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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 711 599 638
Rank change year-on-year -112 +39 -82
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 198 378 783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.42% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 158 182 248
10th Percentile £46,000 £46,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £92,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +9.57% -

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -117 181 £67,500 - 64
UK excluding London -112 114 £62,500 -0.79% 36
Work from Home -77 88 £68,900 +2.07% 30
London +18 70 £75,000 -11.76% 28
South East -10 46 £62,500 -3.85% 8
North of England -1 26 £60,000 +14.29% 13
North West -21 14 £62,500 -5.66% 8
Yorkshire +47 12 £60,000 +41.70% 4
Midlands -17 12 £67,500 +22.73% 3
South West -79 11 £65,000 +39.51% 7
East of England - 11 £70,000 - 4
West Midlands -18 7 £67,500 +12.50% 3
East Midlands -18 5 £60,000 +9.09%
Scotland -67 4 £57,000 -65.45% 1
Wales - 4 £53,750 -
North East -9 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 9 (4.55%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) SAS
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 118 (59.60%) Azure
2 99 (50.00%) AWS
3 43 (21.72%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (17.17%) SaaS
5 28 (14.14%) GitHub
6 25 (12.63%) GCP
7 23 (11.62%) Cloud Computing
7 23 (11.62%) Serverless
8 21 (10.61%) IaaS
9 19 (9.60%) Amazon S3
10 16 (8.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (7.07%) Nutanix
13 13 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (6.57%) PaaS
13 13 (6.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
16 8 (4.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.11%) Firewall
2 19 (9.60%) DNS
3 15 (7.58%) Network Security
4 7 (3.54%) Wireless
5 6 (3.03%) HTTP
5 6 (3.03%) Internet
6 4 (2.02%) VPN
7 3 (1.52%) VoIP
7 3 (1.52%) WAN
8 2 (1.01%) LAN
8 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.51%) BGP
9 1 (0.51%) DHCP
9 1 (0.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.07%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.04%) CockroachDB
3 7 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.02%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.02%) MySQL
6 4 (2.02%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.52%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.01%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.01%) Metadata
8 2 (1.01%) Tableau
9 1 (0.51%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 53 (26.77%) Jenkins
2 19 (9.60%) Git
3 15 (7.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (7.07%) Bitbucket
5 13 (6.57%) JIRA
6 11 (5.56%) Subversion
7 10 (5.05%) CircleCI
8 9 (4.55%) GitLab
9 8 (4.04%) Jaeger
10 6 (3.03%) Selenium
11 5 (2.53%) JUnit
11 5 (2.53%) TestNG
12 4 (2.02%) JMeter
12 4 (2.02%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.52%) Bitbucket Server
13 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.52%) Hudson
13 3 (1.52%) Serenity BDD
13 3 (1.52%) Travis CI
14 2 (1.01%) SoapUI
General
1 66 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 53 (26.77%) Finance
3 46 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (16.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.55%) Law
5 9 (4.55%) Legal
6 8 (4.04%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.54%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.54%) Retail
8 6 (3.03%) Automotive
9 4 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Marketing
10 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.51%) Banking
11 1 (0.51%) Billing
11 1 (0.51%) Games
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Local Government
11 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 46 (23.23%) Senior
3 41 (20.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 32 (16.16%) Platform Engineer
5 27 (13.64%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (12.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 24 (12.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (11.62%) Architect
8 15 (7.58%) Senior DevOps
8 15 (7.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 14 (7.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 14 (7.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (6.57%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (6.57%) Technical Architect
11 11 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
12 9 (4.55%) Lead
13 8 (4.04%) Azure Architect
13 8 (4.04%) Linux Engineer
13 8 (4.04%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.05%) Kafka
2 8 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (4.04%) Middleware
2 8 (4.04%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (4.04%) RESTful
2 8 (4.04%) Spring Boot
3 7 (3.54%) Node.js
3 7 (3.54%) React
4 6 (3.03%) ARM Templates
4 6 (3.03%) Compass CSS Framework
4 6 (3.03%) web3js
5 4 (2.02%) REST
5 4 (2.02%) Web Services
6 3 (1.52%) .NET
7 2 (1.01%) ADO
7 2 (1.01%) JSON
7 2 (1.01%) SAML
7 2 (1.01%) SOAP
7 2 (1.01%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (0.51%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.61%) IoT
2 17 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (8.59%) Management Information System
3 12 (6.06%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.04%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (3.54%) Blockchain
6 7 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.03%) Cyberattack
7 6 (3.03%) NFT
7 6 (3.03%) Web3
8 5 (2.53%) Public Cloud
9 4 (2.02%) Blog
9 4 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.52%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.52%) PMI
10 3 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.18%) Linux
2 30 (15.15%) Windows
3 7 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.02%) CentOS
5 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.01%) Unix
6 2 (1.01%) VMS
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (67.68%) DevOps
2 112 (56.57%) CI/CD
3 104 (52.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (34.34%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (23.23%) Containerisation
6 40 (20.20%) Agile
7 38 (19.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 37 (18.69%) Configuration Management
9 36 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (16.16%) Technical Leadership
12 31 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (14.65%) Network Virtualisation
14 28 (14.14%) ITIL
15 25 (12.63%) Decision-Making
15 25 (12.63%) Test Automation
16 23 (11.62%) Cloud Security
16 23 (11.62%) Disaster Recovery
17 22 (11.11%) Mentoring
18 20 (10.10%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 85 (42.93%) Python
2 55 (27.78%) Bash
3 49 (24.75%) PowerShell
4 29 (14.65%) SQL
5 27 (13.64%) Java
6 17 (8.59%) JavaScript
7 14 (7.07%) Bicep
7 14 (7.07%) Perl
8 12 (6.06%) Go
8 12 (6.06%) Ruby
9 7 (3.54%) C#
9 7 (3.54%) C++
9 7 (3.54%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.01%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.01%) PHP
10 2 (1.01%) R
11 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.51%) VB
11 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (9.60%) Degree
2 10 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (5.05%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.52%) CCNA
5 3 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.52%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.01%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.51%) MCSA
7 1 (0.51%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.58%) Data Quality
1 15 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.04%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.53%) QA
4 4 (2.02%) HIPAA
4 4 (2.02%) NCSC
5 2 (1.01%) SLA
6 1 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (43.94%) Docker
2 25 (12.63%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 20 (10.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (3.54%) Hyper-V
6 6 (3.03%) XenApp
6 6 (3.03%) XenDesktop
7 3 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.52%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 106 (53.54%) Terraform
2 95 (47.98%) Kubernetes
3 57 (28.79%) Ansible
4 18 (9.09%) Puppet
5 14 (7.07%) Progress Chef
6 8 (4.04%) Kiali
7 7 (3.54%) Packer
8 6 (3.03%) Kibana
8 6 (3.03%) Nagios
8 6 (3.03%) ZABBIX
9 5 (2.53%) Grafana
9 5 (2.53%) logstash
9 5 (2.53%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.52%) Argo
10 3 (1.52%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (1.52%) Graphite
11 2 (1.01%) Salt
12 1 (0.51%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.51%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (11.62%) VMware
2 21 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.59%) Splunk
4 10 (5.05%) Red Hat
5 8 (4.04%) AppDynamics
5 8 (4.04%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.54%) New Relic
7 6 (3.03%) Citrix
7 6 (3.03%) Google
8 4 (2.02%) Veeam
9 3 (1.52%) Acronis
10 2 (1.01%) Cisco
10 2 (1.01%) Databricks
10 2 (1.01%) Oracle
11 1 (0.51%) ForgeRock
11 1 (0.51%) Okta
11 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.51%) SAP
11 1 (0.51%) xMatters
11 1 (0.51%) Zscaler