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 £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 623 583
Rank change year-on-year +54 -40 -84
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 178 139 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.22% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.25% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 100 74 184
10th Percentile £24,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £61,563
90th Percentile £61,500 £68,375 £70,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 65,759 56,227 67,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.40% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 46,939 31,686 43,278
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,650 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 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
Wales +74 76 £32,500 -40.91% 5
South East +35 33 £50,000 - 12
Midlands +11 25 £40,000 -27.27% 26
North of England +28 21 £32,000 -34.36% 19
West Midlands +36 19 £37,500 -31.82% 21
South West -12 13 £32,500 -35.00% 7
North West +8 12 £24,000 -46.67% 9
Yorkshire +53 9 £77,500 +47.62% 10
Scotland -60 7 £52,500 +5.00% 3
Northern Ireland - 7 £50,000 - 2
East Midlands -8 6 £50,000 +7.53% 5
East of England +21 4 £45,000 -26.53% 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 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (48.88%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (47.75%) Degree
3 80 (44.94%) Manufacturing
4 78 (43.82%) Social Skills
5 74 (41.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (38.76%) Law
7 68 (38.20%) Six Sigma
7 68 (38.20%) Benchmarking
7 68 (38.20%) Lean Six Sigma
7 68 (38.20%) Lean Manufacturing
7 68 (38.20%) FMCG
7 68 (38.20%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 68 (38.20%) Presentation Skills
7 68 (38.20%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (38.20%) Order Management
8 34 (19.10%) Test Automation
8 34 (19.10%) C#
9 33 (18.54%) Java
10 28 (15.73%) Agile
11 26 (14.61%) QA
12 20 (11.24%) Mentoring
13 16 (8.99%) Selenium
13 16 (8.99%) Python
13 16 (8.99%) DevOps
13 16 (8.99%) QA Automation
14 13 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (6.74%) API Testing
15 12 (6.74%) Azure
16 11 (6.18%) Software Engineering
16 11 (6.18%) Public Sector

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 2 (1.12%) Apache
1 2 (1.12%) IIS
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) AutoCAD
1 2 (1.12%) PTC Creo
1 2 (1.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 12 (6.74%) Azure
2 7 (3.93%) AWS
2 7 (3.93%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (2.25%) SaaS
4 3 (1.69%) GCP
5 2 (1.12%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.12%) IaaS
5 2 (1.12%) PaaS
6 1 (0.56%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) BGP
1 5 (2.81%) Modbus
1 5 (2.81%) MPLS
1 5 (2.81%) Profibus
1 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.49%) MySQL
3 4 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.12%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (8.99%) Selenium
2 8 (4.49%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.93%) Cucumber
3 7 (3.93%) Postman
4 5 (2.81%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.69%) JMeter
5 3 (1.69%) JUnit
5 3 (1.69%) Mockito
5 3 (1.69%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.12%) Chocolatey
6 2 (1.12%) Git
6 2 (1.12%) JIRA
6 2 (1.12%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.12%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.56%) Appium
7 1 (0.56%) GitLab
7 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.56%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.56%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (44.94%) Manufacturing
2 78 (43.82%) Social Skills
3 69 (38.76%) Law
4 68 (38.20%) Influencing Skills
4 68 (38.20%) Presentation Skills
5 13 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (6.18%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.49%) Finance
7 8 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.93%) Electronics
8 7 (3.93%) Marketing
9 6 (3.37%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.81%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.25%) Automotive
11 4 (2.25%) Games
12 3 (1.69%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.56%) Analytical Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.81%) Spring
2 4 (2.25%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.69%) Playwright
3 3 (1.69%) Web Services
3 3 (1.69%) WireMock
4 2 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (1.12%) React
4 2 (1.12%) REST
4 2 (1.12%) XML
4 2 (1.12%) YAML
5 1 (0.56%) .NET
5 1 (0.56%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 68 (38.20%) FMCG
2 9 (5.06%) Robotics
3 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.81%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.81%) SCADA
5 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.12%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.56%) FPGA
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.25%) Windows
2 3 (1.69%) Linux
2 3 (1.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.56%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (48.88%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (41.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 68 (38.20%) Benchmarking
3 68 (38.20%) Lean Manufacturing
3 68 (38.20%) Lean Six Sigma
3 68 (38.20%) Order Management
3 68 (38.20%) Six Sigma
4 34 (19.10%) Test Automation
5 28 (15.73%) Agile
6 20 (11.24%) Mentoring
7 16 (8.99%) DevOps
7 16 (8.99%) QA Automation
8 12 (6.74%) API Testing
9 11 (6.18%) Software Engineering
10 9 (5.06%) Coaching
10 9 (5.06%) Computer Science
11 7 (3.93%) CI/CD
11 7 (3.93%) Digital Marketing
11 7 (3.93%) PLM
11 7 (3.93%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.10%) C#
2 33 (18.54%) Java
3 16 (8.99%) Python
4 6 (3.37%) C
5 5 (2.81%) C++
5 5 (2.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.81%) Ladder Logic
5 5 (2.81%) VB
6 4 (2.25%) Bash
6 4 (2.25%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.25%) SQL
7 2 (1.12%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.12%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.56%) VB6
8 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (47.75%) Degree
2 68 (38.20%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 9 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.81%) PhD
6 4 (2.25%) JNCIE
6 4 (2.25%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.12%) MCSA
7 2 (1.12%) MCSE
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.61%) QA
2 4 (2.25%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (2.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) Firmware
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.49%) Terraform
2 7 (3.93%) Ansible
3 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.12%) SCCM
4 2 (1.12%) SCOM
5 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (5.06%) Siemens
2 7 (3.93%) YouTube
3 6 (3.37%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (2.81%) ANSYS
4 5 (2.81%) Oracle
4 5 (2.81%) Wonderware
5 4 (2.25%) Juniper
5 4 (2.25%) Nokia
5 4 (2.25%) SAP
6 2 (1.12%) IBM
6 2 (1.12%) MathWorks
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.12%) PTC
6 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.12%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.56%) Spotify
7 1 (0.56%) VMware