9 6 (1.50%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.50%) IBM
9 6 (1.50%) NetApp
10 5 (1.25%) Citrix
10 5 (1.25%) ForgeRock
10 5 (1.25%) Splunk
11 4 (1.00%) Informatica
11 4 (1.00%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.00%) Ping Identity
11 4 (1.00%) TIBCO