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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 500 602
Rank change year-on-year +34 +102 -99
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 353 164 218
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.37% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 228 121 167
10th Percentile £45,700 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £75,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +10.29% +0.74%
75th Percentile £85,625 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £110,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 79,759 44,399 67,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.20% 88.84% 80.67%
Number of salaries quoted 55,200 25,247 42,330
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +47 315 £70,400 -9.16% 264
UK excluding London +32 199 £65,000 +4.00% 152
London -23 117 £85,000 +1.49% 134
Work from Home +30 104 £67,500 -5.26% 122
North of England -16 65 £62,500 - 51
South West -20 56 £75,000 - 30
South East -6 41 £65,000 -13.33% 37
North West -3 30 £71,450 +9.92% 24
North East -46 19 £55,000 -8.33% 8
Yorkshire -25 16 £57,500 -8.00% 20
East of England -15 12 £45,000 -10.00% 9
Midlands -29 12 £62,000 +6.44% 12
Wales -51 11 £64,750 +12.61% 2
West Midlands -25 8 £62,000 +3.33% 4
East Midlands -18 4 £52,500 -9.87% 8
Scotland +3 1 - - 9
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

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 (2.83%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.55%) Apache
2 9 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.27%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.98%) IIS
4 7 (1.98%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.98%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.70%) nginx
6 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.13%) SAS
7 3 (0.85%) Confluence
8 1 (0.28%) JBoss
8 1 (0.28%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 178 (50.42%) Azure
2 134 (37.96%) AWS
3 74 (20.96%) GitHub
4 61 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (13.31%) Entra ID
6 46 (13.03%) Amazon S3
7 44 (12.46%) GitHub Actions
8 41 (11.61%) GCP
9 40 (11.33%) Serverless
10 39 (11.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (9.63%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (9.63%) Amazon EKS
12 33 (9.35%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (8.50%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (7.37%) Azure AKS
15 24 (6.80%) SaaS
16 23 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 22 (6.23%) PaaS
18 20 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 59 (16.71%) Firewall
2 25 (7.08%) VPN
3 21 (5.95%) Kerberos
4 17 (4.82%) DNS
4 17 (4.82%) Network Security
5 11 (3.12%) WAN
6 10 (2.83%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.55%) LAN
8 7 (1.98%) DHCP
9 5 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (1.42%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (1.42%) Unified Communications
9 5 (1.42%) VLAN
9 5 (1.42%) WebEx
10 4 (1.13%) NAS
10 4 (1.13%) Wireless
11 3 (0.85%) BGP
12 2 (0.57%) SAN
13 1 (0.28%) MPLS
13 1 (0.28%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.23%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (5.67%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.55%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (1.42%) MySQL
7 5 (1.42%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.42%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.13%) Ataccama
8 4 (1.13%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.13%) IBM InfoSphere
8 4 (1.13%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.13%) TIBCO EBX
9 3 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.28%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 47 (13.31%) Git
2 37 (10.48%) GitLab
2 37 (10.48%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.55%) JIRA
3 9 (2.55%) Visual Studio Code
4 8 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.13%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.85%) Subversion
7 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.57%) Snyk
7 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.28%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.28%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.28%) git-flow
8 1 (0.28%) JUnit
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
General
1 63 (17.85%) Finance
2 58 (16.43%) Social Skills
3 38 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (5.95%) Law
6 10 (2.83%) Legal
6 10 (2.83%) Retail
7 9 (2.55%) Aerospace
7 9 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.27%) Banking
9 7 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.70%) Legal Technology
11 5 (1.42%) Marketing
12 3 (0.85%) Automotive
12 3 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.85%) Electronics
12 3 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (24.65%) Senior
2 81 (22.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 69 (19.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (17.00%) Azure Engineer
5 58 (16.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 53 (15.01%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (8.50%) Architect
8 28 (7.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (7.37%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (6.80%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 24 (6.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 22 (6.23%) Lead
12 21 (5.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 19 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (5.38%) Senior DevOps
14 16 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
15 15 (4.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 14 (3.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (3.40%) Data Engineer
17 12 (3.40%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (63.46%) Terraform
2 22 (6.23%) ARM Templates
2 22 (6.23%) OpenID
2 22 (6.23%) SAML
3 21 (5.95%) OAuth
4 18 (5.10%) REST
5 17 (4.82%) LDAP
5 17 (4.82%) Node.js
6 9 (2.55%) .NET
6 9 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (2.55%) YAML
7 8 (2.27%) Loki
7 8 (2.27%) RESTful
8 7 (1.98%) OpenTofu
8 7 (1.98%) PySpark
9 6 (1.70%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (1.70%) React
10 5 (1.42%) Kafka
10 5 (1.42%) XMPP
11 4 (1.13%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 96 (27.20%) Cloud Native
2 40 (11.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (6.80%) Linux Command Line
4 22 (6.23%) Private Cloud
5 19 (5.38%) Onboarding
6 15 (4.25%) Public Cloud
7 13 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (3.12%) Data Centre
8 11 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.83%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.55%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (2.27%) Replication
12 7 (1.98%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.70%) CMDB
13 6 (1.70%) Podcast
13 6 (1.70%) Security Posture
14 5 (1.42%) FlexPod
Operating Systems
1 107 (30.31%) Linux
2 76 (21.53%) Windows
3 35 (9.92%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.55%) Debian
6 7 (1.98%) Unix
7 6 (1.70%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.42%) Rocky
9 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.57%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.28%) Android
11 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.28%) Solaris
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (68.27%) CI/CD
2 226 (64.02%) DevOps
3 206 (58.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 113 (32.01%) Platform Engineering
5 111 (31.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 90 (25.50%) Problem-Solving
7 85 (24.08%) Containerisation
7 85 (24.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 80 (22.66%) Agile
9 77 (21.81%) Observability
10 72 (20.40%) Cloud Security
11 67 (18.98%) Mentoring
12 58 (16.43%) Migration
13 49 (13.88%) Roadmaps
14 47 (13.31%) Technical Leadership
15 46 (13.03%) AI
15 46 (13.03%) Test Automation
16 43 (12.18%) Disaster Recovery
17 42 (11.90%) Identity Access Management
18 39 (11.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 171 (48.44%) Python
2 117 (33.14%) PowerShell
3 109 (30.88%) Bash
4 44 (12.46%) SQL
5 34 (9.63%) Bicep
6 17 (4.82%) Java
7 16 (4.53%) Go
8 8 (2.27%) C#
8 8 (2.27%) PHP
9 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.85%) Ruby
11 2 (0.57%) C
11 2 (0.57%) C++
11 2 (0.57%) Fortran
11 2 (0.57%) Groovy
11 2 (0.57%) Rust
11 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.28%) ABAP
12 1 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 104 (29.46%) Security Cleared
2 52 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.78%) Degree
4 29 (8.22%) DV Cleared
5 19 (5.38%) Azure Certification
6 18 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (4.82%) CISSP
8 12 (3.40%) AWS Certification
9 11 (3.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.85%) CCNP
12 3 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.57%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.57%) RHCSA
14 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.28%) CCIE
14 1 (0.28%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.97%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.12%) QA
3 10 (2.83%) NIST
4 7 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.98%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.85%) GDPR
5 3 (0.85%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.57%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
System Software
1 93 (26.35%) Docker
2 56 (15.86%) Active Directory
3 35 (9.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.82%) vSphere
5 13 (3.68%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.27%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.98%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.98%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.98%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (1.42%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.57%) Xen
11 1 (0.28%) Firmware
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 133 (37.68%) Kubernetes
2 107 (30.31%) Ansible
3 45 (12.75%) Grafana
4 35 (9.92%) Prometheus
5 18 (5.10%) Puppet
6 16 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.68%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.27%) Argo
9 7 (1.98%) Packer
9 7 (1.98%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.70%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.42%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (1.13%) Proxmox
12 4 (1.13%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.85%) Istio
13 3 (0.85%) Scalr
14 2 (0.57%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.57%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.57%) Rancher
15 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 96 (27.20%) Microsoft
2 46 (13.03%) VMware
3 22 (6.23%) Cisco
4 17 (4.82%) Google
5 12 (3.40%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.55%) Red Hat
7 8 (2.27%) Citrix
8 7 (1.98%) NetApp
9 6 (1.70%) EMC
9 6 (1.70%) F5
9 6 (1.70%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.70%) Okta
9 6 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.70%) Splunk
9 6 (1.70%) Tenable
10 5 (1.42%) Databricks
11 4 (1.13%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.13%) IBM
11 4 (1.13%) Informatica
11 4 (1.13%) TIBCO