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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 455 510 610
Rank change year-on-year +55 +100 +150
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 83 67 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.15% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.18% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 36 66
10th Percentile £393 £358 £484
25th Percentile £466 £409 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -25.00% +13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £738
90th Percentile - £875 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +27.88% -22.73% -3.93%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £79.00 - -

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 27,390 36,950 49,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.03% 85.01% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,318 23,542 34,326
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,304 2,585 1,699
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.65 £11.45
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.06 £15.83
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.04 £38.12 £32.50
% change year-on-year -34.32% +17.29% +54.76%

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 24 June 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 24 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
England +70 68 £530 +11.58% 176
UK excluding London +71 54 £544 +27.88% 126
London +51 25 £530 -7.63% 67
East of England +42 20 £550 - 21
Scotland +13 13 £500 +17.65% 17
Work from Home +7 13 £537 +7.40% 49
North of England +24 12 £402 -5.96% 32
North West - 12 £402 - 20
South East +44 4 £470 -14.64% 21
Midlands +7 3 £506 +42.13% 16
South West +39 2 - - 16
East Midlands +2 2 £506 +42.13% 8
West Midlands - 1 - - 8

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 11 (13.25%) JBoss
2 4 (4.82%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.20%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.71%) AWS
2 20 (24.10%) Cohesity
3 12 (14.46%) Azure
4 11 (13.25%) OpenShift
5 7 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.02%) GitHub
7 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.82%) SaaS
8 3 (3.61%) GCP
9 2 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.20%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (24.10%) DNS
1 20 (24.10%) SAN
2 2 (2.41%) VPN
3 1 (1.20%) BGP
3 1 (1.20%) Firewall
3 1 (1.20%) PuTTY
3 1 (1.20%) WAN
3 1 (1.20%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (31.33%) Relational Database
2 12 (14.46%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (13.25%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (12.05%) RDBMS
5 4 (4.82%) CockroachDB
6 3 (3.61%) MySQL
7 2 (2.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 33 (39.76%) Jenkins
2 20 (24.10%) Git
3 17 (20.48%) JIRA
4 14 (16.87%) GitLab
5 13 (15.66%) Gradle
5 13 (15.66%) SonarQube
6 12 (14.46%) JUnit
6 12 (14.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (13.25%) Bitbucket Server
7 11 (13.25%) CA Release Automation
7 11 (13.25%) Liquibase
7 11 (13.25%) Mockito
7 11 (13.25%) TeamCity
8 9 (10.84%) Bitbucket
9 6 (7.23%) Maven
9 6 (7.23%) Xcode
10 5 (6.02%) IntelliJ
10 5 (6.02%) PyCharm
10 5 (6.02%) Visual Studio
10 5 (6.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (40.96%) Finance
2 13 (15.66%) Electronics
2 13 (15.66%) Manufacturing
2 13 (15.66%) Marketing
2 13 (15.66%) Public Sector
2 13 (15.66%) Telecoms
3 11 (13.25%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (32.53%) Developer
2 14 (16.87%) Java Developer
3 12 (14.46%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 11 (13.25%) React Developer
5 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Python Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Senior
7 6 (7.23%) Mobile Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Python Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Python Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Automation Developer
8 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Build Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Consultant
9 3 (3.61%) Django Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Python/Django Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (30.12%) Spring Boot
2 15 (18.07%) React
2 15 (18.07%) Spring
3 11 (13.25%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (13.25%) Kafka
3 11 (13.25%) OpenAPI
3 11 (13.25%) Swagger
4 6 (7.23%) JSON
4 6 (7.23%) SwiftUI
4 6 (7.23%) UIKit
5 4 (4.82%) AngularJS
5 4 (4.82%) Django
5 4 (4.82%) Jinja
5 4 (4.82%) REST
5 4 (4.82%) RESTful
5 4 (4.82%) XML
6 2 (2.41%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.41%) LAMP
6 2 (2.41%) Zend Framework
7 1 (1.20%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Virtual Team
2 6 (7.23%) Credit Risk
2 6 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (7.23%) iPad
2 6 (7.23%) iPhone
2 6 (7.23%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.02%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 44 (53.01%) Windows
2 23 (27.71%) Linux
3 22 (26.51%) Windows Server
4 21 (25.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 20 (24.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (16.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (7.23%) Android
7 6 (7.23%) Apple iOS
8 3 (3.61%) Unix
9 2 (2.41%) CentOS
9 2 (2.41%) Debian
9 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.20%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (51.81%) CI/CD
2 38 (45.78%) Deployment Automation
3 37 (44.58%) DevOps
4 32 (38.55%) Agile
5 29 (34.94%) Microservices
6 26 (31.33%) Migration
7 25 (30.12%) Test Automation
8 21 (25.30%) TDD
9 20 (24.10%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (24.10%) Operations Management
9 20 (24.10%) SIEM
10 19 (22.89%) Software Engineering
11 17 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (19.28%) Containerisation
13 13 (15.66%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (15.66%) Clean Code
13 13 (15.66%) Digital Marketing
13 13 (15.66%) Programme Management
14 11 (13.25%) Event-Driven
14 11 (13.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.37%) Python
2 30 (36.14%) PowerShell
3 27 (32.53%) Java
4 17 (20.48%) SQL
5 16 (19.28%) TypeScript
6 13 (15.66%) Perl
7 9 (10.84%) Bash
8 6 (7.23%) Objective-C
8 6 (7.23%) Swift
9 5 (6.02%) C#
10 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.41%) C
11 2 (2.41%) C++
11 2 (2.41%) PHP
11 2 (2.41%) Ruby
11 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (43.37%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.10%) DV Cleared
3 16 (19.28%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) QA
System Software
1 32 (38.55%) Active Directory
2 30 (36.14%) Docker
3 24 (28.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (24.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 20 (24.10%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (2.41%) VirtualBox
6 1 (1.20%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 33 (39.76%) Ansible
2 23 (27.71%) Kubernetes
2 23 (27.71%) SCCM
3 20 (24.10%) WSUS
4 13 (15.66%) Progress Chef
5 11 (13.25%) Kibana
6 7 (8.43%) Terraform
7 2 (2.41%) Icinga
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.41%) Nagios
7 2 (2.41%) Puppet
7 2 (2.41%) Salt
8 1 (1.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (38.55%) Splunk
2 25 (30.12%) VMware
3 22 (26.51%) Microsoft
4 20 (24.10%) NetApp
5 13 (15.66%) SAP
6 12 (14.46%) Red Hat
7 11 (13.25%) AppDynamics
8 6 (7.23%) Oracle
9 4 (4.82%) Cloudera
10 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
10 2 (2.41%) New Relic
10 2 (2.41%) Rackspace
10 2 (2.41%) Remedy
10 2 (2.41%) Zend
11 1 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (1.20%) Citrix
11 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
11 1 (1.20%) Dynatrace
11 1 (1.20%) Sonatype