Automation Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Automation Engineer salary in the UK excluding London 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 573 620 552
Rank change year-on-year +47 -68 -38
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 197 116 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.21% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.23% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 119 72 208
10th Percentile - £37,500 £41,775
25th Percentile £24,000 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £62,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £75,000
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in the UK excluding London

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
Wales +77 72 £41,250 -25.00% 9
Midlands +3 39 £42,500 -14.14% 30
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
Scotland -58 14 £52,500 +5.00% 12
North West -5 9 £24,000 -64.44% 13
Northern Ireland - 7 £50,000 - 3
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 the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 80 (40.61%) Manufacturing
1 80 (40.61%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (38.58%) Degree
3 73 (37.06%) Social Skills
4 72 (36.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (35.03%) Lean Six Sigma
5 69 (35.03%) Lean Manufacturing
5 69 (35.03%) FMCG
5 69 (35.03%) Six Sigma
6 68 (34.52%) Benchmarking
6 68 (34.52%) Law
6 68 (34.52%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
6 68 (34.52%) Presentation Skills
6 68 (34.52%) Influencing Skills
6 68 (34.52%) Order Management
7 33 (16.75%) Mentoring
8 28 (14.21%) C#
9 26 (13.20%) DevOps
10 25 (12.69%) Java
10 25 (12.69%) Test Automation
11 21 (10.66%) Azure
12 19 (9.64%) Agile
13 15 (7.61%) QA
14 13 (6.60%) Robotics
14 13 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (6.09%) Terraform
15 12 (6.09%) QA Automation
15 12 (6.09%) PowerShell
15 12 (6.09%) Finance
16 11 (5.58%) CI/CD

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.66%) Azure
2 13 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (3.55%) AWS
4 6 (3.05%) Azure Event Grid
4 6 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
4 6 (3.05%) Azure Storage
4 6 (3.05%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.54%) GCP
6 1 (0.51%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.55%) BGP
1 7 (3.55%) MPLS
2 6 (3.05%) Profibus
3 5 (2.54%) Modbus
3 5 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.02%) MySQL
1 2 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.51%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.51%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (4.06%) Selenium
2 7 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.05%) Cucumber
3 6 (3.05%) Git
4 5 (2.54%) Postman
5 4 (2.03%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.52%) JMeter
6 3 (1.52%) JUnit
6 3 (1.52%) Mockito
7 2 (1.02%) GitLab
8 1 (0.51%) Appium
8 1 (0.51%) JIRA
8 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.51%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.51%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 80 (40.61%) Manufacturing
2 73 (37.06%) Social Skills
3 68 (34.52%) Influencing Skills
3 68 (34.52%) Law
3 68 (34.52%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (6.09%) Finance
5 8 (4.06%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (4.06%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.05%) Electronics
8 5 (2.54%) Automotive
9 4 (2.03%) Games
9 4 (2.03%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.52%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.05%) ARM Templates
1 6 (3.05%) YAML
2 4 (2.03%) Spring
3 3 (1.52%) Playwright
3 3 (1.52%) Spring Boot
3 3 (1.52%) Web Services
3 3 (1.52%) WireMock
4 1 (0.51%) .NET
4 1 (0.51%) React
Miscellaneous
1 69 (35.03%) FMCG
2 13 (6.60%) Robotics
3 5 (2.54%) SCADA
4 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.51%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.51%) CAN bus
5 1 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.51%) FPGA
5 1 (0.51%) IoT
5 1 (0.51%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.52%) Linux
2 2 (1.02%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (40.61%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (36.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (35.03%) Lean Manufacturing
3 69 (35.03%) Lean Six Sigma
3 69 (35.03%) Six Sigma
4 68 (34.52%) Benchmarking
4 68 (34.52%) Order Management
5 33 (16.75%) Mentoring
6 26 (13.20%) DevOps
7 25 (12.69%) Test Automation
8 19 (9.64%) Agile
9 12 (6.09%) QA Automation
10 11 (5.58%) CI/CD
11 10 (5.08%) Software Engineering
12 9 (4.57%) Task Automation
13 8 (4.06%) Coaching
14 6 (3.05%) API Testing
14 6 (3.05%) Incident Response
14 6 (3.05%) Network Design
14 6 (3.05%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.21%) C#
2 25 (12.69%) Java
3 12 (6.09%) PowerShell
4 10 (5.08%) Bicep
5 9 (4.57%) Python
6 6 (3.05%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (2.54%) Ladder Logic
8 4 (2.03%) SQL
9 3 (1.52%) Bash
9 3 (1.52%) VB
10 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.51%) C
11 1 (0.51%) VB6
11 1 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (38.58%) Degree
2 68 (34.52%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 8 (4.06%) Security Cleared
4 6 (3.05%) JNCIE
4 6 (3.05%) JNCIP
5 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) HNC
6 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.51%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.61%) QA
2 4 (2.03%) ISO 9001
2 4 (2.03%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (3.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.05%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.03%) Docker
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (6.09%) Terraform
2 5 (2.54%) Ansible
3 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.02%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (5.08%) Siemens
2 7 (3.55%) Allen-Bradley
2 7 (3.55%) YouTube
3 6 (3.05%) Juniper
3 6 (3.05%) Nokia
4 5 (2.54%) Wonderware
5 3 (1.52%) Cisco
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle
6 1 (0.51%) SAP
6 1 (0.51%) VMware