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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 533 658
Rank change year-on-year +65 +125 -101
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 299 149 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.34% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 188 107 183
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +14.81% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £78,875
90th Percentile £93,250 £107,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +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 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +45 267 £73,500 -5.16% 108
UK excluding London +36 154 £65,000 +4.00% 79
London +7 109 £85,000 +3.03% 44
Work from Home +38 107 £65,000 -1.89% 49
South West -21 44 £75,000 - 10
South East -7 41 £65,000 -13.33% 29
North of England -19 40 £70,400 +17.33% 27
North West -1 24 £74,500 +24.17% 15
Midlands -23 13 £64,000 +6.67% 3
Yorkshire -18 11 £62,500 - 11
East of England -8 8 £45,000 - 2
West Midlands -14 8 £67,250 +12.08% 3
Wales -41 8 £55,000 -4.35% 3
North East -48 5 £55,000 -8.33% 1
East Midlands - 5 £64,000 -

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 10 (3.34%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.68%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.68%) IIS
3 7 (2.34%) Apache
3 7 (2.34%) OpenStack
4 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.01%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.67%) Jupyter
5 5 (1.67%) nginx
6 4 (1.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.33%) Confluence
7 1 (0.33%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 162 (54.18%) Azure
2 111 (37.12%) AWS
3 75 (25.08%) GitHub
4 57 (19.06%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
6 39 (13.04%) Entra ID
7 37 (12.37%) GCP
8 32 (10.70%) Amazon S3
9 28 (9.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (9.36%) Amazon EKS
10 27 (9.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (8.36%) PaaS
12 24 (8.03%) Serverless
13 23 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (7.36%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (7.36%) Azure AKS
15 20 (6.69%) IaaS
16 19 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
17 17 (5.69%) SaaS
18 16 (5.35%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (21.07%) Firewall
2 29 (9.70%) VPN
3 23 (7.69%) Kerberos
4 19 (6.35%) Network Security
5 12 (4.01%) DNS
6 11 (3.68%) WAN
7 9 (3.01%) LAN
8 7 (2.34%) VLAN
9 6 (2.01%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.01%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.01%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.01%) WebEx
10 4 (1.34%) DHCP
10 4 (1.34%) NAS
10 4 (1.34%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.34%) Wireless
11 2 (0.67%) BGP
11 2 (0.67%) SAN
12 1 (0.33%) Cisco ISE
12 1 (0.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.35%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.01%) DynamoDB
5 5 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.34%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.34%) MySQL
6 4 (1.34%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.00%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.67%) Ataccama
8 2 (0.67%) Big Data
8 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.67%) IBM InfoSphere
8 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.67%) TIBCO EBX
9 1 (0.33%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 42 (14.05%) Git
2 34 (11.37%) Jenkins
3 27 (9.03%) GitLab
4 9 (3.01%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.01%) JIRA
7 4 (1.34%) Subversion
8 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.67%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.67%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.67%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.33%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.33%) git-flow
10 1 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 53 (17.73%) Social Skills
2 52 (17.39%) Finance
3 28 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 14 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (4.68%) Retail
6 12 (4.01%) Aerospace
7 10 (3.34%) Legal
8 9 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.68%) Law
9 8 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.01%) Banking
10 6 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.01%) Legal Technology
10 6 (2.01%) Marketing
11 3 (1.00%) Automotive
11 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Electronics
11 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 76 (25.42%) Senior
2 60 (20.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 59 (19.73%) Azure Engineer
4 51 (17.06%) Platform Engineer
5 50 (16.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 50 (16.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (9.36%) Architect
7 25 (8.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 21 (7.02%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 20 (6.69%) Automation Engineer
9 20 (6.69%) Lead
9 20 (6.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 19 (6.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (4.68%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 14 (4.68%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (4.01%) Administrator
14 12 (4.01%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.36%) OAuth
2 21 (7.02%) OpenID
2 21 (7.02%) SAML
3 20 (6.69%) ARM Templates
4 19 (6.35%) LDAP
5 17 (5.69%) REST
6 16 (5.35%) Node.js
7 10 (3.34%) Loki
8 9 (3.01%) .NET
8 9 (3.01%) RESTful
9 8 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (2.68%) YAML
10 7 (2.34%) React
11 6 (2.01%) PySpark
11 6 (2.01%) XMPP
12 5 (1.67%) Kafka
12 5 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
13 4 (1.34%) NestJS
13 4 (1.34%) OAuth2
14 3 (1.00%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 81 (27.09%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (7.02%) Private Cloud
4 16 (5.35%) Public Cloud
5 15 (5.02%) Onboarding
6 14 (4.68%) Data Centre
7 11 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
8 10 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (3.34%) Product Ownership
9 9 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (3.01%) Replication
10 8 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (2.68%) CMDB
11 6 (2.01%) FlexPod
11 6 (2.01%) Podcast
11 6 (2.01%) Security Posture
11 6 (2.01%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.67%) Data Structures
12 5 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (32.11%) Linux
2 61 (20.40%) Windows
3 28 (9.36%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.34%) Debian
5 6 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.34%) Unix
8 3 (1.00%) Rocky
9 1 (0.33%) Android
9 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 187 (62.54%) DevOps
3 180 (60.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (29.77%) Platform Engineering
5 74 (24.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 73 (24.41%) Containerisation
7 72 (24.08%) Agile
8 70 (23.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 68 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (21.74%) Observability
11 64 (21.40%) Cloud Security
12 56 (18.73%) Mentoring
13 41 (13.71%) Identity Access Management
14 39 (13.04%) Configuration Management
14 39 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
14 39 (13.04%) Roadmaps
15 38 (12.71%) Migration
15 38 (12.71%) Test Automation
16 36 (12.04%) RBAC
17 35 (11.71%) AI
Programming Languages
1 147 (49.16%) Python
2 103 (34.45%) PowerShell
3 80 (26.76%) Bash
4 40 (13.38%) Bicep
5 34 (11.37%) SQL
6 20 (6.69%) Go
7 16 (5.35%) Java
8 10 (3.34%) C#
9 6 (2.01%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.01%) PHP
10 3 (1.00%) Ruby
11 2 (0.67%) Groovy
11 2 (0.67%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.33%) ABAP
12 1 (0.33%) C++
12 1 (0.33%) Elixir
12 1 (0.33%) Erlang
12 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 82 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 39 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 34 (11.37%) Degree
4 21 (7.02%) DV Cleared
5 18 (6.02%) CISSP
6 16 (5.35%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.68%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.67%) CCIE
10 2 (0.67%) CCNP
10 2 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.67%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.33%) CCNA
11 1 (0.33%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.35%) NIST
2 11 (3.68%) QA
3 9 (3.01%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.34%) GDPR
7 3 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.67%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) GxP
System Software
1 72 (24.08%) Docker
2 49 (16.39%) Active Directory
3 28 (9.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (5.69%) vSphere
5 14 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 8 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (2.68%) VMware NSX
7 7 (2.34%) BitLocker
8 6 (2.01%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.67%) Xen
10 1 (0.33%) Firmware
10 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 202 (67.56%) Terraform
2 123 (41.14%) Kubernetes
3 103 (34.45%) Ansible
4 57 (19.06%) Grafana
5 45 (15.05%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.35%) Puppet
7 13 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (4.01%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.68%) Proxmox
9 8 (2.68%) ZABBIX
10 7 (2.34%) Packer
10 7 (2.34%) Progress Chef
11 6 (2.01%) Argo
11 6 (2.01%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (1.00%) Rancher
12 3 (1.00%) Scalr
13 2 (0.67%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.67%) Istio
14 1 (0.33%) Cilium
14 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 83 (27.76%) Microsoft
2 44 (14.72%) VMware
3 18 (6.02%) Cisco
4 14 (4.68%) Palo Alto
5 10 (3.34%) Google
6 8 (2.68%) Citrix
6 8 (2.68%) NetApp
7 7 (2.34%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.34%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.01%) EMC
8 6 (2.01%) F5
8 6 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.01%) Splunk
8 6 (2.01%) Tenable
9 5 (1.67%) Databricks
10 4 (1.34%) Cribl.io
10 4 (1.34%) Okta
11 3 (1.00%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.00%) ForgeRock
11 3 (1.00%) Ping Identity