Build Automation Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Build Automation
Wales > South Wales

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 350 234 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 75.59% 90.35% 77.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 160 191
10th Percentile £300 £190 £143
25th Percentile £375 £285 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £552
90th Percentile £775 £625 £625
Wales median daily rate £475 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 22 36
10th Percentile £12.21 £13.08 £13.06
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.23 £15.48
Median hourly rate £21.75 £16.00 £21.49
Median % change year-on-year +35.94% -25.53% +10.24%
75th Percentile £46.85 £23.00 £49.06
90th Percentile £55.00 £43.32 £85.50
Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £21.01 £20.35
% change year-on-year +4.71% +3.23% +4.43%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in South Wales

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Build Automation

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 6 July 2026. 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
Bridgend - 4 £600 - 1
Newport - 1 £600 -
Build Automation
Wales

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 5 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (80.00%) Project Planning
2 4 (80.00%) Server Building
2 4 (80.00%) Workflow
2 4 (80.00%) Workflow Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Server Patching
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft