Build Automation Contracts in the North of England

Build Automation
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Build Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Build Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 170 215
Rank change year-on-year +14 +45 +8
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 10 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.31% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.37% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile £389 £383 £483
25th Percentile £393 £406 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £428 £501
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -14.59% -4.67%
75th Percentile £545 £434 £540
90th Percentile - £445 £610
England median daily rate £530 £475 £638
% change year-on-year +11.58% -25.49% +10.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Build Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Build Automation in the North of England

Build Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Build Automation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Build Automation in the North of England

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Automation in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Build Automation in the North of England

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West - 10 £462 - 4
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (50.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (50.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) GitLab
2 5 (50.00%) Gradle
2 5 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (50.00%) JUnit
2 5 (50.00%) Liquibase
2 5 (50.00%) Mockito
2 5 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (50.00%) Electronics
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 5 (50.00%) Marketing
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 5 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 5 (50.00%) React Developer
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 3 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (50.00%) Kafka
2 5 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 5 (50.00%) React
2 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 5 (50.00%) Swagger
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
1 10 (100.00%) Migration
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 5 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 5 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) Perl
2 5 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kibana
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (50.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 5 (50.00%) SAP
1 5 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (30.00%) Cloudera