Build Automation Contract Job Trends in the North West

Build Automation
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 156 120 -
Rank change year-on-year -36 - -
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 4 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.13% 0.30% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £434 £377 -
25th Percentile £447 £391 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £393 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.05% - -
75th Percentile £522 - -
90th Percentile £531 £484 -
England median daily rate £519 £530 £434
% change year-on-year -2.12% +22.12% -24.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,539 1,830 2,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.14% 90.10% 86.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 1,134 1,600
10th Percentile £213 £283 £306
25th Percentile £368 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £659 £656 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 117 265
10th Percentile £18.67 £16.18 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.98 £13.73
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.45
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% +36.46% -37.47%
75th Percentile £65.13 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £75.83 £78.74 £55.54
England median hourly rate £30.32 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.15% -9.72%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in the North West

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Manchester -18 3 £488 -8.02% 4
Lancashire - 1 - - 3
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Gatling
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Flyway
2 1 (25.00%) Liquibase
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Database Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Observability
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Component Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle