Build Automation Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Build Automation
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 109 133
Rank change year-on-year -62 +24 +30
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.094% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.18% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £470 -
25th Percentile - £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £506 £356
Median % change year-on-year -18.97% +42.13% -38.09%
75th Percentile - £525 £359
90th Percentile - £532 £365
England median daily rate £538 £530 £475
% change year-on-year +1.42% +11.58% -25.49%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,497 1,669 2,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.55% 87.57% 82.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,189 1,103 1,493
10th Percentile £300 £200 £238
25th Percentile £400 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £651 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 85 172
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.07
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.63 £13.81
Median hourly rate £23.58 £18.51 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.36% -2.58% +7.22%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.66 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £35.85 £55.00
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Build Automation

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 April 2026. 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
West Midlands -55 4 £410 - 1
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Packer
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix