Infrastructure Automation Jobs

Infrastructure Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Infrastructure Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 715 633 686
Rank change year-on-year -82 +53 -175
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 174 359 616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.36% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 140 196 245
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,813 £91,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,125 £105,000 £113,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Infrastructure Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Automation in the UK

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 -46 157 £67,500 -3.57% 64
UK excluding London -81 91 £62,500 -3.85% 46
Work from Home -27 84 £72,500 +3.57% 31
London +33 68 £75,000 -11.76% 26
South East +8 48 £62,500 -3.85% 10
North of England +16 19 £60,000 +14.29% 13
Midlands +18 11 £63,750 +27.50% 8
Yorkshire +72 10 £60,000 +41.70% 6
North West -5 9 £60,000 -9.43% 6
West Midlands +28 6 £67,500 +42.11% 6
East Midlands -11 5 £60,000 +20.00% 2
East of England +35 4 £45,000 -33.33% 4
Wales +2 3 £52,500 - 4
South West -59 3 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Scotland -64 3 £57,000 -24.00% 1
North East +4 2 £80,000 +33.33% 1

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.90%) Confluence
2 4 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.15%) SAS
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.57%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.57%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 106 (60.92%) Azure
2 89 (51.15%) AWS
3 39 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (17.82%) SaaS
5 28 (16.09%) GitHub
6 26 (14.94%) Serverless
7 24 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 23 (13.22%) IaaS
9 22 (12.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (12.64%) Cloud Computing
10 20 (11.49%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (10.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (9.77%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (9.77%) GCP
13 16 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (9.20%) Nutanix
14 13 (7.47%) Route 53
15 7 (4.02%) Amazon EKS
15 7 (4.02%) PaaS
16 6 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.22%) DNS
2 20 (11.49%) Firewall
3 14 (8.05%) Network Security
4 4 (2.30%) VoIP
5 3 (1.72%) VPN
5 3 (1.72%) WAN
6 2 (1.15%) HTTP
6 2 (1.15%) LAN
6 2 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.57%) DHCP
7 1 (0.57%) Wireless
7 1 (0.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.49%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.60%) CockroachDB
2 8 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.02%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.30%) MySQL
4 4 (2.30%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (1.72%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.15%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.15%) Metadata
6 2 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.15%) Tableau
7 1 (0.57%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 58 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 20 (11.49%) Bitbucket
3 19 (10.92%) JIRA
4 18 (10.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (9.77%) Git
6 14 (8.05%) Subversion
7 9 (5.17%) GitLab
7 9 (5.17%) Selenium
8 8 (4.60%) Jaeger
9 7 (4.02%) JMeter
9 7 (4.02%) JUnit
9 7 (4.02%) TestNG
10 6 (3.45%) Bitbucket Server
10 6 (3.45%) CircleCI
10 6 (3.45%) Cucumber
10 6 (3.45%) Serenity BDD
11 5 (2.87%) SoapUI
12 4 (2.30%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.72%) Hudson
13 3 (1.72%) Travis CI
General
1 53 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 47 (27.01%) Finance
3 43 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.60%) Financial Institution
6 7 (4.02%) Law
6 7 (4.02%) Retail
7 6 (3.45%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.72%) Legal
8 3 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.15%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Local Government
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 44 (25.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (22.41%) Senior
3 35 (20.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 33 (18.97%) Platform Engineer
5 26 (14.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 26 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (12.07%) Architect
7 17 (9.77%) AWS Engineer
7 17 (9.77%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (9.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (8.62%) Automation Engineer
9 15 (8.62%) Senior DevOps
9 15 (8.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 13 (7.47%) Technical Architect
11 12 (6.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 10 (5.75%) Cloud Automation Engineer
12 10 (5.75%) Infrastructure Manager
13 9 (5.17%) Lead
14 8 (4.60%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.90%) Kafka
2 10 (5.75%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.60%) Middleware
3 8 (4.60%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (4.60%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.02%) RESTful
4 7 (4.02%) Web Services
5 5 (2.87%) ARM Templates
5 5 (2.87%) SAML
5 5 (2.87%) SOAP
6 4 (2.30%) REST
7 3 (1.72%) .NET
7 3 (1.72%) Celery
7 3 (1.72%) Gherkin
7 3 (1.72%) Node.js
7 3 (1.72%) React
8 2 (1.15%) Compass CSS Framework
8 2 (1.15%) JSON
8 2 (1.15%) WireMock
8 2 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (9.77%) IoT
3 16 (9.20%) Management Information System
4 11 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (5.17%) Data Centre
6 7 (4.02%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.87%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.30%) Blog
8 4 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.72%) PMI
9 3 (1.72%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.15%) Life Science
10 2 (1.15%) NFT
10 2 (1.15%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.11%) Windows
2 32 (18.39%) Linux
3 9 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (1.72%) CentOS
5 3 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.15%) Unix
7 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (73.56%) DevOps
2 100 (57.47%) CI/CD
3 96 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (21.84%) Agile
5 38 (21.84%) Containerisation
6 36 (20.69%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (19.54%) Technical Leadership
8 33 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
9 32 (18.39%) Configuration Management
9 32 (18.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 31 (17.82%) ITIL
11 29 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
12 27 (15.52%) Test Automation
13 26 (14.94%) Decision-Making
13 26 (14.94%) Disaster Recovery
14 24 (13.79%) Infrastructure Management
15 22 (12.64%) Mentoring
15 22 (12.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 88 (50.57%) Python
2 55 (31.61%) Bash
3 38 (21.84%) PowerShell
4 31 (17.82%) Java
5 29 (16.67%) SQL
6 18 (10.34%) Perl
7 13 (7.47%) Bicep
8 10 (5.75%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.17%) Go
10 8 (4.60%) Shell Script
11 7 (4.02%) C#
12 6 (3.45%) Ruby
13 3 (1.72%) MATLAB
13 3 (1.72%) PL/SQL
14 2 (1.15%) PHP
14 2 (1.15%) R
15 1 (0.57%) VB
15 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (10.92%) Degree
2 12 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.72%) CCNA
6 3 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.15%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.15%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.15%) MCSA
7 2 (1.15%) MCSE
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.77%) Data Quality
2 15 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.30%) NCSC
4 3 (1.72%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.72%) QA
5 2 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 84 (48.28%) Docker
2 27 (15.52%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (14.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (13.79%) Active Directory
5 9 (5.17%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.72%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.57%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 92 (52.87%) Kubernetes
2 89 (51.15%) Terraform
3 54 (31.03%) Ansible
4 24 (13.79%) Puppet
5 18 (10.34%) Progress Chef
6 10 (5.75%) Packer
7 8 (4.60%) Kiali
8 7 (4.02%) Kibana
8 7 (4.02%) Salt
8 7 (4.02%) ZABBIX
9 6 (3.45%) Grafana
9 6 (3.45%) Nagios
10 5 (2.87%) logstash
10 5 (2.87%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.72%) Argo
11 3 (1.72%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (1.15%) Consul
12 2 (1.15%) Graphite
12 2 (1.15%) SCCM
13 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 28 (16.09%) VMware
2 17 (9.77%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.20%) Splunk
4 11 (6.32%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.60%) AppDynamics
6 6 (3.45%) New Relic
7 5 (2.87%) Oracle
7 5 (2.87%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.87%) Veeam
8 4 (2.30%) Acronis
9 2 (1.15%) Google
9 2 (1.15%) SAP
10 1 (0.57%) Cisco
10 1 (0.57%) Citrix
10 1 (0.57%) EMC
10 1 (0.57%) IBM
10 1 (0.57%) MathWorks
10 1 (0.57%) PTC
10 1 (0.57%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.57%) TOWER Software