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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 506 705
Rank change year-on-year -22 +199 -92
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 198 129 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 118 91 142
10th Percentile £47,207 £51,250 £50,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,875 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £112,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.11% +15.60% -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 64,759 38,558 80,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 75.53% 92.98% 86.03%
Number of salaries quoted 39,875 22,521 59,469
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.26%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -27 176 £75,000 -3.23% 76
UK excluding London -27 94 £70,000 -3.11% 55
London +17 84 £80,000 -7.25% 30
Work from Home +33 75 £72,500 -4.29% 37
South West -34 27 £62,500 -16.67% 7
South East -43 24 £62,500 -16.67% 19
North of England -53 23 £70,400 +22.43% 17
North West -23 14 £80,000 +18.52% 7
Midlands -32 10 £72,500 -6.45% 4
Yorkshire -49 9 £47,500 -17.39% 5
East Midlands - 6 £67,000 - 1
East of England -25 5 £85,000 +17.24% 5
West Midlands -10 4 £88,750 +14.52% 3
Scotland -22 4 - - 2
Wales - 1 - -

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 8 (4.04%) IIS
1 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.53%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.02%) Confluence
4 2 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (3.03%) Weka
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 101 (51.01%) Azure
2 87 (43.94%) AWS
3 46 (23.23%) GitHub
4 30 (15.15%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
5 27 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (12.12%) GCP
7 23 (11.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (10.61%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (10.10%) Entra ID
9 20 (10.10%) Serverless
10 19 (9.60%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (8.08%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (8.08%) PaaS
14 15 (7.58%) IaaS
15 14 (7.07%) Amazon S3
16 13 (6.57%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (6.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 39 (19.70%) Firewall
2 25 (12.63%) VPN
3 14 (7.07%) DNS
3 14 (7.07%) Network Security
4 10 (5.05%) Kerberos
5 9 (4.55%) VLAN
5 9 (4.55%) WAN
6 7 (3.54%) LAN
7 6 (3.03%) DHCP
8 5 (2.53%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (2.53%) Cisco Firepower
8 5 (2.53%) Unified Communications
8 5 (2.53%) WebEx
9 3 (1.52%) Wireless
10 2 (1.01%) SAN
10 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
10 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.51%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.57%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.04%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.52%) MySQL
6 2 (1.01%) Big Data
6 2 (1.01%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.01%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.51%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.51%) Power BI
7 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 32 (16.16%) Jenkins
2 28 (14.14%) Git
3 18 (9.09%) GitLab
4 9 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 7 (3.54%) JIRA
7 5 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.01%) Subversion
10 1 (0.51%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.51%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.51%) git-flow
10 1 (0.51%) Maven
10 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 42 (21.21%) Finance
3 24 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.07%) Aerospace
5 13 (6.57%) Retail
6 10 (5.05%) Legal
7 9 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.04%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.54%) Banking
9 7 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.54%) Law
10 6 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (2.53%) Marketing
12 3 (1.52%) Advertising
12 3 (1.52%) Automotive
12 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.52%) Electronics
12 3 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (22.73%) Senior
2 40 (20.20%) Platform Engineer
3 38 (19.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (17.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (14.65%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 18 (9.09%) Architect
8 16 (8.08%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (7.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Lead
12 9 (4.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.04%) Administrator
13 8 (4.04%) DevOps Administrator
13 8 (4.04%) Senior Systems Administrator
13 8 (4.04%) Systems Administrator
14 7 (3.54%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.57%) REST
2 11 (5.56%) OAuth
3 10 (5.05%) ARM Templates
3 10 (5.05%) LDAP
3 10 (5.05%) Loki
4 9 (4.55%) OpenID
4 9 (4.55%) SAML
5 8 (4.04%) Node.js
6 7 (3.54%) RESTful
6 7 (3.54%) YAML
7 6 (3.03%) Kafka
8 5 (2.53%) Middleware
8 5 (2.53%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (2.53%) React
8 5 (2.53%) XMPP
9 3 (1.52%) .NET
9 3 (1.52%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.52%) NestJS
10 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET Core
10 2 (1.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (19.70%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.10%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (10.10%) Private Cloud
3 12 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 11 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.05%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.55%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.54%) CMDB
8 6 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (3.03%) Podcast
8 6 (3.03%) Replication
9 5 (2.53%) FlexPod
9 5 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (2.02%) PKI
11 3 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (39.90%) Linux
2 47 (23.74%) Windows
3 21 (10.61%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.52%) SUSE
7 3 (1.52%) Unix
8 2 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (67.17%) CI/CD
2 120 (60.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 117 (59.09%) DevOps
4 56 (28.28%) Platform Engineering
5 52 (26.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 51 (25.76%) Containerisation
7 49 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 47 (23.74%) Cloud Security
9 47 (23.74%) Observability
10 41 (20.71%) Agile
11 37 (18.69%) Configuration Management
12 35 (17.68%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (12.12%) AI
13 24 (12.12%) Identity Access Management
14 23 (11.62%) DevSecOps
14 23 (11.62%) Migration
15 22 (11.11%) Mentoring
15 22 (11.11%) RBAC
16 21 (10.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 99 (50.00%) Python
2 70 (35.35%) PowerShell
3 55 (27.78%) Bash
4 26 (13.13%) Bicep
5 19 (9.60%) SQL
6 16 (8.08%) Go
7 12 (6.06%) Java
8 6 (3.03%) C#
8 6 (3.03%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.52%) Elixir
10 3 (1.52%) Erlang
11 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) Groovy
12 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (19.19%) Degree
2 35 (17.68%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.59%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.08%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (6.57%) Azure Certification
7 11 (5.56%) CISSP
8 8 (4.04%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.01%) CCIE
11 2 (1.01%) CCNA
11 2 (1.01%) CCNP
11 2 (1.01%) CISM
11 2 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.51%) GAWN
12 1 (0.51%) GREM
12 1 (0.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.56%) NIST
2 6 (3.03%) QA
3 5 (2.53%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.02%) GDPR
4 4 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.01%) GxP
5 2 (1.01%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
System Software
1 51 (25.76%) Docker
2 33 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 25 (12.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (8.08%) vSphere
5 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 8 (4.04%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.54%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.52%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.52%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.51%) Firmware
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 142 (71.72%) Terraform
2 96 (48.48%) Kubernetes
3 80 (40.40%) Ansible
4 47 (23.74%) Grafana
5 34 (17.17%) Prometheus
6 15 (7.58%) Puppet
7 10 (5.05%) Progress Chef
8 8 (4.04%) Proxmox
9 7 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (3.03%) Argo
10 6 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (2.53%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (2.53%) Packer
11 5 (2.53%) Rancher
12 4 (2.02%) ZABBIX
13 3 (1.52%) Scalr
14 2 (1.01%) PowerCLI
14 2 (1.01%) yum
15 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.51%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 55 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 44 (22.22%) VMware
3 16 (8.08%) Cisco
4 13 (6.57%) Palo Alto
5 11 (5.56%) Red Hat
6 9 (4.55%) Oracle
6 9 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.54%) Fortinet
7 7 (3.54%) Splunk
8 6 (3.03%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.53%) F5
9 5 (2.53%) NetApp
10 4 (2.02%) Atlassian
10 4 (2.02%) Citrix
10 4 (2.02%) Cribl.io
10 4 (2.02%) EMC
10 4 (2.02%) IFS
11 3 (1.52%) Dell
11 3 (1.52%) Google
11 3 (1.52%) LogicMonitor