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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 516 524
Rank change year-on-year +75 +8 -48
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 413 152 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.31% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.35% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 279 106 167
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% +5.36% +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £84,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
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 10 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 10 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 +73 372 £72,500 -3.33% 518
UK excluding London +26 232 £65,000 - 257
London +14 142 £85,000 +1.49% 286
Work from Home -15 102 £70,000 -1.75% 172
North of England +5 96 £57,500 -9.80% 72
North West +4 52 £67,500 - 41
South East -19 49 £65,000 -13.33% 82
South West -33 45 £75,000 - 37
Yorkshire -5 27 £60,000 +11.63% 22
North East -49 26 £55,000 -16.98% 9
Midlands -31 15 £65,000 +20.37% 14
East of England -25 14 £45,000 -10.00% 16
Wales -71 10 £64,750 +15.11% 5
West Midlands -41 8 £62,000 +18.10% 8
East Midlands -30 7 £65,000 +11.59% 6
Scotland +4 2 - - 28
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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 12 (2.91%) Apache
2 11 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.66%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.66%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.18%) nginx
3 9 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 8 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.69%) Confluence
5 7 (1.69%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.21%) IIS
7 4 (0.97%) SAS
8 3 (0.73%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.48%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.24%) JBoss
10 1 (0.24%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.24%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 194 (46.97%) Azure
2 156 (37.77%) AWS
3 88 (21.31%) GitHub
4 67 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (14.53%) Entra ID
6 55 (13.32%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (12.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (11.62%) Amazon S3
9 47 (11.38%) GCP
10 44 (10.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (10.41%) Serverless
12 38 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (7.99%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (7.75%) SaaS
16 31 (7.51%) Azure AKS
17 25 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
18 23 (5.57%) PaaS
19 21 (5.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.74%) Firewall
2 42 (10.17%) VPN
3 28 (6.78%) DNS
4 24 (5.81%) Kerberos
5 20 (4.84%) Network Security
6 13 (3.15%) DHCP
6 13 (3.15%) TCP/IP
7 11 (2.66%) WAN
8 8 (1.94%) VLAN
9 7 (1.69%) LAN
10 5 (1.21%) NAS
10 5 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.97%) Wireless
12 3 (0.73%) BGP
12 3 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.73%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.73%) VSAN
12 3 (0.73%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.81%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (3.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.94%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.94%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.69%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.21%) MySQL
8 5 (1.21%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.97%) Ataccama
9 4 (0.97%) IBM InfoSphere
9 4 (0.97%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.97%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.97%) TIBCO EBX
10 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 3 (0.73%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 54 (13.08%) GitLab
2 44 (10.65%) Jenkins
3 43 (10.41%) Git
4 17 (4.12%) JIRA
5 5 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.21%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.73%) Snyk
6 3 (0.73%) Subversion
6 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.48%) Flyway
7 2 (0.48%) JMeter
7 2 (0.48%) Postman
7 2 (0.48%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 78 (18.89%) Social Skills
2 68 (16.46%) Finance
3 40 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (9.69%) Public Sector
4 23 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (4.60%) Law
6 15 (3.63%) Banking
7 14 (3.39%) Retail
8 12 (2.91%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.97%) Legal
11 4 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.97%) Police
12 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.73%) Marketing
13 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.24%) Automotive
14 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 97 (23.49%) DevOps Engineer
1 97 (23.49%) Senior
2 91 (22.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 60 (14.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (13.32%) Azure Engineer
5 53 (12.83%) Platform Engineer
6 40 (9.69%) Architect
7 36 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (6.54%) Lead
9 26 (6.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (6.30%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 23 (5.57%) Automation Engineer
11 22 (5.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 22 (5.33%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (5.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 18 (4.36%) Administrator
14 17 (4.12%) AWS DevOps
15 16 (3.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 16 (3.87%) Systems Administrator
16 14 (3.39%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (59.32%) Terraform
2 31 (7.51%) SAML
3 30 (7.26%) OpenID
4 27 (6.54%) OAuth
5 24 (5.81%) ARM Templates
6 21 (5.08%) LDAP
7 19 (4.60%) REST
8 17 (4.12%) Node.js
9 14 (3.39%) RESTful
10 11 (2.66%) Kafka
11 10 (2.42%) .NET
11 10 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (1.94%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.69%) PySpark
14 6 (1.45%) Middleware
14 6 (1.45%) Pulumi
15 5 (1.21%) AWS CDK
15 5 (1.21%) Loki
15 5 (1.21%) React
16 4 (0.97%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 102 (24.70%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (6.05%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (5.57%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.33%) Private Cloud
6 16 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (3.87%) Security Posture
7 12 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 10 (2.42%) Data Centre
9 10 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.18%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.18%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (1.94%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.69%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.45%) Hedge funds
13 6 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 128 (30.99%) Linux
2 82 (19.85%) Windows
3 35 (8.47%) Windows Server
4 16 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.91%) Unix
6 9 (2.18%) Debian
6 9 (2.18%) Rocky
6 9 (2.18%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.69%) Windows 10
8 6 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.48%) CentOS
10 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.24%) Android
11 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.24%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 268 (64.89%) CI/CD
2 263 (63.68%) DevOps
3 241 (58.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 140 (33.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 139 (33.66%) Platform Engineering
6 116 (28.09%) Problem-Solving
7 104 (25.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 103 (24.94%) Agile
9 95 (23.00%) Cloud Security
10 90 (21.79%) Observability
11 88 (21.31%) Containerisation
12 68 (16.46%) Mentoring
13 62 (15.01%) Migration
13 62 (15.01%) Technical Leadership
14 61 (14.77%) AI
15 54 (13.08%) Disaster Recovery
16 53 (12.83%) Test Automation
17 52 (12.59%) Deployment Automation
18 49 (11.86%) Identity Access Management
18 49 (11.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 197 (47.70%) Python
2 138 (33.41%) Bash
3 137 (33.17%) PowerShell
4 53 (12.83%) SQL
5 32 (7.75%) Bicep
6 24 (5.81%) Java
7 23 (5.57%) Go
8 10 (2.42%) C#
9 9 (2.18%) PHP
10 6 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.21%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.73%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.73%) Ruby
13 2 (0.48%) C
13 2 (0.48%) C++
13 2 (0.48%) Fortran
13 2 (0.48%) Rust
14 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 135 (32.69%) Security Cleared
2 72 (17.43%) SC Cleared
3 45 (10.90%) DV Cleared
4 29 (7.02%) Degree
5 23 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.33%) Azure Certification
7 21 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (4.60%) AWS Certification
8 19 (4.60%) CISSP
9 6 (1.45%) A+ Certification
9 6 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.48%) CCNP
12 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.48%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.12%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.15%) QA
3 11 (2.66%) NIST
4 9 (2.18%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.97%) ISO 22301
7 3 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.24%) GDPR
8 1 (0.24%) GxP
8 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 98 (23.73%) Docker
2 60 (14.53%) Active Directory
3 37 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (5.08%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (4.36%) vSphere
6 15 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (3.63%) VMware NSX
7 10 (2.42%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.97%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.97%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.48%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.48%) Xen
11 1 (0.24%) GPFS
11 1 (0.24%) LXC
11 1 (0.24%) NFS
11 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 154 (37.29%) Kubernetes
2 123 (29.78%) Ansible
3 56 (13.56%) Grafana
4 47 (11.38%) Prometheus
5 28 (6.78%) Puppet
6 20 (4.84%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (3.63%) vCenter Server
9 10 (2.42%) Argo
9 10 (2.42%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.45%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.45%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.21%) Istio
12 4 (0.97%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 3 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (0.73%) Packer
13 3 (0.73%) Podman
13 3 (0.73%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 123 (29.78%) Microsoft
2 57 (13.80%) VMware
3 19 (4.60%) Google
4 18 (4.36%) Cisco
5 13 (3.15%) Red Hat
6 11 (2.66%) Databricks
7 10 (2.42%) Fortinet
8 9 (2.18%) NetApp
9 7 (1.69%) Okta
9 7 (1.69%) Oracle
10 6 (1.45%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.45%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.45%) IBM
10 6 (1.45%) Splunk
11 5 (1.21%) ForgeRock
11 5 (1.21%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.97%) Aruba
12 4 (0.97%) Ping Identity
12 4 (0.97%) Thales
12 4 (0.97%) TIBCO