Automation Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Automation Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Automation Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £52,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 180 180
Rank change year-on-year +48 0 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 14 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.56% 0.14% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.15% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,000 - £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +7.53% -19.13%
75th Percentile £57,000 - £48,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 -
England median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,393 4,112 2,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 94.59% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,043 2,988 1,383
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,350
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £76,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the East Midlands

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in the East Midlands

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in the East Midlands

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 2025. 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
Leicestershire - 11 £52,000 - 1
Nottinghamshire +29 3 £60,000 - 6
Automation Engineer
England

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 4 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 East Midlands region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Validation
1 10 (71.43%) Degree
1 10 (71.43%) SCADA
1 10 (71.43%) Computer Science
1 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Modbus
1 10 (71.43%) Verification and Validation
1 10 (71.43%) Decarbonisation
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) QA Automation
2 4 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) QA
3 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
4 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
4 1 (7.14%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Postman
4 1 (7.14%) Playwright
4 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (7.14%) BDD
4 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
2 1 (7.14%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
2 1 (7.14%) Postman
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Playwright
1 1 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) SCADA
2 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Computer Science
1 10 (71.43%) Decarbonisation
1 10 (71.43%) Validation
1 10 (71.43%) Verification and Validation
2 4 (28.57%) QA Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) BDD
4 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
4 1 (7.14%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (7.14%) OWASP
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.14%) Security Testing
4 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Degree
1 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA