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 leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 710 653 708
Rank change year-on-year -57 +55 -175
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 153 246 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 128 178 379
10th Percentile - £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £24,000 £47,813 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £76,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +4.35% +0.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 12 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 12 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 -18 43 £40,000 -16.23% 33
South East -21 32 £50,000 -13.04% 7
London -14 27 £62,500 -9.09% 14
North of England +1 26 £77,500 +47.62% 33
West Midlands -8 25 £40,000 -18.37% 12
South West -29 22 £24,000 -26.15% 29
East Midlands -12 18 £50,000 +7.53% 21
Yorkshire +57 16 £80,000 +52.38% 20
North West -24 10 £24,000 -64.44% 12
East of England -15 6 £62,500 - 11
Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 40 (26.14%) Mentoring
2 35 (22.88%) DevOps
2 35 (22.88%) Java
3 33 (21.57%) C#
4 31 (20.26%) Test Automation
5 29 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (18.30%) Azure
7 22 (14.38%) Agile
8 21 (13.73%) Degree
9 19 (12.42%) AWS
9 19 (12.42%) Terraform
10 18 (11.76%) Robotics
10 18 (11.76%) Manufacturing
10 18 (11.76%) Social Skills
10 18 (11.76%) CI/CD
11 16 (10.46%) Python
12 15 (9.80%) Finance
13 14 (9.15%) Software Engineering
13 14 (9.15%) QA
14 13 (8.50%) Public Sector
15 12 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (7.84%) Coaching
15 12 (7.84%) GCP
15 12 (7.84%) Jenkins
15 12 (7.84%) YouTube
15 12 (7.84%) PowerShell
16 11 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
16 11 (7.19%) QA Automation
16 11 (7.19%) Docker
16 11 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement

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 2 (1.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (18.30%) Azure
2 19 (12.42%) AWS
3 12 (7.84%) GCP
4 11 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.92%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.27%) Azure Event Grid
6 5 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (3.27%) Azure Storage
7 3 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.31%) GitHub
8 2 (1.31%) Route 53
8 2 (1.31%) Serverless
8 2 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) BGP
1 7 (4.58%) MPLS
2 6 (3.92%) Profibus
3 5 (3.27%) Modbus
3 5 (3.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.65%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.31%) MySQL
1 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.65%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.65%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.65%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.65%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.88%) Selenium
3 8 (5.23%) Git
4 6 (3.92%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.92%) Postman
5 5 (3.27%) GitLab
6 4 (2.61%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.61%) JIRA
6 4 (2.61%) JMeter
6 4 (2.61%) JUnit
6 4 (2.61%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.96%) DTrace
7 3 (1.96%) GDB
7 3 (1.96%) Mockito
7 3 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.31%) Appium
8 2 (1.31%) Subversion
8 2 (1.31%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.65%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (11.76%) Manufacturing
1 18 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.80%) Finance
3 13 (8.50%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.23%) Law
5 8 (5.23%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.23%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.27%) Automotive
7 3 (1.96%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.31%) Electronics
9 1 (0.65%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Legal
9 1 (0.65%) Marketing
9 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.27%) ARM Templates
1 5 (3.27%) YAML
2 3 (1.96%) Playwright
2 3 (1.96%) Spring
2 3 (1.96%) Spring Boot
2 3 (1.96%) Web Services
2 3 (1.96%) WireMock
3 2 (1.31%) React
4 1 (0.65%) .NET
4 1 (0.65%) OpenCV
4 1 (0.65%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.76%) Robotics
2 9 (5.88%) FMCG
3 7 (4.58%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.27%) SCADA
5 3 (1.96%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.65%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.65%) CAN bus
7 1 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.65%) FPGA
7 1 (0.65%) IoT
7 1 (0.65%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.88%) Linux
2 4 (2.61%) Windows
3 3 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.65%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.14%) Mentoring
2 35 (22.88%) DevOps
3 31 (20.26%) Test Automation
4 29 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (14.38%) Agile
6 18 (11.76%) CI/CD
7 14 (9.15%) Software Engineering
8 12 (7.84%) Coaching
9 11 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (7.19%) QA Automation
10 9 (5.88%) Configuration Management
10 9 (5.88%) Lean Manufacturing
10 9 (5.88%) Lean Six Sigma
10 9 (5.88%) Six Sigma
11 8 (5.23%) Benchmarking
11 8 (5.23%) Computer Science
11 8 (5.23%) Order Management
11 8 (5.23%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (5.23%) Software Testing
12 7 (4.58%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 35 (22.88%) Java
2 33 (21.57%) C#
3 16 (10.46%) Python
4 12 (7.84%) PowerShell
5 8 (5.23%) Bicep
6 5 (3.27%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (3.27%) Ladder Logic
7 4 (2.61%) Bash
7 4 (2.61%) C
8 3 (1.96%) OCaml
8 3 (1.96%) Perl
8 3 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.96%) SQL
8 3 (1.96%) SystemTap
8 3 (1.96%) VB
9 2 (1.31%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.65%) Go
10 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.65%) VB6
10 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (13.73%) Degree
2 8 (5.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.23%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 6 (3.92%) JNCIE
3 6 (3.92%) JNCIP
4 4 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.31%) CCNP
5 2 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) HNC
6 1 (0.65%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.65%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.65%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.15%) QA
System Software
1 11 (7.19%) Docker
2 7 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.27%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.65%) Firmware
4 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (12.42%) Terraform
2 9 (5.88%) Ansible
3 8 (5.23%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.92%) Progress Chef
4 6 (3.92%) Puppet
5 3 (1.96%) Salt
6 2 (1.31%) Packer
7 1 (0.65%) Grafana
7 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (7.84%) YouTube
2 10 (6.54%) Siemens
3 9 (5.88%) Cisco
4 7 (4.58%) Allen-Bradley
5 6 (3.92%) Juniper
5 6 (3.92%) Nokia
6 5 (3.27%) Wonderware
7 2 (1.31%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.31%) VMware
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle
8 1 (0.65%) SAP
8 1 (0.65%) Splunk