Build Automation Contracts in London

Build Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 331 362 422
Rank change year-on-year +31 +60 +123
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 22 29 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 18 56
10th Percentile £363 £455 £450
25th Percentile £458 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £588 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.79% -9.62% +13.04%
75th Percentile £549 £813 £732
90th Percentile £740 £963 £819
England median daily rate £530 £475 £638
% change year-on-year +11.58% -25.49% +10.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in London

Build Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in London

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in London

Build Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Build Automation in London

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +3 5 £550 +10.00%
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) VPN
2 1 (4.55%) BGP
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Relational Database
2 7 (31.82%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) GitLab
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 7 (31.82%) Gradle
2 7 (31.82%) JUnit
3 6 (27.27%) Liquibase
3 6 (27.27%) Mockito
4 3 (13.64%) Maven
5 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
6 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.55%) Git
6 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (4.55%) TestRail
General
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Electronics
2 6 (27.27%) Manufacturing
2 6 (27.27%) Marketing
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Java Developer
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 6 (27.27%) React Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Python Developer
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Consultant
6 2 (9.09%) Django Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Integration Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Python/Django Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Security Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) React
1 8 (36.36%) Spring
1 8 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 6 (27.27%) Kafka
2 6 (27.27%) OpenAPI
2 6 (27.27%) Swagger
3 3 (13.64%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 2 (9.09%) Django
4 2 (9.09%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) Guice
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) SOAP
5 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) Low-Code
2 2 (9.09%) Operational Technology
2 2 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Solaris
4 1 (4.55%) Unix
4 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Agile
1 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (50.00%) DevOps
2 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 10 (45.45%) Microservices
2 10 (45.45%) Migration
3 8 (36.36%) TDD
4 7 (31.82%) Clean Code
4 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
4 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
5 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (27.27%) Digital Marketing
5 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
5 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (27.27%) Programme Management
6 5 (22.73%) Analytics
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (22.73%) High Availability
6 5 (22.73%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
4 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 5 (22.73%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) CISA
2 2 (9.09%) CISM
2 2 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
1 2 (9.09%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) SCCM
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
4 2 (9.09%) Nagios
4 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) SAP
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) VMware
3 2 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 2 (9.09%) Qualys
3 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.09%) Snow
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Remedy
4 1 (4.55%) Sonatype