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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 167 201
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 +38
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 14 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.37% 0.32% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.39% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 5
10th Percentile £344 £383 £439
25th Percentile £391 £406 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £428 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.07% -14.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £545 £434 £513
90th Percentile - £445 £529
England median daily rate £530 £475 £650
% change year-on-year +11.58% -26.92% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73.50 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £79.00 - -

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 3,369 3,888 4,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.70% 84.17% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,164 2,349 3,311
10th Percentile £268 £297 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £553 £580 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 337 208
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.00 £16.96
Median hourly rate £22.63 £22.00 £24.58
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -10.48% +22.08%
75th Percentile £45.13 £46.18 £43.55
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.61 £53.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 - 14 £393 - 3
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 8 (57.14%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
1 8 (57.14%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) Relational Database
2 8 (57.14%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (57.14%) RDBMS
3 5 (35.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Jenkins
2 8 (57.14%) Bitbucket Server
2 8 (57.14%) CA Release Automation
2 8 (57.14%) Git
2 8 (57.14%) JIRA
2 8 (57.14%) SonarQube
2 8 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (57.14%) TeamCity
3 5 (35.71%) GitLab
3 5 (35.71%) Gradle
3 5 (35.71%) JUnit
3 5 (35.71%) Liquibase
3 5 (35.71%) Mockito
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Electronics
2 5 (35.71%) Manufacturing
2 5 (35.71%) Marketing
2 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
1 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
1 5 (35.71%) React Developer
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) Spring Boot
2 8 (57.14%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (35.71%) Kafka
3 5 (35.71%) OpenAPI
3 5 (35.71%) React
3 5 (35.71%) Spring
3 5 (35.71%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
1 8 (57.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Migration
2 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
2 13 (92.86%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) Microservices
3 8 (57.14%) Code Quality
3 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (57.14%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (50.00%) Observability
5 6 (42.86%) Analytics
5 6 (42.86%) Change Management
5 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 6 (42.86%) Runbook
5 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (35.71%) Agile
6 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (35.71%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (35.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 5 (35.71%) Programme Management
6 5 (35.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) Perl
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Docker
2 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (57.14%) Kibana
2 8 (57.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) AppDynamics
1 8 (57.14%) Red Hat
1 8 (57.14%) Splunk
2 6 (42.86%) Cloudera
3 5 (35.71%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft