Automation Developer Jobs in the South East

Automation Developer
England > South East

The median Automation Developer salary in the South East is £55,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 397 376
Rank change year-on-year +82 -21 +135
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Developer 3 9 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.031% 0.047% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.050% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54,250 - £43,162
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £24,000 £44,666
Median % change year-on-year +131.25% -46.27% -28.54%
75th Percentile £56,750 - £46,169
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £62,750 £47,500 £44,666
% change year-on-year +32.11% +6.35% -10.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 8,519 17,938 11,715
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.45% 94.36% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,574 12,668 7,720
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,249
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.86% +0.42%

Automation Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Automation Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Developer in the South East

Automation Developer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Developer in the South East.

Salary trend for Automation Developer in the South East

Automation Developer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Developer within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Surrey +45 1 - - 1
East Sussex - 1 £55,500 - 2
Middlesex - 1 - -
Automation Developer
England

Automation Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 June 2025, Automation Developer 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 South East region featuring Automation Developer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) UiPath
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Prism
2 1 (33.33%) Robotic Process Automation
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (33.33%) RAML
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (33.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Robotics
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Azure

Automation Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (33.33%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Automate
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) RAML
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Robotics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Design
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Robotic Process Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) DataWeave
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) UiPath
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Prism
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft