Build Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Build Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 436 488
Rank change year-on-year +77 +52 -96
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 32 21 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.088% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.098% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 30
10th Percentile £356 £485 £333
25th Percentile £358 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -2.87% +25.83%
75th Percentile £434 £738 £644
90th Percentile £442 £770 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £619 £588
% change year-on-year -23.23% +5.32% +17.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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
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 4 May 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
North of England +36 15 £428 -14.59% 1
Yorkshire +35 15 £428 -32.94% 1
South East +21 7 - - 3
Midlands +32 5 £356 -38.09% 2
East Midlands - 5 £356 -
Scotland +38 2 £425 +6.25%
South West +24 2 - -
East of England +10 1 - -
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 5 (15.63%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) IaaS
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) OpenShift
4 4 (12.50%) Azure
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.13%) PaaS
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) NetScaler
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 10 (31.25%) RDBMS
3 5 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
3 5 (15.63%) MySQL
3 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.25%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) GitLab
2 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) JIRA
2 6 (18.75%) TeamCity
3 5 (15.63%) Bitbucket Server
3 5 (15.63%) CA Release Automation
3 5 (15.63%) SonarQube
3 5 (15.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.13%) Postman
4 1 (3.13%) Selenium
4 1 (3.13%) Subversion
4 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Support Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Consultant
2 5 (15.63%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (12.50%) Storage Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Data Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Data Storage Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Data Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Django Developer
4 2 (6.25%) EMC Storage Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Python Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Python/Django Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) REST
2 5 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (15.63%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.25%) Django
3 2 (6.25%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) SAML
4 1 (3.13%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.38%) Smart Meter
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.13%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Linux
2 11 (34.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (21.88%) Windows
4 6 (18.75%) VMS
5 5 (15.63%) Unix
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (84.38%) CI/CD
2 22 (68.75%) Continuous Integration
3 21 (65.63%) DevOps
4 15 (46.88%) Continuous Delivery
5 14 (43.75%) Performance Analysis
6 13 (40.63%) ITIL
6 13 (40.63%) Validation
7 10 (31.25%) Agile
8 7 (21.88%) Microservices
8 7 (21.88%) Migration
9 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
9 6 (18.75%) Runbook
9 6 (18.75%) Scrum
10 5 (15.63%) Code Quality
10 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
10 5 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
11 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) Bash
2 10 (31.25%) Perl
3 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 4 (12.50%) SQL
5 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.13%) C#
7 1 (3.13%) C++
7 1 (3.13%) Java
7 1 (3.13%) VBA
7 1 (3.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) ISEB
2 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 5 (15.63%) vSphere
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (34.38%) Ansible
3 6 (18.75%) Packer
3 6 (18.75%) vRealize
4 5 (15.63%) Kibana
4 5 (15.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Terraform
5 1 (3.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) EMC
2 8 (25.00%) Oracle
3 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 6 (18.75%) Veritas
3 6 (18.75%) VMware
4 5 (15.63%) AppDynamics
4 5 (15.63%) Arqiva
4 5 (15.63%) Splunk
5 2 (6.25%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) Dell
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds