Build Automation Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Build Automation
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.22% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £610 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £620 - -
75th Percentile £630 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £538 -
% change year-on-year -5.86% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 781 525 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.92% 88.53% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 318 649
10th Percentile £290 £263 £306
25th Percentile £403 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £600
90th Percentile £650 £658 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 23
10th Percentile £13.58 £15.25 £11.39
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £12.85
Median hourly rate £18.87 £32.81 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.49% +111.68% -46.09%
75th Percentile £27.49 £41.50 £24.77
90th Percentile £79.40 £98.79 £53.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £17.06
% change year-on-year +11.78% +31.93% +60.44%

Build Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Build Automation job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Build Automation
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 January 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
Leeds - 2 £620 - 1
Build Automation
Yorkshire

Build Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk