Build Automation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Build Automation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Build Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 116 120
Rank change year-on-year -22 +4 +42
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £483 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.47%
75th Percentile £653 - £556
90th Percentile £726 - -
Central London median daily rate £575 £250 £538
% change year-on-year +130.00% -53.49% +26.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,013 1,683 1,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 94.02% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,107 1,235
10th Percentile £375 £325 £384
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Build Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Build Automation

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Automation in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in the City of London

Build Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Build Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Build Automation

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) HSRP
3 1 (25.00%) INAP
3 1 (25.00%) Intelligent Network
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) RTP
3 1 (25.00%) VoIP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) Locust
2 1 (25.00%) Newman
2 1 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (25.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
2 1 (25.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AI Agents
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) CentOS
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Workshops
2 2 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Google
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Dialogic
2 1 (25.00%) Metaswitch
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto