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 leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 612 587
Rank change year-on-year +46 -25 -68
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 215 116 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.21% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.24% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 134 71 213
10th Percentile - £37,500 £42,750
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 £53,750 £65,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,000
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
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 13 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 13 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 +81 72 £41,250 -25.00% 8
Midlands -18 43 £40,000 -16.23% 32
South East -21 32 £50,000 -13.04% 7
North of England +1 26 £77,500 +47.62% 34
West Midlands -8 25 £40,000 -18.37% 12
South West -29 22 £24,000 -26.15% 29
Scotland -55 19 £24,000 -52.00% 11
East Midlands -12 18 £50,000 +7.53% 20
Yorkshire +57 16 £80,000 +52.38% 21
North West -24 10 £24,000 -64.44% 12
Northern Ireland - 7 £50,000 - 3
East of England -15 6 £62,500 - 10
Automation Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 82 (38.14%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (37.21%) Manufacturing
3 77 (35.81%) Degree
4 73 (33.95%) Social Skills
5 71 (33.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (32.09%) Six Sigma
6 69 (32.09%) Lean Six Sigma
6 69 (32.09%) Lean Manufacturing
6 69 (32.09%) FMCG
7 68 (31.63%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
7 68 (31.63%) Benchmarking
7 68 (31.63%) Law
7 68 (31.63%) Presentation Skills
7 68 (31.63%) Influencing Skills
7 68 (31.63%) Order Management
8 40 (18.60%) Mentoring
9 32 (14.88%) C#
10 28 (13.02%) DevOps
11 27 (12.56%) Java
12 24 (11.16%) Azure
13 23 (10.70%) Test Automation
14 18 (8.37%) Robotics
14 18 (8.37%) Agile
15 14 (6.51%) PowerShell
15 14 (6.51%) Finance
15 14 (6.51%) Terraform
15 14 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
16 13 (6.05%) QA
16 13 (6.05%) Software Engineering
17 12 (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 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (11.16%) Azure
2 14 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (4.65%) AWS
4 7 (3.26%) Azure Event Grid
4 7 (3.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 7 (3.26%) Azure Storage
4 7 (3.26%) Entra ID
4 7 (3.26%) GCP
5 1 (0.47%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.26%) BGP
1 7 (3.26%) MPLS
2 6 (2.79%) Profibus
3 5 (2.33%) Modbus
3 5 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.47%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.93%) MySQL
1 2 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.47%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.47%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.26%) Git
2 7 (3.26%) Selenium
3 5 (2.33%) Cucumber
3 5 (2.33%) Postman
4 4 (1.86%) Visual Studio
5 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.40%) GitLab
5 3 (1.40%) JMeter
5 3 (1.40%) JUnit
5 3 (1.40%) Mockito
6 1 (0.47%) Appium
6 1 (0.47%) JIRA
6 1 (0.47%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.47%) TestCafe
6 1 (0.47%) WebDriver
General
1 80 (37.21%) Manufacturing
2 73 (33.95%) Social Skills
3 68 (31.63%) Influencing Skills
3 68 (31.63%) Law
3 68 (31.63%) Presentation Skills
4 14 (6.51%) Finance
5 8 (3.72%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (3.72%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.79%) Electronics
8 5 (2.33%) Automotive
8 5 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.86%) Games
10 3 (1.40%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.47%) Legal
11 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.26%) ARM Templates
1 7 (3.26%) YAML
2 3 (1.40%) Playwright
2 3 (1.40%) Spring
2 3 (1.40%) Spring Boot
2 3 (1.40%) Web Services
2 3 (1.40%) WireMock
3 1 (0.47%) .NET
3 1 (0.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 69 (32.09%) FMCG
2 18 (8.37%) Robotics
3 5 (2.33%) SCADA
4 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.47%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.47%) CAN bus
5 1 (0.47%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.47%) FPGA
5 1 (0.47%) IoT
5 1 (0.47%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.40%) Linux
1 3 (1.40%) Windows
2 2 (0.93%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.47%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.14%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (33.02%) Continuous Improvement
3 69 (32.09%) Lean Manufacturing
3 69 (32.09%) Lean Six Sigma
3 69 (32.09%) Six Sigma
4 68 (31.63%) Benchmarking
4 68 (31.63%) Order Management
5 40 (18.60%) Mentoring
6 28 (13.02%) DevOps
7 23 (10.70%) Test Automation
8 18 (8.37%) Agile
9 13 (6.05%) Software Engineering
10 12 (5.58%) CI/CD
11 10 (4.65%) QA Automation
12 9 (4.19%) Task Automation
13 7 (3.26%) Coaching
13 7 (3.26%) Incident Response
13 7 (3.26%) Threat Detection
14 6 (2.79%) Network Design
15 5 (2.33%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 32 (14.88%) C#
2 27 (12.56%) Java
3 14 (6.51%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.12%) Bicep
4 11 (5.12%) Python
5 7 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (2.33%) Ladder Logic
7 4 (1.86%) Bash
8 3 (1.40%) SQL
8 3 (1.40%) VB
9 2 (0.93%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.47%) C
10 1 (0.47%) VB6
10 1 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 77 (35.81%) Degree
2 68 (31.63%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
3 8 (3.72%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.79%) JNCIE
4 6 (2.79%) JNCIP
5 4 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.47%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) HNC
6 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.05%) QA
2 4 (1.86%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.86%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.86%) Docker
4 1 (0.47%) Firmware
4 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (6.51%) Terraform
2 7 (3.26%) Ansible
3 3 (1.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
3 3 (1.40%) Puppet
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (4.65%) Siemens
2 7 (3.26%) Allen-Bradley
2 7 (3.26%) YouTube
3 6 (2.79%) Juniper
3 6 (2.79%) Nokia
4 5 (2.33%) Wonderware
5 4 (1.86%) Cisco
6 2 (0.93%) VMware
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle
7 1 (0.47%) SAP