The first table below looks at the demand for the Automation Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automation Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Farnborough region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automation Engineer
Rank - 40 -
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 0 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough - 0.427% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.448% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 0
Average salary - £32,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-22.22% +12.50%
All Job Titles
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
172 223 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 97.73% 95.30% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 160 210 103
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £29,000 £31,800
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Automation Engineer
Hampshire

Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Automation Engineer across the Farnborough region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Farnborough Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Automation Engineer across the Farnborough region.

Farnborough Automation Engineer Salary Trend

Automation Engineer
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough region that cited Automation Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Automation Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (57.14%) LabVIEW
1 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
2 3 (42.86%) SCCM
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
2 3 (42.86%) Puppet
2 3 (42.86%) Ruby
2 3 (42.86%) Opalis
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
2 3 (42.86%) MySQL
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Nagios
2 3 (42.86%) NetIQ
2 3 (42.86%) AppManager
3 2 (28.57%) VBScript

Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough region that cited Automation Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Automation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) LabVIEW
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
1 3 (42.86%) Ruby
1 3 (42.86%) Perl
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) VBScript
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (42.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) SCCM
1 3 (42.86%) Puppet
1 3 (42.86%) Opalis
1 3 (42.86%) Nagios
1 3 (42.86%) AppManager
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) NetIQ