Infrastructure Automation Jobs

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 657 565
Rank change year-on-year +70 -92 +73
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 149 235 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.23% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.28% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 108 182 179
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,250 £97,375 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year - +3.31% -3.20%

All Process and 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 53,906 85,087 81,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.73% 82.48% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,389 58,040 52,423
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 2025. 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 +75 141 £77,500 +14.81% 171
London +100 77 £82,500 +3.13% 93
UK excluding London +86 60 £62,500 - 98
Work from Home +65 54 £65,000 -4.41% 120
North of England +54 26 £60,000 - 24
North West +15 19 £60,000 +4.35% 12
South East +45 16 £75,000 +20.00% 18
Midlands +64 5 £54,000 -20.00% 12
South West +82 4 £75,000 +15.38% 15
West Midlands +63 4 £60,000 -11.44% 7
North East +45 4 £60,000 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire +38 3 £62,500 +4.17% 11
Wales +29 3 £57,500 +6.98% 4
East of England +25 3 £50,000 -28.57% 11
Scotland +87 2 £55,000 +5.26% 10
East Midlands +39 1 £54,000 -10.00% 5
Isle of Man - 1 £34,500 - 1

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.70%) Apache Spark
1 7 (4.70%) IIS
2 6 (4.03%) Apache
3 2 (1.34%) Confluence
3 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.67%) nginx
4 1 (0.67%) SAS
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 89 (59.73%) Azure
2 66 (44.30%) AWS
3 41 (27.52%) GitHub
4 38 (25.50%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (20.81%) GCP
6 27 (18.12%) Serverless
7 26 (17.45%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (16.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 21 (14.09%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (12.75%) PaaS
11 17 (11.41%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (11.41%) Amazon S3
12 14 (9.40%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (9.40%) SaaS
13 12 (8.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (6.71%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (6.71%) IaaS
15 9 (6.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (6.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.09%) Firewall
2 17 (11.41%) VPN
3 14 (9.40%) DNS
4 8 (5.37%) Network Security
5 6 (4.03%) DHCP
6 5 (3.36%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.01%) SAN
8 2 (1.34%) Internet
8 2 (1.34%) LAN
8 2 (1.34%) WAN
9 1 (0.67%) BGP
9 1 (0.67%) NAS
9 1 (0.67%) SSL
9 1 (0.67%) Structured Cabling
9 1 (0.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.07%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (8.05%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.70%) DynamoDB
4 6 (4.03%) Big Data
5 5 (3.36%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.68%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.01%) Redis
8 2 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.34%) HDInsight
8 2 (1.34%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.34%) Power BI
9 1 (0.67%) DB2
9 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (18.79%) Jenkins
2 25 (16.78%) Git
3 20 (13.42%) GitLab
4 8 (5.37%) JIRA
5 7 (4.70%) SonarQube
6 5 (3.36%) Maven
7 4 (2.68%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (2.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (2.01%) JUnit
8 3 (2.01%) Mockito
8 3 (2.01%) Postman
8 3 (2.01%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.01%) SoapUI
8 3 (2.01%) Subversion
8 3 (2.01%) TeamCity
8 3 (2.01%) Xcode
8 3 (2.01%) XCTest
9 2 (1.34%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.67%) Gradle
General
1 40 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 39 (26.17%) Finance
3 17 (11.41%) Banking
4 16 (10.74%) Law
5 6 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.36%) Front Office
7 4 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.01%) Advertising
8 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.34%) Automotive
9 2 (1.34%) Games
9 2 (1.34%) Marketing
10 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (27.52%) Senior
2 32 (21.48%) Azure Engineer
3 31 (20.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (18.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (13.42%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (11.41%) AWS Engineer
8 15 (10.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 14 (9.40%) Lead
10 12 (8.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 10 (6.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (6.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (6.04%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 8 (5.37%) Architect
13 8 (5.37%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (5.37%) AWS DevOps
13 8 (5.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 8 (5.37%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (5.37%) Software Engineer
14 7 (4.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.72%) ARM Templates
2 11 (7.38%) YAML
3 6 (4.03%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.03%) REST
3 6 (4.03%) Spring
3 6 (4.03%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.03%) Web Services
4 5 (3.36%) .NET
4 5 (3.36%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.68%) Jinja
5 4 (2.68%) Kafka
5 4 (2.68%) React
5 4 (2.68%) RESTful
6 3 (2.01%) Bootstrap
6 3 (2.01%) CSS3
6 3 (2.01%) HTML5
6 3 (2.01%) J2EE
6 3 (2.01%) JPA
6 3 (2.01%) Node.js
6 3 (2.01%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.41%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.37%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.70%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.03%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.03%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.36%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.68%) Clustering
7 4 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.34%) CMDB
9 2 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.34%) IoT
9 2 (1.34%) Replication
9 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 53 (35.57%) Linux
2 24 (16.11%) Windows
3 14 (9.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (8.05%) Windows Server
5 7 (4.70%) Unix
6 6 (4.03%) CentOS
7 4 (2.68%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.68%) VMS
7 4 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.34%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (63.76%) DevOps
2 89 (59.73%) CI/CD
3 88 (59.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (31.54%) Containerisation
5 44 (29.53%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (24.16%) Agile
7 30 (20.13%) Mentoring
8 29 (19.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 27 (18.12%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (16.78%) High Availability
11 22 (14.77%) Cloud Security
12 20 (13.42%) Configuration Management
12 20 (13.42%) Observability
12 20 (13.42%) Software Engineering
13 16 (10.74%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (10.74%) Microservices
13 16 (10.74%) Migration
14 15 (10.07%) Analytics
14 15 (10.07%) ITIL
15 14 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 79 (53.02%) Python
2 47 (31.54%) PowerShell
3 43 (28.86%) Bash
4 20 (13.42%) Java
4 20 (13.42%) SQL
5 16 (10.74%) Bicep
6 11 (7.38%) C#
7 9 (6.04%) Go
8 6 (4.03%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.36%) JavaScript
9 5 (3.36%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.68%) Groovy
10 4 (2.68%) Scala
11 2 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.67%) Perl
12 1 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (14.09%) Azure Certification
2 15 (10.07%) Degree
3 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (6.04%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.37%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.34%) CISSP
8 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.34%) RHCE
8 2 (1.34%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.67%) CCNA
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.67%) PhD
9 1 (0.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.04%) QA
2 7 (4.70%) GDPR
2 7 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.36%) NIST
4 3 (2.01%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.34%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.67%) NCSC
6 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (27.52%) Docker
2 19 (12.75%) Active Directory
3 17 (11.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.68%) vSphere
6 2 (1.34%) vCloud
6 2 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 99 (66.44%) Terraform
2 74 (49.66%) Kubernetes
3 55 (36.91%) Ansible
4 17 (11.41%) Grafana
5 14 (9.40%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.03%) Argo
6 6 (4.03%) Puppet
7 5 (3.36%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (3.36%) SCCM
8 4 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.34%) Control-M
9 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.34%) Rundeck
9 2 (1.34%) SCOM
10 1 (0.67%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.67%) Istio
10 1 (0.67%) Nessus
10 1 (0.67%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.67%) Packer
10 1 (0.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (22.82%) VMware
2 32 (21.48%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.40%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.71%) Cisco
5 8 (5.37%) Google
5 8 (5.37%) Oracle
6 7 (4.70%) Databricks
7 6 (4.03%) Splunk
8 5 (3.36%) Citrix
8 5 (3.36%) Pure Storage
9 4 (2.68%) Atlassian
9 4 (2.68%) Commvault
9 4 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 3 (2.01%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (2.01%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
11 2 (1.34%) Sun
12 1 (0.67%) Hitachi
12 1 (0.67%) IBM
12 1 (0.67%) Informatica