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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 520 672
Rank change year-on-year +22 +152 -101
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 254 144 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.32% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 150 103 180
10th Percentile £47,250 £51,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,875 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% +14.81% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £107,500 £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 69,702 41,872 87,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 92.19% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 48,070 22,602 61,776
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £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 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,681 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -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 26 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 26 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 +32 231 £74,750 -5.08% 100
UK excluding London +7 123 £70,000 +12.00% 78
London -5 100 £85,000 +3.03% 34
Work from Home +49 91 £70,000 -3.45% 38
South West -24 40 £75,000 - 16
North of England -27 34 £70,400 +17.33% 21
South East -27 26 £62,500 -16.67% 32
North West +7 22 £73,500 +22.50% 11
Midlands -10 12 £68,250 +30.00% 5
East of England -10 8 £45,000 - 4
Yorkshire -33 8 £47,500 -24.00% 7
West Midlands -14 7 £72,500 +38.10% 4
East Midlands - 5 £64,000 - 1
North East -44 4 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Wales -47 3 - - 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 9 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.36%) Apache
4 5 (1.97%) IIS
4 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.97%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.57%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.57%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.79%) nginx
6 2 (0.79%) SAS
7 1 (0.39%) Confluence
7 1 (0.39%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.39%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 127 (50.00%) Azure
2 95 (37.40%) AWS
3 67 (26.38%) GitHub
4 46 (18.11%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (14.57%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (12.60%) Entra ID
7 31 (12.20%) Amazon S3
8 29 (11.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (11.42%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (10.24%) GCP
10 24 (9.45%) Serverless
11 23 (9.06%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (9.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (7.87%) PaaS
13 18 (7.09%) Azure AKS
14 17 (6.69%) IaaS
15 16 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
16 15 (5.91%) SaaS
16 15 (5.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 55 (21.65%) Firewall
2 25 (9.84%) VPN
3 19 (7.48%) Kerberos
3 19 (7.48%) Network Security
4 11 (4.33%) DNS
5 8 (3.15%) WAN
6 7 (2.76%) LAN
6 7 (2.76%) VLAN
7 6 (2.36%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (2.36%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (2.36%) Unified Communications
7 6 (2.36%) WebEx
8 4 (1.57%) DHCP
8 4 (1.57%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.79%) NAS
9 2 (0.79%) SAN
9 2 (0.79%) Wireless
10 1 (0.39%) BGP
10 1 (0.39%) OSPF
10 1 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (4.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (1.97%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.18%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.79%) Big Data
8 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.79%) MySQL
9 1 (0.39%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.39%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.39%) Power BI
9 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.39%) Trino
Development Applications
1 39 (15.35%) Git
2 26 (10.24%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.87%) GitLab
4 9 (3.54%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (1.97%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.57%) JIRA
6 4 (1.57%) Subversion
7 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.39%) git-flow
9 1 (0.39%) Maven
General
1 49 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.54%) Finance
3 24 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.51%) Retail
6 12 (4.72%) Aerospace
6 12 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.94%) Legal
8 9 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.36%) Banking
10 6 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.36%) Law
10 6 (2.36%) Legal Technology
10 6 (2.36%) Marketing
11 3 (1.18%) Automotive
11 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Electronics
11 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.79%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 66 (25.98%) Senior
2 52 (20.47%) Platform Engineer
3 51 (20.08%) Azure Engineer
4 49 (19.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 47 (18.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 44 (17.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (10.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 22 (8.66%) Architect
9 20 (7.87%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 20 (7.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 18 (7.09%) AWS Engineer
11 17 (6.69%) Automation Engineer
12 14 (5.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 13 (5.12%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (5.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 13 (5.12%) Senior DevOps
14 12 (4.72%) Lead
14 12 (4.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (4.33%) Administrator
15 11 (4.33%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.69%) LDAP
1 17 (6.69%) OAuth
2 16 (6.30%) Node.js
2 16 (6.30%) OpenID
2 16 (6.30%) SAML
3 15 (5.91%) REST
4 11 (4.33%) ARM Templates
5 9 (3.54%) Loki
6 8 (3.15%) YAML
7 6 (2.36%) .NET
7 6 (2.36%) RESTful
7 6 (2.36%) XMPP
8 5 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (1.97%) Kafka
8 5 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (1.97%) PySpark
9 3 (1.18%) React
10 2 (0.79%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (0.79%) Flask
10 2 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 64 (25.20%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 20 (7.87%) Private Cloud
4 16 (6.30%) Public Cloud
5 15 (5.91%) Onboarding
6 14 (5.51%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
8 9 (3.54%) CMDB
8 9 (3.54%) Replication
9 8 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (3.15%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (2.36%) FlexPod
11 6 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (2.36%) Podcast
11 6 (2.36%) Security Posture
11 6 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.97%) Enterprise Cloud
13 4 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 78 (30.71%) Linux
2 51 (20.08%) Windows
3 23 (9.06%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.57%) Unix
5 3 (1.18%) Debian
5 3 (1.18%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.39%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (67.32%) CI/CD
2 160 (62.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 158 (62.20%) DevOps
4 80 (31.50%) Platform Engineering
5 62 (24.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 61 (24.02%) Agile
7 60 (23.62%) Cloud Security
8 58 (22.83%) Observability
9 56 (22.05%) Containerisation
10 55 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (17.72%) Mentoring
13 37 (14.57%) Disaster Recovery
14 35 (13.78%) Configuration Management
14 35 (13.78%) Test Automation
15 33 (12.99%) Roadmaps
16 31 (12.20%) Identity Access Management
16 31 (12.20%) Migration
16 31 (12.20%) RBAC
17 28 (11.02%) AI
Programming Languages
1 129 (50.79%) Python
2 87 (34.25%) PowerShell
3 72 (28.35%) Bash
4 33 (12.99%) Bicep
5 29 (11.42%) SQL
6 17 (6.69%) Go
7 15 (5.91%) Java
8 7 (2.76%) C#
9 3 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.18%) PHP
9 3 (1.18%) Ruby
10 2 (0.79%) Elixir
10 2 (0.79%) Erlang
10 2 (0.79%) Groovy
10 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.39%) ABAP
11 1 (0.39%) C++
11 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (27.17%) Security Cleared
2 34 (13.39%) Degree
2 34 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.69%) DV Cleared
4 16 (6.30%) CISSP
5 14 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 13 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.33%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.79%) CCIE
10 2 (0.79%) CCNP
11 1 (0.39%) CCNA
11 1 (0.39%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.39%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.94%) NIST
2 7 (2.76%) QA
3 6 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.97%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.57%) GDPR
6 3 (1.18%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) GxP
System Software
1 53 (20.87%) Docker
2 42 (16.54%) Active Directory
3 26 (10.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (5.91%) vSphere
5 11 (4.33%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 9 (3.54%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (3.15%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.76%) BitLocker
9 4 (1.57%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.39%) Firmware
10 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 178 (70.08%) Terraform
2 95 (37.40%) Kubernetes
3 91 (35.83%) Ansible
4 53 (20.87%) Grafana
5 41 (16.14%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.72%) Puppet
7 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (3.94%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (3.15%) Proxmox
10 7 (2.76%) Packer
10 7 (2.76%) Progress Chef
11 6 (2.36%) Argo
11 6 (2.36%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (1.57%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.18%) Scalr
14 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.39%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
14 1 (0.39%) Rancher
14 1 (0.39%) yum
Vendors
1 67 (26.38%) Microsoft
2 42 (16.54%) VMware
3 16 (6.30%) Cisco
4 14 (5.51%) Palo Alto
5 8 (3.15%) Citrix
5 8 (3.15%) Google
6 7 (2.76%) Fortinet
7 6 (2.36%) EMC
7 6 (2.36%) F5
7 6 (2.36%) NetApp
7 6 (2.36%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.36%) Splunk
7 6 (2.36%) Tenable
8 5 (1.97%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.57%) Cribl.io
9 4 (1.57%) Databricks
10 3 (1.18%) Dell
10 3 (1.18%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.18%) IFS
10 3 (1.18%) SolarWinds