Automation Engineer Jobs in London

Automation Engineer
England > London

The median Automation Engineer salary in London is £75,000 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 468 484 659
Rank change year-on-year +16 +175 -242
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 33 132 267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.41% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.44% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 29 112 190
10th Percentile £24,000 £46,250 £48,700
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £69,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -6.81% +16.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £107,700 £97,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +32 4 £62,500 +13.64% 2
South London +1 3 £24,000 -40.00%
Automation Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (63.64%) Java
2 17 (51.52%) Terraform
3 16 (48.48%) AWS
3 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
4 15 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
4 15 (45.45%) Test Automation
5 14 (42.42%) DevOps
5 14 (42.42%) Python
6 13 (39.39%) Docker
6 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
8 11 (33.33%) Agile
9 10 (30.30%) Innovative Thinking
9 10 (30.30%) Azure
10 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
10 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
10 9 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (27.27%) Linux
10 9 (27.27%) Configuration Management
11 8 (24.24%) Identity Access Management
11 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (21.21%) Serverless
12 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (21.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (21.21%) Route 53
12 7 (21.21%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (21.21%) GitHub
12 7 (21.21%) Bitbucket

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 10 (30.30%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (21.21%) Amazon S3
3 7 (21.21%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (21.21%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (21.21%) GitHub
3 7 (21.21%) Route 53
3 7 (21.21%) Serverless
3 7 (21.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.21%) Bitbucket
2 7 (21.21%) JIRA
3 6 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (18.18%) Subversion
4 3 (9.09%) DTrace
4 3 (9.09%) GDB
4 3 (9.09%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) Postman
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) JUnit
5 2 (6.06%) Selenium
6 1 (3.03%) Appium
6 1 (3.03%) JMeter
6 1 (3.03%) Mockito
6 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.03%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) OpenCV
1 1 (3.03%) Playwright
1 1 (3.03%) React
1 1 (3.03%) REST
1 1 (3.03%) SAML
1 1 (3.03%) Spring
1 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
1 1 (3.03%) Web Services
1 1 (3.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (15.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (9.09%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
2 15 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
2 15 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 14 (42.42%) DevOps
4 13 (39.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (33.33%) Agile
6 10 (30.30%) Innovative Thinking
7 9 (27.27%) Configuration Management
7 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
8 8 (24.24%) Identity Access Management
8 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure Automation
9 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (21.21%) Software Testing
10 6 (18.18%) Data Migration
10 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (18.18%) Migration
11 5 (15.15%) Coaching
11 5 (15.15%) QA Automation
12 3 (9.09%) Quantitative Trading
12 3 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (63.64%) Java
2 14 (42.42%) Python
3 6 (18.18%) C#
4 5 (15.15%) Perl
5 4 (12.12%) C
6 3 (9.09%) OCaml
6 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.09%) SystemTap
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 2 (6.06%) CCNP
2 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) QA
System Software
1 13 (39.39%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (51.52%) Terraform
2 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.18%) Ansible
3 6 (18.18%) Packer
3 6 (18.18%) Progress Chef
3 6 (18.18%) Puppet
3 6 (18.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Atlassian
2 5 (15.15%) YouTube
3 4 (12.12%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk