Automation Engineer Jobs in London

Automation Engineer
England > London

The median Automation Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 461 487
Rank change year-on-year +130 +26 +145
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 62 38 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.16% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.17% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 39 37 119
10th Percentile £66,500 £24,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +20.00% -8.76%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £105,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,624 22,265 32,087
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.22% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7,221 16,628 23,661
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +32 7 £90,000 +44.00% 5
Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 52 (83.87%) Python
2 27 (43.55%) DevOps
3 26 (41.94%) Ansible
3 26 (41.94%) Finance
4 20 (32.26%) Banking
5 19 (30.65%) AWS
5 19 (30.65%) CI/CD
6 18 (29.03%) Bash
7 15 (24.19%) Azure
7 15 (24.19%) REST
8 14 (22.58%) Task Automation
9 13 (20.97%) Platform Engineering
9 13 (20.97%) Telecoms
9 13 (20.97%) Firewall
9 13 (20.97%) Linux
9 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
10 12 (19.35%) SQL
10 12 (19.35%) Terraform
11 11 (17.74%) Agile
12 10 (16.13%) HTTP
12 10 (16.13%) Degree
12 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
12 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (14.52%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (14.52%) Serverless
13 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
14 8 (12.90%) Git
14 8 (12.90%) Windows

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 19 (30.65%) AWS
2 15 (24.19%) Azure
3 9 (14.52%) Serverless
4 5 (8.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.06%) Azure Functions
4 5 (8.06%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (8.06%) IaaS
4 5 (8.06%) PaaS
4 5 (8.06%) SaaS
5 2 (3.23%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.23%) GitHub
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.23%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.97%) Firewall
2 10 (16.13%) HTTP
3 8 (12.90%) DNS
4 6 (9.68%) BGP
4 6 (9.68%) SMTP
4 6 (9.68%) TCP/IP
4 6 (9.68%) Wireless
5 5 (8.06%) BIG-IP
5 5 (8.06%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (8.06%) Cisco ISE
5 5 (8.06%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (8.06%) LAN
5 5 (8.06%) Network Security
5 5 (8.06%) OSPF
5 5 (8.06%) TACACS
5 5 (8.06%) WLAN
6 4 (6.45%) SD-WAN
6 4 (6.45%) WAN
7 2 (3.23%) DHCP
7 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.61%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (14.52%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (12.90%) Git
3 5 (8.06%) GitLab
4 4 (6.45%) Cucumber
4 4 (6.45%) SonarQube
5 3 (4.84%) Appium
5 3 (4.84%) Selenium
6 2 (3.23%) JIRA
6 2 (3.23%) JUnit
6 2 (3.23%) Maven
6 2 (3.23%) Postman
6 2 (3.23%) SoapUI
6 2 (3.23%) TestNG
7 1 (1.61%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
General
1 26 (41.94%) Finance
2 20 (32.26%) Banking
3 13 (20.97%) Telecoms
4 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (9.68%) Law
5 6 (9.68%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.45%) Electronics
7 4 (6.45%) Front Office
7 4 (6.45%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (24.19%) REST
2 8 (12.90%) GraphQL
3 6 (9.68%) 802.1X
3 6 (9.68%) Middleware
4 5 (8.06%) Blazor
4 5 (8.06%) RESTful
5 4 (6.45%) JSON
6 3 (4.84%) pytest
7 2 (3.23%) SOAP
8 1 (1.61%) Playwright
8 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.45%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Robotics
2 4 (6.45%) SCADA
3 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.97%) Linux
2 8 (12.90%) Windows
3 6 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.23%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (43.55%) DevOps
2 19 (30.65%) CI/CD
3 14 (22.58%) Task Automation
4 13 (20.97%) Platform Engineering
5 11 (17.74%) Agile
6 10 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (14.52%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (12.90%) Security Operations
9 7 (11.29%) Data Protection
9 7 (11.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 6 (9.68%) Containerisation
10 6 (9.68%) Incident Response
10 6 (9.68%) Information Security
10 6 (9.68%) Kanban
10 6 (9.68%) Security Architecture
10 6 (9.68%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
10 6 (9.68%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 52 (83.87%) Python
2 18 (29.03%) Bash
3 13 (20.97%) PowerShell
4 12 (19.35%) SQL
5 6 (9.68%) R
6 5 (8.06%) C#
6 5 (8.06%) Perl
7 4 (6.45%) C
8 2 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Degree
2 6 (9.68%) CCNP
2 6 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.45%) CCIE
3 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.45%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.61%) ISEB
4 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) GDPR
1 5 (8.06%) QA
1 5 (8.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (6.45%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (6.45%) Docker
3 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 26 (41.94%) Ansible
2 12 (19.35%) Terraform
3 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
4 5 (8.06%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.61%) Argo
6 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.61%) Grafana
6 1 (1.61%) Packer
6 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Google
1 6 (9.68%) VMware
2 5 (8.06%) Cisco
2 5 (8.06%) F5
2 5 (8.06%) LogicMonitor
2 5 (8.06%) Palo Alto
2 5 (8.06%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.23%) Databricks
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.61%) Arista
4 1 (1.61%) Meraki
4 1 (1.61%) Snow