Build Automation Jobs

Build Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Build Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Build Automation over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 681 842 786
Rank change year-on-year +161 -56 -10
Permanent jobs citing Build Automation 33 69 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.060% 0.069% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.081% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 20 39 91
10th Percentile £57,438 £45,248 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £50,000 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -13.60% -0.79%
75th Percentile £85,313 £66,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £69,200 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £57,810
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.79% -2.99%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,521 85,132 94,507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.87% 85.14% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 25,367 59,760 55,710
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,078 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Build Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Build Automation over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Build Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 22 May 2025. 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
England +141 27 £77,500 +29.17% 52
London +129 22 £82,500 +37.50% 35
Work from Home +149 21 £77,500 +24.00% 28
UK excluding London +143 5 £52,500 -12.50% 22
North of England +45 2 £52,500 -11.02% 8
Scotland +106 1 - - 4
North East +38 1 - -
North West - 1 £52,500 - 5
South West - 1 £52,500 -
Midlands - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

Build Automation
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 1 (3.03%) nginx
1 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.03%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.03%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 22 (66.67%) Azure
2 17 (51.52%) GitHub
3 14 (42.42%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (42.42%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (30.30%) AWS
5 6 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (18.18%) Datadog
5 6 (18.18%) npm
5 6 (18.18%) Serverless
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.03%) Bitrise
7 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.03%) Firebase
7 1 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (3.03%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.09%) MySQL
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
4 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) SonarQube
2 7 (21.21%) GitLab
3 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
4 4 (12.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.03%) Git
5 1 (3.03%) Gradle
5 1 (3.03%) Maven
5 1 (3.03%) Postman
5 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.03%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.03%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Front Office
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.12%) Law
4 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.09%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Developer
3 5 (15.15%) .NET Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 5 (15.15%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Python Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) React Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Database Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Lead
4 2 (6.06%) Senior
4 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) C# Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.03%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Database Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (57.58%) React
2 8 (24.24%) REST
3 5 (15.15%) .NET
3 5 (15.15%) .NET Core
3 5 (15.15%) CSS
3 5 (15.15%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (15.15%) HTML
4 2 (6.06%) OAuth
4 2 (6.06%) OpenID
5 1 (3.03%) Android SDK
5 1 (3.03%) EDI
5 1 (3.03%) iOS SDK
5 1 (3.03%) Laravel
5 1 (3.03%) Playwright
5 1 (3.03%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (15.15%) Educational Technology
3 4 (12.12%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.06%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Blog
5 1 (3.03%) Credit Risk
5 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Social Network
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Unix
2 2 (6.06%) Windows
3 1 (3.03%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.03%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (84.85%) DevOps
2 23 (69.70%) CI/CD
3 21 (63.64%) Agile
4 17 (51.52%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (42.42%) Containerisation
5 14 (42.42%) Migration
6 13 (39.39%) Release Automation
6 13 (39.39%) Software Delivery
7 12 (36.36%) DevSecOps
7 12 (36.36%) Intelligent Automation
7 12 (36.36%) Observability
7 12 (36.36%) Release Management
8 9 (27.27%) Test Automation
9 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (18.18%) Microservices
9 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
10 5 (15.15%) API Development
10 5 (15.15%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) Python
2 15 (45.45%) Java
3 10 (30.30%) TypeScript
4 9 (27.27%) SQL
5 7 (21.21%) C#
6 6 (18.18%) Bash
6 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 6 (18.18%) PowerShell
7 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.03%) PHP
8 1 (3.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
1 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) QA
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (33.33%) Ansible
3 9 (27.27%) Terraform
4 8 (24.24%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Grafana
6 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
6 1 (3.03%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) SAP
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk
3 1 (3.03%) VMware