Build Automation Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Build Automation
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Build Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 0.50% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
East of England median daily rate £400 £550 -
% change year-on-year -27.27% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 135 50 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 66.83% 80.65% 66.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 33 33
10th Percentile £400 £201 £105
25th Percentile £450 £275 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £365 £375
Median % change year-on-year +40.41% -2.67% -37.50%
75th Percentile £589 £475 £538
90th Percentile £723 £546 £630
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 10
10th Percentile £14.59 £16.53 -
25th Percentile £14.66 £18.07 £14.05
Median hourly rate £17.06 £22.04 £14.60
Median % change year-on-year -22.59% +50.92% -17.89%
75th Percentile £18.35 £30.41 £51.91
90th Percentile £18.75 £39.87 £54.13
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year +41.67% -24.05% +99.39%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Ipswich - 1 £400 - 2
Build Automation
East of England

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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