Automation Engineer Jobs in the South East

Automation Engineer
England > South East

The median Automation Engineer salary in the South East is £47,500 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 365 386 393
Rank change year-on-year +21 +7 -60
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 29 29 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.17% 0.19% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.21% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28 28 75
10th Percentile £35,200 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,150 £45,188 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £62,500 £80,300
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 15,621 13,714 18,970
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 90.60% 96.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 8,594 12,572
10th Percentile £27,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the South East

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in the South East

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in the South East

Automation Engineer
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 Engineer within the South East 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
Thames Valley +23 13 £60,000 +4.35% 4
Berkshire - 11 £60,000 - 1
Hampshire -17 9 £45,000 -10.00% 3
Surrey +12 6 £34,000 -32.00% 2
West Sussex +38 1 - -
Oxfordshire +9 1 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Buckinghamshire -16 1 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Automation Engineer
England

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

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 South East region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (31.03%) Java
1 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
2 8 (27.59%) Siemens
3 5 (17.24%) Ladder Logic
3 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
3 5 (17.24%) Modbus
3 5 (17.24%) Profibus
3 5 (17.24%) Allen-Bradley
3 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
3 5 (17.24%) SCADA
3 5 (17.24%) Wonderware
4 4 (13.79%) QA
4 4 (13.79%) Selenium
4 4 (13.79%) Network Design
4 4 (13.79%) JNCIP
4 4 (13.79%) JNCIE
4 4 (13.79%) C#
4 4 (13.79%) MPLS
4 4 (13.79%) BGP
4 4 (13.79%) Juniper
4 4 (13.79%) Nokia
4 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
4 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
4 4 (13.79%) API Testing
4 4 (13.79%) QA Automation
4 4 (13.79%) Terraform
4 4 (13.79%) Postman
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.34%) Azure

Automation Engineer 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 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) IIS
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.45%) PTC Creo
1 1 (3.45%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) IaaS
2 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Modbus
1 5 (17.24%) Profibus
1 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
2 4 (13.79%) BGP
2 4 (13.79%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) SAP HANA
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
1 4 (13.79%) Postman
1 4 (13.79%) Selenium
2 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
3 2 (6.90%) JMeter
3 2 (6.90%) JUnit
3 2 (6.90%) Mockito
3 2 (6.90%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.90%) SoapUI
3 2 (6.90%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.45%) Chocolatey
4 1 (3.45%) Git
4 1 (3.45%) Robot Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.90%) Electronics
2 2 (6.90%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Health Technology
2 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.90%) Marketing
2 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Playwright
1 2 (6.90%) REST
1 2 (6.90%) Spring
1 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
1 2 (6.90%) Web Services
1 2 (6.90%) WireMock
2 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) React
2 1 (3.45%) XML
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) SCADA
2 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.45%) PKI
4 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
1 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
2 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
3 4 (13.79%) API Testing
3 4 (13.79%) Mentoring
3 4 (13.79%) Network Design
3 4 (13.79%) QA Automation
4 3 (10.34%) Agile
4 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.90%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (6.90%) Design Patterns
5 2 (6.90%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (6.90%) Integration Testing
5 2 (6.90%) Microservices
5 2 (6.90%) Programme Management
5 2 (6.90%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (6.90%) SDET
5 2 (6.90%) Software Testing
5 2 (6.90%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (6.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) Ladder Logic
3 4 (13.79%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.90%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) JNCIE
1 4 (13.79%) JNCIP
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) MCSA
2 1 (3.45%) MCSE
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
3 2 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.45%) SCCM
4 1 (3.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Siemens
2 5 (17.24%) Allen-Bradley
2 5 (17.24%) Wonderware
3 4 (13.79%) Juniper
3 4 (13.79%) Nokia
4 3 (10.34%) SAP
5 1 (3.45%) IBM
5 1 (3.45%) MathWorks
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) PTC
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.45%) TOWER Software
5 1 (3.45%) VMware