Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 682 678 677
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -148
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 139 283 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.30% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.32% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 121 204 347
10th Percentile £24,000 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,533 £74,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 79,551 87,358 124,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.64% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,915 55,003 76,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,190 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
London +47 41 £75,000 +20.00% 13
South East +35 33 £50,000 - 13
Midlands +11 25 £40,000 -27.27% 26
North of England +28 21 £32,000 -34.36% 21
West Midlands +36 19 £37,500 -31.82% 21
South West -12 13 £32,500 -35.00% 7
North West +8 12 £24,000 -46.67% 10
Yorkshire +53 9 £77,500 +47.62% 11
East Midlands -8 6 £50,000 +7.53% 5
East of England +21 4 £45,000 -26.53% 12
Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 England region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (41.01%) Java
2 45 (32.37%) Test Automation
3 38 (27.34%) Python
4 36 (25.90%) Agile
5 35 (25.18%) C#
6 32 (23.02%) DevOps
7 31 (22.30%) Terraform
7 31 (22.30%) AWS
8 29 (20.86%) CI/CD
9 27 (19.42%) Mentoring
10 26 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (17.99%) Docker
12 24 (17.27%) Degree
12 24 (17.27%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (16.55%) QA
13 23 (16.55%) Ansible
13 23 (16.55%) Kubernetes
14 22 (15.83%) Social Skills
15 21 (15.11%) Configuration Management
16 19 (13.67%) Azure
16 19 (13.67%) Jenkins
17 18 (12.95%) Puppet
17 18 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (12.95%) Linux
17 18 (12.95%) Manufacturing
18 17 (12.23%) Software Testing
18 17 (12.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 16 (11.51%) Public Sector
19 16 (11.51%) Innovative Thinking

Automation Engineer 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 9 (6.47%) Confluence
2 2 (1.44%) Apache
2 2 (1.44%) IIS
2 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) AutoCAD
1 2 (1.44%) PTC Creo
1 2 (1.44%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 31 (22.30%) AWS
2 19 (13.67%) Azure
3 10 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (7.19%) Amazon S3
3 10 (7.19%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (7.19%) GitHub
3 10 (7.19%) Route 53
3 10 (7.19%) Serverless
3 10 (7.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (2.88%) GCP
5 4 (2.88%) IaaS
6 3 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.44%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.44%) PaaS
8 1 (0.72%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.60%) BGP
1 5 (3.60%) Modbus
1 5 (3.60%) MPLS
1 5 (3.60%) Profibus
1 5 (3.60%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.72%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.72%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.19%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.32%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.88%) MySQL
3 4 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.16%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.44%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.72%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (13.67%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.07%) Selenium
3 12 (8.63%) JIRA
4 10 (7.19%) Bitbucket
4 10 (7.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (6.47%) Subversion
6 8 (5.76%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.76%) Postman
7 5 (3.60%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.88%) JMeter
9 3 (2.16%) Appium
9 3 (2.16%) DTrace
9 3 (2.16%) GDB
9 3 (2.16%) Git
9 3 (2.16%) JUnit
9 3 (2.16%) Mockito
9 3 (2.16%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.16%) SoapUI
9 3 (2.16%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.44%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (15.83%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.95%) Manufacturing
3 17 (12.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.51%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.47%) Finance
5 9 (6.47%) Law
6 8 (5.76%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.76%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.32%) Marketing
8 4 (2.88%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.88%) Automotive
9 3 (2.16%) Electronics
9 3 (2.16%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.44%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.60%) Spring
2 4 (2.88%) SAML
2 4 (2.88%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.16%) Playwright
3 3 (2.16%) React
3 3 (2.16%) REST
3 3 (2.16%) Web Services
3 3 (2.16%) WireMock
4 2 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.44%) XML
4 2 (1.44%) YAML
5 1 (0.72%) .NET
5 1 (0.72%) Blazor
5 1 (0.72%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.07%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (8.63%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (7.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.47%) Robotics
5 8 (5.76%) FMCG
6 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.60%) SCADA
8 3 (2.16%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.44%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.44%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.72%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.72%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.72%) FPGA
10 1 (0.72%) IoT
10 1 (0.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.95%) Linux
2 11 (7.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.88%) Windows
4 3 (2.16%) Unix
4 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.44%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.72%) Android
6 1 (0.72%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (32.37%) Test Automation
2 36 (25.90%) Agile
3 32 (23.02%) DevOps
4 29 (20.86%) CI/CD
5 27 (19.42%) Mentoring
6 26 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (17.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (17.27%) Platform Engineering
9 21 (15.11%) Configuration Management
10 18 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (12.23%) Software Testing
12 16 (11.51%) Innovative Thinking
12 16 (11.51%) QA Automation
13 15 (10.79%) Infrastructure Automation
14 14 (10.07%) Coaching
15 11 (7.91%) Migration
15 11 (7.91%) Software Engineering
16 10 (7.19%) Identity Access Management
17 9 (6.47%) Data Migration
17 9 (6.47%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (41.01%) Java
2 38 (27.34%) Python
3 35 (25.18%) C#
4 11 (7.91%) Perl
5 9 (6.47%) C
6 7 (5.04%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.60%) Ladder Logic
7 5 (3.60%) VB
8 4 (2.88%) Bash
8 4 (2.88%) C++
8 4 (2.88%) SQL
9 3 (2.16%) OCaml
9 3 (2.16%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.16%) SystemTap
10 2 (1.44%) Go
10 2 (1.44%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.72%) VB6
11 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (17.27%) Degree
2 9 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.76%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
4 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.88%) JNCIE
4 4 (2.88%) JNCIP
4 4 (2.88%) PhD
5 3 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.44%) CCNP
6 2 (1.44%) MCSA
6 2 (1.44%) MCSE
6 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.72%) CCIE
7 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.55%) QA
System Software
1 25 (17.99%) Docker
2 3 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) Firmware
3 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (22.30%) Terraform
2 23 (16.55%) Ansible
2 23 (16.55%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.95%) Puppet
4 16 (11.51%) Progress Chef
5 15 (10.79%) Salt
6 9 (6.47%) Packer
7 2 (1.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.44%) SCCM
7 2 (1.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (8.63%) YouTube
2 9 (6.47%) Atlassian
2 9 (6.47%) Siemens
3 6 (4.32%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (3.60%) Oracle
4 5 (3.60%) Wonderware
5 4 (2.88%) ANSYS
5 4 (2.88%) Juniper
5 4 (2.88%) Nokia
5 4 (2.88%) SAP
6 3 (2.16%) Cisco
7 2 (1.44%) IBM
7 2 (1.44%) MathWorks
7 2 (1.44%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.44%) PTC
7 2 (1.44%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.44%) Spotify
7 2 (1.44%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.72%) VMware