Build Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Build Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 399 453
Rank change year-on-year +55 +54 -98
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 41 57 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.24% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 42 29
10th Percentile £182 £156 £122
25th Percentile £289 £201 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £345 £200
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +72.50% -43.54%
75th Percentile - £626 £319
90th Percentile - £675 £488
UK median daily rate £575 £305 £230
% change year-on-year +88.52% +32.61% -35.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 14
10th Percentile - £12.75 £10.60
25th Percentile - £13.88 £12.24
Median hourly rate £15.10 £16.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% +26.95% -13.35%
75th Percentile - £17.38 £19.38
90th Percentile - £17.45 £22.10
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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 +14 30 £575 +0.88% 8
North of England +24 5 £423 +111.50% 3
Yorkshire +25 3 £289 +87.97% 3
Midlands +25 3 £220 +37.50% 1
East Midlands +21 3 £220 +41.94%
South West +19 2 £250 - 1
North East +17 2 £423 +41.00%
East of England 0 1 - - 1
Build Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 UK excluding London region featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (65.85%) Windows
2 25 (60.98%) Security Cleared
3 24 (58.54%) Social Skills
3 24 (58.54%) SCCM
4 23 (56.10%) ITIL
4 23 (56.10%) Microsoft
4 23 (56.10%) Customer Service
5 22 (53.66%) Windows Server
6 21 (51.22%) Windows 10
6 21 (51.22%) Active Directory
6 21 (51.22%) QA
7 20 (48.78%) WSUS
7 20 (48.78%) Release Management
7 20 (48.78%) User Acceptance Testing
7 20 (48.78%) Service Management
7 20 (48.78%) Firmware
7 20 (48.78%) Windows NT
7 20 (48.78%) Deployment Automation
7 20 (48.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (48.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (48.78%) Sysprep
7 20 (48.78%) DV Cleared
7 20 (48.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (14.63%) Cisco
8 6 (14.63%) Juniper
8 6 (14.63%) Migration
9 5 (12.20%) Linux
9 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
9 5 (12.20%) Knowledge Transfer
10 4 (9.76%) Endace

Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
2 1 (2.44%) AWS
2 1 (2.44%) Azure
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (4.88%) AMQP
2 2 (4.88%) DMZ
2 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 2 (4.88%) Modbus
2 2 (4.88%) MQTT
2 2 (4.88%) SSL
3 1 (2.44%) 2G
3 1 (2.44%) 3G
3 1 (2.44%) 4G
3 1 (2.44%) LTE
3 1 (2.44%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (58.54%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.88%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (4.88%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (4.88%) JSON
1 2 (4.88%) Kafka
1 2 (4.88%) Web Services
1 2 (4.88%) XML
1 2 (4.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) IoT
1 2 (4.88%) PKI
2 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.44%) NHS
2 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (65.85%) Windows
2 22 (53.66%) Windows Server
3 21 (51.22%) Windows 10
4 20 (48.78%) Windows NT
4 20 (48.78%) Windows Server 2012
4 20 (48.78%) Windows Server 2016
4 20 (48.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (12.20%) Linux
6 1 (2.44%) AIX
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) Customer Service
1 23 (56.10%) ITIL
2 20 (48.78%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (48.78%) Release Management
2 20 (48.78%) Service Management
2 20 (48.78%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (14.63%) Migration
4 5 (12.20%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (12.20%) Project Delivery
5 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.32%) Change Management
6 3 (7.32%) Network Design
6 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery
7 2 (4.88%) Asset Management
7 2 (4.88%) Data Analysis
7 2 (4.88%) ITSM
7 2 (4.88%) Performance Management
7 2 (4.88%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (4.88%) Security Management
7 2 (4.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.32%) Python
2 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (60.98%) Security Cleared
2 20 (48.78%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) CCNA
3 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (51.22%) QA
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Active Directory
2 20 (48.78%) Firmware
3 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (58.54%) SCCM
2 20 (48.78%) Sysprep
2 20 (48.78%) WSUS
3 4 (9.76%) Endace
4 3 (7.32%) Ansible
5 2 (4.88%) Grafana
6 1 (2.44%) AirWatch
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.44%) PowerBroker
6 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 23 (56.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.63%) Cisco
2 6 (14.63%) Juniper
3 4 (9.76%) F5
4 2 (4.88%) IBM
4 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.88%) Solace
5 1 (2.44%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.44%) Ivanti
5 1 (2.44%) Mavenir
5 1 (2.44%) Remedy
5 1 (2.44%) SOTI