Automation Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Automation Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Automation Engineer salary in Leeds is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 121 149
Rank change year-on-year +47 +28 +61
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 8 13 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.02% 0.54% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.56% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 12 3
10th Percentile - £70,337 £43,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £74,375 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £80,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +68.42% -22.45%
75th Percentile £57,500 £85,000 £48,750
90th Percentile - £89,500 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £80,000 £65,159
% change year-on-year -31.25% +22.78% +18.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 738 2,301 2,701
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 96.40% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 486 1,661 1,625
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,875 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,900 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -0.18% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,919 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +9.62%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Leeds

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 Leeds region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Siemens
1 7 (87.50%) Quality Management
1 7 (87.50%) Management Information System
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
1 7 (87.50%) Manufacturing
1 7 (87.50%) FMCG
1 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (87.50%) Energy Management
1 7 (87.50%) HNC
1 7 (87.50%) Rockwell
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (87.50%) Data Collection
1 7 (87.50%) Operational Technology
1 7 (87.50%) Budgeting
1 7 (87.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Fintech
2 1 (12.50%) Go
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
2 1 (12.50%) SDLC
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) SQL

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (87.50%) Finance
1 7 (87.50%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) pytest
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) FMCG
1 7 (87.50%) Management Information System
1 7 (87.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
1 7 (87.50%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Budgeting
1 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (87.50%) Data Collection
1 7 (87.50%) Energy Management
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (87.50%) Quality Management
2 1 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (12.50%) Fintech
2 1 (12.50%) QA Automation
2 1 (12.50%) SDLC
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Go
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) PHP
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Rockwell
1 7 (87.50%) Siemens