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 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 537 584
Rank change year-on-year -18 +47 -145
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 40 126 275
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.32% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 39 117 217
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £80,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £79,000 £105,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +0.88%

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 32,454 38,972 68,188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.91% 97.36%
Number of salaries quoted 24,851 27,677 41,848
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £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 £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 16 May 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 16 May 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 29 (72.50%) Java
2 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 24 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 24 (60.00%) Terraform
4 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
4 22 (55.00%) AWS
4 22 (55.00%) Docker
4 22 (55.00%) Platform Engineering
5 19 (47.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (47.50%) Python
6 18 (45.00%) Azure
7 17 (42.50%) DevOps
8 16 (40.00%) Jenkins
8 16 (40.00%) Agile
8 16 (40.00%) Configuration Management
9 14 (35.00%) Innovative Thinking
10 13 (32.50%) Software Testing
10 13 (32.50%) Salt
10 13 (32.50%) Puppet
10 13 (32.50%) Progress Chef
10 13 (32.50%) Ansible
11 12 (30.00%) QA Automation
11 12 (30.00%) QA
11 12 (30.00%) Selenium
11 12 (30.00%) JIRA
11 12 (30.00%) Linux
11 12 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
12 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (25.00%) Serverless

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 (22.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) AWS
2 18 (45.00%) Azure
3 10 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 10 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (25.00%) GitHub
3 10 (25.00%) Route 53
3 10 (25.00%) Serverless
3 10 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (22.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.50%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.50%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (30.00%) JIRA
2 12 (30.00%) Selenium
3 10 (25.00%) Bitbucket
4 9 (22.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (22.50%) Subversion
5 7 (17.50%) Cucumber
5 7 (17.50%) Postman
6 5 (12.50%) JMeter
7 4 (10.00%) Cypress.io
7 4 (10.00%) JUnit
7 4 (10.00%) Mockito
8 3 (7.50%) DTrace
8 3 (7.50%) GDB
8 3 (7.50%) WebDriver
9 2 (5.00%) Appium
9 2 (5.00%) Git
9 2 (5.00%) SoapUI
10 1 (2.50%) SpecFlow
10 1 (2.50%) TestCafe
General
1 9 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Finance
2 4 (10.00%) Health Technology
3 2 (5.00%) Electronics
3 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.00%) Marketing
3 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Spring
2 4 (10.00%) Playwright
2 4 (10.00%) SAML
2 4 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (10.00%) Web Services
2 4 (10.00%) WireMock
3 2 (5.00%) React
4 1 (2.50%) .NET
4 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.50%) OpenCV
4 1 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (22.50%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (22.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Client/Server
4 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Linux
2 9 (22.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 24 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 22 (55.00%) Platform Engineering
4 19 (47.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (42.50%) DevOps
6 16 (40.00%) Agile
6 16 (40.00%) Configuration Management
7 14 (35.00%) Innovative Thinking
8 13 (32.50%) Software Testing
9 12 (30.00%) QA Automation
10 10 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (22.50%) Data Migration
11 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Automation
11 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Management
11 9 (22.50%) Migration
12 8 (20.00%) API Testing
13 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 4 (10.00%) Integration Testing
14 4 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (72.50%) Java
2 19 (47.50%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) Perl
4 6 (15.00%) C#
5 5 (12.50%) SQL
6 4 (10.00%) C
7 3 (7.50%) OCaml
7 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.50%) SystemTap
8 1 (2.50%) Bicep
8 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 22 (55.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (60.00%) Terraform
2 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (32.50%) Ansible
3 13 (32.50%) Progress Chef
3 13 (32.50%) Puppet
3 13 (32.50%) Salt
4 9 (22.50%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Atlassian
2 2 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (2.50%) Allen-Bradley
3 1 (2.50%) Siemens