Hybrid/Remote Build Automation Contract Job Trends

Build Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Build Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 301 385
Rank change year-on-year -9 +84 +133
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 8 15 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.079% 0.12% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.14% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £436 £384 £382
25th Percentile £453 £426 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £494 £425
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% +16.24% -24.44%
75th Percentile £521 £899 £580
90th Percentile £530 £1,025 £600
UK median daily rate £481 £538 £425
% change year-on-year -10.51% +26.47% -21.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Build Automation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Build Automation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Build Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Build Automation

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) JBoss
2 1 (12.50%) Jupyter
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (12.50%) Apigee
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) CockroachDB
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) Vagrant
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (12.50%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (12.50%) JMeter
4 1 (12.50%) Maven
4 1 (12.50%) MSTest
4 1 (12.50%) RStudio
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Django Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Python/Django Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Service Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Data Science Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (25.00%) Django
2 2 (25.00%) LAMP
2 2 (25.00%) React
2 2 (25.00%) Zend Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
3 1 (12.50%) Flask
3 1 (12.50%) Hugging Face
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) CentOS
3 2 (25.00%) Debian
3 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) AI
5 2 (25.00%) API Design
5 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) DataOps
5 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (25.00%) Security Hardening
5 2 (25.00%) Server Building
5 2 (25.00%) Server Patching
5 2 (25.00%) Software Deployment
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Perl
4 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (25.00%) PHP
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) VirtualBox
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Icinga
2 2 (25.00%) Nagios
2 2 (25.00%) Puppet
2 2 (25.00%) Salt
3 1 (12.50%) Kibana
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) New Relic
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
1 2 (25.00%) Rackspace
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
1 2 (25.00%) Zend
2 1 (12.50%) AppDynamics
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk