Build Engineer Contracts in England

Build Engineer
UK > England

The median Build Engineer daily rate in England is £250, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 492 582
Rank change year-on-year +42 +90 +121
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 35 50 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.14% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 44 52
10th Percentile £160 £186 £155
25th Percentile £185 £371 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £575 £313
Median % change year-on-year -56.52% +84.00% +35.87%
75th Percentile £468 - £580
90th Percentile £471 £593 £675
UK median daily rate £250 £575 £325
% change year-on-year -56.52% +76.92% +41.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £12.38
25th Percentile - - £12.94
Median hourly rate - £15.10 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year - -0.98% +22.05%
75th Percentile - - £16.94
90th Percentile - - £17.13
UK median hourly rate - £15.10 £15.25
% change year-on-year - -0.98% +17.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
London +43 12 £225 -59.46% 1
South West +54 10 £338 +35.00% 1
North of England +19 6 £445 +3.25%
North West +21 5 £455 -17.27%
Midlands +22 3 £163 -26.14% 3
South East +18 3 £190 -66.96%
West Midlands - 2 £163 - 3
East Midlands +8 1 - -
Yorkshire +6 1 £185 -35.99%
Build Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.71%) DevOps
4 9 (25.71%) GitLab
4 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
4 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
4 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
5 8 (22.86%) Azure
5 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
6 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 7 (20.00%) SCCM
7 6 (17.14%) Java
7 6 (17.14%) Finance
7 6 (17.14%) Server Building
8 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
8 5 (14.29%) Asset Management
8 5 (14.29%) Logistics
8 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
9 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (11.43%) Application Packaging
9 4 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
10 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
10 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (8.57%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (8.57%) Banking

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 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.57%) AWS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure AKS
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) PaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DHCP
2 2 (5.71%) DMZ
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Hive
1 2 (5.71%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) GitLab
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.57%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.86%) Subversion
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (8.57%) Military
4 2 (5.71%) Retail
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Electronics
5 1 (2.86%) International Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.71%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
3 3 (8.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.71%) Android
5 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 9 (25.71%) DevOps
3 6 (17.14%) Server Building
4 5 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 5 (14.29%) Logistics
4 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.43%) Application Packaging
5 4 (11.43%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (8.57%) Migration
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (5.71%) Product Management
7 2 (5.71%) Requirements Gathering
8 1 (2.86%) Batch Scripting
8 1 (2.86%) Compliance Audit
8 1 (2.86%) Cost Optimisation
8 1 (2.86%) Fintech
8 1 (2.86%) Order Management
8 1 (2.86%) Personalization
8 1 (2.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.14%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) C#
3 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) BitLocker
2 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) SCCM
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (8.57%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (5.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.57%) Dell
4 2 (5.71%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.71%) CyberArk
4 2 (5.71%) Databricks
4 2 (5.71%) VMware
5 1 (2.86%) Apple
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) MobileIron