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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 515 530 704
Rank change year-on-year +15 +174 -72
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 221 132 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.30% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.32% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 123 93 146
10th Percentile £53,250 £51,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -
75th Percentile £85,625 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,400 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.64% - -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 67,989 40,970 82,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.70% 93.29% 84.80%
Number of salaries quoted 43,964 22,120 59,644
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,887 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.18% +3.77% -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 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 16 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 21 May 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 +11 195 £75,000 -6.25% 92
UK excluding London -5 105 £70,400 +12.64% 67
London -6 89 £85,000 +3.03% 36
Work from Home +64 79 £70,000 -8.20% 56
South West -27 32 £75,000 - 9
North of England -33 27 £71,450 +16.65% 15
South East -15 24 £62,500 -16.67% 22
North West +9 20 £74,500 +24.17% 9
Midlands -16 12 £72,500 -6.45% 7
West Midlands -34 7 £72,500 -6.45% 4
Yorkshire -39 6 £47,500 -24.00% 4
East of England -9 5 £85,000 +44.68% 5
East Midlands - 5 £64,000 - 3
Wales -30 3 - - 1
Scotland -2 2 - - 8
North East -41 1 £55,000 -4.35% 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 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.81%) IIS
3 4 (1.81%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.36%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.90%) Apache
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (2.71%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 111 (50.23%) Azure
2 91 (41.18%) AWS
3 55 (24.89%) GitHub
4 34 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (14.03%) Amazon EKS
6 28 (12.67%) Entra ID
7 27 (12.22%) GCP
8 24 (10.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (10.86%) Serverless
9 23 (10.41%) Amazon S3
10 21 (9.50%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (9.50%) AWS Lambda
11 20 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (8.14%) PaaS
12 18 (8.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (7.24%) Amazon ECS
14 16 (7.24%) Azure AKS
15 15 (6.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (23.08%) Firewall
2 25 (11.31%) VPN
3 17 (7.69%) Network Security
4 15 (6.79%) Kerberos
5 10 (4.52%) WAN
6 9 (4.07%) DNS
6 9 (4.07%) VLAN
7 7 (3.17%) LAN
8 6 (2.71%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (2.71%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (2.71%) Unified Communications
8 6 (2.71%) WebEx
9 4 (1.81%) DHCP
10 3 (1.36%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.90%) SAN
11 2 (0.90%) Wireless
12 1 (0.45%) BGP
12 1 (0.45%) OSPF
12 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (3.62%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.36%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.90%) Big Data
5 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
5 2 (0.90%) MySQL
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (15.84%) Git
2 27 (12.22%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.79%) GitLab
4 9 (4.07%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (2.26%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.36%) Subversion
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.45%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.45%) git-flow
7 1 (0.45%) JIRA
7 1 (0.45%) Maven
7 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 54 (24.43%) Social Skills
2 41 (18.55%) Finance
3 25 (11.31%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.24%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.33%) Aerospace
5 14 (6.33%) Retail
6 10 (4.52%) Legal
7 9 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.62%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.17%) Banking
10 6 (2.71%) Law
10 6 (2.71%) Marketing
11 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.36%) Automotive
12 3 (1.36%) Electronics
12 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.90%) Advertising
13 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 60 (27.15%) Senior
2 47 (21.27%) Platform Engineer
3 38 (17.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 37 (16.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 35 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (14.93%) Azure Engineer
7 24 (10.86%) Architect
8 21 (9.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 16 (7.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 15 (6.79%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
11 13 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 12 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
13 11 (4.98%) Lead
13 11 (4.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (4.52%) Data Engineer
14 10 (4.52%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 8 (3.62%) DevOps Administrator
15 8 (3.62%) Senior Data Engineer
15 8 (3.62%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.79%) LDAP
1 15 (6.79%) OAuth
2 14 (6.33%) OpenID
2 14 (6.33%) REST
2 14 (6.33%) SAML
3 13 (5.88%) Node.js
4 10 (4.52%) Loki
5 7 (3.17%) YAML
6 6 (2.71%) ARM Templates
6 6 (2.71%) RESTful
6 6 (2.71%) XMPP
7 5 (2.26%) Kafka
7 5 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.36%) .NET
8 3 (1.36%) React
9 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.90%) PySpark
9 2 (0.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.91%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (8.60%) Private Cloud
4 16 (7.24%) Data Centre
4 16 (7.24%) Public Cloud
5 14 (6.33%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.07%) CMDB
6 9 (4.07%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.07%) Replication
7 8 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.62%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.71%) FlexPod
8 6 (2.71%) Podcast
8 6 (2.71%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (2.26%) PKI
10 4 (1.81%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.81%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 78 (35.29%) Linux
2 49 (22.17%) Windows
3 20 (9.05%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.26%) Unix
5 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.90%) SUSE
6 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.45%) Android
7 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.45%) VMS
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (65.61%) CI/CD
2 135 (61.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 126 (57.01%) DevOps
4 67 (30.32%) Platform Engineering
5 57 (25.79%) Observability
6 56 (25.34%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (25.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 52 (23.53%) Cloud Security
8 51 (23.08%) Containerisation
9 45 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (18.55%) Agile
11 39 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
12 38 (17.19%) Mentoring
13 33 (14.93%) Configuration Management
14 30 (13.57%) Roadmaps
15 27 (12.22%) AI
15 27 (12.22%) Migration
16 26 (11.76%) DevSecOps
16 26 (11.76%) RBAC
16 26 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (51.58%) Python
2 73 (33.03%) PowerShell
3 63 (28.51%) Bash
4 26 (11.76%) Bicep
5 25 (11.31%) SQL
6 17 (7.69%) Go
7 15 (6.79%) Java
8 6 (2.71%) C#
9 4 (1.81%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.36%) Elixir
10 3 (1.36%) Erlang
11 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) Perl
12 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (22.17%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.65%) Degree
3 19 (8.60%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 16 (7.24%) CISSP
6 15 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (6.33%) DV Cleared
8 12 (5.43%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.90%) CCIE
11 2 (0.90%) CCNP
11 2 (0.90%) CISM
11 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.45%) CCNA
12 1 (0.45%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.98%) NIST
2 6 (2.71%) QA
3 4 (1.81%) GDPR
3 4 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.81%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.90%) GxP
4 2 (0.90%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 49 (22.17%) Docker
2 37 (16.74%) Active Directory
3 27 (12.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (8.60%) vSphere
5 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 9 (4.07%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (3.62%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.62%) VMware NSX
7 7 (3.17%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.81%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.45%) Firmware
10 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 159 (71.95%) Terraform
2 89 (40.27%) Kubernetes
3 84 (38.01%) Ansible
4 52 (23.53%) Grafana
5 39 (17.65%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.88%) Puppet
7 11 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.62%) Proxmox
10 7 (3.17%) Packer
11 6 (2.71%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (2.71%) Progress Chef
12 5 (2.26%) Argo
13 4 (1.81%) Rancher
13 4 (1.81%) ZABBIX
14 3 (1.36%) Scalr
15 2 (0.90%) PowerCLI
15 2 (0.90%) yum
16 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
16 1 (0.45%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 62 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 45 (20.36%) VMware
3 16 (7.24%) Cisco
4 14 (6.33%) Palo Alto
5 8 (3.62%) Citrix
5 8 (3.62%) Splunk
6 7 (3.17%) Fortinet
6 7 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.71%) EMC
7 6 (2.71%) F5
7 6 (2.71%) Google
7 6 (2.71%) NetApp
7 6 (2.71%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.71%) Tenable
8 4 (1.81%) Cribl.io
8 4 (1.81%) Oracle
8 4 (1.81%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.36%) Databricks
9 3 (1.36%) Dell
9 3 (1.36%) IFS