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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 655 660
Rank change year-on-year -59 +5 -112
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 182 329 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.34% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 143 183 248
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £114,000 £116,500
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 84,701 95,929 153,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.52% 95.60% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 59,701 56,502 82,944
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -59 165 £68,000 -2.86% 69
UK excluding London -71 100 £62,500 -3.85% 34
Work from Home -8 81 £72,500 +7.41% 33
London +38 68 £75,000 -11.76% 34
South East -2 44 £62,500 -3.85% 7
North of England +16 24 £60,000 +14.29% 11
Yorkshire +80 12 £60,000 +41.70% 2
North West -5 12 £60,000 -9.43% 9
Midlands +4 11 £63,750 +27.50% 3
East of England - 8 £67,500 - 4
West Midlands +3 6 £67,500 +25.58% 3
East Midlands -15 5 £60,000 +20.00%
South West -62 5 £67,500 +17.39% 7
Scotland -56 4 £57,000 -24.00% 1
Wales - 4 £53,750 - 1
North East -5 2 £80,000 +33.33%

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 11 (6.04%) Confluence
2 3 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.10%) SAS
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) IIS
4 1 (0.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.55%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.55%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 108 (59.34%) Azure
2 98 (53.85%) AWS
3 42 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (17.58%) GitHub
4 32 (17.58%) SaaS
5 26 (14.29%) Serverless
6 23 (12.64%) Amazon S3
6 23 (12.64%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (12.09%) GCP
8 20 (10.99%) IaaS
9 19 (10.44%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (10.44%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (9.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 16 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (7.14%) Nutanix
13 13 (7.14%) Route 53
14 10 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (4.40%) PaaS
16 6 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.99%) DNS
1 20 (10.99%) Firewall
2 15 (8.24%) Network Security
3 5 (2.75%) HTTP
4 4 (2.20%) VPN
4 4 (2.20%) Wireless
5 3 (1.65%) Internet
5 3 (1.65%) VoIP
5 3 (1.65%) WAN
6 2 (1.10%) LAN
6 2 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.55%) DHCP
7 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.89%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.40%) CockroachDB
3 7 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.20%) MySQL
6 4 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.65%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.65%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.10%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.10%) Metadata
8 2 (1.10%) Tableau
9 1 (0.55%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 59 (32.42%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.44%) Bitbucket
3 18 (9.89%) Git
3 18 (9.89%) Sonatype Nexus
4 17 (9.34%) JIRA
5 14 (7.69%) Subversion
6 9 (4.95%) CircleCI
7 8 (4.40%) GitLab
7 8 (4.40%) Jaeger
7 8 (4.40%) Selenium
8 6 (3.30%) JMeter
8 6 (3.30%) JUnit
8 6 (3.30%) TestNG
9 5 (2.75%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (2.75%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.75%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.20%) SoapUI
10 4 (2.20%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.65%) Hudson
11 3 (1.65%) Travis CI
General
1 60 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 48 (26.37%) Finance
3 42 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.95%) Law
6 8 (4.40%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.85%) Retail
8 6 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Automotive
10 3 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.65%) Legal
11 2 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.55%) Games
12 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Local Government
12 1 (0.55%) Marketing
12 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 47 (25.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (21.98%) Senior
3 39 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (19.23%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 23 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (12.09%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (11.54%) Architect
9 17 (9.34%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (8.79%) Automation Engineer
11 14 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 14 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (7.14%) Technical Architect
13 12 (6.59%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 10 (5.49%) Cloud Automation Engineer
14 10 (5.49%) Lead
15 9 (4.95%) Infrastructure Manager
16 8 (4.40%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.04%) Kafka
2 9 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (4.95%) RESTful
3 8 (4.40%) Middleware
3 8 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (4.40%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.30%) Node.js
4 6 (3.30%) React
4 6 (3.30%) Web Services
5 5 (2.75%) Compass CSS Framework
5 5 (2.75%) SAML
5 5 (2.75%) web3js
6 4 (2.20%) ARM Templates
6 4 (2.20%) REST
6 4 (2.20%) SOAP
7 3 (1.65%) .NET
8 2 (1.10%) Celery
8 2 (1.10%) Gherkin
8 2 (1.10%) JSON
8 2 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (9.34%) IoT
2 17 (9.34%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.04%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.49%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.30%) Blockchain
6 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.30%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (2.75%) NFT
7 5 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.75%) Web3
8 4 (2.20%) Blog
8 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.65%) PMI
10 2 (1.10%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.23%) Linux
2 30 (16.48%) Windows
3 8 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.20%) CentOS
4 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.10%) Unix
5 2 (1.10%) VMS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (70.88%) DevOps
2 108 (59.34%) CI/CD
3 99 (54.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 61 (33.52%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (22.53%) Containerisation
6 39 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
7 38 (20.88%) Agile
8 36 (19.78%) Configuration Management
9 35 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (18.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 32 (17.58%) Continuous Integration
12 31 (17.03%) Technical Leadership
13 27 (14.84%) ITIL
13 27 (14.84%) Network Virtualisation
14 24 (13.19%) Decision-Making
14 24 (13.19%) Infrastructure Management
14 24 (13.19%) Test Automation
15 22 (12.09%) Cloud Security
15 22 (12.09%) Mentoring
16 21 (11.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 84 (46.15%) Python
2 54 (29.67%) Bash
3 41 (22.53%) PowerShell
4 31 (17.03%) Java
5 29 (15.93%) SQL
6 14 (7.69%) Bicep
7 13 (7.14%) Perl
8 12 (6.59%) JavaScript
9 9 (4.95%) Go
10 7 (3.85%) C#
10 7 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 6 (3.30%) Ruby
12 3 (1.65%) MATLAB
13 2 (1.10%) PHP
13 2 (1.10%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.10%) R
14 1 (0.55%) VB
14 1 (0.55%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (10.44%) Degree
2 10 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.95%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.65%) CCNA
5 3 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.65%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) MCSA
6 2 (1.10%) MCSE
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.20%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.20%) NCSC
5 3 (1.65%) QA
6 1 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (47.80%) Docker
2 24 (13.19%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (10.44%) Active Directory
3 19 (10.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.65%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.10%) XenApp
6 2 (1.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 98 (53.85%) Terraform
2 95 (52.20%) Kubernetes
3 57 (31.32%) Ansible
4 24 (13.19%) Puppet
5 19 (10.44%) Progress Chef
6 10 (5.49%) Packer
7 8 (4.40%) Kiali
8 7 (3.85%) Salt
9 6 (3.30%) Kibana
9 6 (3.30%) Nagios
9 6 (3.30%) ZABBIX
10 5 (2.75%) Grafana
10 5 (2.75%) logstash
10 5 (2.75%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.65%) Argo
11 3 (1.65%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (1.65%) Graphite
12 2 (1.10%) SCCM
13 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (12.09%) VMware
2 18 (9.89%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.34%) Splunk
4 11 (6.04%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.40%) AppDynamics
5 8 (4.40%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.85%) New Relic
7 5 (2.75%) Google
8 4 (2.20%) Oracle
8 4 (2.20%) Veeam
9 3 (1.65%) Acronis
10 2 (1.10%) Citrix
10 2 (1.10%) SAP
11 1 (0.55%) Cisco
11 1 (0.55%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.55%) IBM
11 1 (0.55%) MathWorks
11 1 (0.55%) PTC
11 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.55%) TOWER Software