Build Automation Contracts

Build Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 514 609 735
Rank change year-on-year +95 +126 -146
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 68 94 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.18% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 73 66
10th Percentile £359 £450 £363
25th Percentile £413 £525 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £588
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +6.38% +23.68%
75th Percentile £625 £738 £670
90th Percentile £865 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -29.17% +4.80% +27.22%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Automation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
England +72 58 £475 -26.92% 13
Work from Home +117 38 £500 -13.04% 4
UK excluding London +71 31 £425 -29.17% 6
London +57 29 £588 -9.62% 7
North of England +45 15 £428 -14.54% 2
Yorkshire - 15 £428 - 2
South East +21 7 - - 3
Midlands +29 5 £356 -38.09% 1
East Midlands - 5 £356 -
Scotland +39 2 £425 -
South West +18 1 - -
East of England +15 1 - -

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 5 (7.35%) JBoss
2 1 (1.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.59%) Azure
2 10 (14.71%) AWS
2 10 (14.71%) IaaS
3 8 (11.76%) GitHub
3 8 (11.76%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.47%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.47%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.47%) PaaS
6 1 (1.47%) SaaS
6 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) NetScaler
2 4 (5.88%) DMZ
3 3 (4.41%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.47%) DNS
4 1 (1.47%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 10 (14.71%) RDBMS
3 5 (7.35%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.35%) KDB
3 5 (7.35%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.35%) MySQL
3 5 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.94%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.94%) Power BI
5 1 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 14 (20.59%) JIRA
2 13 (19.12%) Jenkins
3 12 (17.65%) Git
4 6 (8.82%) GitLab
4 6 (8.82%) TeamCity
5 5 (7.35%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (7.35%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (7.35%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.47%) Ant
6 1 (1.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.47%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.47%) JUnit
6 1 (1.47%) Maven
6 1 (1.47%) Postman
6 1 (1.47%) Selenium
6 1 (1.47%) Subversion
6 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.47%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (27.94%) Finance
2 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.18%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.41%) Banking
7 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) Architect
1 11 (16.18%) Senior
2 10 (14.71%) Consultant
3 9 (13.24%) Developer
4 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
4 6 (8.82%) Storage Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) Analyst
5 5 (7.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) KDB Developer
5 5 (7.35%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Storage Consultant
7 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes Consultant
7 3 (4.41%) Security Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Senior Security Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Citrix Architect
8 2 (2.94%) EMC Consultant
8 2 (2.94%) EMC Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.18%) SAML
2 8 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (11.76%) REST
3 6 (8.82%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.94%) Django
4 2 (2.94%) Kafka
4 2 (2.94%) React
5 1 (1.47%) .NET
5 1 (1.47%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.47%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.47%) NgRx
5 1 (1.47%) Spring
5 1 (1.47%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Linux Command Line
1 10 (14.71%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.41%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (4.41%) Smart Meter
5 2 (2.94%) CMDB
5 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.47%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.47%) Clustering
6 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (22.06%) Linux
2 11 (16.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (14.71%) Unix
3 10 (14.71%) Windows
4 6 (8.82%) VMS
5 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) DevOps
2 33 (48.53%) CI/CD
3 27 (39.71%) Continuous Integration
4 22 (32.35%) Agile
5 17 (25.00%) ITIL
6 16 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
7 15 (22.06%) Performance Analysis
8 14 (20.59%) Scrum
9 13 (19.12%) Validation
10 11 (16.18%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (13.24%) Containerisation
12 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (13.24%) Project Delivery
13 8 (11.76%) Analytics
13 8 (11.76%) Microservices
14 7 (10.29%) Migration
14 7 (10.29%) Privileged Access Management
14 7 (10.29%) Secrets Management
14 7 (10.29%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.59%) Bash
2 13 (19.12%) Perl
2 13 (19.12%) Python
3 6 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 5 (7.35%) SQL
5 3 (4.41%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.94%) Java
6 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.47%) C#
7 1 (1.47%) C++
7 1 (1.47%) VBA
7 1 (1.47%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
1 7 (10.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (1.47%) ISEB
3 1 (1.47%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) PMO
2 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 17 (25.00%) Docker
2 6 (8.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.35%) vSphere
4 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (32.35%) Ansible
2 21 (30.88%) Kubernetes
3 11 (16.18%) Terraform
4 7 (10.29%) Puppet
5 6 (8.82%) Packer
5 6 (8.82%) vRealize
6 5 (7.35%) Kibana
6 5 (7.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.47%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 15 (22.06%) EMC
2 11 (16.18%) Citrix
3 9 (13.24%) Red Hat
4 8 (11.76%) Oracle
5 7 (10.29%) Centrify
5 7 (10.29%) CyberArk
6 6 (8.82%) Veritas
6 6 (8.82%) VMware
7 5 (7.35%) AppDynamics
7 5 (7.35%) Arqiva
7 5 (7.35%) Splunk
8 1 (1.47%) Dell
8 1 (1.47%) IBM
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds