Automation Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Automation Engineer
England > North of England

The median Automation Engineer salary in the North of England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 385 396
Rank change year-on-year +116 +11 +22
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 41 18 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.10% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.11% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 14
10th Percentile £51,625 - £39,000
25th Percentile £63,438 £24,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £32,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -34.36% +2.63%
75th Percentile £95,000 £67,188 £73,438
90th Percentile - £80,000 £87,419
England median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,015 16,408 15,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.50% 94.97% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 5,796 12,696 8,279
10th Percentile £26,125 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £78,750 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the North of England

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in the North of England

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in the North of England

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire +107 39 £58,750 -26.56% 22
North West +11 2 £90,000 +275.00% 23
Automation Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 North of England region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 38 (92.68%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (80.49%) Manufacturing
3 31 (75.61%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (70.73%) Budgeting
4 29 (70.73%) FMCG
4 29 (70.73%) Quality Management
5 21 (51.22%) Degree
6 19 (46.34%) Change Management
6 19 (46.34%) Project Management
7 17 (41.46%) Budget Management
7 17 (41.46%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 15 (36.59%) Finance
9 12 (29.27%) Siemens
9 12 (29.27%) HNC
9 12 (29.27%) Management Information System
9 12 (29.27%) Energy Management
9 12 (29.27%) Rockwell
9 12 (29.27%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 12 (29.27%) Operational Technology
9 12 (29.27%) Data Collection
10 6 (14.63%) Python
11 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
11 5 (12.20%) Ansible
11 5 (12.20%) DevOps
12 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
12 4 (9.76%) Terraform
12 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
12 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
12 4 (9.76%) Validation

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.88%) AWS
1 2 (4.88%) Azure
1 2 (4.88%) GCP
1 2 (4.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (4.88%) DNS
1 2 (4.88%) DWDM
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
1 2 (4.88%) LAN
1 2 (4.88%) Network Security
1 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.88%) VPN
1 2 (4.88%) WAN
2 1 (2.44%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.32%) Git
3 2 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.88%) JMeter
3 2 (4.88%) LoadRunner
3 2 (4.88%) NeoLoad
3 2 (4.88%) REST Assured
3 2 (4.88%) Selenium
3 2 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.88%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 33 (80.49%) Manufacturing
2 15 (36.59%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Marketing
5 2 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Kafka
2 2 (4.88%) NumPy
2 2 (4.88%) Pandas
3 1 (2.44%) .NET
3 1 (2.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (70.73%) FMCG
2 12 (29.27%) Management Information System
2 12 (29.27%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 12 (29.27%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.88%) Life Science
3 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Robotics
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (92.68%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (75.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (70.73%) Budgeting
3 29 (70.73%) Quality Management
4 19 (46.34%) Change Management
4 19 (46.34%) Project Management
5 17 (41.46%) Budget Management
5 17 (41.46%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 12 (29.27%) Data Collection
6 12 (29.27%) Energy Management
7 5 (12.20%) DevOps
8 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
8 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
8 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
8 4 (9.76%) Validation
9 3 (7.32%) Agile
9 3 (7.32%) Event-Driven
9 3 (7.32%) Software Engineering
10 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 2 (4.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) Python
2 3 (7.32%) SQL
3 1 (2.44%) C#
3 1 (2.44%) C++
3 1 (2.44%) Groovy
3 1 (2.44%) Java
3 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (51.22%) Degree
2 12 (29.27%) HNC
3 4 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.88%) CCNA
4 2 (4.88%) CCNP
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.88%) JNCIA
4 2 (4.88%) JNCIS
4 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 2 (4.88%) GMP
1 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (12.20%) Ansible
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Rockwell
1 12 (29.27%) Siemens
2 2 (4.88%) Arista
2 2 (4.88%) Cisco
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.88%) Salesforce