Build Automation Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Build Automation
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Build Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 78 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.20% 0.20% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £447 £515 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £530 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% - -
75th Percentile £522 £545 -
90th Percentile £531 - -
North West median daily rate £488 £393 -
% change year-on-year +24.05% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,270 899 1,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 85.81% 90.90% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 834 601 951
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £669
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 35 77
10th Percentile £19.75 £15.36 £12.46
25th Percentile £23.00 £21.75 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% +25.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £79.20 £65.00 £72.50
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.45
% change year-on-year +40.63% +36.46% -37.47%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in Manchester

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Flyway
1 1 (33.33%) Gatling
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Liquibase
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Database Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Component Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk