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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 521 524 658
Rank change year-on-year +3 +134 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 162 133 166
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.22% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.33% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 113 90 131
10th Percentile £46,523 £52,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,563 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,500 £108,875 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £69,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.08% +11.20% -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 57,440 40,902 73,209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.10% 93.61% 87.44%
Number of salaries quoted 34,676 22,163 55,834
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%
75th Percentile £76,299 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -1 144 £75,000 - 101
UK excluding London -11 76 £68,750 -1.08% 66
London +30 74 £80,000 -3.03% 36
Work from Home +36 64 £74,750 -2.29% 58
North of England -32 20 £65,000 +14.04% 26
South West -9 18 £62,500 -16.67% 18
South East -36 17 £62,500 -13.79% 16
North West -7 10 £76,250 +38.64% 13
Yorkshire -44 9 £47,500 -15.56% 7
Midlands - 9 £72,500 - 3
Scotland -8 7 - - 1
East of England +4 5 £85,000 +17.24% 2
East Midlands - 5 £70,000 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £88,750 - 2
North East -20 1 £85,000 +47.83% 6

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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.70%) IIS
3 5 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.09%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.47%) Confluence
5 3 (1.85%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (1.23%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.62%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Weka
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.62%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 83 (51.23%) Azure
2 79 (48.77%) AWS
3 35 (21.60%) GitHub
4 25 (15.43%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (14.20%) Amazon EKS
5 23 (14.20%) GCP
6 22 (13.58%) GitHub Actions
7 19 (11.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 18 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (10.49%) PaaS
10 16 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
10 16 (9.88%) OpenShift
11 14 (8.64%) Serverless
12 13 (8.02%) IaaS
13 12 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (7.41%) SaaS
14 11 (6.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (6.17%) Azure AKS
16 9 (5.56%) Entra ID
17 8 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 29 (17.90%) Firewall
2 22 (13.58%) VPN
3 11 (6.79%) DNS
4 10 (6.17%) Network Security
5 8 (4.94%) Kerberos
5 8 (4.94%) VLAN
6 7 (4.32%) WAN
7 5 (3.09%) LAN
8 4 (2.47%) DHCP
9 3 (1.85%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (1.85%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (1.85%) Unified Communications
9 3 (1.85%) WebEx
9 3 (1.85%) Wireless
10 2 (1.23%) SAN
10 2 (1.23%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.62%) Broadband
11 1 (0.62%) NGFW
11 1 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (3.09%) Big Data
5 4 (2.47%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.47%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.23%) MySQL
7 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.62%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.62%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.62%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.62%) Power BI
8 1 (0.62%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (17.90%) Jenkins
2 20 (12.35%) GitLab
3 16 (9.88%) Git
4 10 (6.17%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.32%) JIRA
6 6 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.23%) Subversion
9 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.62%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.62%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.62%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.37%) Finance
3 20 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.17%) Retail
5 9 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.70%) Banking
7 6 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.85%) Law
8 3 (1.85%) Legal
8 3 (1.85%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Advertising
9 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.62%) Automotive
10 1 (0.62%) Electronics
10 1 (0.62%) German Language
10 1 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (24.69%) Platform Engineer
2 35 (21.60%) Senior
3 31 (19.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (11.73%) Azure Engineer
7 15 (9.26%) Architect
8 13 (8.02%) AWS Engineer
9 11 (6.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (4.94%) Lead
12 7 (4.32%) Administrator
12 7 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.32%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.32%) DevOps Administrator
12 7 (4.32%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 7 (4.32%) Systems Administrator
13 6 (3.70%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.17%) OAuth
2 9 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 9 (5.56%) LDAP
2 9 (5.56%) REST
3 8 (4.94%) Kafka
3 8 (4.94%) RESTful
4 7 (4.32%) Loki
5 6 (3.70%) Node.js
6 5 (3.09%) Middleware
6 5 (3.09%) OpenID
6 5 (3.09%) SAML
7 4 (2.47%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.47%) JDBC
7 4 (2.47%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.47%) ODBC
7 4 (2.47%) React
8 3 (1.85%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.85%) NestJS
8 3 (1.85%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.85%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (9.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (9.26%) Private Cloud
4 10 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.94%) Onboarding
6 7 (4.32%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.09%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.47%) CMDB
8 4 (2.47%) PKI
8 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.85%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.85%) FlexPod
9 3 (1.85%) Replication
9 3 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.23%) Blockchain
10 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.23%) Podcast
10 2 (1.23%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 72 (44.44%) Linux
2 31 (19.14%) Windows
3 15 (9.26%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (3.09%) Unix
5 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.85%) SUSE
7 2 (1.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.62%) CentOS
8 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (69.75%) CI/CD
2 103 (63.58%) DevOps
3 97 (59.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (29.01%) Platform Engineering
5 46 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (27.16%) Containerisation
7 43 (26.54%) Cloud Security
8 41 (25.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (24.69%) Agile
10 36 (22.22%) Configuration Management
11 33 (20.37%) Observability
12 31 (19.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (15.43%) AI
15 19 (11.73%) Analytics
15 19 (11.73%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (11.73%) DevSecOps
16 18 (11.11%) High Availability
16 18 (11.11%) Task Automation
17 17 (10.49%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 86 (53.09%) Python
2 56 (34.57%) PowerShell
3 51 (31.48%) Bash
4 20 (12.35%) Bicep
5 15 (9.26%) Go
5 15 (9.26%) Java
5 15 (9.26%) SQL
6 6 (3.70%) C#
6 6 (3.70%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.85%) Elixir
8 3 (1.85%) Erlang
9 2 (1.23%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.62%) C
10 1 (0.62%) C++
10 1 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (18.52%) Degree
2 29 (17.90%) Security Cleared
3 14 (8.64%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (8.02%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.79%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.32%) CISSP
8 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.23%) CCIE
10 2 (1.23%) CCNA
10 2 (1.23%) CCNP
10 2 (1.23%) CISM
10 2 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.62%) GCIH
11 1 (0.62%) GIAC
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.94%) NIST
1 8 (4.94%) QA
2 4 (2.47%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.47%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.85%) GDPR
3 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.23%) GxP
5 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.62%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.62%) HIPAA
System Software
1 46 (28.40%) Docker
2 22 (13.58%) Active Directory
3 18 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (7.41%) vSphere
5 7 (4.32%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.85%) Hyper-V
10 2 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 119 (73.46%) Terraform
2 89 (54.94%) Kubernetes
3 74 (45.68%) Ansible
4 42 (25.93%) Grafana
5 35 (21.60%) Prometheus
6 15 (9.26%) Puppet
7 9 (5.56%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.32%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.70%) Argo
10 5 (3.09%) Rancher
11 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (2.47%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.85%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (1.23%) PowerCLI
13 2 (1.23%) yum
14 1 (0.62%) Control-M
14 1 (0.62%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (27.16%) Microsoft
2 38 (23.46%) VMware
3 12 (7.41%) Cisco
4 10 (6.17%) Oracle
5 9 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 9 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 7 (4.32%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.32%) Splunk
7 6 (3.70%) Fortinet
7 6 (3.70%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.09%) Atlassian
8 5 (3.09%) Dell
9 4 (2.47%) Cribl.io
9 4 (2.47%) Databricks
9 4 (2.47%) Foundry
9 4 (2.47%) IFS
10 3 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.85%) NetApp
10 3 (1.85%) Palantir
11 2 (1.23%) Juniper