Build Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Build Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Build Automation over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 823 791 783
Rank change year-on-year -32 -8 -45
Permanent jobs citing Build Automation 71 191 486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.20% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 39 93 133
10th Percentile £47,150 - £44,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,970 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £66,875 £82,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £69,200 £85,000 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,810 £59,795
% change year-on-year +3.79% -3.32% -4.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Build Automation.

Salary trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Build Automation over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Build Automation within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -64 51 £60,000 +3.79% 6
England -38 48 £60,000 -14.29% 14
Scotland -47 21 - -
South East +12 20 £60,000 -14.29% 3
London +70 11 £60,000 -25.00% 8
Work from Home +13 11 £61,250 +5.95% 5
North of England -12 8 £60,000 +3.79% 2
North East - 7 £60,000 -
Yorkshire +56 1 £33,500 -42.05% 2
East of England +20 1 - -
Midlands -15 1 £49,990 -25.94% 1
East Midlands -19 1 £49,990 -

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (33.80%) SharePoint
2 20 (28.17%) Camunda
3 1 (1.41%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (22.54%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) OrCAD
Business Applications
1 20 (28.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.07%) Dynamics 365
2 27 (38.03%) Power Automate
3 10 (14.08%) Azure
4 8 (11.27%) Serverless
5 7 (9.86%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (9.86%) IaaS
5 7 (9.86%) PaaS
5 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.23%) AWS
7 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.41%) Anthos
8 1 (1.41%) GCP
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub
8 1 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) 4G
1 1 (1.41%) 5G
1 1 (1.41%) Bluetooth
1 1 (1.41%) Ethernet
1 1 (1.41%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (1.41%) Modbus
1 1 (1.41%) MQTT
1 1 (1.41%) RS-232
1 1 (1.41%) RS-485
1 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (2.82%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (2.82%) Power BI
2 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.41%) MySQL
2 1 (1.41%) Power Query
2 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (43.66%) Jenkins
2 21 (29.58%) Gradle
3 20 (28.17%) CircleCI
3 20 (28.17%) Maven
3 20 (28.17%) Travis CI
4 8 (11.27%) TeamCity
5 7 (9.86%) GitLab
5 7 (9.86%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (7.04%) Cypress.io
6 5 (7.04%) Git
7 3 (4.23%) Selenium
8 2 (2.82%) Appium
8 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.82%) JUnit
8 2 (2.82%) Mockito
8 2 (2.82%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.41%) CMake
9 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 50 (70.42%) Law
2 28 (39.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 22 (30.99%) Finance
4 20 (28.17%) Legal
5 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
7 6 (8.45%) Manufacturing
7 6 (8.45%) Marketing
8 5 (7.04%) Retail
9 3 (4.23%) Social Skills
10 2 (2.82%) Banking
11 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.41%) Electronics
11 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (42.25%) Consultant
2 22 (30.99%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 22 (30.99%) Software Engineer
3 21 (29.58%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (26.76%) CRM Consultant
5 17 (23.94%) Microsoft Consultant
6 7 (9.86%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
6 7 (9.86%) Functional Consultant
6 7 (9.86%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
7 6 (8.45%) QA Engineer
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Consultant
8 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Presales Consultant
8 5 (7.04%) Presales Consultant
8 5 (7.04%) Senior
9 3 (4.23%) Developer
10 2 (2.82%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Java Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) QA Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.99%) Spring
1 22 (30.99%) Spring Boot
2 5 (7.04%) ARM Templates
3 4 (5.63%) .NET
4 3 (4.23%) Playwright
4 3 (4.23%) React
5 2 (2.82%) CSS
5 2 (2.82%) HTML
5 2 (2.82%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.82%) RESTful
5 2 (2.82%) Swagger
6 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.41%) Flask
6 1 (1.41%) HTML5
6 1 (1.41%) Ionic Framework
6 1 (1.41%) LLVM
6 1 (1.41%) OpenACC
6 1 (1.41%) OpenMP
6 1 (1.41%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.41%) Blog
3 1 (1.41%) CUDA
3 1 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.41%) FPGA
3 1 (1.41%) IoT
3 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.41%) NB-IoT
3 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.27%) VMS
1 8 (11.27%) Windows
2 2 (2.82%) Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.89%) DevOps
1 34 (47.89%) Test Automation
2 33 (46.48%) CI/CD
3 32 (45.07%) Continuous Integration
4 31 (43.66%) Software Engineering
5 30 (42.25%) Agile
6 28 (39.44%) Data Modelling
7 27 (38.03%) CRM
8 22 (30.99%) Ticket Management
9 21 (29.58%) SDLC
10 20 (28.17%) Decision-Making
10 20 (28.17%) Operational Stability
10 20 (28.17%) Risk Management
10 20 (28.17%) Task Automation
10 20 (28.17%) Workflow
11 15 (21.13%) BPR
11 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (11.27%) Configuration Management
13 7 (9.86%) API Management
13 7 (9.86%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) Python
2 25 (35.21%) Java
3 22 (30.99%) Ruby
4 9 (12.68%) Bash
5 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
6 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
7 6 (8.45%) C#
8 5 (7.04%) Bicep
8 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.23%) SQL
10 2 (2.82%) C++
10 2 (2.82%) Go
11 1 (1.41%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.41%) Fortran
11 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (25.35%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (12.68%) Docker
2 7 (9.86%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.82%) Firmware
4 1 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.41%) NFS
4 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (11.27%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.86%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) Istio
3 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (49.30%) Microsoft
2 20 (28.17%) Pega
3 1 (1.41%) Alteryx
3 1 (1.41%) Atmel
3 1 (1.41%) Dataiku
3 1 (1.41%) Freescale
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle
3 1 (1.41%) SAP
3 1 (1.41%) VMware