Build Automation Contracts in the South East

Build Automation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 156 198 213
Rank change year-on-year +42 +15 +46
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 3 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £416 - £550
25th Percentile £436 - £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +39.42%
75th Percentile £503 - £750
90th Percentile £524 - £770
England median daily rate £530 £475 £638
% change year-on-year +11.58% -25.49% +10.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 the South East

Job postings citing Build Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in the South East

Build Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Build Automation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in the South East

Build Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Build Automation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Build Automation in the South East

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Hampshire +22 2 £470 -
Thames Valley - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 - -
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (66.67%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) PuTTY
1 1 (33.33%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (66.67%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Toad
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Functional Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kibana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (33.33%) Remedy