Build Engineer Contracts in Reading

Build Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Build Engineer daily rate in Reading is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 83 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 24 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.99% 0.56% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 0.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £625 £200
% change year-on-year -8.00% +212.50% -46.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,127 1,026 1,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 95.35% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 681 877
10th Percentile £213 £363 £186
25th Percentile £405 £453 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £498
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £594
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -3.24% +9.38% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 22 9
10th Percentile £33.52 £17.80 £13.15
25th Percentile £52.90 £49.43 £21.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.84 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% +116.13% -31.03%
75th Percentile £75.83 £70.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £87.47 £79.19 £62.73
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.30 £55.94 £21.03
% change year-on-year +4.21% +166.08% -2.21%

Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Build Engineer in Reading

Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Build Engineer in Reading

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Build Engineer in Reading

Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Build Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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 Reading region featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (95.83%) QA
1 23 (95.83%) DV Cleared
1 23 (95.83%) Security Cleared
2 22 (91.67%) Release Management
2 22 (91.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 22 (91.67%) SCCM
2 22 (91.67%) Sysprep
2 22 (91.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 22 (91.67%) Windows 10
2 22 (91.67%) Windows Server
2 22 (91.67%) Deployment Automation
2 22 (91.67%) Service Management
2 22 (91.67%) ITIL
2 22 (91.67%) Windows
2 22 (91.67%) Windows NT
2 22 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 22 (91.67%) Firmware
2 22 (91.67%) WSUS
2 22 (91.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 22 (91.67%) Windows Server 2019
2 22 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (91.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.17%) 3G
3 1 (4.17%) Remedy
3 1 (4.17%) Ericsson
3 1 (4.17%) Quality Management
3 1 (4.17%) Change Management
3 1 (4.17%) Telecoms

Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) 2G
1 1 (4.17%) 3G
1 1 (4.17%) 4G
1 1 (4.17%) RNC
General
1 22 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 22 (91.67%) Windows
1 22 (91.67%) Windows 10
1 22 (91.67%) Windows NT
1 22 (91.67%) Windows Server
1 22 (91.67%) Windows Server 2012
1 22 (91.67%) Windows Server 2016
1 22 (91.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Customer Service
1 22 (91.67%) Deployment Automation
1 22 (91.67%) ITIL
1 22 (91.67%) Release Management
1 22 (91.67%) Service Management
1 22 (91.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (4.17%) Change Management
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.17%) Data Validation
2 1 (4.17%) QMS
2 1 (4.17%) Quality Management
2 1 (4.17%) Validation
Qualifications
1 23 (95.83%) DV Cleared
1 23 (95.83%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (95.83%) QA
System Software
1 22 (91.67%) Active Directory
1 22 (91.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (91.67%) SCCM
1 22 (91.67%) Sysprep
1 22 (91.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Ericsson
2 1 (4.17%) Mavenir
2 1 (4.17%) Remedy