Automation Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 624 560
Rank change year-on-year +38 -64 -68
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 170 138 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.22% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.25% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 98 76 191
10th Percentile £24,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £43,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £69,375 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,563 54,796 67,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 89.22% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,186 31,100 42,983
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Wales +78 76 £32,500 -40.91% 7
South East +10 30 £50,000 - 13
Midlands +13 25 £40,000 -27.27% 22
West Midlands +24 19 £37,500 -31.82% 21
North of England -1 18 £32,000 -36.00% 22
North West +5 12 £24,000 -46.67% 12
South West -15 12 £30,000 -40.00% 13
Northern Ireland - 7 £50,000 - 2
Yorkshire +60 6 £80,000 +52.38% 9
East Midlands -8 6 £50,000 +7.53% 1
Scotland -53 6 £52,500 +5.00% 6
East of England +8 4 £45,000 -28.00% 15
Automation Engineer
UK

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 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 UK excluding London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 81 (47.65%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (47.06%) Manufacturing
2 80 (47.06%) Degree
3 74 (43.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 73 (42.94%) Social Skills
5 69 (40.59%) Law
6 68 (40.00%) Six Sigma
6 68 (40.00%) Benchmarking
6 68 (40.00%) Lean Six Sigma
6 68 (40.00%) Lean Manufacturing
6 68 (40.00%) FMCG
6 68 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
6 68 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
6 68 (40.00%) Order Management
6 68 (40.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 33 (19.41%) Test Automation
8 29 (17.06%) C#
9 28 (16.47%) Java
10 25 (14.71%) Agile
11 24 (14.12%) QA
12 20 (11.76%) Mentoring
13 16 (9.41%) DevOps
14 15 (8.82%) QA Automation
14 15 (8.82%) Selenium
15 13 (7.65%) API Testing
16 12 (7.06%) Azure
17 10 (5.88%) Software Engineering
17 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
18 9 (5.29%) Coaching
18 9 (5.29%) Robotics

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (0.59%) Apache
1 1 (0.59%) IIS
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.59%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.06%) Azure
2 7 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (2.94%) AWS
4 4 (2.35%) SaaS
5 2 (1.18%) GCP
6 1 (0.59%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.59%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.59%) IaaS
6 1 (0.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.94%) BGP
1 5 (2.94%) Modbus
1 5 (2.94%) MPLS
1 5 (2.94%) Profibus
1 5 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.59%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.71%) MySQL
1 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.59%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (8.82%) Selenium
2 8 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.12%) Cucumber
3 7 (4.12%) Postman
4 5 (2.94%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.76%) JMeter
5 3 (1.76%) JUnit
5 3 (1.76%) Mockito
5 3 (1.76%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.18%) JIRA
6 2 (1.18%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.18%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.59%) Appium
7 1 (0.59%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.59%) Git
7 1 (0.59%) GitLab
7 1 (0.59%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.59%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (47.06%) Manufacturing
2 73 (42.94%) Social Skills
3 69 (40.59%) Law
4 68 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
4 68 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.71%) Finance
6 8 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.12%) Electronics
8 6 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.35%) Games
10 3 (1.76%) Automotive
10 3 (1.76%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.18%) Marketing
12 1 (0.59%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.94%) Spring
2 4 (2.35%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.76%) Playwright
3 3 (1.76%) Web Services
3 3 (1.76%) WireMock
4 2 (1.18%) React
4 2 (1.18%) REST
5 1 (0.59%) .NET
5 1 (0.59%) Blazor
5 1 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.59%) XML
5 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (40.00%) FMCG
2 9 (5.29%) Robotics
3 5 (2.94%) SCADA
3 5 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.76%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.59%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.59%) FPGA
7 1 (0.59%) IoT
7 1 (0.59%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.59%) PKI
7 1 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.76%) Linux
1 3 (1.76%) Windows
2 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.59%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (47.65%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (43.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 68 (40.00%) Benchmarking
3 68 (40.00%) Lean Manufacturing
3 68 (40.00%) Lean Six Sigma
3 68 (40.00%) Order Management
3 68 (40.00%) Six Sigma
4 33 (19.41%) Test Automation
5 25 (14.71%) Agile
6 20 (11.76%) Mentoring
7 16 (9.41%) DevOps
8 15 (8.82%) QA Automation
9 13 (7.65%) API Testing
10 10 (5.88%) Software Engineering
11 9 (5.29%) Coaching
11 9 (5.29%) Computer Science
12 7 (4.12%) CI/CD
13 5 (2.94%) OO
13 5 (2.94%) Software Testing
13 5 (2.94%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.06%) C#
2 28 (16.47%) Java
3 9 (5.29%) Python
4 5 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.94%) Ladder Logic
4 5 (2.94%) VB
5 4 (2.35%) SQL
6 3 (1.76%) Bash
6 3 (1.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.18%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.59%) C
8 1 (0.59%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.59%) VB6
8 1 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (47.06%) Degree
2 68 (40.00%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 8 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.35%) JNCIE
4 4 (2.35%) JNCIP
5 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) MCSA
5 1 (0.59%) MCSE
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (14.12%) QA
2 4 (2.35%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (2.35%) Docker
2 2 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.59%) Firmware
3 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (4.12%) Terraform
2 6 (3.53%) Ansible
3 3 (1.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.59%) Puppet
4 1 (0.59%) SCCM
4 1 (0.59%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (5.29%) Siemens
2 7 (4.12%) YouTube
3 6 (3.53%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (2.94%) Wonderware
5 4 (2.35%) Juniper
5 4 (2.35%) Nokia
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle
6 3 (1.76%) SAP
7 1 (0.59%) IBM
7 1 (0.59%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.59%) PTC
7 1 (0.59%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.59%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.59%) VMware