Automation Engineer Jobs in England

Automation Engineer
UK > England

The median Automation Engineer salary in England is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 713 657 690
Rank change year-on-year -56 +33 -171
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 128 261 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.32% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 115 187 362
10th Percentile £24,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £28,625 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% - -
75th Percentile £71,875 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £98,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +0.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,789 81,044 130,352
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 91.54% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 60,868 51,693 74,746
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,525 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in England

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
London 0 36 £75,000 +20.00% 17
South East -3 29 £47,500 -9.52% 17
Midlands +3 28 £42,500 -20.93% 22
West Midlands +9 20 £40,000 -27.27% 17
North of England +19 18 £38,500 -26.67% 25
South West -9 13 £27,500 -45.00% 21
North West -1 10 £24,000 -46.67% 12
Yorkshire +59 8 £80,000 +52.38% 14
East Midlands -4 8 £50,000 +7.53% 5
East of England -5 5 £53,750 -14.00% 14
Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 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 England region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (37.50%) Java
2 41 (32.03%) Test Automation
3 29 (22.66%) DevOps
3 29 (22.66%) CI/CD
4 28 (21.88%) Mentoring
4 28 (21.88%) C#
4 28 (21.88%) Python
4 28 (21.88%) Agile
5 27 (21.09%) Terraform
6 24 (18.75%) AWS
7 23 (17.97%) Docker
8 22 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (16.41%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (15.63%) Jenkins
10 20 (15.63%) Kubernetes
10 20 (15.63%) Degree
10 20 (15.63%) Social Skills
11 19 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (14.06%) Azure
12 18 (14.06%) QA
12 18 (14.06%) Manufacturing
13 17 (13.28%) Configuration Management
13 17 (13.28%) Ansible
13 17 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (11.72%) Public Sector
15 14 (10.94%) Puppet
15 14 (10.94%) Progress Chef
15 14 (10.94%) Coaching
15 14 (10.94%) QA Automation
15 14 (10.94%) Linux

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (7.03%) Confluence
2 1 (0.78%) Apache
2 1 (0.78%) IIS
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.78%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.78%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.75%) AWS
2 18 (14.06%) Azure
3 10 (7.81%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (7.81%) Amazon S3
3 10 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (7.81%) GitHub
3 10 (7.81%) Route 53
3 10 (7.81%) Serverless
3 10 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 9 (7.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.13%) GCP
7 2 (1.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.78%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.78%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.78%) IaaS
8 1 (0.78%) PaaS
8 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.69%) BGP
1 6 (4.69%) MPLS
2 5 (3.91%) Modbus
2 5 (3.91%) Profibus
2 5 (3.91%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.78%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.78%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.34%) MySQL
2 3 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.78%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 20 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.16%) Selenium
3 12 (9.38%) JIRA
4 10 (7.81%) Bitbucket
4 10 (7.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (7.03%) Subversion
6 7 (5.47%) Cucumber
7 6 (4.69%) Postman
8 4 (3.13%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.13%) Git
8 4 (3.13%) GitLab
8 4 (3.13%) JMeter
8 4 (3.13%) JUnit
9 3 (2.34%) DTrace
9 3 (2.34%) GDB
9 3 (2.34%) Mockito
9 3 (2.34%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.56%) Appium
10 2 (1.56%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.78%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (15.63%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.06%) Manufacturing
3 15 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.25%) Finance
5 8 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (6.25%) Law
5 8 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.13%) Automotive
7 3 (2.34%) Electronics
7 3 (2.34%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.56%) Marketing
8 2 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.78%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
9 1 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.13%) SAML
1 4 (3.13%) Spring
2 3 (2.34%) Playwright
2 3 (2.34%) Spring Boot
2 3 (2.34%) Web Services
2 3 (2.34%) WireMock
3 2 (1.56%) React
3 2 (1.56%) YAML
4 1 (0.78%) .NET
4 1 (0.78%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.78%) OpenCV
4 1 (0.78%) REST
4 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (8.59%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (7.81%) Robotics
4 9 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.25%) FMCG
5 8 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.91%) SCADA
7 3 (2.34%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.78%) FPGA
9 1 (0.78%) IoT
9 1 (0.78%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.78%) PKI
9 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.94%) Linux
2 8 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.13%) Windows
4 3 (2.34%) Unix
5 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.78%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (32.03%) Test Automation
2 29 (22.66%) CI/CD
2 29 (22.66%) DevOps
3 28 (21.88%) Agile
3 28 (21.88%) Mentoring
4 22 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (16.41%) Platform Engineering
6 19 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (13.28%) Configuration Management
7 17 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (10.94%) Coaching
8 14 (10.94%) QA Automation
9 13 (10.16%) Infrastructure Automation
9 13 (10.16%) Innovative Thinking
9 13 (10.16%) Software Testing
10 10 (7.81%) Identity Access Management
10 10 (7.81%) Migration
10 10 (7.81%) Software Engineering
11 9 (7.03%) Data Migration
11 9 (7.03%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (37.50%) Java
2 28 (21.88%) C#
2 28 (21.88%) Python
3 8 (6.25%) Perl
4 5 (3.91%) C
4 5 (3.91%) Ladder Logic
4 5 (3.91%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.13%) Bash
5 4 (3.13%) SQL
5 4 (3.13%) VB
6 3 (2.34%) OCaml
6 3 (2.34%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.34%) SystemTap
7 2 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.78%) Bicep
8 1 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.78%) VB6
8 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (15.63%) Degree
2 8 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.25%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 5 (3.91%) JNCIE
3 5 (3.91%) JNCIP
4 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.56%) CCNP
5 2 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) MCSA
6 1 (0.78%) MCSE
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.06%) QA
System Software
1 23 (17.97%) Docker
2 3 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (21.09%) Terraform
2 20 (15.63%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.28%) Ansible
4 14 (10.94%) Progress Chef
4 14 (10.94%) Puppet
5 12 (9.38%) Salt
6 9 (7.03%) Packer
7 1 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.78%) SCCM
7 1 (0.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (9.38%) YouTube
2 9 (7.03%) Atlassian
2 9 (7.03%) Siemens
3 6 (4.69%) Allen-Bradley
4 5 (3.91%) Juniper
4 5 (3.91%) Nokia
4 5 (3.91%) Wonderware
5 3 (2.34%) Oracle
5 3 (2.34%) SAP
6 2 (1.56%) Cisco
7 1 (0.78%) IBM
7 1 (0.78%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.78%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.78%) PTC
7 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.78%) Splunk
7 1 (0.78%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.78%) VMware