Build Automation Contracts in the South East

Build Automation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Build Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Build Automation over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 197 213 254
Rank change year-on-year +16 +41 -56
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 7 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.13% 0.17% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.19% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 4
10th Percentile - - £396
25th Percentile - £550 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £725 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +39.42% +15.56%
75th Percentile - £750 £599
90th Percentile - £765 £615
England median daily rate £475 £638 £575
% change year-on-year -25.49% +10.87% +14.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Build Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,752 5,254 6,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.22% 89.52% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,779 3,636 4,730
10th Percentile £229 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £615 £588
90th Percentile £699 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 221 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £23.15 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.87 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.48 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.79 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Build Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in the South East

Build Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in the South East

Build Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Build Automation in the South East

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Hampshire - 6 - -
East Sussex - 1 - - 1
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) MongoDB
1 5 (71.43%) MySQL
1 5 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (71.43%) RDBMS
1 5 (71.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Support
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Software Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Software Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (42.86%) Smart Meter
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (85.71%) VMS
2 5 (71.43%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Project Delivery
2 6 (85.71%) Runbook
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Re-Platforming
6 1 (14.29%) API Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Database Security
6 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (14.29%) High Availability
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) vSphere
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 6 (85.71%) Packer
1 6 (85.71%) vRealize
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Arqiva
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
1 5 (71.43%) Veritas
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds