Automation Engineer Job Trends in Telford

Automation Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Automation Engineer salary in Telford is £35,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Telford 0.94% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - -
75th Percentile £43,750 - -
90th Percentile £47,500 - -
Shropshire median annual salary £35,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 294 66 144
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 97.06% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 200 58 106
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,688 £45,313 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +37.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,125 £73,125
Shropshire median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% +25.00% -33.33%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Automation Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Automation Engineer job vacancy trend in Telford

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Telford

Salary distribution trend for Automation Engineer job vacancies in Telford.

Salary distribution trend for Automation Engineer job vacancies in Telford

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in Telford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in Telford over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in Telford

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 9 June 2026, Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Telford region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Gatling
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) HP Fortify
1 3 (100.00%) HP UFT
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Metrics

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Gatling
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) HP UFT
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) SonarQube
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) OWASP
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SDET
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Veracode