Automation Engineer Jobs

Automation Engineer
UK

The median Automation Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 641 685 728
Rank change year-on-year +44 +43 -176
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 291 265 623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.31% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 159 196 437
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £24,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +0.88%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,294 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 102,753 84,908 164,946
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 91.21% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 72,538 55,143 85,388
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,524 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in the UK

Automation Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London +23 207 £45,000 -14.29% 140
England -59 152 £45,000 -25.00% 139
Wales +79 72 £41,250 -25.00% 7
Midlands -13 42 £40,000 -16.23% 34
Work from Home -21 39 £75,000 +20.00% 51
South East -1 32 £50,000 -13.04% 7
London -38 31 £75,000 +13.21% 13
North of England +14 25 £80,000 +52.38% 36
West Midlands -8 25 £40,000 -18.37% 14
South West -21 19 £24,000 -26.15% 29
East Midlands -17 17 £50,000 +7.53% 20
Yorkshire +55 16 £80,000 +52.38% 21
Scotland -54 16 £45,000 -10.00% 13
North West -10 9 £24,000 -64.44% 14
Northern Ireland - 7 £50,000 - 3
East of England -16 6 £62,500 - 12

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 136 (46.74%) Problem-Solving
2 128 (43.99%) Degree
3 127 (43.64%) Manufacturing
4 126 (43.30%) Social Skills
5 118 (40.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 116 (39.86%) Six Sigma
6 116 (39.86%) Lean Six Sigma
6 116 (39.86%) Lean Manufacturing
6 116 (39.86%) FMCG
7 115 (39.52%) Benchmarking
7 115 (39.52%) Law
7 115 (39.52%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 115 (39.52%) Presentation Skills
7 115 (39.52%) Influencing Skills
7 115 (39.52%) Order Management
8 46 (15.81%) Mentoring
9 44 (15.12%) Java
10 41 (14.09%) DevOps
11 38 (13.06%) Test Automation
12 35 (12.03%) C#
13 33 (11.34%) Azure
14 28 (9.62%) Agile
15 27 (9.28%) Terraform
16 25 (8.59%) CI/CD
17 23 (7.90%) AWS
18 21 (7.22%) Python
19 19 (6.53%) QA
20 18 (6.19%) Finance
21 16 (5.50%) Jenkins
21 16 (5.50%) QA Automation

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (11.34%) Azure
2 23 (7.90%) AWS
3 14 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.12%) GCP
5 8 (2.75%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.41%) Azure Event Grid
6 7 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (2.41%) Azure Storage
7 5 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.72%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.72%) GitHub
7 5 (1.72%) Route 53
7 5 (1.72%) Serverless
7 5 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.34%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.34%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.12%) BGP
1 12 (4.12%) MPLS
2 6 (2.06%) Profibus
3 5 (1.72%) Junos
3 5 (1.72%) Modbus
3 5 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.69%) MySQL
2 2 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (5.50%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.44%) Git
2 10 (3.44%) Selenium
3 8 (2.75%) Postman
4 7 (2.41%) Cucumber
5 6 (2.06%) JIRA
6 5 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.72%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.72%) GitLab
6 5 (1.72%) JMeter
6 5 (1.72%) JUnit
6 5 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.37%) Mockito
7 4 (1.37%) Subversion
7 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.03%) DTrace
8 3 (1.03%) GDB
9 2 (0.69%) Appium
9 2 (0.69%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.69%) WebDriver
General
1 127 (43.64%) Manufacturing
2 126 (43.30%) Social Skills
3 115 (39.52%) Influencing Skills
3 115 (39.52%) Law
3 115 (39.52%) Presentation Skills
4 18 (6.19%) Finance
5 13 (4.47%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.75%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.06%) Electronics
9 5 (1.72%) Automotive
10 4 (1.37%) Games
10 4 (1.37%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.34%) Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.41%) ARM Templates
1 7 (2.41%) YAML
2 4 (1.37%) Playwright
2 4 (1.37%) Spring
2 4 (1.37%) Spring Boot
2 4 (1.37%) Web Services
2 4 (1.37%) WireMock
3 2 (0.69%) React
4 1 (0.34%) .NET
4 1 (0.34%) OpenCV
4 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 116 (39.86%) FMCG
2 16 (5.50%) Robotics
3 8 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.72%) SCADA
5 4 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.03%) Client/Server
7 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.34%) CAN bus
8 1 (0.34%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.34%) FPGA
8 1 (0.34%) IoT
8 1 (0.34%) PKI
8 1 (0.34%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.78%) Linux
2 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.03%) Unix
3 3 (1.03%) Windows
4 1 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (46.74%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (40.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 116 (39.86%) Lean Manufacturing
3 116 (39.86%) Lean Six Sigma
3 116 (39.86%) Six Sigma
4 115 (39.52%) Benchmarking
4 115 (39.52%) Order Management
5 46 (15.81%) Mentoring
6 41 (14.09%) DevOps
7 38 (13.06%) Test Automation
8 28 (9.62%) Agile
9 25 (8.59%) CI/CD
10 16 (5.50%) QA Automation
11 12 (4.12%) Coaching
11 12 (4.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (4.12%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (4.12%) Software Engineering
12 10 (3.44%) Configuration Management
12 10 (3.44%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (3.44%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.12%) Java
2 35 (12.03%) C#
3 21 (7.22%) Python
4 14 (4.81%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.78%) Bicep
6 7 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (1.72%) C
7 5 (1.72%) Ladder Logic
7 5 (1.72%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.37%) Bash
8 4 (1.37%) Perl
8 4 (1.37%) SQL
9 3 (1.03%) OCaml
9 3 (1.03%) SystemTap
9 3 (1.03%) VB
10 2 (0.69%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.34%) Go
11 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.34%) VB6
11 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 128 (43.99%) Degree
2 115 (39.52%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 11 (3.78%) JNCIE
3 11 (3.78%) JNCIP
4 8 (2.75%) Security Cleared
5 4 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.69%) CCNP
6 2 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) HNC
7 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.34%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.53%) QA
2 4 (1.37%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (4.81%) Docker
2 9 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.41%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (9.28%) Terraform
2 12 (4.12%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.44%) Ansible
4 7 (2.41%) Progress Chef
4 7 (2.41%) Puppet
5 4 (1.37%) Packer
5 4 (1.37%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (4.12%) YouTube
2 11 (3.78%) Juniper
2 11 (3.78%) Nokia
3 10 (3.44%) Siemens
4 9 (3.09%) Cisco
5 7 (2.41%) Allen-Bradley
6 5 (1.72%) Wonderware
7 4 (1.37%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle
8 1 (0.34%) SAP
8 1 (0.34%) Splunk
8 1 (0.34%) VMware