Build Automation Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Build Automation
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds 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 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £610 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - -
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £620 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 655 453 787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.57% 89.00% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 277 522
10th Percentile £313 £288 £307
25th Percentile £413 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £650 £683 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 7
10th Percentile £14.18 £16.15 £11.11
25th Percentile - £19.37 £11.82
Median hourly rate £14.25 £37.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -62.00% +199.28% -76.80%
75th Percentile £25.65 £41.50 £17.25
90th Percentile £74.60 £100.39 £37.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £32.81 £15.50
% change year-on-year -42.49% +111.68% -46.09%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in Leeds

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk