Build Engineer Contracts in England

Build Engineer
UK > England

The median Build Engineer daily rate in England is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 575 710
Rank change year-on-year +87 +135 -155
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 50 73 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 53 52
10th Percentile £185 £155 £131
25th Percentile £299 £203 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £305 £230
Median % change year-on-year +88.52% +32.61% -26.28%
75th Percentile - £580 £369
90th Percentile - £675 £636
UK median daily rate £575 £320 £230
% change year-on-year +79.69% +39.13% -34.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 13
10th Percentile - £12.75 £10.40
25th Percentile - £13.88 £12.24
Median hourly rate £15.10 £16.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +32.05% -16.70%
75th Percentile - £17.38 £20.00
90th Percentile - £17.45 £22.40
UK median hourly rate £15.10 £16.50 £13.00
% change year-on-year -8.48% +26.95% -13.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Build Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Build Engineer in England

Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Build Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Build Engineer in England

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Engineer in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Build Engineer in England

Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Build Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Build Engineer in England

Build Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Build Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
South East +27 31 £575 +0.88% 8
London +92 8 £555 +122.00% 3
North of England +20 5 £423 +88.00% 3
East Midlands +25 3 £220 +41.94%
Midlands +24 3 £220 +37.50% 1
Yorkshire +18 3 £289 +65.14% 3
South West +23 2 £250 -
North East +20 2 £423 +41.00%
East of England +5 1 - - 1
Build Engineer
UK

Build Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Build Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (66.00%) Windows
2 27 (54.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (54.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
3 26 (52.00%) Customer Service
4 25 (50.00%) Windows Server
4 25 (50.00%) SCCM
5 24 (48.00%) Active Directory
5 24 (48.00%) ITIL
6 23 (46.00%) Service Management
6 23 (46.00%) Windows 10
7 22 (44.00%) QA
8 21 (42.00%) WSUS
8 21 (42.00%) Release Management
8 21 (42.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (42.00%) Sysprep
8 21 (42.00%) DV Cleared
8 21 (42.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (42.00%) Firmware
8 21 (42.00%) Windows NT
8 21 (42.00%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (42.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (42.00%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (16.00%) Migration
10 7 (14.00%) Linux
10 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (12.00%) Python
11 6 (12.00%) Cisco
11 6 (12.00%) Juniper
12 5 (10.00%) Finance

Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.00%) Google Workspace
2 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.00%) AWS
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (4.00%) AMQP
2 2 (4.00%) DMZ
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) Modbus
2 2 (4.00%) MQTT
2 2 (4.00%) SSL
3 1 (2.00%) 2G
3 1 (2.00%) 3G
3 1 (2.00%) 4G
3 1 (2.00%) LTE
3 1 (2.00%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) Git
3 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.00%) CMake
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (54.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.00%) Marketing
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.00%) Bazel
2 2 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.00%) JSON
2 2 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (4.00%) Web Services
2 2 (4.00%) XML
2 2 (4.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.00%) IoT
2 2 (4.00%) PKI
2 2 (4.00%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (66.00%) Windows
2 25 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 23 (46.00%) Windows 10
4 21 (42.00%) Windows NT
4 21 (42.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 21 (42.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (42.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (14.00%) Linux
6 1 (2.00%) AIX
6 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) Customer Service
2 24 (48.00%) ITIL
3 23 (46.00%) Service Management
4 21 (42.00%) Deployment Automation
4 21 (42.00%) Release Management
4 21 (42.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (16.00%) Migration
6 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 4 (8.00%) Asset Management
8 4 (8.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.00%) ITSM
9 3 (6.00%) Change Management
9 3 (6.00%) DevOps
9 3 (6.00%) Network Design
9 3 (6.00%) Service Delivery
10 2 (4.00%) Analytics
10 2 (4.00%) CRUD
10 2 (4.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) Python
2 3 (6.00%) C++
3 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) C#
4 1 (2.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (54.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (42.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) Degree
3 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) CCNA
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.00%) MCITP
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (44.00%) QA
System Software
1 24 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (42.00%) Firmware
3 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (50.00%) SCCM
2 21 (42.00%) Sysprep
2 21 (42.00%) WSUS
3 4 (8.00%) Endace
4 3 (6.00%) Ansible
5 2 (4.00%) Grafana
6 1 (2.00%) AirWatch
6 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.00%) PowerBroker
6 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (54.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.00%) Cisco
2 6 (12.00%) Juniper
3 4 (8.00%) F5
4 2 (4.00%) Apple
4 2 (4.00%) Google
4 2 (4.00%) IBM
4 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.00%) Solace
5 1 (2.00%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.00%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.00%) Mavenir
5 1 (2.00%) Remedy
5 1 (2.00%) SOTI