Automation Developer Jobs in England

Automation Developer
UK > England

The median Automation Developer salary in England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 636 759 882
Rank change year-on-year +123 +123 +200
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Developer 12 63 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.026% 0.074% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.078% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 3 59 13
10th Percentile £72,000 £24,000 £43,162
25th Percentile £75,000 £44,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £52,500 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% -4.34% -12.19%
75th Percentile £82,500 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £84,000 - £64,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +60.00% -8.90% -8.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in England

Automation Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Developer in England.

Salary trend for Automation Developer in England

Automation Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automation Developer in England

Automation Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +108 8 - - 4
London +95 4 £80,000 +52.38% 9
Automation Developer
UK

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Automation Developer 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 England region featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 8 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) UiPath
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 8 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 7 (58.33%) Onboarding
2 7 (58.33%) Technical Debt
2 7 (58.33%) Conversational UI
2 7 (58.33%) Chatbot
2 7 (58.33%) Robotic Process Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Local Government
2 7 (58.33%) Software Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Robotics
2 7 (58.33%) QA
2 7 (58.33%) C#
2 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
2 7 (58.33%) VB.NET
2 7 (58.33%) .NET
3 2 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (16.67%) User Experience
3 2 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Workflow
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) Agile

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Power Automate
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Local Government
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Onboarding
1 7 (58.33%) Robotics
2 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (58.33%) Conversational UI
2 7 (58.33%) Robotic Process Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Software Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Technical Debt
3 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) ITSM
3 2 (16.67%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) User Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Workflow
4 1 (8.33%) Agile
4 1 (8.33%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
4 1 (8.33%) ETL
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) C#
1 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
1 7 (58.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 8 (66.67%) UiPath
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow