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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 719 662 699
Rank change year-on-year -57 +37 -175
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 146 242 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.32% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 125 178 374
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £24,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £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 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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
Midlands +3 39 £42,500 -14.14% 30
London +16 33 £75,000 +15.38% 17
South East -3 31 £50,000 -13.04% 10
West Midlands -11 25 £40,000 -23.81% 13
North of England +22 24 £77,500 +47.62% 56
South West -20 17 £24,000 -26.15% 26
Yorkshire +53 15 £80,000 +52.38% 28
East Midlands -5 14 £50,000 +7.53% 17
North West -5 9 £24,000 -64.44% 13
East of England -7 5 £53,750 -14.00% 11
Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 43 (29.45%) Java
2 37 (25.34%) DevOps
2 37 (25.34%) Mentoring
3 35 (23.97%) Test Automation
4 31 (21.23%) C#
5 26 (17.81%) Azure
5 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (17.12%) Agile
7 24 (16.44%) Terraform
7 24 (16.44%) CI/CD
8 22 (15.07%) AWS
9 21 (14.38%) Python
10 20 (13.70%) Degree
11 19 (13.01%) Social Skills
12 18 (12.33%) Manufacturing
13 17 (11.64%) Docker
14 16 (10.96%) Jenkins
14 16 (10.96%) QA
15 15 (10.27%) Platform Engineering
16 14 (9.59%) Kubernetes
16 14 (9.59%) Finance
17 13 (8.90%) Robotics
17 13 (8.90%) QA Automation
17 13 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
17 13 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
17 13 (8.90%) Coaching
17 13 (8.90%) Public Sector
18 12 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 12 (8.22%) YouTube
19 11 (7.53%) Software Engineering

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 6 (4.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.81%) Azure
2 22 (15.07%) AWS
3 10 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.16%) GCP
5 7 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (4.79%) Amazon S3
5 7 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.79%) GitHub
5 7 (4.79%) Route 53
5 7 (4.79%) Serverless
5 7 (4.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (3.42%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.74%) Azure Event Grid
7 4 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (2.74%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.68%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.79%) BGP
1 7 (4.79%) MPLS
2 6 (4.11%) Profibus
3 5 (3.42%) Modbus
3 5 (3.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.68%) DNS
4 1 (0.68%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.37%) MySQL
2 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (10.96%) Jenkins
2 10 (6.85%) Selenium
3 8 (5.48%) JIRA
4 7 (4.79%) Bitbucket
4 7 (4.79%) Cucumber
4 7 (4.79%) Git
4 7 (4.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (4.11%) Postman
5 6 (4.11%) Subversion
6 4 (2.74%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.74%) GitLab
6 4 (2.74%) JMeter
6 4 (2.74%) JUnit
6 4 (2.74%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.05%) DTrace
7 3 (2.05%) GDB
7 3 (2.05%) Mockito
8 2 (1.37%) Appium
8 2 (1.37%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (13.01%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.33%) Manufacturing
3 14 (9.59%) Finance
4 13 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (5.48%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.48%) Law
6 8 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.42%) Automotive
9 3 (2.05%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.37%) Electronics
11 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Banking
11 1 (0.68%) Legal
11 1 (0.68%) Marketing
11 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.74%) ARM Templates
1 4 (2.74%) Spring
1 4 (2.74%) YAML
2 3 (2.05%) Playwright
2 3 (2.05%) Spring Boot
2 3 (2.05%) Web Services
2 3 (2.05%) WireMock
3 2 (1.37%) React
4 1 (0.68%) .NET
4 1 (0.68%) OpenCV
4 1 (0.68%) REST
4 1 (0.68%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.90%) Robotics
2 9 (6.16%) FMCG
2 9 (6.16%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.42%) SCADA
6 3 (2.05%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.68%) CAN bus
8 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.68%) FPGA
8 1 (0.68%) IoT
8 1 (0.68%) PKI
8 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.53%) Linux
2 5 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.05%) Unix
3 3 (2.05%) Windows
4 1 (0.68%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (25.34%) DevOps
1 37 (25.34%) Mentoring
2 35 (23.97%) Test Automation
3 26 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (17.12%) Agile
5 24 (16.44%) CI/CD
6 15 (10.27%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (8.90%) Coaching
7 13 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (8.90%) QA Automation
8 11 (7.53%) Configuration Management
8 11 (7.53%) Software Engineering
9 10 (6.85%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (6.85%) Innovative Thinking
9 10 (6.85%) Software Testing
10 9 (6.16%) Lean Manufacturing
10 9 (6.16%) Lean Six Sigma
10 9 (6.16%) Six Sigma
11 8 (5.48%) Benchmarking
Programming Languages
1 43 (29.45%) Java
2 31 (21.23%) C#
3 21 (14.38%) Python
4 10 (6.85%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.79%) Bicep
6 5 (3.42%) C
6 5 (3.42%) Ladder Logic
6 5 (3.42%) Perl
7 4 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.74%) SQL
8 3 (2.05%) Bash
8 3 (2.05%) OCaml
8 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.05%) SystemTap
8 3 (2.05%) VB
9 2 (1.37%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.68%) Go
10 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.68%) VB6
10 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (13.70%) Degree
2 8 (5.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.48%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 6 (4.11%) JNCIE
3 6 (4.11%) JNCIP
4 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.37%) CCNP
5 2 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) HNC
6 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.96%) QA
System Software
1 17 (11.64%) Docker
2 6 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (16.44%) Terraform
2 14 (9.59%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.85%) Ansible
4 8 (5.48%) Progress Chef
4 8 (5.48%) Puppet
5 6 (4.11%) Packer
5 6 (4.11%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (8.22%) YouTube
2 10 (6.85%) Siemens
3 7 (4.79%) Allen-Bradley
3 7 (4.79%) Cisco
4 6 (4.11%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.11%) Juniper
4 6 (4.11%) Nokia
5 5 (3.42%) Wonderware
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle
6 1 (0.68%) SAP
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk
6 1 (0.68%) VMware