Automation Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Automation Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Engineer salary in Work from Home 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 551 524 614
Rank change year-on-year -27 +90 -161
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 42 114 281
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.30% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.31% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 38 110 215
10th Percentile £52,125 £46,125 £44,250
25th Percentile £60,313 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% +6.52% +6.98%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,250 £82,000
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
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 22 (52.38%) DevOps
2 22 (52.38%) Terraform
2 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 21 (50.00%) Java
4 18 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 15 (35.71%) Docker
5 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
5 15 (35.71%) AWS
5 15 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
6 13 (30.95%) Jenkins
7 12 (28.57%) Finance
7 12 (28.57%) Agile
7 12 (28.57%) Python
7 12 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (26.19%) QA
8 11 (26.19%) QA Automation
9 10 (23.81%) Selenium
9 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
9 10 (23.81%) Innovative Thinking
9 10 (23.81%) Bicep
10 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (21.43%) Software Testing
10 9 (21.43%) Configuration Management
11 8 (19.05%) Linux
11 8 (19.05%) JIRA
11 8 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (16.67%) Task Automation
12 7 (16.67%) Serverless

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 6 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 15 (35.71%) AWS
3 12 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 7 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (16.67%) GitHub
4 7 (16.67%) Route 53
4 7 (16.67%) Serverless
4 7 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
5 6 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 6 (14.29%) Azure Storage
5 6 (14.29%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.38%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (30.95%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.81%) Selenium
3 8 (19.05%) JIRA
4 7 (16.67%) Bitbucket
4 7 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 7 (16.67%) Git
4 7 (16.67%) Postman
5 6 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (14.29%) Subversion
6 5 (11.90%) JMeter
7 4 (9.52%) Cypress.io
7 4 (9.52%) JUnit
7 4 (9.52%) Mockito
8 3 (7.14%) DTrace
8 3 (7.14%) GDB
9 2 (4.76%) Appium
9 2 (4.76%) SoapUI
9 2 (4.76%) WebDriver
10 1 (2.38%) SpecFlow
10 1 (2.38%) TestCafe
General
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Health Technology
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Electronics
4 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.38%) Marketing
4 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) ARM Templates
1 6 (14.29%) YAML
2 5 (11.90%) Spring
3 4 (9.52%) Playwright
3 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 4 (9.52%) Web Services
3 4 (9.52%) WireMock
4 2 (4.76%) React
5 1 (2.38%) .NET
5 1 (2.38%) OpenCV
5 1 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (2.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (11.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (7.14%) Client/Server
6 2 (4.76%) Mobile App
7 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
1 22 (52.38%) DevOps
2 18 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 15 (35.71%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (28.57%) Agile
4 12 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (26.19%) QA Automation
6 10 (23.81%) Innovative Thinking
7 9 (21.43%) Configuration Management
7 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (21.43%) Software Testing
8 7 (16.67%) API Testing
8 7 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (16.67%) Task Automation
9 6 (14.29%) Data Migration
9 6 (14.29%) Incident Response
9 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (14.29%) Migration
9 6 (14.29%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) Java
2 12 (28.57%) Python
3 10 (23.81%) Bicep
3 10 (23.81%) PowerShell
4 6 (14.29%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (11.90%) Perl
5 5 (11.90%) SQL
6 4 (9.52%) C
6 4 (9.52%) C#
7 3 (7.14%) OCaml
7 3 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 3 (7.14%) SystemTap
8 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.19%) QA
System Software
1 15 (35.71%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
2 6 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 22 (52.38%) Terraform
2 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.29%) Ansible
3 6 (14.29%) Packer
3 6 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 6 (14.29%) Puppet
3 6 (14.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.38%) Allen-Bradley
2 1 (2.38%) SAP
2 1 (2.38%) Siemens