Automation Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Automation Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Automation Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 148 131
Rank change year-on-year +32 -17 -18
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 6 6 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.39% 0.28% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.29% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 9
10th Percentile £48,125 £39,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,563 £68,750
90th Percentile £60,625 £63,750 £71,500
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,478 2,083 2,236
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.79% 95.55% 97.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 1,223 1,396
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,331 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £77,715 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,934 £90,597 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Edinburgh

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in Edinburgh

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in Edinburgh

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 24 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 Edinburgh region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) QA Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) QA
3 4 (66.67%) ISO 9001
3 4 (66.67%) Electronics
3 4 (66.67%) Games
3 4 (66.67%) Software Quality Assurance
3 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) Postman
5 1 (16.67%) Playwright
5 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (16.67%) SDET
5 1 (16.67%) Terraform
5 1 (16.67%) WireMock
5 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Mockito
5 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
5 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (16.67%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 1 (16.67%) JMeter

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Mockito
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (66.67%) Electronics
1 4 (66.67%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) QA Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) OO
5 1 (16.67%) OOD
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) SDET
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) ISO 9001
2 4 (66.67%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform