Build Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Build Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 358 416
Rank change year-on-year +61 +58 +61
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 54 32 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.15% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.18% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 16 14
10th Percentile £393 £356 £482
25th Percentile £475 £359 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -26.09% +0.22%
75th Percentile £575 £435 £747
90th Percentile - £445 £785
UK median daily rate £530 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +6.00% -20.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.50 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £79.00 - -

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 11,920 17,503 20,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.53% 83.16% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,359 10,332 13,914
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £370 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 889 2,157 1,243
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.50 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.40 £15.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.73
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £36.50 £35.90
% change year-on-year -24.62% +1.67% +39.80%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Build Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in the UK excluding London

Build Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Build Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in the UK excluding London

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 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in the UK excluding London

Build Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Build Automation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Build Automation in the UK excluding London

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 7 June 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
East of England +43 20 £550 - 4
Scotland +23 14 £500 +17.65% 8
North of England +10 12 £402 -5.96% 14
North West - 12 £402 - 11
South East +41 3 £470 -14.64% 5
Midlands +6 3 £506 +42.13% 3
South West +43 2 - - 5
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 2
Build Automation
UK

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (18.52%) JBoss
2 1 (1.85%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Cohesity
2 14 (25.93%) AWS
3 10 (18.52%) OpenShift
4 7 (12.96%) GitHub
5 4 (7.41%) Azure
5 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (37.04%) DNS
1 20 (37.04%) SAN
2 1 (1.85%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.85%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 10 (18.52%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.41%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 21 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 16 (29.63%) JIRA
3 14 (25.93%) Git
4 10 (18.52%) Bitbucket Server
4 10 (18.52%) CA Release Automation
4 10 (18.52%) SonarQube
4 10 (18.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 10 (18.52%) TeamCity
5 6 (11.11%) GitLab
6 5 (9.26%) Bitbucket
6 5 (9.26%) Gradle
6 5 (9.26%) JUnit
6 5 (9.26%) Liquibase
6 5 (9.26%) Mockito
6 5 (9.26%) Xcode
7 4 (7.41%) IntelliJ
7 4 (7.41%) PyCharm
7 4 (7.41%) Visual Studio
7 4 (7.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (3.70%) Maven
General
1 17 (31.48%) Finance
2 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Electronics
3 5 (9.26%) Manufacturing
3 5 (9.26%) Marketing
3 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Developer
2 9 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 6 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Mobile Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) React Developer
4 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Senior
5 4 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Python Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Developer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Python Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Django Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Python/Django Developer
7 2 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Applications Support
8 1 (1.85%) DevOps Developer
8 1 (1.85%) DevOps Specialist
8 1 (1.85%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.63%) Spring Boot
2 10 (18.52%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (16.67%) React
4 7 (12.96%) Spring
5 5 (9.26%) Kafka
5 5 (9.26%) OpenAPI
5 5 (9.26%) Swagger
5 5 (9.26%) SwiftUI
5 5 (9.26%) UIKit
6 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
6 4 (7.41%) Django
6 4 (7.41%) REST
7 1 (1.85%) Apache Camel
7 1 (1.85%) Quarkus
7 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 5 (9.26%) Credit Risk
2 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (9.26%) iPad
2 5 (9.26%) iPhone
2 5 (9.26%) Mobile App
3 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (7.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (61.11%) Windows
2 20 (37.04%) Windows Server
2 20 (37.04%) Windows Server 2016
2 20 (37.04%) Windows Server 2019
3 14 (25.93%) Linux
4 10 (18.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (9.26%) Android
5 5 (9.26%) Apple iOS
6 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (61.11%) Deployment Automation
2 25 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 20 (37.04%) DevOps
3 20 (37.04%) Microservices
3 20 (37.04%) Operations Management
3 20 (37.04%) SIEM
4 19 (35.19%) Agile
5 16 (29.63%) Migration
6 14 (25.93%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (25.93%) TDD
7 13 (24.07%) Test Automation
8 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.37%) Software Engineering
9 10 (18.52%) Code Quality
10 6 (11.11%) BDD
10 6 (11.11%) Clean Code
10 6 (11.11%) Containerisation
10 6 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 5 (9.26%) MVVM
11 5 (9.26%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 21 (38.89%) Python
2 20 (37.04%) PowerShell
3 15 (27.78%) Java
4 10 (18.52%) Perl
4 10 (18.52%) SQL
5 9 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 5 (9.26%) Objective-C
6 5 (9.26%) Swift
7 4 (7.41%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) Ruby
8 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (46.30%) Security Cleared
2 20 (37.04%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 30 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 20 (37.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 20 (37.04%) Virtual Servers
2 20 (37.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (29.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (44.44%) Ansible
2 20 (37.04%) SCCM
2 20 (37.04%) WSUS
3 19 (35.19%) Kubernetes
4 10 (18.52%) Kibana
4 10 (18.52%) Progress Chef
5 4 (7.41%) Terraform
6 1 (1.85%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (57.41%) Splunk
2 20 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 20 (37.04%) NetApp
2 20 (37.04%) VMware
3 10 (18.52%) AppDynamics
3 10 (18.52%) Red Hat
4 5 (9.26%) SAP
5 4 (7.41%) Cloudera
5 4 (7.41%) Oracle
6 1 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.85%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.85%) Remedy