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

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 812 782 777
Rank change year-on-year -30 -5 -17
Permanent jobs citing Build Automation 71 177 498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.18% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.19% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 39 90 138
10th Percentile £45,248 - £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,970 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,224 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.75% -3.97% -2.78%
75th Percentile £66,875 £80,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £69,200 £85,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,810 £59,589
% change year-on-year +3.79% -2.99% -4.66%

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 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
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 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Build Automation in the UK

Build Automation
Top 10 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 17 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 -77 51 £60,000 +3.79% 11
England -6 48 £60,000 -14.29% 18
Scotland -45 21 - - 2
South East +3 20 £60,000 -14.29% 4
London +73 11 £60,000 -25.00% 10
Work from Home +2 10 £62,500 +8.11% 7
North of England +2 9 £59,000 +2.06% 3
North East - 7 £60,000 -
Yorkshire +48 2 £33,500 -42.05% 3
East of England +12 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 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 4 (5.63%) Selenium
8 3 (4.23%) Appium
8 3 (4.23%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.82%) JUnit
9 2 (2.82%) Mockito
10 1 (1.41%) JMeter
10 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.41%) Subversion
10 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
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
10 2 (2.82%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.41%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.41%) Electronics
11 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (42.25%) Consultant
2 22 (30.99%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 21 (29.58%) Platform Engineer
3 21 (29.58%) Software 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
6 7 (9.86%) QA Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Azure Consultant
7 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Presales Consultant
7 5 (7.04%) Presales Consultant
8 4 (5.63%) Senior
9 3 (4.23%) Developer
10 2 (2.82%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) CRM Specialist
10 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
10 2 (2.82%) Java Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (30.99%) Spring
1 22 (30.99%) Spring Boot
2 5 (7.04%) .NET
2 5 (7.04%) ARM Templates
3 3 (4.23%) Playwright
3 3 (4.23%) React
4 2 (2.82%) CSS
4 2 (2.82%) HTML
4 2 (2.82%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.82%) RESTful
4 2 (2.82%) Swagger
5 1 (1.41%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.41%) Apache Cordova
5 1 (1.41%) Flask
5 1 (1.41%) HTML5
5 1 (1.41%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (1.41%) LLVM
5 1 (1.41%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (1.41%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Mobile App
2 7 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.41%) Blog
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
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (49.30%) Test Automation
2 34 (47.89%) CI/CD
2 34 (47.89%) DevOps
3 31 (43.66%) Continuous Integration
4 30 (42.25%) Agile
4 30 (42.25%) Software Engineering
5 28 (39.44%) Data Modelling
6 27 (38.03%) CRM
7 22 (30.99%) Ticket Management
8 21 (29.58%) SDLC
9 20 (28.17%) Decision-Making
9 20 (28.17%) Operational Stability
9 20 (28.17%) Risk Management
9 20 (28.17%) Task Automation
9 20 (28.17%) Workflow
10 15 (21.13%) BPR
10 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.27%) Configuration Management
12 7 (9.86%) API Management
12 7 (9.86%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (39.44%) 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%) C#
6 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.04%) Bicep
7 5 (7.04%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.23%) SQL
9 2 (2.82%) Go
10 1 (1.41%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.41%) C++
10 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) 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