Automation Engineer Jobs in Sheffield

Automation Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Automation Engineer salary in Sheffield is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - -18
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 6 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.09% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% - 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £46,375 - -
25th Percentile £50,313 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,313 - £53,750
90th Percentile £68,125 - -
South Yorkshire median annual salary £58,750 - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 275 1,012 819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 95.47% 88.44%
Number of salaries quoted 189 821 398
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £71,170
South Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -10.00%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Sheffield

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Sheffield

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in Sheffield

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in Sheffield

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in Sheffield

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Sheffield region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (33.33%) Arista
4 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Runbook
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
4 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (33.33%) Azure
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (33.33%) LAN
4 2 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) DNS

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) DWDM
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) LAN
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Robotics
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Runbook
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Scala
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNA
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) JNCIA
1 2 (33.33%) JNCIS
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Arista
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
10 Automation Engineer jobs in South Yorkshire