Build Automation Contracts in England

Build Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 556 691
Rank change year-on-year +72 +135 -165
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 59 92 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.20% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 74 57
10th Percentile £357 £450 £362
25th Percentile £425 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £638 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +10.87% +11.92%
75th Percentile £626 £738 £665
90th Percentile £915 £800 £698
UK median daily rate £475 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -24.00% +6.38% +17.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in England

Build Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in England

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Automation in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in England

Build Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Build Automation in England

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +65 29 £588 -9.62% 7
North of England +39 15 £428 -14.59% 1
Yorkshire +37 15 £428 -32.94%
South East +16 7 - - 4
Midlands +31 5 £356 -38.09% 1
East Midlands - 5 £356 -
South West +13 2 - -
East of England +13 1 - -
Build Automation
UK

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (8.47%) JBoss
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.34%) Azure
2 6 (10.17%) AWS
2 6 (10.17%) GitHub
2 6 (10.17%) IaaS
3 5 (8.47%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) NetScaler
2 3 (5.08%) DMZ
3 1 (1.69%) DNS
3 1 (1.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) Relational Database
2 10 (16.95%) RDBMS
3 5 (8.47%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (8.47%) KDB
3 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.47%) MySQL
3 5 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.08%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
1 11 (18.64%) JIRA
2 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.17%) GitLab
4 5 (8.47%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (8.47%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (8.47%) SonarQube
4 5 (8.47%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (8.47%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.69%) Ant
5 1 (1.69%) Postman
5 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (32.20%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
4 8 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Banking
7 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (18.64%) Senior
2 10 (16.95%) Architect
3 9 (15.25%) Developer
4 7 (11.86%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Storage Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Consultant
6 5 (8.47%) KDB Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Analyst
7 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Storage Consultant
8 3 (5.08%) Django Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Python Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Python/Django Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Security Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Python Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) SAML
2 8 (13.56%) REST
3 5 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.47%) Spring Boot
4 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
4 3 (5.08%) Django
4 3 (5.08%) Kafka
4 3 (5.08%) React
5 1 (1.69%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.69%) NgRx
5 1 (1.69%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Linux Command Line
2 9 (15.25%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.08%) Smart Meter
5 2 (3.39%) CMDB
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.69%) Clustering
6 1 (1.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Linux
2 11 (18.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (15.25%) Unix
4 7 (11.86%) Windows
5 6 (10.17%) VMS
6 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (49.15%) CI/CD
1 29 (49.15%) DevOps
2 25 (42.37%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (28.81%) Agile
4 16 (27.12%) Continuous Delivery
5 15 (25.42%) ITIL
5 15 (25.42%) Performance Analysis
6 13 (22.03%) Validation
7 12 (20.34%) Scrum
8 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (16.95%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (13.56%) Microservices
11 6 (10.17%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (10.17%) Migration
11 6 (10.17%) Project Delivery
11 6 (10.17%) Runbook
12 5 (8.47%) Code Quality
12 5 (8.47%) Containerisation
12 5 (8.47%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.73%) Python
2 11 (18.64%) Bash
3 10 (16.95%) Perl
4 6 (10.17%) PowerShell
5 4 (6.78%) SQL
6 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) Docker
2 6 (10.17%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.47%) vSphere
4 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (28.81%) Ansible
1 17 (28.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.17%) Packer
2 6 (10.17%) Terraform
2 6 (10.17%) vRealize
3 5 (8.47%) Kibana
3 5 (8.47%) Progress Chef
3 5 (8.47%) Puppet
4 1 (1.69%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) EMC
2 10 (16.95%) Citrix
3 9 (15.25%) Oracle
4 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
4 6 (10.17%) Veritas
4 6 (10.17%) VMware
5 5 (8.47%) AppDynamics
5 5 (8.47%) Arqiva
5 5 (8.47%) Centrify
5 5 (8.47%) CyberArk
5 5 (8.47%) Splunk
6 1 (1.69%) Dell
6 1 (1.69%) IBM
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds