Hybrid/Remote Infrastructure Automation Job Trends

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 373 504
Rank change year-on-year +40 +131 -98
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 88 45 93
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 0.30% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 44 36 81
10th Percentile £43,250 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £60,938 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £73,750 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +8.46% +0.74%
75th Percentile £79,688 £82,813 £77,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +14.81% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,157 14,306 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 94.59% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,595 8,366 23,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Automation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Automation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure Automation

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Infrastructure Automation salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Infrastructure Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 4 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.68%) Azure
2 37 (42.05%) AWS
3 30 (34.09%) GitHub
4 24 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (19.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (17.05%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (15.91%) Entra ID
8 13 (14.77%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (12.50%) PaaS
11 9 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (9.09%) Amazon S3
13 7 (7.95%) GCP
13 7 (7.95%) IaaS
14 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (5.68%) Azure AKS
15 5 (5.68%) CloudFront
15 5 (5.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 23 (26.14%) Firewall
2 15 (17.05%) VPN
3 10 (11.36%) Kerberos
4 7 (7.95%) LAN
5 6 (6.82%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (6.82%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (6.82%) DNS
5 6 (6.82%) Network Security
5 6 (6.82%) Unified Communications
5 6 (6.82%) VLAN
5 6 (6.82%) WAN
5 6 (6.82%) WebEx
6 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.14%) Broadband
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (1.14%) DHCP
7 1 (1.14%) NGFW
7 1 (1.14%) Wireless
7 1 (1.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.14%) Big Data
5 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.14%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) Git
2 9 (10.23%) Visual Studio Code
3 8 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.27%) GitLab
4 2 (2.27%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.14%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.14%) git-flow
5 1 (1.14%) Maven
5 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Retail
3 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.82%) Banking
5 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.82%) Law
5 6 (6.82%) Legal
5 6 (6.82%) Legal Technology
5 6 (6.82%) Marketing
5 6 (6.82%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Advertising
7 1 (1.14%) German Language
Job Titles
1 26 (29.55%) Platform Engineer
2 24 (27.27%) Azure Engineer
3 18 (20.45%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (20.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 18 (20.45%) Senior
4 13 (14.77%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
6 10 (11.36%) Architect
7 8 (9.09%) Administrator
7 8 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (7.95%) DevOps Administrator
8 7 (7.95%) Senior DevOps
8 7 (7.95%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 6 (6.82%) Collaboration Engineer
9 6 (6.82%) Engineering Manager
9 6 (6.82%) Infrastructure Manager
9 6 (6.82%) Lead
9 6 (6.82%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.36%) LDAP
1 10 (11.36%) OAuth
1 10 (11.36%) OpenID
1 10 (11.36%) SAML
2 7 (7.95%) REST
3 6 (6.82%) ARM Templates
3 6 (6.82%) XMPP
4 5 (5.68%) RESTful
5 4 (4.55%) Loki
6 2 (2.27%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.27%) Flask
7 1 (1.14%) Apache Beam
7 1 (1.14%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.14%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (1.14%) Next.js
7 1 (1.14%) pytest
7 1 (1.14%) React
7 1 (1.14%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 16 (18.18%) Private Cloud
3 15 (17.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (11.36%) Public Cloud
5 9 (10.23%) CMDB
6 6 (6.82%) FlexPod
6 6 (6.82%) Onboarding
6 6 (6.82%) Podcast
6 6 (6.82%) Product Ownership
6 6 (6.82%) Replication
6 6 (6.82%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.41%) Driving Licence
8 3 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.14%) PKI
9 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (45.45%) Linux
2 24 (27.27%) Windows
3 16 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.14%) Android
4 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.14%) Debian
4 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 55 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 53 (60.23%) DevOps
3 32 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
4 30 (34.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (27.27%) Observability
6 22 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (23.86%) AI
7 21 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (22.73%) Cloud Security
8 20 (22.73%) Containerisation
9 19 (21.59%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (21.59%) Roadmaps
10 17 (19.32%) Identity Access Management
10 17 (19.32%) RBAC
11 16 (18.18%) Configuration Management
12 15 (17.05%) Collaborative Culture
13 14 (15.91%) Computer Science
13 14 (15.91%) Incident Response
13 14 (15.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (56.82%) Python
2 42 (47.73%) PowerShell
3 26 (29.55%) Bash
4 17 (19.32%) Bicep
5 11 (12.50%) Go
6 5 (5.68%) SQL
7 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.27%) Groovy
9 1 (1.14%) ABAP
9 1 (1.14%) C#
9 1 (1.14%) Java
9 1 (1.14%) PHP
9 1 (1.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (34.09%) Degree
2 10 (11.36%) Azure Certification
2 10 (11.36%) CISSP
2 10 (11.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.95%) AWS Certification
3 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.14%) CCIE
5 1 (1.14%) CCNP
5 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.14%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) NIST
2 4 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (18.18%) Docker
3 14 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 9 (10.23%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (7.95%) vSphere
6 5 (5.68%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (2.27%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.14%) BitLocker
9 1 (1.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (76.14%) Terraform
2 39 (44.32%) Kubernetes
3 35 (39.77%) Ansible
4 27 (30.68%) Grafana
5 17 (19.32%) Prometheus
6 10 (11.36%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (7.95%) Proxmox
8 6 (6.82%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (6.82%) Packer
8 6 (6.82%) Progress Chef
9 5 (5.68%) Puppet
10 4 (4.55%) ZABBIX
11 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (2.27%) Argo
13 1 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (1.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 42 (47.73%) Microsoft
2 25 (28.41%) VMware
3 15 (17.05%) Cisco
4 13 (14.77%) Palo Alto
5 7 (7.95%) Fortinet
6 6 (6.82%) EMC
6 6 (6.82%) F5
6 6 (6.82%) NetApp
6 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
6 6 (6.82%) Splunk
7 4 (4.55%) Cribl.io
8 3 (3.41%) IFS
8 3 (3.41%) Oracle
9 2 (2.27%) Dell
9 2 (2.27%) Google
9 2 (2.27%) Juniper
9 2 (2.27%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.14%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.14%) Citrix
10 1 (1.14%) HP