Automation Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 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
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 436 592 629
Rank change year-on-year +156 +37 -53
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 140 166 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.23% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 70 94 75
10th Percentile £43,625 £24,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £31,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £52,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £63,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
North of England +86 53 £80,000 +150.00% 60
Yorkshire +105 51 £58,750 -26.56% 24
Midlands +73 35 £65,000 +62.50% 51
West Midlands +61 21 £67,500 +80.00% 30
East of England +54 21 £55,000 +22.22% 33
East Midlands +53 14 £52,000 +4.00% 20
South West +115 13 £52,500 +75.00% 35
South East +78 12 £47,500 +5.56% 58
Northern Ireland +36 5 - - 2
North West +5 2 £90,000 +275.00% 32
Wales -27 1 - - 11
Automation Engineer
UK

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 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 UK excluding London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (51.43%) Degree
2 61 (43.57%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (41.43%) Manufacturing
4 51 (36.43%) SCADA
5 47 (33.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (32.86%) Operational Technology
7 42 (30.00%) Budgeting
7 42 (30.00%) Quality Management
8 41 (29.29%) FMCG
9 39 (27.86%) HNC
10 36 (25.71%) Computer Science
11 34 (24.29%) Mentoring
12 33 (23.57%) Test Automation
12 33 (23.57%) Validation
13 31 (22.14%) Finance
14 29 (20.71%) Siemens
14 29 (20.71%) Rockwell
15 27 (19.29%) Security Cleared
15 27 (19.29%) Selenium
16 25 (17.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (17.86%) Management Information System
17 24 (17.14%) SC Cleared
17 24 (17.14%) Energy Management
17 24 (17.14%) Manufacturing Execution System
17 24 (17.14%) Data Collection
18 21 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
19 19 (13.57%) JIRA
19 19 (13.57%) ISTQB
19 19 (13.57%) Change Management
19 19 (13.57%) Project Management

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.00%) Azure
2 8 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.29%) SaaS
4 5 (3.57%) GitHub
5 4 (2.86%) Serverless
6 3 (2.14%) AWS
6 3 (2.14%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.14%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.14%) PaaS
7 2 (1.43%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.43%) GCP
7 2 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.43%) IaaS
7 2 (1.43%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.14%) Modbus
2 5 (3.57%) DNS
2 5 (3.57%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.86%) SMTP
4 3 (2.14%) HTTP
5 2 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.43%) DWDM
5 2 (1.43%) Firewall
5 2 (1.43%) LAN
5 2 (1.43%) Network Security
5 2 (1.43%) VPN
5 2 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (19.29%) Selenium
2 19 (13.57%) JIRA
3 14 (10.00%) Git
4 11 (7.86%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.57%) JMeter
6 4 (2.86%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (2.86%) Postman
6 4 (2.86%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.14%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.14%) LoadRunner
7 3 (2.14%) WebDriver
8 2 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.43%) NeoLoad
8 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.43%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.71%) Appium
9 1 (0.71%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.71%) Maven
9 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (41.43%) Manufacturing
2 31 (22.14%) Finance
3 25 (17.86%) Pharmaceutical
4 16 (11.43%) Social Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Banking
6 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.14%) Law
7 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.43%) Electronics
8 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.71%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.86%) REST
2 3 (2.14%) Kafka
2 3 (2.14%) Playwright
3 2 (1.43%) NumPy
3 2 (1.43%) Pandas
3 2 (1.43%) SOAP
4 1 (0.71%) .NET
4 1 (0.71%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.71%) pytest
4 1 (0.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 51 (36.43%) SCADA
2 46 (32.86%) Operational Technology
3 41 (29.29%) FMCG
4 25 (17.86%) Management Information System
5 24 (17.14%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 6 (4.29%) Life Science
7 5 (3.57%) Robotics
8 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.43%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Linux
1 2 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (43.57%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (33.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 42 (30.00%) Budgeting
3 42 (30.00%) Quality Management
4 36 (25.71%) Computer Science
5 34 (24.29%) Mentoring
6 33 (23.57%) Test Automation
6 33 (23.57%) Validation
7 24 (17.14%) Data Collection
7 24 (17.14%) Energy Management
8 21 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (13.57%) Change Management
9 19 (13.57%) Project Management
10 18 (12.86%) Model Validation
10 18 (12.86%) Penetration Testing
11 17 (12.14%) Budget Management
11 17 (12.14%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 17 (12.14%) DevOps
12 16 (11.43%) CI/CD
13 13 (9.29%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.14%) Python
2 10 (7.14%) C#
3 8 (5.71%) SQL
4 3 (2.14%) Java
4 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.43%) Groovy
5 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.43%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.71%) Bash
6 1 (0.71%) C++
6 1 (0.71%) Go
6 1 (0.71%) PHP
6 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (51.43%) Degree
2 39 (27.86%) HNC
3 27 (19.29%) Security Cleared
4 24 (17.14%) SC Cleared
5 19 (13.57%) ISTQB
6 12 (8.57%) HND
7 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.43%) CCNA
9 2 (1.43%) CCNP
9 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.43%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.43%) JNCIS
9 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.71%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.86%) QA
2 2 (1.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 2 (1.43%) GMP
3 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) GAMP
System Software
1 7 (5.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (4.29%) Ansible
3 5 (3.57%) Terraform
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (20.71%) Rockwell
1 29 (20.71%) Siemens
2 3 (2.14%) Google
2 3 (2.14%) VMware
3 2 (1.43%) Arista
3 2 (1.43%) Cisco
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.43%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.71%) Atlassian