Build Automation Contracts in England

Build Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Build Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Build Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 444 483 561
Rank change year-on-year +39 +78 +129
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 41 59 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 32 74
10th Percentile £374 £357 £450
25th Percentile £401 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £638
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -25.49% +10.87%
75th Percentile £545 £626 £738
90th Percentile £680 £915 £800
UK median daily rate £530 £475 £625
% change year-on-year +11.58% -24.00% +6.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in England

Build Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Build Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in England

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Automation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in England

Build Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Build Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Build Automation in England

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Build Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +31 22 £530 -9.79% 28
North of England +14 10 £462 +7.95% 5
North West - 10 £462 - 4
South East +42 3 £470 - 4
Midlands +20 3 £506 +42.13% 2
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 1
South West +45 1 - - 1
East of England +30 1 £550 - 4
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Build Automation
UK

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (21.95%) JBoss
2 2 (4.88%) Confluence
3 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (29.27%) AWS
2 9 (21.95%) OpenShift
3 7 (17.07%) Azure
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.44%) Cohesity
5 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) VPN
2 1 (2.44%) BGP
2 1 (2.44%) DNS
2 1 (2.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) PuTTY
2 1 (2.44%) SAN
2 1 (2.44%) WAN
2 1 (2.44%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (56.10%) Relational Database
2 12 (29.27%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (21.95%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (19.51%) RDBMS
5 3 (7.32%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 24 (58.54%) Jenkins
2 14 (34.15%) GitLab
3 12 (29.27%) Gradle
3 12 (29.27%) JUnit
4 11 (26.83%) Git
4 11 (26.83%) Liquibase
4 11 (26.83%) Mockito
4 11 (26.83%) SonarQube
5 10 (24.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (21.95%) Bitbucket Server
6 9 (21.95%) CA Release Automation
6 9 (21.95%) JIRA
6 9 (21.95%) TeamCity
7 5 (12.20%) Maven
8 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.88%) TestRail
9 1 (2.44%) Toad
General
1 16 (39.02%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Electronics
2 11 (26.83%) Manufacturing
2 11 (26.83%) Marketing
2 11 (26.83%) Public Sector
2 11 (26.83%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.32%) Banking
3 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Developer
2 13 (31.71%) Java Developer
3 12 (29.27%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 11 (26.83%) React Developer
5 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Python Developer
6 4 (9.76%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Consultant
7 3 (7.32%) Django Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Python/Django Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Architect
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Integration Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (56.10%) Spring Boot
2 15 (36.59%) Spring
3 14 (34.15%) React
4 11 (26.83%) Kafka
4 11 (26.83%) OpenAPI
4 11 (26.83%) Swagger
5 9 (21.95%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.32%) Django
6 3 (7.32%) REST
6 3 (7.32%) RESTful
7 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
8 1 (2.44%) Apache Camel
8 1 (2.44%) Guice
8 1 (2.44%) JSON
8 1 (2.44%) Quarkus
8 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.44%) SOAP
8 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.88%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (4.88%) Low-Code
2 2 (4.88%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Windows
2 12 (29.27%) Linux
3 10 (24.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.32%) Unix
4 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.44%) Solaris
6 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (65.85%) CI/CD
2 26 (63.41%) DevOps
2 26 (63.41%) Microservices
3 24 (58.54%) Migration
4 18 (43.90%) Agile
5 15 (36.59%) Containerisation
5 15 (36.59%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (34.15%) TDD
7 13 (31.71%) Clean Code
8 12 (29.27%) Software Engineering
9 11 (26.83%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (26.83%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (26.83%) Digital Marketing
9 11 (26.83%) Event-Driven
9 11 (26.83%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 11 (26.83%) Programme Management
10 9 (21.95%) Analytics
10 9 (21.95%) Code Quality
10 9 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (21.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) Python
2 19 (46.34%) Java
3 15 (36.59%) SQL
4 11 (26.83%) TypeScript
5 9 (21.95%) Perl
6 8 (19.51%) PowerShell
7 5 (12.20%) Bash
8 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) CISA
3 2 (4.88%) CISM
3 2 (4.88%) CISSP
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (4.88%) NIST
1 2 (4.88%) NIST 800
System Software
1 24 (58.54%) Docker
2 11 (26.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.44%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.95%) Kibana
2 9 (21.95%) Progress Chef
3 5 (12.20%) SCCM
4 3 (7.32%) Ansible
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.88%) Nagios
5 2 (4.88%) Terraform
6 1 (2.44%) Rancher
6 1 (2.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) SAP
1 11 (26.83%) Splunk
2 10 (24.39%) Red Hat
3 9 (21.95%) AppDynamics
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.76%) Oracle
4 4 (9.76%) VMware
5 3 (7.32%) Cloudera
6 2 (4.88%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.88%) Qualys
6 2 (4.88%) Remedy
6 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.88%) Snow
7 1 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.44%) Citrix
7 1 (2.44%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.44%) NetApp
7 1 (2.44%) Sonatype