Build Automation Contract Job Trends in London

Build Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Build Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 360 391
Rank change year-on-year 0 +31 +96
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 20 13 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.085% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.095% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 8
10th Percentile £400 £519 £389
25th Percentile £425 £542 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +28.57% -18.60%
75th Percentile £531 £697 £641
90th Percentile £537 £1,025 £705
England median daily rate £475 £544 £438
% change year-on-year -12.64% +24.29% -20.45%

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 13,166 13,695 16,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.05% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,682 8,808 12,056
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 165 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +5.80% -11.25%
75th Percentile £48.44 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in London

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Build Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 17 December 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 +2 1 - -
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (25.00%) GCP
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (10.00%) Apigee
5 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (20.00%) Redis
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) MariaDB
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL
5 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (35.00%) Git
2 7 (35.00%) Maven
3 3 (15.00%) Clang
3 3 (15.00%) GCC
3 3 (15.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) Gradle
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.00%) gulp
5 1 (5.00%) RStudio
5 1 (5.00%) Vagrant
5 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Marketing
3 3 (15.00%) Electronics
3 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Build Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Science Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Sales Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (20.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) Keycloak
2 4 (20.00%) REST
3 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (10.00%) Hugging Face
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (5.00%) CSS3
4 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.00%) Flask
4 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5
4 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (5.00%) OSGi
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) Swagger
4 1 (5.00%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Windows
3 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Unix
4 2 (10.00%) Solaris
5 1 (5.00%) CentOS
5 1 (5.00%) Debian
5 1 (5.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (65.00%) DevOps
3 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Observability
5 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 5 (25.00%) Change Management
6 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
7 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
7 4 (20.00%) ITIL
7 4 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
7 4 (20.00%) Secrets Management
7 4 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (15.00%) Digital Marketing
8 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
8 3 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) Bash
3 5 (25.00%) Groovy
3 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (15.00%) C
5 3 (15.00%) C++
6 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.00%) Java
7 1 (5.00%) Perl
7 1 (5.00%) PHP
7 1 (5.00%) R
7 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) VirtualBox
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 5 (25.00%) Grafana
2 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 4 (20.00%) Rancher
4 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) Ansible
5 1 (5.00%) Icinga
5 1 (5.00%) Nagios
5 1 (5.00%) Salt
5 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) New Relic
4 1 (5.00%) Rackspace
4 1 (5.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Zend