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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 436 522 538
Rank change year-on-year +86 +16 -78
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 429 147 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.34% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 281 105 165
10th Percentile £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £99,000 £110,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 86,825 43,614 58,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.38% 88.89% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 59,360 24,460 31,261
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -2.78%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +69 386 £72,500 -3.33% 455
UK excluding London +20 242 £65,000 - 237
London +12 147 £85,000 +3.03% 239
Work from Home -8 105 £70,000 -1.75% 169
North of England +4 99 £57,500 -9.80% 72
North West -4 54 £67,500 - 41
South East 0 52 £65,000 -13.33% 81
South West -31 46 £75,000 - 28
Yorkshire -9 27 £60,000 +11.63% 17
North East -46 27 £55,000 -16.98% 14
Midlands -42 16 £65,000 +20.37% 13
East of England -24 15 £45,000 -10.00% 13
Wales -66 10 £64,750 +15.11% 6
West Midlands -35 9 £62,000 +18.10% 8
East Midlands -27 7 £65,000 +11.59% 5
Scotland -1 3 - - 22
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 4

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 12 (2.80%) Apache
2 11 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (2.56%) OpenStack
3 10 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.10%) nginx
5 7 (1.63%) Confluence
5 7 (1.63%) Jupyter
6 5 (1.17%) IIS
7 4 (0.93%) SAS
8 3 (0.70%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.47%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.23%) FactoryTalk
10 1 (0.23%) JBoss
10 1 (0.23%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.23%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 200 (46.62%) Azure
2 159 (37.06%) AWS
3 89 (20.75%) GitHub
4 69 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
5 64 (14.92%) Entra ID
6 55 (12.82%) GitHub Actions
7 54 (12.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 48 (11.19%) Amazon S3
9 47 (10.96%) GCP
10 44 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (10.02%) Serverless
12 39 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
14 33 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (7.69%) SaaS
15 31 (7.23%) Azure AKS
16 28 (6.53%) Microsoft 365
17 23 (5.36%) PaaS
18 21 (4.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (15.85%) Firewall
2 43 (10.02%) VPN
3 32 (7.46%) DNS
4 25 (5.83%) Kerberos
5 20 (4.66%) Network Security
6 16 (3.73%) DHCP
7 15 (3.50%) TCP/IP
8 11 (2.56%) WAN
9 10 (2.33%) VLAN
10 7 (1.63%) LAN
11 6 (1.40%) NAS
11 6 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
12 4 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (0.93%) Wireless
13 3 (0.70%) BGP
13 3 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
13 3 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (0.70%) SNMP
13 3 (0.70%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.59%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.86%) DynamoDB
5 8 (1.86%) Relational Database
6 7 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (1.40%) MySQL
8 5 (1.17%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.17%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (0.93%) Ataccama
9 4 (0.93%) IBM InfoSphere
9 4 (0.93%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.93%) TIBCO EBX
10 3 (0.70%) Power BI
10 3 (0.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 54 (12.59%) GitLab
2 45 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 43 (10.02%) Git
4 17 (3.96%) JIRA
5 5 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 5 (1.17%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.70%) Snyk
6 3 (0.70%) Subversion
6 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.47%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.47%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.47%) Flyway
7 2 (0.47%) JMeter
7 2 (0.47%) Postman
7 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.23%) JUnit
8 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 81 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 69 (16.08%) Finance
3 43 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.66%) Law
7 16 (3.73%) Banking
8 14 (3.26%) Aerospace
8 14 (3.26%) Retail
9 8 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.17%) Legal
10 5 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.93%) Police
12 3 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.70%) Marketing
13 2 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.47%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.23%) Automotive
14 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 99 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
1 99 (23.08%) Senior
2 97 (22.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 60 (13.99%) Cloud Engineer
4 55 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
4 55 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
5 42 (9.79%) Architect
6 36 (8.39%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (6.29%) Lead
7 27 (6.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 26 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 25 (5.83%) Automation Engineer
10 22 (5.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 22 (5.13%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (4.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.20%) Administrator
13 17 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
14 16 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.73%) Systems Administrator
15 15 (3.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (58.74%) Terraform
2 34 (7.93%) SAML
3 31 (7.23%) OpenID
4 28 (6.53%) OAuth
5 24 (5.59%) ARM Templates
6 22 (5.13%) LDAP
7 19 (4.43%) REST
8 17 (3.96%) Node.js
9 15 (3.50%) RESTful
10 11 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (2.56%) Kafka
11 10 (2.33%) .NET
12 8 (1.86%) OAuth2
13 7 (1.63%) PySpark
14 6 (1.40%) AWS CDK
14 6 (1.40%) Middleware
14 6 (1.40%) Pulumi
15 5 (1.17%) Loki
15 5 (1.17%) React
16 4 (0.93%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 102 (23.78%) Cloud Native
2 45 (10.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
4 23 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 22 (5.13%) Private Cloud
6 17 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (3.73%) Security Posture
8 12 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.80%) Enterprise Cloud
9 11 (2.56%) Data Centre
10 10 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.10%) Data Structures
11 9 (2.10%) Management Information System
11 9 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (2.10%) Video Conferencing
12 8 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (1.86%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.63%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.63%) Replication
14 6 (1.40%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 134 (31.24%) Linux
2 89 (20.75%) Windows
3 39 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 17 (3.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.80%) Unix
6 10 (2.33%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.10%) Debian
7 9 (2.10%) Rocky
8 7 (1.63%) Windows 10
8 7 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.47%) CentOS
10 2 (0.47%) macOS
11 1 (0.23%) Android
11 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.23%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (63.40%) CI/CD
2 268 (62.47%) DevOps
3 248 (57.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 147 (34.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 144 (33.57%) Platform Engineering
6 121 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (25.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 103 (24.01%) Agile
9 96 (22.38%) Cloud Security
10 93 (21.68%) Observability
11 89 (20.75%) Containerisation
12 69 (16.08%) Mentoring
13 67 (15.62%) Technical Leadership
14 63 (14.69%) Migration
15 62 (14.45%) AI
16 56 (13.05%) Disaster Recovery
17 53 (12.35%) Deployment Automation
17 53 (12.35%) Test Automation
18 51 (11.89%) Roadmaps
19 50 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 202 (47.09%) Python
2 145 (33.80%) PowerShell
3 143 (33.33%) Bash
4 53 (12.35%) SQL
5 32 (7.46%) Bicep
6 27 (6.29%) Java
7 23 (5.36%) Go
8 10 (2.33%) C#
9 9 (2.10%) PHP
10 7 (1.63%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.17%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.70%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.70%) Ruby
14 2 (0.47%) C
14 2 (0.47%) C++
14 2 (0.47%) Fortran
14 2 (0.47%) Rust
15 1 (0.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 141 (32.87%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.42%) DV Cleared
4 34 (7.93%) Degree
5 26 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 26 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (4.66%) AWS Certification
7 20 (4.66%) CISSP
8 6 (1.40%) A+ Certification
8 6 (1.40%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.47%) CCNP
11 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.47%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.47%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.96%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.50%) QA
3 11 (2.56%) NIST
4 9 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.10%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.17%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.47%) GxP
8 1 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.23%) GDPR
8 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 99 (23.08%) Docker
2 64 (14.92%) Active Directory
3 44 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (5.83%) VMware ESXi
5 19 (4.43%) vSphere
6 18 (4.20%) VMware NSX
7 16 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (2.80%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.93%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.93%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.70%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.47%) Xen
12 1 (0.23%) GPFS
12 1 (0.23%) LXC
12 1 (0.23%) NFS
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 160 (37.30%) Kubernetes
2 129 (30.07%) Ansible
3 59 (13.75%) Grafana
4 50 (11.66%) Prometheus
5 31 (7.23%) Puppet
6 23 (5.36%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (4.20%) vCenter Server
9 10 (2.33%) Argo
9 10 (2.33%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.63%) FortiGate
11 6 (1.40%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.40%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.17%) Istio
13 4 (0.93%) Packer
14 3 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 3 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
14 3 (0.70%) Podman
14 3 (0.70%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 132 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 64 (14.92%) VMware
3 19 (4.43%) Cisco
3 19 (4.43%) Google
4 14 (3.26%) Red Hat
5 11 (2.56%) Databricks
6 10 (2.33%) Fortinet
6 10 (2.33%) NetApp
7 7 (1.63%) Okta
7 7 (1.63%) Oracle
8 6 (1.40%) Aruba
8 6 (1.40%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.40%) Dynatrace
8 6 (1.40%) IBM
8 6 (1.40%) Splunk
9 5 (1.17%) ForgeRock
9 5 (1.17%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.17%) Zscaler
10 4 (0.93%) Ping Identity
10 4 (0.93%) Thales