Build Engineer Contracts in London

Build Engineer
England > London

The median Build Engineer daily rate in London is £555 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 484 586
Rank change year-on-year +104 +102 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 8 17 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.045% 0.064% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.067% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 17
10th Percentile £243 £150 £203
25th Percentile £350 £228 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £250 £270
Median % change year-on-year +122.00% -7.41% -17.87%
75th Percentile £763 £300 £475
90th Percentile £775 £322 £653
England median daily rate £575 £303 £230
% change year-on-year +90.08% +31.52% -26.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Build Engineer in London

Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Build Engineer in London

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Build Engineer in London

Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Build Engineer in London

Build Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Central London +31 1 £700 +180.00% 1
Build Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 London region featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) C++
3 3 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Git
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Bazel
4 2 (25.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Wealth Management
4 2 (25.00%) Google Workspace
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (25.00%) Apple
4 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Fixed Income
4 2 (25.00%) Linux

Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (12.50%) CMake
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
2 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Bazel
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 2 (25.00%) Smartphone
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Investment Management
2 2 (25.00%) ITSM
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
2 2 (25.00%) Wealth Management
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Security
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) MCITP
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Apple
2 2 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks