Automation Engineer Jobs in Brighton

Automation Engineer
East Sussex > Brighton

The median Automation Engineer salary in Brighton is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Brighton 0.53% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - -
75th Percentile £61,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Sussex median annual salary £57,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Brighton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Brighton. 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 Brighton with a recognized job title 187 419 595
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.94% 96.99% 90.15%
Number of salaries quoted 154 390 497
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,058 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
East Sussex median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Brighton

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Brighton

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in Brighton

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Brighton region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) Postman

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Fintech
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA