Build Automation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Build Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Build Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 329 395
Rank change year-on-year -47 +66 +77
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 17 28 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.094% 0.19% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.21% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 3
10th Percentile £330 £334 £415
25th Percentile £434 £355 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £393 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.73% -7.65% -15.21%
75th Percentile £534 £447 £569
90th Percentile £550 £500 £648
UK median daily rate £481 £538 £450
% change year-on-year -10.51% +19.44% -15.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £25.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £25.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,617 13,041 17,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 86.01% 86.97% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,535 7,668 11,224
10th Percentile £220 £235 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,767 762 1,227
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in the UK excluding London

Build Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Scotland -4 7 £525 +27.27%
North of England -46 6 £463 +3.53% 12
North West -25 3 £373 +4.63% 5
Yorkshire -39 3 £487 -9.40% 7
South West - 2 - - 4
West Midlands -40 1 - - 4
Midlands -48 1 - - 5
Wales - 1 - - 1
Build Automation
UK

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (17.65%) JBoss
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Azure
3 6 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) GitHub
5 4 (23.53%) OpenShift
6 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
7 2 (11.76%) SaaS
7 2 (11.76%) Serverless
7 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
8 1 (5.88%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Relational Database
2 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) CockroachDB
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) JIRA
2 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
3 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket
3 5 (29.41%) Git
3 5 (29.41%) Visual Studio
4 4 (23.53%) IntelliJ
4 4 (23.53%) PyCharm
4 4 (23.53%) Visual Studio Code
5 3 (17.65%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (17.65%) CA Release Automation
5 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
5 3 (17.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (17.65%) TeamCity
6 2 (11.76%) Selenium
7 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
7 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 1 (5.88%) GitLab
7 1 (5.88%) JMeter
7 1 (5.88%) MSTest
7 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Python Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Database Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Django Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Python/Django Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Service Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) Django
2 2 (11.76%) React
2 2 (11.76%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (41.18%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (35.29%) Code Quality
6 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (29.41%) Microservices
6 5 (29.41%) Migration
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (23.53%) SDLC
8 3 (17.65%) AI
8 3 (17.65%) Analytics
8 3 (17.65%) Change Management
8 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
8 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
8 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
8 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) C#
4 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 3 (17.65%) Perl
5 3 (17.65%) SQL
6 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ISEB
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Ansible
2 8 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 7 (41.18%) Terraform
4 3 (17.65%) Kibana
4 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) AppDynamics
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
1 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 2 (11.76%) Cloudera
2 2 (11.76%) Greenplum
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle