Senior Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Automation Engineer salary in England is £95,000 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 650 834 869
Rank change year-on-year +184 +35 +181
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Automation Engineer 11 7 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.024% 0.008% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.009% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 11 6 45
10th Percentile - - £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £65,882
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -37.50% +28.00%
75th Percentile £97,500 £52,500 £87,419
90th Percentile - £56,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £95,000 £60,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +58.33% -25.00% +30.61%

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 42,028 80,606 84,581
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 94.48% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,667 60,286 53,585
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,435 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Senior Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Engineer in England

Senior Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Automation Engineer in England

Senior Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Senior Automation Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior Automation Engineer within the England 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
London - 6 £95,000 - 5
Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £60,000 - 2
South East +105 1 £82,500 +65.00% 6
West Midlands - 1 £55,000 -
Senior Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Banking
4 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 5 (45.45%) Serverless
4 5 (45.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (45.45%) Blazor
4 5 (45.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (45.45%) Azure Functions
5 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
5 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
5 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) QA Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Python
5 3 (27.27%) QA
5 3 (27.27%) Selenium
5 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) SaaS
6 2 (18.18%) Linux
6 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
6 2 (18.18%) GitHub
6 2 (18.18%) Ansible
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
7 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (9.09%) Terraform

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Functions
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (45.45%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) SaaS
5 2 (18.18%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) AWS
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (54.55%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Blazor
2 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 3 (27.27%) QA Automation
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) TDD
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
2 1 (9.09%) Puppet
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian