Automation Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Automation Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Automation Engineer salary in Scotland is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 219 226
Rank change year-on-year -61 +7 -50
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 7 8 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.10% 0.17% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.19% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 16
10th Percentile £48,125 £39,750 £43,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,875 £60,313
90th Percentile £60,625 £63,750 £69,375
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,492 4,293 5,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.85% 90.28% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,331 2,944
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,058
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Scotland

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in Scotland

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in Scotland

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 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
Edinburgh +38 6 £52,500 +5.00% 1
Glasgow -104 1 - -
Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Scotland region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) QA
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) QA Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Software Quality Assurance
3 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
3 4 (57.14%) Games
3 4 (57.14%) ISO 9001
3 4 (57.14%) Electronics
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Postman
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Requirements Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Mockito
5 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
5 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 1 (14.29%) SDET
5 1 (14.29%) Presales
5 1 (14.29%) Terraform
5 1 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) WireMock

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Mockito
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Electronics
1 4 (57.14%) Games
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
2 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) QA Automation
3 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Electronic Design Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Experimental Design
5 1 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Presales
5 1 (14.29%) SDET
5 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) SysML
5 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (14.29%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
2 4 (57.14%) ISO 9001
2 4 (57.14%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) ANSYS