Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 689 668 685
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 -176
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 133 277 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.32% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 120 200 347
10th Percentile £24,000 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £75,625 £75,294 £74,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +2.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +41 42 £75,000 +20.00% 18
South East +30 30 £50,000 - 13
Midlands +5 25 £40,000 -27.27% 28
West Midlands +20 19 £37,500 -31.82% 24
North of England +13 18 £32,000 -36.00% 20
North West +6 12 £24,000 -46.67% 12
South West -23 12 £30,000 -27.27% 10
Yorkshire +66 6 £80,000 +52.38% 7
East Midlands -12 6 £50,000 +7.53% 4
East of England +17 4 £45,000 -28.00% 16
Automation Engineer
UK

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (40.60%) Java
2 46 (34.59%) Test Automation
3 33 (24.81%) Python
3 33 (24.81%) Agile
4 32 (24.06%) DevOps
5 31 (23.31%) CI/CD
6 30 (22.56%) Terraform
6 30 (22.56%) C#
7 29 (21.80%) AWS
8 27 (20.30%) Mentoring
9 26 (19.55%) Docker
10 24 (18.05%) Platform Engineering
10 24 (18.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (17.29%) Kubernetes
12 22 (16.54%) Ansible
12 22 (16.54%) QA
13 21 (15.79%) Configuration Management
13 21 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (15.04%) Jenkins
14 20 (15.04%) Degree
15 19 (14.29%) Linux
15 19 (14.29%) Azure
15 19 (14.29%) Social Skills
16 18 (13.53%) Puppet
16 18 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (13.53%) Manufacturing
17 17 (12.78%) Software Testing
17 17 (12.78%) QA Automation
18 16 (12.03%) Progress Chef
18 16 (12.03%) Innovative Thinking

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (6.77%) Confluence
2 1 (0.75%) Apache
2 1 (0.75%) IIS
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.75%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.75%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.75%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.80%) AWS
2 19 (14.29%) Azure
3 10 (7.52%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (7.52%) Amazon S3
3 10 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (7.52%) GitHub
3 10 (7.52%) Route 53
3 10 (7.52%) Serverless
3 10 (7.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.26%) GCP
5 3 (2.26%) IaaS
6 1 (0.75%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.75%) PaaS
6 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.76%) BGP
1 5 (3.76%) Modbus
1 5 (3.76%) MPLS
1 5 (3.76%) Profibus
1 5 (3.76%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.01%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.52%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.01%) MySQL
2 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.75%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (15.04%) Jenkins
2 13 (9.77%) Selenium
3 12 (9.02%) JIRA
4 10 (7.52%) Bitbucket
4 10 (7.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (6.77%) Subversion
6 8 (6.02%) Cucumber
6 8 (6.02%) Postman
7 6 (4.51%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.01%) JMeter
8 4 (3.01%) JUnit
9 3 (2.26%) Appium
9 3 (2.26%) DTrace
9 3 (2.26%) GDB
9 3 (2.26%) Git
9 3 (2.26%) GitLab
9 3 (2.26%) Mockito
9 3 (2.26%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.26%) SoapUI
9 3 (2.26%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.53%) Manufacturing
3 15 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (6.77%) Finance
5 9 (6.77%) Law
6 8 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.26%) Automotive
7 3 (2.26%) Electronics
7 3 (2.26%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Marketing
8 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.76%) Spring
2 4 (3.01%) SAML
2 4 (3.01%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.26%) Playwright
3 3 (2.26%) React
3 3 (2.26%) REST
3 3 (2.26%) Web Services
3 3 (2.26%) WireMock
4 1 (0.75%) .NET
4 1 (0.75%) Blazor
4 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.75%) OpenCV
4 1 (0.75%) XML
4 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (8.27%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (8.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.77%) Robotics
4 8 (6.02%) FMCG
5 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.76%) SCADA
6 3 (2.26%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.75%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.75%) FPGA
7 1 (0.75%) IoT
7 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.75%) PKI
7 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.29%) Linux
2 11 (8.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.01%) Windows
4 3 (2.26%) Unix
5 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.75%) Android
6 1 (0.75%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.59%) Test Automation
2 33 (24.81%) Agile
3 32 (24.06%) DevOps
4 31 (23.31%) CI/CD
5 27 (20.30%) Mentoring
6 24 (18.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (18.05%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (15.79%) Configuration Management
7 21 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (12.78%) QA Automation
9 17 (12.78%) Software Testing
10 16 (12.03%) Innovative Thinking
11 14 (10.53%) Coaching
11 14 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
12 11 (8.27%) Software Engineering
13 10 (7.52%) Identity Access Management
13 10 (7.52%) Migration
14 9 (6.77%) API Testing
14 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (40.60%) Java
2 33 (24.81%) Python
3 30 (22.56%) C#
4 11 (8.27%) Perl
5 6 (4.51%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.76%) C
6 5 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.76%) Ladder Logic
6 5 (3.76%) VB
7 4 (3.01%) SQL
8 3 (2.26%) Bash
8 3 (2.26%) OCaml
8 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.26%) SystemTap
9 2 (1.50%) Go
10 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.75%) VB6
10 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (15.04%) Degree
2 8 (6.02%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.02%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.01%) JNCIE
3 4 (3.01%) JNCIP
4 3 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.50%) CCNP
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.75%) CCIE
6 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.75%) MCSA
6 1 (0.75%) MCSE
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (16.54%) QA
System Software
1 26 (19.55%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) Firmware
3 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (22.56%) Terraform
2 23 (17.29%) Kubernetes
3 22 (16.54%) Ansible
4 18 (13.53%) Puppet
5 16 (12.03%) Progress Chef
6 15 (11.28%) Salt
7 9 (6.77%) Packer
8 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.75%) SCCM
8 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (9.02%) YouTube
2 9 (6.77%) Atlassian
2 9 (6.77%) Siemens
3 6 (4.51%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (3.76%) Wonderware
5 4 (3.01%) Juniper
5 4 (3.01%) Nokia
6 3 (2.26%) Cisco
6 3 (2.26%) Oracle
6 3 (2.26%) SAP
7 1 (0.75%) IBM
7 1 (0.75%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.75%) PTC
7 1 (0.75%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.75%) Splunk
7 1 (0.75%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.75%) VMware