United Kingdom · Operations · Mid-Level (2-5 years)

Automation Developer

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

Experience bandMid-Level (2-5 years)
Direct reportsNo direct reports
Reports toManager, Automation & Process Excellence
UK framework levelUsually a coordinator, or early in a professional job

Also advertised as RPA Developer · Process Automation Specialist · Bot Developer

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1What this role really is

You're the person who brings processes to life through code, turning manual, repetitive tasks into efficient, automated workflows. This role is all about building the digital workforce that keeps our Operations running smoothly, freeing up our human teams to do more interesting, value-add work. Honestly, you're a bit of a magician, making tedious tasks disappear.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

UiPath / Automation Anywhere (RPA Platforms)Intermediate

Developing, testing, and debugging moderately complex automations from a Process Design Document (PDD). Running and monitoring attended/unattended bots, and performing basic debugging when things go wrong.

Celonis / Signavio (Process Mining)Basic

Interpreting pre-built process discovery dashboards to validate process maps with SMEs and identify simple deviation patterns. You'll use this to understand the process you're about to automate.

Workato / MuleSoft (iPaaS / Integration)Basic

Using pre-built connectors to create simple recipes/flows for integrating systems. You'll also troubleshoot basic API connection errors when your bots need to talk to other applications.

Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps)Intermediate

Building simple personal productivity flows and basic canvas apps for team use, often to support or trigger your RPA bots. You'll also integrate Power Automate flows with other systems.

Jira / Confluence (Project & Doc Mgmt)Intermediate

Updating tickets and tasks for your automation projects. Documenting your processes and test cases, making sure you follow our existing documentation standards. It's how we keep track of everything.

Tableau / Power BI (Executive Reporting)Basic

Consuming and interacting with existing dashboards to track bot performance, uptime, and the value your automations are delivering. You'll need to understand the data, not necessarily build the dashboards.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Technical Approach for a Bot	Propose options, get approval from Senior Developer/Lead.	Independently decide for routine problems; consult Lead for novel or complex scenarios.	Define technical approach for entire workstreams; consult Architect for cross-system impact.
Bot Deployment Schedule	Follow schedule set by Senior Developer/Lead.	Suggest minor adjustments to Manager; escalate significant delays.	Propose and manage deployment schedules for multiple bots/workstreams.
Prioritisation of Support Tickets	Address tickets as assigned by Senior Developer.	Prioritise your own Tier 2 tickets based on impact and SLA, escalating if overloaded.	Manage the prioritisation queue for the team's Tier 2 tickets, reassigning as needed.
Process Improvement Suggestions	Suggest improvements to your direct supervisor.	Propose and document process improvements within your project scope to Process Analysts.	Lead discussions on process re-engineering with business stakeholders.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Bot Development & Deployment Rate

The number of medium-complexity bots you successfully develop, test, and deploy into production.

Target · 4-6 bots per year (medium complexity)

In Q2, you deployed two bots: one for invoice processing and another for customer data updates, both running smoothly and meeting requirements.

Bot Uptime & Reliability

The percentage of time your deployed bots are running without errors or requiring manual intervention.

Target · >98% uptime for owned production bots

Your 'Month-End Report Generation' bot ran flawlessly for 29 out of 30 days, hitting 96.7% uptime for that period – we'd want to understand the cause of that one hiccup.

Manual Effort Reduction

The total number of manual hours saved annually by the automations you've built.

Target · Projects deliver a cumulative 10,000+ manual hours saved annually

Your new 'Supplier Onboarding' bot reduced manual data entry by 20 hours a week, saving roughly 1,000 hours over a year for that single process.

Ticket Resolution Time (Tier 2 Support)

How quickly you resolve issues for bots that are already in production.

Target · Resolve 90% of Tier 2 support tickets within the 48-hour SLA

This week, you closed 9 out of 10 assigned bot support tickets within 36 hours, with the tenth being a complex IT infrastructure issue that needed escalation.

Code Quality & Reusability

How well-structured, documented, and reusable your automation code is, reducing future maintenance and development effort.

Target · Achieve 20%+ reusable component usage across new automation projects

Your latest bot for 'Customer Address Update' successfully reused three existing components for data validation and logging, saving about 15% of development time.

Stakeholder Satisfaction

How happy the operational teams are with the automations you deliver and your responsiveness to their needs.

Positive feedback in project retrospectives
requests for you to work on their next automation idea
proactive communication about potential issues or delays
they actually use the bots you build.

Problem-Solving & Adaptability

Your ability to troubleshoot complex bot failures and adapt your approach when process requirements inevitably shift.

Successfully debugging tricky bot errors that others couldn't solve
proposing alternative solutions when the original plan hits a roadblock
learning new tools or techniques quickly to overcome a challenge
your manager trusts you to figure things out independently.

Documentation & Best Practices Adherence

How well you document your code and follow our established development standards.

Your PDDs and Solution Design Documents (SDDs) are clear, comprehensive, and easy for others to understand
your code reviews consistently show adherence to our coding guidelines
junior developers can pick up your work and understand it without constant questions.

Contribution to Team Knowledge

How you share your learnings and help improve the overall capability of the automation team.

You contribute to our internal knowledge base (Confluence)
you offer informal guidance to newer team members
you share insights from a tricky problem you solved
you participate actively in team discussions and suggest improvements to our processes.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Solving Tangible Problems

You get a real kick out of taking a manual, repetitive process and turning it into something slick and automated. Seeing the 'before and after' is genuinely satisfying.

You built a bot that cut down a 4-hour daily data entry task to 10 minutes, and the team that used to do it actually came to thank you.

Continuous Learning & Improvement

You love diving into new tech, figuring out how different systems work, and constantly refining your coding skills. Every bug is a chance to learn something new.

You spent a Saturday afternoon playing with a new API integration tool, then brought that knowledge to a team problem on Monday, saving hours of development time.

Making a Direct Impact

Your work isn't abstract; it directly affects how our Operations run. You see the results of your code in improved efficiency, fewer errors, and happier colleagues.

You fixed a critical bot that was causing delays in customer order processing, and within hours, the backlog cleared, directly improving customer satisfaction scores.

What frustrates people

Application updates breaking your bots without warning – it's a constant battle.
Dealing with messy, inconsistent input data from legacy systems.
Stakeholders underestimating the complexity of 'simple' automations (the 'iceberg effect').
Spending significant time on bug fixes for older, poorly documented bots.
The occasional feeling that you're 'paving the cowpath' by automating a process that really should be re-engineered first.

What this role does not give you

A perfectly clean, stable environment where nothing ever breaks.
Unlimited resources or time to build every automation to 'gold standard'.
A role where you only build new things; maintenance and support are a big part of it.
A quiet, solitary coding experience; you'll be talking to people constantly.

6Who you work with

Your work directly impacts the efficiency and reliability of core operational processes across the business. You'll be reducing manual effort, cutting down on human error, and ultimately helping us deliver better service to our customers. A well-built bot can save hundreds of hours a week, but a buggy one can cause chaos, so the stakes are pretty clear.

Inside the business

Process Analysts (they give you the blueprints)
Operations Team Leads (your end-users, they'll tell you what works and what doesn't)
IT Support (for infrastructure and access issues)
Quality Assurance (they'll test your bots rigorously)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

At least 2 years of hands-on experience developing and deploying automations using a major RPA platform (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere) or a strong background in a similar low-code/scripting environment (e.g., Python scripting for business processes) or equivalent.
Proven ability to translate process documentation (like PDDs) into functional automation solutions.
Experience with basic troubleshooting and debugging of automation workflows.
A solid grasp of logical programming concepts, even if you're not a traditional software developer.
Demonstrable experience working effectively in a team, contributing to shared goals and knowledge.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Exception Handling & Resilience

Our automations are becoming more critical, meaning downtime is more costly. You'll need to master building bots that can gracefully recover from unexpected errors, log issues intelligently, and even self-correct in some scenarios.

Global Exception Handlers · Retry Mechanisms · Alerting & Monitoring Integration

This week: Review the exception handling framework in your RPA platform's documentation.
This month: Refactor an existing bot to improve its error recovery capabilities, focusing on edge cases.
Month 2: Research and implement a new, more robust logging mechanism for your bots.
Month 3: Lead a team discussion on best practices for building resilient automations.

Quick win: For your next bot, spend an extra 20% of your development time purely on testing and designing for unexpected errors. It'll pay off.

API Integration & Orchestration

As we move towards 'hyperautomation,' bots won't just mimic human actions; they'll directly integrate with systems via APIs. You'll need to be comfortable orchestrating complex workflows that combine RPA with direct system integrations.

RESTful API Principles · Authentication Methods · JSON/XML Parsing · iPaaS Platform Integration

This week: Find a public API (e.g., weather API) and try to make a simple request in your preferred coding language (e.g., Python).
This month: Identify an existing bot that could be partially replaced or augmented by a direct API call, and build a proof-of-concept.
Month 2: Take an online course on a specific iPaaS platform we use (e.g., Workato essentials).
Month 3: Propose a new automation idea that relies heavily on API integration rather than UI automation.

Quick win: Familiarise yourself with Postman or Insomnia for testing APIs. It's a fundamental tool for any developer working with integrations.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Actively participate in online automation communities (e.g., UiPath Forum, Automation Anywhere A-People Community) to learn from peers and contribute your own solutions.
Attend webinars and virtual conferences on RPA, intelligent automation, and process mining to stay current with industry trends.
Dedicate time to personal projects where you can experiment with new automation tools or integration techniques.
Seek out opportunities to informally mentor junior team members or new joiners, solidifying your own understanding and leadership skills.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Prompt Engineering for Automation

Generative AI is rapidly becoming a co-pilot for developers. Knowing how to 'talk' to these models effectively will dramatically speed up your coding, debugging, and documentation tasks, making you significantly more productive than peers who don't.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering for Automation

Generative AI is rapidly becoming a co-pilot for developers. Knowing how to 'talk' to these models effectively will dramatically speed up your coding, debugging, and documentation tasks, making you significantly more productive than peers who don't.

Clear & Concise Prompting
Context & Constraints
Iterative Prompting
Output Validation

Basic Data Science for Automation

As automations become more sophisticated, they'll need to make smarter decisions. Understanding basic data analysis and machine learning concepts will let you build bots that can, for example, predict exceptions, classify unstructured data, or optimise process paths.

Data Cleaning & Pre-processing
Simple Classification Models
Statistical Significance
Feature Engineering

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC/DMADV)
Robotic Operating Model (ROM) Concepts
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Principles
Value Stream Mapping Interpretation
Change Management Awareness (ADKAR)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
Junior Automation Developer / Automation Analyst
1-2 years
Skills to master
- Process mapping, basic bot development (following PDDs), UAT execution, basic troubleshooting, documentation.
You're ready to move on when
- You can independently build a simple to medium-complexity bot from a clear PDD.
- You consistently deliver clean, well-tested code with minimal bugs.
- You actively contribute to team discussions and documentation.
- You've successfully resolved Tier 1 support tickets and understand common bot failure points.
2
Software Developer (with interest in Operations)
2-3 years
Skills to master
- Understanding of business processes, learning RPA platforms, adapting traditional coding skills to automation paradigms, stakeholder communication.
You're ready to move on when
- You're comfortable with logical programming and problem-solving.
- You've shown initiative in automating tasks in your previous roles (even if with scripts).
- You have a strong desire to apply your coding skills to operational efficiency problems.
- You're a fast learner and can pick up new platforms quickly.
3
Business Analyst (with technical aptitude)
2-4 years
Skills to master
- RPA platform proficiency, understanding of technical feasibility, solution design, basic coding principles.
You're ready to move on when
- You've successfully translated business requirements into technical specifications.
- You've worked closely with developers and understand the 'how' behind solutions.
- You've taken courses or self-taught basic coding/scripting.
- You can clearly articulate the business value of automation.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey here as an Automation Developer is just the beginning. We're committed to investing in your growth, providing the opportunities and support you need to build a truly impactful and rewarding career in intelligent automation. The future of Operations is automated, and you'll be at the forefront of building it.

Pay & demand

Pay and demand for this role will appear here, each figure traced to a named authoritative source (e.g. the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, under the Open Government Licence). We don’t show numbers we can’t attribute.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Automation Developer is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Automation Systems and Industrial RoboticsLevel 3

Applied to your work in Automation Developer

This unit aims to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of automated systems and industrial robotics within manufacturing environments. Learners will explore the components, functions, and integration of control, sensing, and actuation systems within automated work-cells, enabling them to understand the design and operation of these systems.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Automation Developer

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Bot Development & Deployment RateThe number of medium-complexity bots you successfully develop, test, and deploy into production.In Q2, you deployed two bots: one for invoice processing and another for customer data updates, both running smoothly and meeting requirements.4-6 bots per year (medium complexity)
Bot Uptime & ReliabilityThe percentage of time your deployed bots are running without errors or requiring manual intervention.Your 'Month-End Report Generation' bot ran flawlessly for 29 out of 30 days, hitting 96.7% uptime for that period – we'd want to understand the cause of that one hiccup.>98% uptime for owned production bots
Manual Effort ReductionThe total number of manual hours saved annually by the automations you've built.Your new 'Supplier Onboarding' bot reduced manual data entry by 20 hours a week, saving roughly 1,000 hours over a year for that single process.Projects deliver a cumulative 10,000+ manual hours saved annually
Ticket Resolution Time (Tier 2 Support)How quickly you resolve issues for bots that are already in production.This week, you closed 9 out of 10 assigned bot support tickets within 36 hours, with the tenth being a complex IT infrastructure issue that needed escalation.Resolve 90% of Tier 2 support tickets within the 48-hour SLA

and 1 more in the full scoreboard below.

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Automation Developer to Senior Automation Developer, and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 3 · in progressAI Fluency→ Senior Automation Developer→ your design

Where this takes you

Your journey here as an Automation Developer is just the beginning. We're committed to investing in your growth, providing the opportunities and support you need to build a truly impactful and rewarding career in intelligent automation. The future of Operations is automated, and you'll be at the forefront of building it.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Automation Developer

Lean Six Sigma (DMAIC/DMADV)
Robotic Operating Model (ROM) Concepts
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) Principles
Value Stream Mapping Interpretation
Change Management Awareness (ADKAR)

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Automation Developer is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Senior Automation Developer
2-3 years
From L2 to L3
- Designing complex, resilient automations with robust exception handling.
- Leading code reviews and establishing development best practices for the team.
- Evaluating new automation tools and components.
- Managing automation backlog and running agile sprints for small projects.
Automation Architect / Lead Automation Developer
3-5 years
From L2 to L4
- Designing enterprise-scale automation solutions, considering scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Setting technical standards and guidelines for the entire Automation CoE.
- Evaluating and selecting new automation technologies and platforms.
- Leading the most complex and high-impact automation projects, potentially managing small teams.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Imagine spending less time on the tedious bits of bot building and more time on the really interesting, complex problems. That's the reality with AI in our Operations Automation team. We're not just talking about future tech; we're talking about tools you'll use every single day to make your job easier and more impactful.

In Operations, automation is all about efficiency. And frankly, AI is the ultimate efficiency booster for developers. You'll use AI not to replace your brain, but to augment it, helping you write better code faster, predict problems before they happen, and even build stronger business cases for your projects.

PDD Auto-Generation

Use AI-powered process mining tools (like Celonis) to analyse system logs and user interactions, automatically generating a draft Process Design Document (PDD). The AI maps the main process flow, identifies variations, and calculates frequencies, creating a baseline document that an analyst (and then you) only needs to validate and enrich. This means you get a much cleaner, more accurate blueprint to start coding from, saving you loads of back-and-forth.

Predictive Bot Monitoring

Apply machine learning models to analyse bot execution logs, system performance data, and application error patterns. The AI can predict which bots are at high risk of failure due to underlying application changes or data anomalies, allowing the team to intervene proactively before a critical process breaks. Imagine getting a heads-up that your invoice processing bot might fail *before* month-end close – that's a game-changer.

Business Case & ROI Modeling

Use a generative AI assistant trained on our CoE's past project data. Input a new process opportunity (e.g., 'AP Invoice Processing'), and the AI drafts a comprehensive business case, estimating development hours, infrastructure costs, potential savings, and ROI based on historical benchmarks. This helps you quickly quantify the value of your proposed automations, making it easier to get buy-in.

Stakeholder Communication Drafting

Use AI to draft targeted communications. For example: 'Draft an email to the Operations Manager summarizing the Q3 automation results for their team, highlighting the £1.2M savings and outlining the Q4 plan, keeping the tone professional and data-driven.' This reduces time spent on routine reporting and updates by 50%, allowing more time for strategic conversations (or just getting on with coding!).

Common questions

How do you become an Automation Developer?

Common routes in include Junior Automation Developer / Automation Analyst (1-2 years), Software Developer (with interest in Operations) (2-3 years) and Business Analyst (with technical aptitude) (2-4 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can an Automation Developer progress to?

This role can lead on to Senior Automation Developer (2-3 years) and Automation Architect / Lead Automation Developer (3-5 years), depending on the skills you build.

What level is an Automation Developer in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 3 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for an Automation Developer?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering for Automation and Basic Data Science for Automation. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows an Automation Developer, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 4 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming an Automation Developer: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan built for a customer support lead, five Ofqual-regulated units and a hundred and ninety-six credits. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

Start free No commitment. See your first steps free.

15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 3

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Operations

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll gain here – process analysis, automation development, systems integration, and problem-solving – are highly transferable. You could move into broader software development, business intelligence, process improvement consulting, or even product management roles within the tech sector. Every industry needs people who can make things run more efficiently.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Automation Developer

What's rising in its place

Prompt Engineering for Automation

Basic Data Science for Automation

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

Junior Automation Developer / Automation Analyst

Software Developer (with interest in Operations)

Business Analyst (with technical aptitude)

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Senior Automation Developer

Automation Architect / Lead Automation Developer

Where AI is starting to help

PDD Auto-Generation

Predictive Bot Monitoring

Business Case & ROI Modeling

Stakeholder Communication Drafting

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.