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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 512 572
Rank change year-on-year +44 +60 -79
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 371 170 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.34% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.39% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 236 122 171
10th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,813 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £75,000 £68,900
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +8.85% +2.07%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £85,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +42 332 £70,400 -9.16% 594
UK excluding London +13 209 £65,000 +4.00% 299
London -21 124 £85,000 -0.58% 327
Work from Home +2 97 £70,000 -1.75% 203
North of England -24 76 £55,000 -12.00% 105
South West -24 51 £75,000 +9.09% 27
South East -20 46 £65,000 -13.33% 89
North West -9 36 £70,400 -2.90% 53
Yorkshire -17 20 £57,500 -8.00% 36
North East -46 20 £51,000 -15.00% 17
East of England -22 13 £45,000 -10.00% 16
Wales -69 11 £64,750 +15.11% 2
Midlands -27 10 £62,000 +6.44% 31
West Midlands -37 7 £62,000 +3.33% 16
East Midlands -30 3 £41,000 -29.61% 15
Scotland +2 1 - - 23
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

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 (2.70%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.43%) Apache
3 8 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.89%) Confluence
4 7 (1.89%) Jupyter
4 7 (1.89%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.62%) IIS
5 6 (1.62%) nginx
6 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.08%) SAS
7 2 (0.54%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.27%) WebLogic Portal
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 184 (49.60%) Azure
2 144 (38.81%) AWS
3 82 (22.10%) GitHub
4 63 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (14.02%) GitHub Actions
6 50 (13.48%) Entra ID
7 47 (12.67%) Amazon S3
8 46 (12.40%) GCP
9 44 (11.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 43 (11.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 41 (11.05%) Serverless
12 40 (10.78%) Amazon EKS
13 35 (9.43%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (8.09%) Azure AKS
17 27 (7.28%) SaaS
18 21 (5.66%) PaaS
18 21 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 18 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (15.36%) Firewall
2 34 (9.16%) VPN
3 21 (5.66%) DNS
4 20 (5.39%) Kerberos
5 16 (4.31%) Network Security
6 13 (3.50%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.70%) DHCP
8 9 (2.43%) WAN
9 6 (1.62%) LAN
10 4 (1.08%) NAS
10 4 (1.08%) VLAN
11 3 (0.81%) BGP
11 3 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
11 3 (0.81%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.81%) WebEx
11 3 (0.81%) Wireless
12 2 (0.54%) SAN
13 1 (0.27%) MPLS
13 1 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (5.66%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (2.43%) DynamoDB
5 7 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.35%) MySQL
6 5 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.08%) Ataccama
7 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.08%) IBM InfoSphere
7 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.08%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.08%) TIBCO EBX
8 3 (0.81%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 47 (12.67%) Jenkins
2 45 (12.13%) Git
3 44 (11.86%) GitLab
4 16 (4.31%) JIRA
5 7 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
5 7 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.08%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.81%) Subversion
8 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.54%) JMeter
8 2 (0.54%) Postman
8 2 (0.54%) Snyk
8 2 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.27%) Flyway
9 1 (0.27%) git-flow
9 1 (0.27%) Maven
General
1 67 (18.06%) Finance
1 67 (18.06%) Social Skills
2 35 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (7.01%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (5.39%) Law
5 13 (3.50%) Aerospace
5 13 (3.50%) Retail
6 12 (3.23%) Banking
7 7 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.62%) Legal
8 6 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 3 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.81%) Legal Technology
9 3 (0.81%) Marketing
10 2 (0.54%) Automotive
10 2 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.54%) Electronics
10 2 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 95 (25.61%) Senior
2 90 (24.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 72 (19.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (16.17%) Azure Engineer
4 60 (16.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 53 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
6 33 (8.89%) Architect
7 30 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
8 28 (7.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 26 (7.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 24 (6.47%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 24 (6.47%) Lead
10 24 (6.47%) Senior DevOps
11 22 (5.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 19 (5.12%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
14 17 (4.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 15 (4.04%) Administrator
16 13 (3.50%) Security Engineer
16 13 (3.50%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (60.92%) Terraform
2 22 (5.93%) ARM Templates
2 22 (5.93%) OpenID
2 22 (5.93%) SAML
3 20 (5.39%) OAuth
4 17 (4.58%) Node.js
5 16 (4.31%) LDAP
5 16 (4.31%) REST
6 10 (2.70%) RESTful
7 9 (2.43%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (2.16%) .NET
9 7 (1.89%) Loki
9 7 (1.89%) PySpark
9 7 (1.89%) YAML
10 6 (1.62%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.62%) OpenTofu
10 6 (1.62%) Pulumi
11 5 (1.35%) Kafka
11 5 (1.35%) React
12 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 96 (25.88%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (7.82%) Linux Command Line
4 25 (6.74%) Private Cloud
5 21 (5.66%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.50%) Public Cloud
7 12 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 9 (2.43%) Data Structures
10 9 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.43%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.43%) Security Posture
10 9 (2.43%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (2.16%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.62%) Hedge funds
12 6 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (1.62%) Replication
13 5 (1.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 117 (31.54%) Linux
2 75 (20.22%) Windows
3 31 (8.36%) Windows Server
4 14 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.23%) Unix
6 9 (2.43%) Debian
7 7 (1.89%) Rocky
7 7 (1.89%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.62%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.54%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.27%) Android
11 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.27%) CentOS
11 1 (0.27%) Solaris
11 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (68.46%) CI/CD
2 242 (65.23%) DevOps
3 217 (58.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 123 (33.15%) Platform Engineering
5 114 (30.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 98 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (23.99%) Cloud Security
8 87 (23.45%) Containerisation
9 86 (23.18%) Agile
10 85 (22.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 84 (22.64%) Observability
12 67 (18.06%) Mentoring
13 59 (15.90%) Migration
14 57 (15.36%) AI
15 50 (13.48%) Technical Leadership
16 47 (12.67%) Roadmaps
17 45 (12.13%) Disaster Recovery
17 45 (12.13%) Identity Access Management
18 44 (11.86%) Test Automation
19 41 (11.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 186 (50.13%) Python
2 127 (34.23%) PowerShell
3 122 (32.88%) Bash
4 47 (12.67%) SQL
5 31 (8.36%) Bicep
6 22 (5.93%) Go
7 17 (4.58%) Java
8 8 (2.16%) PHP
9 7 (1.89%) C#
10 6 (1.62%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.35%) JavaScript
12 4 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.81%) Ruby
14 2 (0.54%) C
14 2 (0.54%) C++
14 2 (0.54%) Fortran
14 2 (0.54%) Groovy
14 2 (0.54%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.54%) Rust
15 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 112 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 60 (16.17%) SC Cleared
3 31 (8.36%) DV Cleared
4 29 (7.82%) Degree
5 19 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (4.85%) Azure Certification
7 16 (4.31%) AWS Certification
7 16 (4.31%) CISSP
8 12 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.62%) A+ Certification
9 6 (1.62%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.54%) CCNP
12 2 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.54%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.50%) QA
3 10 (2.70%) NIST
4 7 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.89%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.81%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.81%) GDPR
5 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.54%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.27%) GxP
System Software
1 100 (26.95%) Docker
2 58 (15.63%) Active Directory
3 31 (8.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.58%) vSphere
5 12 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (2.16%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.89%) BitLocker
7 7 (1.89%) Hyper-V
8 4 (1.08%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.54%) Xen
11 1 (0.27%) Firmware
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 142 (38.27%) Kubernetes
2 109 (29.38%) Ansible
3 47 (12.67%) Grafana
4 42 (11.32%) Prometheus
5 17 (4.58%) Puppet
6 16 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.70%) Argo
9 8 (2.16%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.89%) Proxmox
11 6 (1.62%) Istio
11 6 (1.62%) ZABBIX
12 5 (1.35%) Packer
12 5 (1.35%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.54%) FlexNet
14 2 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 2 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
14 2 (0.54%) Rancher
14 2 (0.54%) Scalr
Vendors
1 105 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 47 (12.67%) VMware
3 20 (5.39%) Google
4 17 (4.58%) Cisco
5 14 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.16%) Citrix
7 7 (1.89%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.89%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.62%) Atlassian
8 6 (1.62%) NetApp
8 6 (1.62%) Okta
8 6 (1.62%) Tenable
9 5 (1.35%) Databricks
10 4 (1.08%) EMC
10 4 (1.08%) F5
10 4 (1.08%) IBM
10 4 (1.08%) Informatica
10 4 (1.08%) Oracle
10 4 (1.08%) Ping Identity
10 4 (1.08%) TIBCO