Automation Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Automation Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 546 540
Rank change year-on-year +171 -6 +40
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 38 43 131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.13% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.13% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 33 42 122
10th Percentile £57,500 £45,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £75,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +25.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £75,294
90th Percentile £100,000 - £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% -13.04% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Automation Engineer.

Automation Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Automation Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (63.16%) Python
2 19 (50.00%) Finance
3 16 (42.11%) Ansible
3 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
4 15 (39.47%) DevOps
5 13 (34.21%) Test Automation
6 12 (31.58%) PowerShell
7 11 (28.95%) Git
8 10 (26.32%) Azure
8 10 (26.32%) REST
8 10 (26.32%) Banking
9 9 (23.68%) Agile
9 9 (23.68%) Linux
10 8 (21.05%) Bash
10 8 (21.05%) QA
10 8 (21.05%) Selenium
10 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
10 8 (21.05%) GraphQL
11 7 (18.42%) Terraform
11 7 (18.42%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 7 (18.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (18.42%) Windows
12 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
12 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
12 6 (15.79%) AWS
12 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
12 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
12 6 (15.79%) QA Automation
12 6 (15.79%) Task Automation
13 5 (13.16%) Windows Server

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) GitHub
4 3 (7.89%) SaaS
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.63%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) BGP
1 3 (7.89%) BIG-IP
1 3 (7.89%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (7.89%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (7.89%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
1 3 (7.89%) LAN
1 3 (7.89%) OSPF
1 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
1 3 (7.89%) TACACS
1 3 (7.89%) WAN
1 3 (7.89%) Wireless
1 3 (7.89%) WLAN
2 2 (5.26%) DHCP
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Git
2 8 (21.05%) Selenium
3 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
4 4 (10.53%) IBM UrbanCode
4 4 (10.53%) Postman
5 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (5.26%) JIRA
6 2 (5.26%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.63%) Appium
7 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.63%) JMeter
7 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.63%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.63%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (50.00%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Banking
3 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.26%) Marketing
4 2 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (26.32%) REST
2 8 (21.05%) GraphQL
3 5 (13.16%) Middleware
4 3 (7.89%) 802.1X
4 3 (7.89%) Playwright
5 2 (5.26%) pytest
5 2 (5.26%) SOAP
6 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) Life Science
3 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Linux
2 7 (18.42%) Windows
3 5 (13.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (13.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 15 (39.47%) DevOps
3 13 (34.21%) Test Automation
4 9 (23.68%) Agile
5 8 (21.05%) Mentoring
6 7 (18.42%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.79%) QA Automation
7 6 (15.79%) Task Automation
8 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (13.16%) Patch Management
8 5 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.16%) Test Strategy
9 4 (10.53%) Benchmarking
9 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (10.53%) Manual Testing
10 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) Python
2 12 (31.58%) PowerShell
3 8 (21.05%) Bash
4 4 (10.53%) C#
5 3 (7.89%) Perl
5 3 (7.89%) SQL
6 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.26%) R
6 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) Groovy
7 1 (2.63%) Java
7 1 (2.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) CCIE
1 3 (7.89%) CCNP
1 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.63%) ISEB
3 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
2 3 (7.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (5.26%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (5.26%) GMP
4 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Docker
1 5 (13.16%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (42.11%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) Terraform
3 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 3 (7.89%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (13.16%) VMware
2 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco
3 3 (7.89%) F5
3 3 (7.89%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
3 3 (7.89%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (5.26%) Salesforce