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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 542 622
Rank change year-on-year +51 +80 -85
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 294 149 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.30% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.34% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 192 110 176
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £48,125
25th Percentile £57,188 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +14.39% +0.37%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +3.31%

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 73,858 44,154 75,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.61% 89.93% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,064 24,939 51,848
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +31 263 £72,500 -6.45% 164
UK excluding London +20 157 £65,000 +4.00% 117
Work from Home +35 106 £65,000 -1.89% 79
London -7 104 £85,000 +3.03% 67
North of England -13 45 £70,400 +12.64% 42
South West -21 41 £75,000 - 17
South East +3 40 £65,000 -13.33% 40
North West +2 24 £74,500 +24.17% 23
Yorkshire -19 14 £62,500 - 12
Midlands -23 12 £64,000 +18.52% 7
Wales -44 10 £55,000 -4.35% 4
East of England -1 9 £45,000 -10.00% 4
West Midlands -26 8 £67,250 +12.08% 5
North East -49 7 £55,000 -8.33% 7
East Midlands -24 4 £64,000 +18.52% 2

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 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.72%) IIS
3 7 (2.38%) Apache
3 7 (2.38%) OpenStack
4 6 (2.04%) Jupyter
4 6 (2.04%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.70%) nginx
6 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.36%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) Confluence
7 1 (0.34%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 163 (55.44%) Azure
2 111 (37.76%) AWS
3 70 (23.81%) GitHub
4 55 (18.71%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 41 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (13.27%) GCP
8 35 (11.90%) Amazon S3
9 28 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
11 25 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (8.50%) PaaS
11 25 (8.50%) Serverless
12 24 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (6.80%) Azure AKS
14 19 (6.46%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (6.46%) IaaS
14 19 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (6.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (20.07%) Firewall
2 25 (8.50%) VPN
3 24 (8.16%) Kerberos
4 18 (6.12%) Network Security
5 12 (4.08%) DNS
6 11 (3.74%) WAN
7 10 (3.40%) LAN
8 6 (2.04%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (2.04%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (2.04%) Unified Communications
8 6 (2.04%) VLAN
8 6 (2.04%) WebEx
9 5 (1.70%) TCP/IP
10 4 (1.36%) DHCP
10 4 (1.36%) NAS
10 4 (1.36%) Wireless
11 2 (0.68%) BGP
11 2 (0.68%) SAN
12 1 (0.34%) MPLS
12 1 (0.34%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.38%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (1.70%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.36%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.36%) MySQL
8 4 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.02%) Ataccama
9 3 (1.02%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.02%) IBM InfoSphere
9 3 (1.02%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.02%) TIBCO EBX
10 2 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.34%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 38 (12.93%) Git
2 30 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 28 (9.52%) GitLab
4 9 (3.06%) Visual Studio Code
5 8 (2.72%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (2.04%) JIRA
7 3 (1.02%) Subversion
8 2 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.68%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.34%) git-flow
9 1 (0.34%) Maven
General
1 49 (16.67%) Finance
2 47 (15.99%) Social Skills
3 31 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.08%) Retail
7 11 (3.74%) Law
8 9 (3.06%) Aerospace
8 9 (3.06%) Legal
8 9 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.04%) Banking
10 6 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.04%) Legal Technology
10 6 (2.04%) Marketing
11 3 (1.02%) Automotive
11 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Electronics
11 3 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 71 (24.15%) Senior
2 59 (20.07%) Azure Engineer
3 56 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 52 (17.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 47 (15.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 46 (15.65%) Platform Engineer
7 30 (10.20%) Architect
8 25 (8.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 23 (7.82%) Lead
10 22 (7.48%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 20 (6.80%) Automation Engineer
12 19 (6.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 17 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
13 17 (5.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
15 13 (4.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 13 (4.42%) Senior DevOps
16 12 (4.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 11 (3.74%) Administrator
