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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 564 682
Rank change year-on-year +90 +118 -139
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 57 82 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.19% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 65 61
10th Percentile £356 £450 £363
25th Percentile £425 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +13.04% +15.12%
75th Percentile £616 £738 £650
90th Percentile £929 £800 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -24.00% +6.38% +25.33%

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 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

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 20 May 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 20 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
London +63 28 £588 -9.62% 8
North of England +41 15 £428 -14.54% 3
Yorkshire - 15 £428 - 3
South East +21 7 - - 3
Midlands +21 5 £356 -38.09% 1
East Midlands - 5 £356 -
East of England +11 1 - -
South West +9 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 (8.77%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.30%) Azure
2 6 (10.53%) AWS
2 6 (10.53%) GitHub
2 6 (10.53%) IaaS
3 5 (8.77%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.75%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.54%) NetScaler
2 3 (5.26%) DMZ
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) Relational Database
2 10 (17.54%) RDBMS
3 6 (10.53%) KDB
4 5 (8.77%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.77%) MySQL
4 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.51%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Git
2 10 (17.54%) Jenkins
2 10 (17.54%) JIRA
3 6 (10.53%) GitLab
4 5 (8.77%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (8.77%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (8.77%) SonarQube
4 5 (8.77%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (8.77%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.75%) Postman
5 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (35.09%) Finance
2 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
4 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (17.54%) Architect
1 10 (17.54%) Senior
2 9 (15.79%) Developer
3 6 (10.53%) KDB Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Storage Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Consultant
4 5 (8.77%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Storage Consultant
6 3 (5.26%) Security Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Security Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.51%) Data Storage Consultant
7 2 (3.51%) Data Storage Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) EMC Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.54%) SAML
2 7 (12.28%) REST
3 5 (8.77%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (8.77%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.51%) Django
4 2 (3.51%) Kafka
4 2 (3.51%) React
5 1 (1.75%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.75%) NgRx
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (14.04%) Product Ownership
3 6 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.26%) Smart Meter
6 2 (3.51%) CMDB
6 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.75%) Clustering
7 1 (1.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Linux
2 11 (19.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (15.79%) Unix
4 7 (12.28%) Windows
5 6 (10.53%) VMS
6 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (49.12%) CI/CD
2 27 (47.37%) DevOps
3 24 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (28.07%) Continuous Delivery
5 15 (26.32%) Agile
5 15 (26.32%) ITIL
5 15 (26.32%) Performance Analysis
6 13 (22.81%) Validation
7 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (19.30%) Scrum
8 10 (17.54%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (12.28%) Microservices
10 6 (10.53%) Analytics
10 6 (10.53%) BDD
10 6 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
10 6 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (10.53%) Project Delivery
10 6 (10.53%) Runbook
10 6 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.81%) Python
2 10 (17.54%) Bash
2 10 (17.54%) Perl
3 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.26%) SQL
5 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.51%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 11 (19.30%) Docker
2 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.77%) vSphere
4 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (28.07%) Ansible
1 16 (28.07%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.53%) Packer
2 6 (10.53%) Terraform
2 6 (10.53%) vRealize
3 5 (8.77%) Kibana
3 5 (8.77%) Progress Chef
3 5 (8.77%) Puppet
4 1 (1.75%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (1.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (26.32%) EMC
2 10 (17.54%) Citrix
3 8 (14.04%) Oracle
4 6 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 6 (10.53%) Veritas
4 6 (10.53%) VMware
5 5 (8.77%) AppDynamics
5 5 (8.77%) Arqiva
5 5 (8.77%) Centrify
5 5 (8.77%) CyberArk
5 5 (8.77%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) Dell
6 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds