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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 514 665
Rank change year-on-year +2 +151 -40
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 183 118 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.29% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.31% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 119 88 142
10th Percentile £47,344 £50,875 £43,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +8.21% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £112,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £71,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.41% +13.60% -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 59,873 37,939 76,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.17% 93.46% 86.66%
Number of salaries quoted 36,505 22,139 57,454
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 14 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 27 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 0 164 £75,000 -1.96% 74
UK excluding London -9 85 £70,000 -1.41% 47
London +18 82 £80,000 -3.03% 31
Work from Home +49 72 £73,625 -3.76% 42
South West -17 24 £62,500 -16.67% 14
South East -42 21 £62,500 -16.67% 14
North of England -42 20 £70,000 +21.74% 14
North West -14 11 £80,000 +18.52% 5
Midlands - 10 £72,500 - 3
Yorkshire -54 9 £47,500 -15.56% 3
East Midlands - 6 £67,000 - 1
East of England -17 5 £85,000 +17.24% 1
Scotland -22 5 - -
West Midlands - 4 £88,750 - 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 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.37%) IIS
3 5 (2.73%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.73%) Tomcat
4 4 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.19%) Confluence
5 2 (1.09%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.55%) Apache
6 1 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (3.28%) Weka
2 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.55%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 94 (51.37%) Azure
2 85 (46.45%) AWS
3 40 (21.86%) GitHub
4 27 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (14.75%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (13.66%) GCP
6 23 (12.57%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (11.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (10.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (9.84%) Serverless
10 17 (9.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (8.74%) OpenShift
12 15 (8.20%) PaaS
13 13 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (7.10%) Entra ID
13 13 (7.10%) IaaS
14 12 (6.56%) Azure AKS
14 12 (6.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (18.03%) Firewall
2 24 (13.11%) VPN
3 12 (6.56%) DNS
4 11 (6.01%) Network Security
5 10 (5.46%) VLAN
6 9 (4.92%) WAN
7 8 (4.37%) Kerberos
8 7 (3.83%) LAN
9 5 (2.73%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (2.73%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (2.73%) Unified Communications
9 5 (2.73%) WebEx
10 4 (2.19%) DHCP
11 3 (1.64%) Wireless
12 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 2 (1.09%) TCP/IP
13 1 (0.55%) Broadband
13 1 (0.55%) NGFW
13 1 (0.55%) VSAN
13 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.56%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.37%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.73%) Big Data
5 4 (2.19%) Apache Hive
5 4 (2.19%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.19%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.64%) MySQL
7 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.55%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.55%) Power BI
8 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 25 (13.66%) Git
3 18 (9.84%) GitLab
4 9 (4.92%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (3.28%) JIRA
7 5 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.09%) Subversion
10 1 (0.55%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.55%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.55%) git-flow
10 1 (0.55%) Maven
10 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (26.78%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.22%) Finance
3 23 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.10%) Aerospace
5 12 (6.56%) Retail
6 9 (4.92%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.37%) Banking
7 8 (4.37%) Legal
7 8 (4.37%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.28%) Law
9 5 (2.73%) Marketing
9 5 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Advertising
10 3 (1.64%) Automotive
10 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Electronics
10 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.55%) German Language
Job Titles
1 41 (22.40%) Platform Engineer
2 40 (21.86%) Senior
3 35 (19.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (17.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (14.21%) Azure Engineer
6 25 (13.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (8.20%) Architect
7 15 (8.20%) AWS Engineer
8 14 (7.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.46%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (4.92%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Lead
12 7 (3.83%) Administrator
12 7 (3.83%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.83%) DevOps Administrator
12 7 (3.83%) Senior Systems Administrator
12 7 (3.83%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.46%) OAuth
2 9 (4.92%) ARM Templates
2 9 (4.92%) LDAP
2 9 (4.92%) Loki
2 9 (4.92%) REST
3 8 (4.37%) Kafka
3 8 (4.37%) RESTful
4 7 (3.83%) Node.js
5 6 (3.28%) YAML
6 5 (2.73%) Middleware
6 5 (2.73%) OpenID
6 5 (2.73%) React
6 5 (2.73%) SAML
6 5 (2.73%) XMPP
7 4 (2.19%) JDBC
7 4 (2.19%) OAuth2
7 4 (2.19%) ODBC
7 4 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (1.64%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.64%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 37 (20.22%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.38%) Private Cloud
3 18 (9.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.46%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.46%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.46%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.83%) CMDB
6 7 (3.83%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.73%) FlexPod
7 5 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (2.73%) Podcast
7 5 (2.73%) Replication
7 5 (2.73%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.19%) PKI
9 3 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.64%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.09%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 79 (43.17%) Linux
2 42 (22.95%) Windows
3 19 (10.38%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.73%) Unix
6 5 (2.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.64%) SUSE
8 2 (1.09%) VMS
9 1 (0.55%) CentOS
9 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (68.31%) CI/CD
2 109 (59.56%) DevOps
2 109 (59.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (29.51%) Platform Engineering
4 48 (26.23%) Containerisation
4 48 (26.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
6 43 (23.50%) Cloud Security
6 43 (23.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 41 (22.40%) Observability
8 39 (21.31%) Agile
9 36 (19.67%) Configuration Management
10 34 (18.58%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (14.75%) AI
12 21 (11.48%) DevSecOps
13 20 (10.93%) Migration
14 19 (10.38%) Analytics
14 19 (10.38%) Incident Response
14 19 (10.38%) Mentoring
15 17 (9.29%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (52.46%) Python
2 62 (33.88%) PowerShell
3 54 (29.51%) Bash
4 23 (12.57%) Bicep
5 15 (8.20%) Go
5 15 (8.20%) SQL
6 14 (7.65%) Java
7 6 (3.28%) C#
7 6 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.19%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.64%) Elixir
9 3 (1.64%) Erlang
10 2 (1.09%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.55%) C
11 1 (0.55%) C++
11 1 (0.55%) Groovy
11 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 35 (19.13%) Degree
2 28 (15.30%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.65%) AWS Certification
4 13 (7.10%) Azure Certification
4 13 (7.10%) SC Cleared
5 12 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.92%) DV Cleared
7 7 (3.83%) CISSP
8 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.09%) CCIE
10 2 (1.09%) CCNA
10 2 (1.09%) CCNP
10 2 (1.09%) CISM
10 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.55%) GAWN
11 1 (0.55%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.37%) NIST
2 7 (3.83%) QA
3 5 (2.73%) GDPR
3 5 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.19%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.64%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.09%) GxP
6 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 50 (27.32%) Docker
2 28 (15.30%) Active Directory
3 23 (12.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (8.74%) vSphere
5 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 8 (4.37%) Virtual Servers
5 8 (4.37%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.64%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.09%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.55%) Firmware
9 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 135 (73.77%) Terraform
2 96 (52.46%) Kubernetes
3 82 (44.81%) Ansible
4 46 (25.14%) Grafana
5 33 (18.03%) Prometheus
6 15 (8.20%) Puppet
7 10 (5.46%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.83%) Proxmox
9 6 (3.28%) Argo
9 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.73%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (2.73%) Rancher
11 4 (2.19%) Packer
11 4 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (2.19%) ZABBIX
12 2 (1.09%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.09%) Scalr
12 2 (1.09%) yum
13 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (26.23%) Microsoft
2 43 (23.50%) VMware
3 18 (9.84%) Cisco
4 14 (7.65%) Palo Alto
5 10 (5.46%) Oracle
5 10 (5.46%) Red Hat
5 10 (5.46%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.37%) Fortinet
6 8 (4.37%) Splunk
7 6 (3.28%) Dell
7 6 (3.28%) SolarWinds
8 5 (2.73%) F5
8 5 (2.73%) NetApp
9 4 (2.19%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.19%) Cribl.io
9 4 (2.19%) Databricks
9 4 (2.19%) EMC
9 4 (2.19%) IFS
10 3 (1.64%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (1.09%) Ping Identity