Automation Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Automation Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Automation Engineer salary in Manchester is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 November 2024.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 162 246
Rank change year-on-year -10 +84 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 4 5 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.11% 0.19% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £37,600 £41,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £47,500 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +35.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £53,750
90th Percentile - £69,500 £60,000
North West median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% +35.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 3,472 2,556 5,350
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 96.78% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,738 1,882 3,537
10th Percentile £34,850 £33,525 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +3.55%
75th Percentile £69,663 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,056 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,803 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.63% +4.76% +5.00%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in Manchester

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in Manchester

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 15 November 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 Manchester region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware