The first table below looks at the demand for the Build Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Build Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Build Engineer
Rank 185 214 241
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 18 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.282% 0.051% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.305% 0.056% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 3
Average daily rate £415 £340 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -32.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £208 £352
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £388 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £280 £425
% change year-on-year
+26.78% -34.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £13.50 £24.19
% change year-on-year
-18.51% -44.18%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Build Engineer
London

Build Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Build Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Build Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Build Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Build Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Build Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Build Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Build Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Build Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Build Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Build Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Build Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Build Engineer in their job title.

1 22 (75.86%) Windows
2 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
3 12 (41.38%) Banking
4 11 (37.93%) C#
5 9 (31.03%) CruiseControl
5 9 (31.03%) Release Management
5 9 (31.03%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (27.59%) NUnit
6 8 (27.59%) .NET
6 8 (27.59%) MS Office
6 8 (27.59%) Linux
7 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
7 7 (24.14%) SCCM
7 7 (24.14%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (20.69%) Windows 7
8 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
8 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
9 5 (17.24%) Java
9 5 (17.24%) Workflow
9 5 (17.24%) Migration
9 5 (17.24%) MSBuild
9 5 (17.24%) Software Deployment
9 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (13.79%) WiX
10 4 (13.79%) Subversion
10 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking
10 4 (13.79%) Logistics
10 4 (13.79%) WF
10 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2008

Build Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Build Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Build Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (27.59%) .NET
2 4 (13.79%) WF
3 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.897%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.448%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) MQSeries
2 2 (6.897%) IIS
3 1 (3.448%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (3.448%) Lync
Applications
1 8 (27.59%) MS Office
2 4 (13.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) 3G
1 4 (13.79%) Broadband
1 4 (13.79%) VPN
2 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 2 (6.897%) VoIP
3 2 (6.897%) WAN
4 1 (3.448%) LAN
4 1 (3.448%) HTTP
4 1 (3.448%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.448%) ADSL
4 1 (3.448%) MPLS
4 1 (3.448%) SAN
4 1 (3.448%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (20.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.897%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (6.897%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.448%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) CruiseControl
2 8 (27.59%) NUnit
3 7 (24.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 5 (17.24%) MSBuild
5 4 (13.79%) WiX
5 4 (13.79%) Subversion
5 4 (13.79%) MSI
5 4 (13.79%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
6 3 (10.34%) InstallShield
6 3 (10.34%) Maven
6 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
7 1 (3.448%) JIRA
7 1 (3.448%) Hudson
General
1 12 (41.38%) Banking
2 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.897%) Finance
4 1 (3.448%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.448%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.448%) HACMP
2 1 (3.448%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.448%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.448%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 22 (75.86%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Linux
3 6 (20.69%) Windows 7
4 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (6.897%) UNIX
8 1 (3.448%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Release Management
1 9 (31.03%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (17.24%) Workflow
2 5 (17.24%) Migration
2 5 (17.24%) Software Deployment
3 4 (13.79%) Logistics
3 4 (13.79%) ITIL
4 3 (10.34%) Scrum
4 3 (10.34%) Time Management
5 2 (6.897%) Agile Project Management
5 2 (6.897%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (6.897%) Project Management
6 1 (3.448%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.448%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.448%) Change Management
6 1 (3.448%) Project Planning
6 1 (3.448%) Operations Management
6 1 (3.448%) System Testing
6 1 (3.448%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) C#
2 5 (17.24%) Java
3 3 (10.34%) SQL
4 2 (6.897%) C
4 2 (6.897%) C++
5 1 (3.448%) Perl
5 1 (3.448%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.448%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (3.448%) MCITP
1 1 (3.448%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) ISO 9001
2 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.897%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.897%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.448%) vSphere
3 1 (3.448%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) SCCM
2 3 (10.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 15 (51.72%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Dell
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) VMware
4 2 (6.897%) NetApp
5 1 (3.448%) Lotus
5 1 (3.448%) Riverbed
City of London
Server / VMware / NetApp / Cisco / UCS / Exchange / Active Directory Mint is currently looking for an experienced Infrastructure Build Engineer to work on a large scale International project. The contract...
Mint
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
City of London
Knowledge of MSBuild, WebDeploy,Desirable Knowledge & Experience:*Knowledge of Microsoft technical implementation toolsets (Visual Studio, C# / ASP.NET 1.1 - 4.5)*Knowledge of IIS6 - 8*Knowledge of...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
My Client is currently seeking an experienced Build Engineer who has expert knowledge of TFS - Team Foundation Server administration and configuration. You will be working with TFS AND...
Rate: £270 - £375 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013