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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 700 641 663
Rank change year-on-year -59 +22 -102
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 186 355 711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.36% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.37% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 146 183 251
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,400 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £94,375
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £117,500
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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 -68 169 £68,000 +0.74% 80
UK excluding London -82 104 £62,500 -3.85% 47
Work from Home -15 84 £71,250 +5.56% 41
London +17 69 £75,000 -11.76% 35
South East +3 45 £62,500 -3.85% 13
North of England +12 25 £60,000 +11.63% 14
North West -15 13 £60,000 -9.43% 11
Yorkshire +73 12 £60,000 +41.70% 1
Midlands -10 11 £63,750 +15.91% 7
East of England - 9 £68,750 - 3
West Midlands +9 6 £67,500 +12.50% 7
South West -71 6 £66,250 +32.50% 10
East Midlands -17 5 £60,000 +14.29%
Scotland -66 4 £57,000 -65.45%
Wales - 4 £53,750 -
North East 0 2 £80,000 +33.33% 2

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 (5.91%) Confluence
2 3 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.08%) SAS
4 1 (0.54%) Apache
4 1 (0.54%) IIS
4 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.54%) PTC Creo
2 1 (0.54%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (59.68%) Azure
2 98 (52.69%) AWS
3 43 (23.12%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (17.20%) SaaS
5 31 (16.67%) GitHub
6 25 (13.44%) Serverless
7 23 (12.37%) Cloud Computing
7 23 (12.37%) GCP
8 22 (11.83%) Amazon S3
9 20 (10.75%) IaaS
10 18 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (8.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (7.53%) Nutanix
14 12 (6.45%) Route 53
15 10 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (4.84%) PaaS
17 6 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.29%) DNS
1 21 (11.29%) Firewall
2 15 (8.06%) Network Security
3 6 (3.23%) HTTP
4 5 (2.69%) Wireless
5 4 (2.15%) Internet
5 4 (2.15%) VPN
6 3 (1.61%) VoIP
6 3 (1.61%) WAN
7 2 (1.08%) LAN
7 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.54%) DHCP
8 1 (0.54%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.14%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.30%) CockroachDB
3 7 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.15%) MySQL
6 4 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.61%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.61%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.08%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.08%) Data Mining
8 2 (1.08%) Metadata
8 2 (1.08%) Tableau
9 1 (0.54%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 57 (30.65%) Jenkins
2 18 (9.68%) Bitbucket
2 18 (9.68%) Git
2 18 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
3 16 (8.60%) JIRA
4 14 (7.53%) Subversion
5 9 (4.84%) CircleCI
6 8 (4.30%) GitLab
6 8 (4.30%) Jaeger
7 7 (3.76%) Selenium
8 6 (3.23%) JUnit
8 6 (3.23%) TestNG
9 5 (2.69%) JMeter
10 4 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.15%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.15%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.15%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.61%) Hudson
11 3 (1.61%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.61%) Travis CI
General
1 62 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 49 (26.34%) Finance
3 44 (23.66%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (4.84%) Law
6 8 (4.30%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.76%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.76%) Retail
8 5 (2.69%) Legal
9 4 (2.15%) Automotive
9 4 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.08%) Marketing
11 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.54%) Games
12 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Local Government
12 1 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 45 (24.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (22.58%) Senior
3 40 (21.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (18.28%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (15.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 24 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (12.37%) Azure Engineer
8 22 (11.83%) Architect
9 17 (9.14%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (7.53%) Automation Engineer
10 14 (7.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 14 (7.53%) Senior DevOps
10 14 (7.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 14 (7.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (6.99%) Technical Architect
12 12 (6.45%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 10 (5.38%) Cloud Automation Engineer
13 10 (5.38%) Lead
14 9 (4.84%) Infrastructure Manager
15 8 (4.30%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.91%) Kafka
2 9 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (4.84%) RESTful
3 8 (4.30%) Middleware
3 8 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (4.30%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.76%) Node.js
4 7 (3.76%) React
5 6 (3.23%) Compass CSS Framework
5 6 (3.23%) web3js
6 5 (2.69%) SAML
6 5 (2.69%) Web Services
7 4 (2.15%) ARM Templates
7 4 (2.15%) REST
8 3 (1.61%) .NET
8 3 (1.61%) SOAP
9 2 (1.08%) Celery
9 2 (1.08%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.08%) JSON
9 2 (1.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (10.22%) IoT
3 17 (9.14%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (5.91%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.30%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.30%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.76%) Blockchain
7 6 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.23%) NFT
7 6 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.23%) Web3
8 5 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (2.15%) Blog
9 4 (2.15%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.61%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.61%) PMI
11 2 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.28%) Linux
2 31 (16.67%) Windows
3 8 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.15%) CentOS
4 4 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.08%) Unix
5 2 (1.08%) VMS
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (69.89%) DevOps
2 110 (59.14%) CI/CD
3 100 (53.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (33.87%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (23.12%) Containerisation
6 38 (20.43%) Agile
6 38 (20.43%) Platform Engineering
7 35 (18.82%) Configuration Management
7 35 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (18.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 32 (17.20%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (17.20%) Technical Leadership
9 28 (15.05%) ITIL
9 28 (15.05%) Network Virtualisation
10 25 (13.44%) Decision-Making
11 24 (12.90%) Test Automation
12 23 (12.37%) Infrastructure Management
12 23 (12.37%) Mentoring
13 22 (11.83%) Cloud Security
13 22 (11.83%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 83 (44.62%) Python
2 54 (29.03%) Bash
3 41 (22.04%) PowerShell
4 30 (16.13%) Java
5 28 (15.05%) SQL
6 14 (7.53%) Bicep
6 14 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.53%) Perl
7 8 (4.30%) Go
7 8 (4.30%) Ruby
8 7 (3.76%) C#
8 7 (3.76%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.61%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.08%) C++
10 2 (1.08%) PHP
10 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.08%) R
11 1 (0.54%) VB
11 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (10.22%) Degree
2 10 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (5.38%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.84%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.61%) CCNA
5 3 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.61%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.08%) MCSA
6 2 (1.08%) MCSE
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.06%) Data Quality
1 15 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.15%) HIPAA
3 4 (2.15%) NCSC
3 4 (2.15%) QA
4 1 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (48.39%) Docker
2 25 (13.44%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (10.75%) Active Directory
3 20 (10.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.76%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.61%) VirtualBox
5 3 (1.61%) XenApp
5 3 (1.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 100 (53.76%) Terraform
2 97 (52.15%) Kubernetes
3 56 (30.11%) Ansible
4 21 (11.29%) Puppet
5 18 (9.68%) Progress Chef
6 10 (5.38%) Packer
7 8 (4.30%) Kiali
8 6 (3.23%) Kibana
8 6 (3.23%) Nagios
8 6 (3.23%) Salt
8 6 (3.23%) ZABBIX
9 5 (2.69%) Grafana
9 5 (2.69%) logstash
9 5 (2.69%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.61%) Argo
10 3 (1.61%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (1.61%) Graphite
11 2 (1.08%) SCCM
12 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (12.37%) VMware
2 18 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.14%) Splunk
4 11 (5.91%) Atlassian
5 9 (4.84%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.30%) AppDynamics
7 7 (3.76%) New Relic
8 6 (3.23%) Google
9 4 (2.15%) Oracle
9 4 (2.15%) Veeam
10 3 (1.61%) Acronis
10 3 (1.61%) Citrix
11 2 (1.08%) Cisco
11 2 (1.08%) SAP
12 1 (0.54%) ForgeRock
12 1 (0.54%) IBM
12 1 (0.54%) MathWorks
12 1 (0.54%) PTC
12 1 (0.54%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.54%) TOWER Software