Build Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Build Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 426 566
Rank change year-on-year +119 +140 -109
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 39 45 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 39 34
10th Percentile £356 - £423
25th Percentile £406 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% - +21.05%
75th Percentile £788 £697 £649
90th Percentile £963 £838 £690
UK median daily rate £475 £619 £588
% change year-on-year -23.23% +5.32% +17.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Build Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Build Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Build Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Build Automation.

Build Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Build Automation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Build Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (7.69%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) OpenShift
4 4 (10.26%) IaaS
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) CloudFront
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (28.21%) NetScaler
2 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.56%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 5 (12.82%) KDB
3 3 (7.69%) CockroachDB
3 3 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (7.69%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.13%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
1 5 (12.82%) JIRA
2 4 (10.26%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) TeamCity
3 3 (7.69%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (7.69%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (7.69%) SonarQube
3 3 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.56%) JUnit
4 1 (2.56%) Maven
4 1 (2.56%) Postman
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) Subversion
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.56%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Public Sector
3 10 (25.64%) Finance
4 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Architect
2 9 (23.08%) Developer
3 8 (20.51%) Senior
4 7 (17.95%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.82%) Consultant
5 5 (12.82%) KDB Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Django Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes Consultant
6 3 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Python/Django Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Analyst
7 2 (5.13%) Citrix Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Data Storage Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) ITSM Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.21%) SAML
2 6 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (12.82%) REST
4 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.69%) Django
5 3 (7.69%) Kafka
5 3 (7.69%) React
6 1 (2.56%) .NET
6 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.56%) Keycloak
6 1 (2.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (10.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (5.13%) CMDB
5 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.38%) Linux
1 6 (15.38%) Windows
2 3 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (35.90%) DevOps
3 13 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 11 (28.21%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (23.08%) Agile
6 9 (23.08%) ITIL
7 8 (20.51%) Analytics
8 7 (17.95%) Microservices
9 6 (15.38%) BDD
9 6 (15.38%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
10 5 (12.82%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (12.82%) Customer Service
10 5 (12.82%) Data Management
10 5 (12.82%) OO
10 5 (12.82%) SDLC
10 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
10 5 (12.82%) Validation
11 4 (10.26%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.95%) Perl
2 6 (15.38%) Python
2 6 (15.38%) SQL
3 4 (10.26%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) C#
5 1 (2.56%) C++
5 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.56%) VBA
5 1 (2.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) ISEB
2 1 (2.56%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) PMO
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
4 3 (7.69%) Kibana
4 3 (7.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) Citrix
2 6 (15.38%) EMC
2 6 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 3 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 3 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Centrify
4 1 (2.56%) CyberArk