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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 533 490
Rank change year-on-year +30 -43 +50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 155 221 246
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.33% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.39% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 113 158 151
10th Percentile £51,943 £50,875 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £67,225 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.31% +7.56% -

All Process and 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 45,477 56,157 48,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.69% 83.58% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 27,500 29,119 37,204
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,404 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +50 141 £75,000 +5.63% 180
London +22 85 £80,250 +0.31% 96
UK excluding London +28 64 £65,000 -3.31% 91
Work from Home +31 57 £72,500 +3.57% 111
North of England +50 27 £65,000 +4.00% 26
North West +48 19 £70,000 +33.33% 16
South East +7 11 £75,000 +20.00% 29
Scotland +11 10 - - 4
Midlands +64 6 £58,250 -14.34% 11
South West +17 6 £65,000 - 12
North East +11 4 £66,250 -5.36% 3
Yorkshire 0 4 £47,500 -25.33% 7
West Midlands +43 3 £52,500 -22.79% 6
East Midlands - 3 £62,500 - 5
East of England +17 2 £55,000 -21.43% 12
Wales +11 2 £52,500 - 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 10 (6.45%) IIS
2 4 (2.58%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.58%) Confluence
2 4 (2.58%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.94%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.65%) SAS
5 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 102 (65.81%) Azure
2 70 (45.16%) AWS
3 36 (23.23%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (20.00%) GitHub
5 25 (16.13%) GCP
6 18 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (11.61%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (9.68%) Serverless
8 12 (7.74%) PaaS
8 12 (7.74%) SaaS
9 11 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (7.10%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (5.16%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (4.52%) IaaS
13 6 (3.87%) Snowflake
14 5 (3.23%) Azure AKS
14 5 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 25 (16.13%) Firewall
2 16 (10.32%) DNS
3 11 (7.10%) VPN
4 10 (6.45%) Network Security
5 6 (3.87%) LAN
5 6 (3.87%) WAN
6 4 (2.58%) SAN
6 4 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.94%) DHCP
7 3 (1.94%) VLAN
8 2 (1.29%) Internet
8 2 (1.29%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.65%) VSAN
9 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.87%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.23%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.94%) Apache Hive
6 3 (1.94%) Big Data
6 3 (1.94%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.29%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.29%) MySQL
7 2 (1.29%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.65%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (18.71%) Git
1 29 (18.71%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.61%) GitLab
3 11 (7.10%) JIRA
4 8 (5.16%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.52%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.94%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.94%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (1.29%) JUnit
9 2 (1.29%) Maven
9 2 (1.29%) Mockito
10 1 (0.65%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.65%) Postman
10 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.65%) Xcode
10 1 (0.65%) XCTest
General
1 52 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 42 (27.10%) Finance
3 19 (12.26%) Law
4 15 (9.68%) Banking
5 8 (5.16%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.52%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.87%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.94%) Advertising
9 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (21.29%) Platform Engineer
2 28 (18.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (16.13%) Senior
4 22 (14.19%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Network Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 9 (5.81%) Lead
9 8 (5.16%) Data Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Architect
11 5 (3.23%) CloudOps Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
11 5 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.45%) ARM Templates
1 10 (6.45%) YAML
2 8 (5.16%) RESTful
3 7 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (4.52%) Kafka
3 7 (4.52%) React
4 6 (3.87%) REST
5 5 (3.23%) .NET
5 5 (3.23%) Node.js
6 4 (2.58%) HTML
6 4 (2.58%) Jinja
6 4 (2.58%) LDAP
6 4 (2.58%) Middleware
6 4 (2.58%) OAuth
6 4 (2.58%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.58%) Spring
6 4 (2.58%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.58%) Web Services
7 3 (1.94%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.03%) Private Cloud
3 10 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.87%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.23%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.58%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.29%) CMDB
8 2 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.29%) IoT
8 2 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.29%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (35.48%) Linux
2 32 (20.65%) Windows
3 22 (14.19%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.87%) VMS
6 5 (3.23%) CentOS
6 5 (3.23%) Unix
6 5 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.94%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.29%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.65%) Solaris
10 1 (0.65%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (67.10%) CI/CD
2 103 (66.45%) DevOps
3 75 (48.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (33.55%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (32.90%) Containerisation
6 45 (29.03%) Agile
7 43 (27.74%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (18.71%) AI
9 27 (17.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (16.77%) Cloud Security
10 26 (16.77%) Observability
11 23 (14.84%) Configuration Management
11 23 (14.84%) High Availability
11 23 (14.84%) Mentoring
12 21 (13.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (11.61%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (11.61%) Root Cause Analysis
14 16 (10.32%) Cloud Operations
14 16 (10.32%) Continuous Integration
14 16 (10.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (52.26%) Python
2 66 (42.58%) PowerShell
3 36 (23.23%) Bash
4 18 (11.61%) SQL
5 15 (9.68%) Bicep
5 15 (9.68%) Java
6 12 (7.74%) C#
7 11 (7.10%) Go
8 9 (5.81%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.87%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.29%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.65%) Perl
11 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (7.10%) Azure Certification
1 11 (7.10%) Degree
1 11 (7.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.52%) AWS Certification
2 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.87%) DV Cleared
3 6 (3.87%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.23%) CCNP
4 5 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.58%) CCIE
5 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.94%) RHCE
7 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.29%) CISSP
7 2 (1.29%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.65%) GAWN
8 1 (0.65%) GREM
8 1 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.65%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.10%) GDPR
1 11 (7.10%) QA
2 6 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.58%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.94%) NIST
5 2 (1.29%) GRC
5 2 (1.29%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.29%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (32.26%) Docker
2 21 (13.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (10.32%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.87%) vSphere
5 5 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (2.58%) vCloud
6 4 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.65%) Postfix
7 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 98 (63.23%) Terraform
2 90 (58.06%) Kubernetes
3 70 (45.16%) Ansible
4 22 (14.19%) Prometheus
5 19 (12.26%) Grafana
6 9 (5.81%) Puppet
7 8 (5.16%) Progress Chef
8 7 (4.52%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (2.58%) CASB
9 4 (2.58%) Kubeflow
9 4 (2.58%) Rundeck
10 3 (1.94%) Control-M
11 1 (0.65%) Argo
11 1 (0.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.65%) Rancher
11 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 40 (25.81%) VMware
2 33 (21.29%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.26%) Cisco
4 16 (10.32%) ServiceNow
5 15 (9.68%) Red Hat
6 11 (7.10%) Oracle
7 8 (5.16%) Foundry
8 7 (4.52%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.52%) Palo Alto
9 6 (3.87%) Dynatrace
9 6 (3.87%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.58%) Databricks
10 4 (2.58%) Meraki
10 4 (2.58%) Palantir
10 4 (2.58%) Splunk
11 3 (1.94%) Commvault
11 3 (1.94%) Dell
11 3 (1.94%) Google
11 3 (1.94%) Pure Storage
12 2 (1.29%) SolarWinds