Infrastructure Automation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Infrastructure Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 503 500
Rank change year-on-year +122 -3 +38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 36 82 179
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.24% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.26% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 27 74 115
10th Percentile £57,500 £57,390 £40,700
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% +3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,688 £85,625
90th Percentile £87,750 £95,875 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +18.52% -3.57% -

All Process and 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 14,134 30,993 40,912
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.17% 91.62% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 9,780 23,560 28,419
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Infrastructure Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Automation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Infrastructure Automation.

Infrastructure Automation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Infrastructure Automation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (16.67%) IIS
2 3 (8.33%) Apache
2 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) Azure
2 18 (50.00%) AWS
3 11 (30.56%) GCP
4 7 (19.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Serverless
5 6 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (16.67%) Datadog
6 4 (11.11%) GitHub
6 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (11.11%) SaaS
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (8.33%) IaaS
7 3 (8.33%) PaaS
8 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
8 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.56%) Nutanix
8 2 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) DHCP
1 5 (13.89%) DNS
2 4 (11.11%) Firewall
3 3 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.33%) VPN
4 1 (2.78%) BGP
4 1 (2.78%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.78%) Network Security
4 1 (2.78%) OSPF
4 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) JUnit
4 3 (8.33%) Maven
5 2 (5.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (5.56%) JIRA
5 2 (5.56%) Mockito
5 2 (5.56%) Postman
5 2 (5.56%) REST Assured
5 2 (5.56%) SoapUI
5 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.56%) Subversion
5 2 (5.56%) Xcode
5 2 (5.56%) XCTest
6 1 (2.78%) Gradle
6 1 (2.78%) Selenium
6 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.78%) Spinnaker
6 1 (2.78%) TestNG
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Advertising
4 2 (5.56%) Games
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Marketing
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Senior
2 10 (27.78%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (11.11%) IT Manager
7 3 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Lead
7 3 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) ARM Templates
2 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (8.33%) AWS CDK
3 3 (8.33%) Kafka
3 3 (8.33%) REST
3 3 (8.33%) Web Services
4 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.56%) Bootstrap
4 2 (5.56%) CSS
4 2 (5.56%) CSS3
4 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.56%) HTML
4 2 (5.56%) HTML5
4 2 (5.56%) J2EE
4 2 (5.56%) JPA
4 2 (5.56%) SOAP
4 2 (5.56%) Spring
4 2 (5.56%) Spring MVC
4 2 (5.56%) Swagger
4 2 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Clustering
2 6 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (13.89%) Data Centre
4 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 4 (11.11%) Replication
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 3 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) Credit Risk
7 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
7 1 (2.78%) Market Risk
7 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Linux
1 13 (36.11%) Windows
2 6 (16.67%) Unix
3 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.33%) CentOS
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.78%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 14 (38.89%) DevOps
3 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (33.33%) Agile
4 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (30.56%) Containerisation
6 8 (22.22%) Observability
7 6 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 5 (13.89%) Analytics
8 5 (13.89%) Cloud Security
8 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (13.89%) Computer Science
8 5 (13.89%) ITIL
9 4 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
9 4 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) Python
2 15 (41.67%) Bash
3 8 (22.22%) Java
3 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.89%) SQL
6 4 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.33%) Bicep
7 3 (8.33%) C#
7 3 (8.33%) Scala
8 2 (5.56%) Groovy
8 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.78%) Go
9 1 (2.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 5 (13.89%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.78%) CCNP
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) GDPR
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) Basel III
2 1 (2.78%) IFRS
2 1 (2.78%) IFRS 9
2 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (36.11%) Docker
2 12 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (72.22%) Terraform
2 19 (52.78%) Kubernetes
3 13 (36.11%) Ansible
4 6 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (8.33%) SCCM
7 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (5.56%) Progress Chef
7 2 (5.56%) Puppet
8 1 (2.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) VMware
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.56%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Cisco
4 1 (2.78%) Mellanox
4 1 (2.78%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat