Build Automation Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Build Automation
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Build Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 0.83% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £400 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 91 28 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 75.83% 77.78% 87.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 21 22
10th Percentile £425 £200 £105
25th Percentile £493 £275 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £375 £369
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% +1.69% -42.16%
75th Percentile £583 £500 £534
90th Percentile £725 £550 £549
Suffolk median daily rate £513 £365 £375
% change year-on-year +40.41% -2.67% -37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £15.21 £15.84 -
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.36 £14.05
Median hourly rate £17.12 £17.46 £14.60
Median % change year-on-year -1.98% +19.59% -28.99%
75th Percentile £18.75 £18.32 £15.15
90th Percentile - £18.68 -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.06 £22.04 £14.60
% change year-on-year -22.59% +50.92% -17.89%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in Ipswich

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Build Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Build Automation

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) 5G
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Jinja
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus