Build Automation Contracts

Build Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 463 513 613
Rank change year-on-year +50 +100 +138
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 57 69 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.18% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 37 83
10th Percentile £381 £359 £450
25th Percentile £402 £413 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -24.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £545 £625 £730
90th Percentile £635 £865 £791
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +11.76% -22.73% -2.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Build Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Automation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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
England +39 41 £530 +11.58% 42
UK excluding London +64 33 £475 +11.76% 20
London +31 22 £530 -9.79% 28
Scotland +26 15 £459 +7.94% 3
Work from Home +13 11 £537 +7.40% 18
North of England +14 10 £462 +7.95% 5
North West - 10 £462 - 4
South East +42 3 £470 - 4
Midlands +20 3 £506 +42.13% 2
East Midlands +7 2 £506 +42.13% 1
South West +45 1 - - 1
East of England +30 1 £550 - 4
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (17.54%) JBoss
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (31.58%) AWS
2 12 (21.05%) Azure
3 10 (17.54%) GitHub
3 10 (17.54%) OpenShift
4 7 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.02%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.75%) Cohesity
7 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.75%) GCP
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.75%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) VPN
2 1 (1.75%) BGP
2 1 (1.75%) DNS
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.75%) SAN
2 1 (1.75%) WAN
2 1 (1.75%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (45.61%) Relational Database
2 12 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (17.54%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (15.79%) RDBMS
5 5 (8.77%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 30 (52.63%) Jenkins
2 18 (31.58%) JIRA
3 14 (24.56%) GitLab
4 12 (21.05%) Git
4 12 (21.05%) Gradle
4 12 (21.05%) JUnit
4 12 (21.05%) SonarQube
5 11 (19.30%) Liquibase
5 11 (19.30%) Mockito
5 11 (19.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (17.54%) Bitbucket Server
6 10 (17.54%) CA Release Automation
6 10 (17.54%) TeamCity
7 7 (12.28%) Bitbucket
8 5 (8.77%) Maven
9 3 (5.26%) Xcode
10 2 (3.51%) TestRail
11 1 (1.75%) PyCharm
11 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (43.86%) Finance
2 11 (19.30%) Electronics
2 11 (19.30%) Manufacturing
2 11 (19.30%) Marketing
2 11 (19.30%) Public Sector
2 11 (19.30%) Telecoms
3 10 (17.54%) Banking
4 9 (15.79%) Investment Banking
5 6 (10.53%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 30 (52.63%) Developer
2 16 (28.07%) Python Developer
3 14 (24.56%) Java Developer
4 12 (21.05%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 11 (19.30%) React Developer
6 6 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (7.02%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Django Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Python Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Python/Django Developer
9 3 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Consultant
9 3 (5.26%) Mobile Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Architect
10 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.11%) Spring Boot
2 16 (28.07%) React
3 15 (26.32%) Spring
4 11 (19.30%) Kafka
4 11 (19.30%) OpenAPI
4 11 (19.30%) Swagger
5 10 (17.54%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
6 5 (8.77%) Django
6 5 (8.77%) REST
7 3 (5.26%) RESTful
7 3 (5.26%) SwiftUI
7 3 (5.26%) UIKit
8 2 (3.51%) ARM Templates
9 1 (1.75%) Apache Camel
9 1 (1.75%) Guice
9 1 (1.75%) JSON
9 1 (1.75%) Quarkus
9 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.77%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.26%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.26%) iPad
3 3 (5.26%) iPhone
3 3 (5.26%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.51%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.51%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (33.33%) Windows
2 18 (31.58%) Linux
3 11 (19.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (5.26%) Android
4 3 (5.26%) Apple iOS
4 3 (5.26%) Unix
4 3 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.75%) Solaris
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (56.14%) CI/CD
1 32 (56.14%) DevOps
2 29 (50.88%) Microservices
3 27 (47.37%) Agile
4 25 (43.86%) Migration
5 21 (36.84%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (33.33%) TDD
7 17 (29.82%) Test Automation
8 16 (28.07%) Containerisation
8 16 (28.07%) Deployment Automation
9 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (26.32%) Software Engineering
10 13 (22.81%) Clean Code
11 12 (21.05%) Code Quality
12 11 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (19.30%) Digital Marketing
12 11 (19.30%) Event-Driven
12 11 (19.30%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 11 (19.30%) Programme Management
13 9 (15.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (57.89%) Python
2 24 (42.11%) Java
3 17 (29.82%) SQL
4 16 (28.07%) TypeScript
5 10 (17.54%) Perl
6 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
7 5 (8.77%) Bash
7 5 (8.77%) C#
8 3 (5.26%) Objective-C
8 3 (5.26%) Swift
9 2 (3.51%) Ruby
9 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) CISA
3 2 (3.51%) CISM
3 2 (3.51%) CISSP
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (3.51%) NIST
1 2 (3.51%) NIST 800
System Software
1 26 (45.61%) Docker
2 12 (21.05%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.75%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.75%) Firmware
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 26 (45.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.54%) Kibana
2 10 (17.54%) Progress Chef
3 8 (14.04%) Ansible
4 7 (12.28%) Terraform
5 5 (8.77%) SCCM
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.51%) Nagios
8 1 (1.75%) Rancher
8 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Splunk
2 11 (19.30%) Red Hat
2 11 (19.30%) SAP
3 10 (17.54%) AppDynamics
4 6 (10.53%) Oracle
5 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.02%) VMware
6 3 (5.26%) Cloudera
7 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.51%) Qualys
7 2 (3.51%) Remedy
7 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.51%) Snow
8 1 (1.75%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.75%) Citrix
8 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.75%) NetApp
8 1 (1.75%) Sonatype