Senior Automation Engineer Jobs

Senior Automation Engineer
UK

The median Senior Automation Engineer salary in the UK is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 687 892 932
Rank change year-on-year +205 +40 +215
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Automation Engineer 13 12 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.012% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.013% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 48
10th Percentile - - £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -25.00% +30.61%
75th Percentile £97,500 £78,750 £87,419
90th Percentile - - £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -20.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 47,541 93,322 94,998
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 94.63% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27,467 66,921 59,760
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Senior Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Automation Engineer in the UK

Senior Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Automation Engineer.

Salary trend for Senior Automation Engineer in the UK

Senior Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Automation Engineer in the UK

Senior Automation Engineer
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Automation Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +184 11 £95,000 +90.00% 18
London - 6 £95,000 - 5
UK excluding London +197 5 £60,000 +20.00% 14
Work from Home +172 5 £60,000 - 14
Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £60,000 - 2
South East +105 1 £82,500 +65.00% 6
West Midlands - 1 £55,000 -

Senior Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, Senior 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 featuring Senior Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) C#
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 6 (46.15%) Banking
3 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (38.46%) Serverless
4 5 (38.46%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (38.46%) Blazor
4 5 (38.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
4 5 (38.46%) Azure Functions
4 5 (38.46%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
5 3 (23.08%) SaaS
5 3 (23.08%) Python
5 3 (23.08%) QA
5 3 (23.08%) Selenium
5 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) QA Automation
6 2 (15.38%) WinCC
6 2 (15.38%) Ansible
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 2 (15.38%) Siemens
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) C++
6 2 (15.38%) JavaScript

Senior Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (15.38%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Functions
3 5 (38.46%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (38.46%) Serverless
4 3 (23.08%) SaaS
5 2 (15.38%) GitHub
6 1 (7.69%) AWS
6 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (46.15%) Banking
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) German Language
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Blazor
2 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 2 (15.38%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) QA Automation
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) TDD
5 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) C#
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) C++
4 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Siemens
2 1 (7.69%) Atlassian