18 10 (3.40%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.16%) OAuth
2 23 (7.82%) OpenID
2 23 (7.82%) SAML
3 20 (6.80%) ARM Templates
3 20 (6.80%) LDAP
4 17 (5.78%) Node.js
4 17 (5.78%) REST
5 9 (3.06%) .NET
5 9 (3.06%) Loki
5 9 (3.06%) RESTful
6 8 (2.72%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (2.72%) React
6 8 (2.72%) YAML
7 6 (2.04%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (2.04%) PySpark
7 6 (2.04%) XMPP
8 5 (1.70%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.36%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.36%) Kafka
9 4 (1.36%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 81 (27.55%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (6.46%) Private Cloud
4 15 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.10%) Public Cloud
5 14 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
6 13 (4.42%) Data Centre
6 13 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (3.40%) Product Ownership
8 9 (3.06%) Replication
9 8 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (2.38%) CMDB
10 7 (2.38%) Data Structures
11 6 (2.04%) FlexPod
11 6 (2.04%) Podcast
11 6 (2.04%) Security Posture
11 6 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (29.93%) Linux
2 60 (20.41%) Windows
3 29 (9.86%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.72%) Debian
4 8 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.70%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.70%) Unix
6 4 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.02%) Rocky
8 1 (0.34%) Android
8 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (70.07%) CI/CD
2 182 (61.90%) DevOps
3 177 (60.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 89 (30.27%) Platform Engineering
5 80 (27.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 74 (25.17%) Containerisation
7 70 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (23.13%) Agile
8 68 (23.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (22.45%) Observability
10 63 (21.43%) Cloud Security
11 60 (20.41%) Mentoring
12 44 (14.97%) Identity Access Management
13 41 (13.95%) Migration
13 41 (13.95%) Roadmaps
14 38 (12.93%) Test Automation
15 37 (12.59%) Disaster Recovery
16 36 (12.24%) AI
16 36 (12.24%) RBAC
17 35 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 147 (50.00%) Python
2 101 (34.35%) PowerShell
3 78 (26.53%) Bash
4 39 (13.27%) Bicep
5 33 (11.22%) SQL
6 21 (7.14%) Go
7 11 (3.74%) Java
8 8 (2.72%) C#
9 6 (2.04%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.04%) PHP
10 3 (1.02%) Ruby
11 2 (0.68%) Groovy
11 2 (0.68%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.34%) ABAP
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) C++
12 1 (0.34%) Fortran
12 1 (0.34%) Rust
12 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 37 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 31 (10.54%) Degree
4 19 (6.46%) Azure Certification
4 19 (6.46%) CISSP
5 18 (6.12%) DV Cleared
6 17 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.08%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.68%) CCNP
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.68%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.34%) CCIE
11 1 (0.34%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.74%) NIST
2 10 (3.40%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.40%) QA
3 8 (2.72%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.02%) GDPR
5 3 (1.02%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.68%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) GxP
System Software
1 76 (25.85%) Docker
2 51 (17.35%) Active Directory
3 28 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (5.78%) vSphere
5 12 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.38%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (1.70%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.02%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (1.02%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.68%) Xen
10 1 (0.34%) Firmware
10 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 195 (66.33%) Terraform
2 116 (39.46%) Kubernetes
3 96 (32.65%) Ansible
4 51 (17.35%) Grafana
5 40 (13.61%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (4.42%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (4.08%) Puppet
9 7 (2.38%) Packer
10 6 (2.04%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (2.04%) Proxmox
11 5 (1.70%) Argo
11 5 (1.70%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.70%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.02%) Scalr
13 2 (0.68%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.68%) Istio
13 2 (0.68%) Rancher
14 1 (0.34%) Cilium
14 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 85 (28.91%) Microsoft
2 39 (13.27%) VMware
3 20 (6.80%) Cisco
4 13 (4.42%) Palo Alto
5 12 (4.08%) Google
6 8 (2.72%) Citrix
6 8 (2.72%) NetApp
7 7 (2.38%) Fortinet
7 7 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.04%) EMC
8 6 (2.04%) F5
8 6 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.04%) Splunk
8 6 (2.04%) Tenable
9 5 (1.70%) Okta
10 4 (1.36%) Databricks
10 4 (1.36%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.36%) Ping Identity
11 3 (1.02%) Dell
11 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace