Build Automation Job Trends in London

Build Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Build Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 429 443
Rank change year-on-year +63 +14 +108
Permanent jobs citing Build Automation 8 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.058% 0.026% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.027% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 6
10th Percentile £45,000 - £52,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -18.52% -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,000 - £88,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Build Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,179 14,601 16,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.59% 94.58% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,774 8,034 13,619
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,263 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Build Automation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Build Automation job vacancy trend in London

Build Automation
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Build Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Build Automation

Build Automation
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Build Automation in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Build Automation in London

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (25.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 2 (25.00%) Appium
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 5 (62.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Cloud Security
3 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
3 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (37.50%) RBAC
5 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) SOAR
5 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 3 (37.50%) Zero Trust
6 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
7 1 (12.50%) Observability
7 1 (12.50%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
2 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes