Build Automation Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Build Automation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Build Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 56 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 1 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.12% 1.40% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 1.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £370 -
West Midlands median daily rate - £370 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Build Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 694 577 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.64% 89.60% 84.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 390 376
10th Percentile £263 £200 £263
25th Percentile £400 £398 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £649 £575
90th Percentile £650 £725 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £523 £488
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.23% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 15 41
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.08 £21.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +5.26% +105.41%
75th Percentile £23.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £21.59 £24.60
% change year-on-year -5.05% -12.24% +38.90%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Build Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Build Automation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Build Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Build Automation

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk