Automation Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Automation Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Engineer salary in Work from Home is £75,000 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 548 538 582
Rank change year-on-year -10 +44 -159
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 43 131 269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.31% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.32% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 42 122 212
10th Percentile £45,250 £46,250 £42,625
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,294 £73,875
90th Percentile - £105,000 £88,625
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,452 41,087 65,821
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.07% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 24,937 29,216 41,930
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Automation Engineer.

Automation Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Automation Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with remote work options featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (74.42%) Java
2 27 (62.79%) Test Automation
2 27 (62.79%) CI/CD
3 25 (58.14%) Terraform
3 25 (58.14%) AWS
4 24 (55.81%) Docker
4 24 (55.81%) Kubernetes
4 24 (55.81%) Platform Engineering
5 21 (48.84%) Python
5 21 (48.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (44.19%) Agile
6 19 (44.19%) Azure
7 18 (41.86%) DevOps
7 18 (41.86%) Configuration Management
8 17 (39.53%) Jenkins
9 16 (37.21%) Ansible
9 16 (37.21%) Software Testing
9 16 (37.21%) Innovative Thinking
10 15 (34.88%) Salt
10 15 (34.88%) Progress Chef
10 15 (34.88%) Puppet
11 14 (32.56%) Linux
11 14 (32.56%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (30.23%) QA
13 12 (27.91%) QA Automation
13 12 (27.91%) Selenium
13 12 (27.91%) JIRA
14 11 (25.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 11 (25.58%) Perl
14 11 (25.58%) Hybrid Cloud

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (20.93%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (58.14%) AWS
2 19 (44.19%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (23.26%) Amazon S3
3 10 (23.26%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (23.26%) GitHub
3 10 (23.26%) Route 53
3 10 (23.26%) Serverless
3 10 (23.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (20.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.33%) GCP
6 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (39.53%) Jenkins
2 12 (27.91%) JIRA
2 12 (27.91%) Selenium
3 10 (23.26%) Bitbucket
4 9 (20.93%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (20.93%) Subversion
5 8 (18.60%) Cucumber
6 7 (16.28%) Postman
7 5 (11.63%) JMeter
8 4 (9.30%) Cypress.io
8 4 (9.30%) JUnit
8 4 (9.30%) Mockito
9 3 (6.98%) DTrace
9 3 (6.98%) GDB
9 3 (6.98%) WebDriver
10 2 (4.65%) Appium
10 2 (4.65%) SoapUI
11 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
11 1 (2.33%) SpecFlow
11 1 (2.33%) TestCafe
General
1 9 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Finance
2 4 (9.30%) Health Technology
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Electronics
3 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.65%) Marketing
3 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.33%) Law
4 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) Spring
2 5 (11.63%) Spring Boot
3 4 (9.30%) Playwright
3 4 (9.30%) SAML
3 4 (9.30%) Web Services
3 4 (9.30%) WireMock
4 3 (6.98%) React
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) Blazor
5 1 (2.33%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (32.56%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (25.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (23.26%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (20.93%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (6.98%) Client/Server
5 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
6 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Linux
2 11 (25.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) CI/CD
1 27 (62.79%) Test Automation
2 24 (55.81%) Platform Engineering
3 21 (48.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (44.19%) Agile
5 18 (41.86%) Configuration Management
5 18 (41.86%) DevOps
6 16 (37.21%) Innovative Thinking
6 16 (37.21%) Software Testing
7 12 (27.91%) QA Automation
8 10 (23.26%) Identity Access Management
8 10 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (20.93%) Data Migration
9 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Automation
9 9 (20.93%) Infrastructure Management
9 9 (20.93%) Migration
10 8 (18.60%) API Testing
11 6 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (9.30%) BDD
12 4 (9.30%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 32 (74.42%) Java
2 21 (48.84%) Python
3 11 (25.58%) Perl
4 7 (16.28%) C#
5 5 (11.63%) SQL
6 4 (9.30%) C
7 3 (6.98%) OCaml
7 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
7 3 (6.98%) SystemTap
8 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) QA
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Terraform
2 24 (55.81%) Kubernetes
3 16 (37.21%) Ansible
4 15 (34.88%) Progress Chef
4 15 (34.88%) Puppet
4 15 (34.88%) Salt
5 9 (20.93%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Atlassian
2 2 (4.65%) SAP
3 1 (2.33%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (2.33%) Siemens