Build Automation Job Trends in the West Midlands

Build Automation
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Build Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 172 223
Rank change year-on-year -25 +51 -2
Permanent jobs citing Build Automation 5 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.059% 0.029% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% 0.034% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £55,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - - +93.22%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £60,741
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £57,965
% change year-on-year +3.23% +33.70% -17.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,862 2,919 5,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.14% 84.88% 78.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,399 1,891 3,149
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,800 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -1.33% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Build Automation
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Build Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Build Automation

Build Automation
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Build Automation within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 August 2026. 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
Wolverhampton - 4 - -
Shropshire - 1 £47,500 -
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (80.00%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (80.00%) Power Automate
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
1 4 (80.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) TestNG
1 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) OO
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft