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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 524 619
Rank change year-on-year +49 +95 -114
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 333 159 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.36% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 212 120 165
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,698 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +13.97% +0.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £109,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +6.56%

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 77,301 44,356 67,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 89.43% 81.01%
Number of salaries quoted 53,282 25,229 44,135
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -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 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Top 16 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 7 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 +40 298 £72,500 -6.45% 282
UK excluding London +35 179 £65,000 +4.00% 156
London +5 119 £85,000 +3.03% 145
Work from Home +29 111 £66,250 -3.64% 131
North of England -23 55 £68,750 +12.24% 57
South West -18 49 £75,000 - 25
South East -2 39 £65,000 -13.33% 44
North West -3 28 £74,500 +24.17% 33
North East -40 15 £55,000 -8.33% 9
Yorkshire -15 12 £62,500 - 15
East of England -18 12 £45,000 -10.00% 6
Midlands -27 12 £64,000 +18.52% 9
Wales -52 11 £64,750 +12.61% 2
West Midlands -28 8 £67,250 +12.08% 5
East Midlands -24 4 £64,000 +18.52% 4
Scotland +15 1 - - 13

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 11 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.70%) Apache
2 9 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.40%) OpenStack
4 7 (2.10%) IIS
4 7 (2.10%) Jupyter
5 6 (1.80%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.50%) nginx
7 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.30%) Confluence
8 1 (0.30%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 175 (52.55%) Azure
2 129 (38.74%) AWS
3 71 (21.32%) GitHub
4 55 (16.52%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (13.81%) Entra ID
6 43 (12.91%) Amazon S3
7 42 (12.61%) GCP
8 39 (11.71%) GitHub Actions
9 36 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (10.21%) Serverless
11 31 (9.31%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (9.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (8.71%) Amazon EKS
14 25 (7.51%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (7.21%) Azure AKS
16 23 (6.91%) PaaS
16 23 (6.91%) SaaS
17 22 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
18 20 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 61 (18.32%) Firewall
2 26 (7.81%) Kerberos
3 22 (6.61%) VPN
4 20 (6.01%) Network Security
5 15 (4.50%) DNS
6 12 (3.60%) WAN
7 11 (3.30%) LAN
8 7 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (2.10%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (2.10%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.10%) Unified Communications
8 7 (2.10%) VLAN
8 7 (2.10%) WebEx
9 5 (1.50%) DHCP
10 4 (1.20%) NAS
10 4 (1.20%) Wireless
11 3 (0.90%) BGP
12 2 (0.60%) SAN
13 1 (0.30%) MPLS
13 1 (0.30%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (5.11%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.70%) DynamoDB
5 8 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.50%) MySQL
8 5 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.20%) Ataccama
9 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.20%) IBM InfoSphere
9 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.20%) TIBCO EBX
10 2 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.60%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.30%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 42 (12.61%) Git
2 34 (10.21%) GitLab
3 33 (9.91%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (2.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (1.80%) JIRA
7 3 (0.90%) Subversion
8 2 (0.60%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.60%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.60%) Snyk
8 2 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.60%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.30%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.30%) git-flow
9 1 (0.30%) Maven
General
1 56 (16.82%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.52%) Finance
3 34 (10.21%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 20 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.80%) Law
7 11 (3.30%) Retail
8 10 (3.00%) Legal
9 9 (2.70%) Aerospace
9 9 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.40%) Banking
11 7 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.10%) Marketing
12 6 (1.80%) Legal Technology
13 3 (0.90%) Automotive
13 3 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.90%) Electronics
13 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (24.02%) Senior
2 70 (21.02%) DevOps Engineer
3 60 (18.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 58 (17.42%) Azure Engineer
5 55 (16.52%) Cloud Engineer
6 50 (15.02%) Platform Engineer
7 33 (9.91%) Architect
8 26 (7.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 24 (7.21%) Lead
10 22 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (6.61%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 21 (6.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 20 (6.01%) Automation Engineer
13 19 (5.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 17 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
15 16 (4.80%) Senior DevOps
16 13 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 13 (3.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 11 (3.30%) Data Engineer
17 11 (3.30%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.81%) OAuth
1 26 (7.81%) OpenID
1 26 (7.81%) SAML
2 22 (6.61%) LDAP
3 21 (6.31%) ARM Templates
4 20 (6.01%) REST
5 17 (5.11%) Node.js
6 10 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (3.00%) RESTful
7 9 (2.70%) .NET
8 8 (2.40%) Loki
8 8 (2.40%) YAML
9 7 (2.10%) PySpark
9 7 (2.10%) React
9 7 (2.10%) XMPP
10 6 (1.80%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (1.50%) Kafka
11 5 (1.50%) OAuth2
12 4 (1.20%) AngularJS
12 4 (1.20%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 89 (26.73%) Cloud Native
2 34 (10.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (5.41%) Linux Command Line
3 18 (5.41%) Private Cloud
4 17 (5.11%) Onboarding
5 16 (4.80%) Public Cloud
6 14 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (3.60%) Data Centre
8 11 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (3.00%) Product Ownership
9 10 (3.00%) Replication
10 9 (2.70%) Data Structures
11 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (2.10%) FlexPod
12 7 (2.10%) Security Posture
12 7 (2.10%) Video Conferencing
13 6 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.80%) CMDB
13 6 (1.80%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 99 (29.73%) Linux
2 71 (21.32%) Windows
3 34 (10.21%) Windows Server
4 10 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (2.70%) Debian
6 6 (1.80%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.80%) Unix
7 4 (1.20%) Rocky
7 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) Android
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (66.97%) CI/CD
2 202 (60.66%) DevOps
3 198 (59.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 104 (31.23%) Platform Engineering
5 95 (28.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 82 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (24.32%) Containerisation
8 79 (23.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (23.12%) Agile
10 72 (21.62%) Observability
11 66 (19.82%) Cloud Security
12 65 (19.52%) Mentoring
13 49 (14.71%) Migration
14 47 (14.11%) Identity Access Management
15 46 (13.81%) Roadmaps
16 45 (13.51%) Test Automation
17 44 (13.21%) Technical Leadership
18 42 (12.61%) AI
19 38 (11.41%) Disaster Recovery
19 38 (11.41%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 161 (48.35%) Python
2 112 (33.63%) PowerShell
3 92 (27.63%) Bash
4 37 (11.11%) SQL
5 36 (10.81%) Bicep
6 17 (5.11%) Go
7 16 (4.80%) Java
8 8 (2.40%) C#
9 7 (2.10%) PHP
10 4 (1.20%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.90%) Ruby
12 2 (0.60%) C
12 2 (0.60%) C++
12 2 (0.60%) Fortran
12 2 (0.60%) Groovy
12 2 (0.60%) Rust
12 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.30%) ABAP
13 1 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 89 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 43 (12.91%) SC Cleared
3 33 (9.91%) Degree
4 26 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 21 (6.31%) CISSP
6 20 (6.01%) Azure Certification
6 20 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.00%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.90%) CCNP
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.60%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.30%) CCIE
12 1 (0.30%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.90%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.30%) QA
3 10 (3.00%) NIST
4 7 (2.10%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.90%) GDPR
6 3 (0.90%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.60%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.30%) GxP
System Software
1 87 (26.13%) Docker
2 55 (16.52%) Active Directory
3 36 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (6.01%) vSphere
5 13 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.10%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (2.10%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (2.10%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.80%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.60%) Xen
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 212 (63.66%) Terraform
2 126 (37.84%) Kubernetes
3 103 (30.93%) Ansible
4 50 (15.02%) Grafana
5 37 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 17 (5.11%) Puppet
7 16 (4.80%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (2.40%) Argo
10 7 (2.10%) Cisco CUCM
10 7 (2.10%) Packer
11 6 (1.80%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.80%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.20%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.90%) Istio
13 3 (0.90%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.90%) Scalr
14 2 (0.60%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.60%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.60%) Rancher
Vendors
1 98 (29.43%) Microsoft
2 44 (13.21%) VMware
3 23 (6.91%) Cisco
4 16 (4.80%) Google
5 14 (4.20%) Palo Alto
6 9 (2.70%) NetApp
7 8 (2.40%) Citrix
7 8 (2.40%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.40%) Splunk
8 7 (2.10%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.80%) EMC
9 6 (1.80%) F5
9 6 (1.80%) Okta
9 6 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.80%) Tenable
10 5 (1.50%) Databricks
11 4 (1.20%) Dell
11 4 (1.20%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.20%) IBM
11 4 (1.20%) Informatica