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 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 595 704
Rank change year-on-year +90 +109 -152
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 43 73 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 47
10th Percentile £185 £152 £147
25th Percentile £263 £208 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £325 £230
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% +41.30% -14.81%
75th Percentile - £579 £344
90th Percentile - £675 £630
UK median daily rate £575 £335 £230
% change year-on-year +71.64% +45.65% -14.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £12.38 £10.80
25th Percentile - £12.94 £12.24
Median hourly rate £15.10 £15.25 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% +22.05% -16.70%
75th Percentile - £16.94 £20.00
90th Percentile - £17.13 £23.00
UK median hourly rate £15.10 £15.25 £13.00
% change year-on-year -0.98% +17.33% -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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 26 £575 -2.54% 7
London +95 6 £515 +106.00% 1
North of England +28 6 £431 +64.19% 3
Yorkshire +25 3 £289 +65.14% 3
South West +21 2 £250 +88.68%
North East +20 2 £423 +41.00%
Midlands +19 2 £205 +28.13%
East Midlands +18 2 £205 -17.17%
North West +12 1 £550 +91.30%
East of England +6 1 - - 4
Build Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 England region featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (76.74%) Windows
2 27 (62.79%) Microsoft
3 26 (60.47%) Customer Service
4 25 (58.14%) Social Skills
4 25 (58.14%) SCCM
4 25 (58.14%) Windows Server
5 24 (55.81%) Security Cleared
5 24 (55.81%) Active Directory
5 24 (55.81%) ITIL
6 23 (53.49%) Service Management
7 22 (51.16%) QA
7 22 (51.16%) DV Cleared
7 22 (51.16%) Windows 10
8 21 (48.84%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (48.84%) Release Management
8 21 (48.84%) Sysprep
8 21 (48.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (48.84%) WSUS
8 21 (48.84%) Windows NT
8 21 (48.84%) Firmware
8 21 (48.84%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (48.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (48.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (16.28%) Linux
10 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (11.63%) Azure
12 4 (9.30%) DevOps
12 4 (9.30%) Python
12 4 (9.30%) ITSM
12 4 (9.30%) 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 (2.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.63%) Azure
2 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.65%) Google Workspace
2 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.33%) AWS
3 1 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) AMQP
1 2 (4.65%) DMZ
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
1 2 (4.65%) Modbus
1 2 (4.65%) MQTT
1 2 (4.65%) SSL
2 1 (2.33%) 2G
2 1 (2.33%) 3G
2 1 (2.33%) 4G
2 1 (2.33%) DSL
2 1 (2.33%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.65%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio
2 2 (4.65%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 25 (58.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.30%) Finance
3 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.65%) Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.65%) Marketing
4 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (4.65%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (4.65%) Bazel
1 2 (4.65%) JSON
1 2 (4.65%) Kafka
1 2 (4.65%) Web Services
1 2 (4.65%) XML
1 2 (4.65%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.65%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.65%) IoT
2 2 (4.65%) PKI
2 2 (4.65%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.33%) NHS
3 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (76.74%) Windows
2 25 (58.14%) Windows Server
3 22 (51.16%) Windows 10
4 21 (48.84%) Windows NT
4 21 (48.84%) Windows Server 2012
4 21 (48.84%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (48.84%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (16.28%) Linux
6 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (60.47%) Customer Service
2 24 (55.81%) ITIL
3 23 (53.49%) Service Management
4 21 (48.84%) Deployment Automation
4 21 (48.84%) Release Management
4 21 (48.84%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (9.30%) Asset Management
6 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
6 4 (9.30%) DevOps
6 4 (9.30%) ITSM
7 3 (6.98%) Change Management
7 3 (6.98%) Migration
7 3 (6.98%) Server Building
8 2 (4.65%) CRUD
8 2 (4.65%) Data Engineering
8 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (4.65%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (4.65%) User Experience
8 2 (4.65%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.30%) Python
2 2 (4.65%) C++
2 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.65%) SQL
3 1 (2.33%) C#
3 1 (2.33%) Java
3 1 (2.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 24 (55.81%) Security Cleared
2 22 (51.16%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
3 2 (4.65%) MCITP
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.33%) MBCS
4 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (51.16%) QA
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Active Directory
2 21 (48.84%) Firmware
3 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) SCCM
2 21 (48.84%) Sysprep
2 21 (48.84%) WSUS
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) AirWatch
5 1 (2.33%) CFEngine
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.33%) PowerBroker
5 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.33%) Puppet
5 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (62.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.65%) Apple
2 2 (4.65%) Google
2 2 (4.65%) IBM
2 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.65%) Solace
3 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.33%) Databricks
3 1 (2.33%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.33%) Ivanti
3 1 (2.33%) Mavenir
3 1 (2.33%) Remedy
3 1 (2.33%) SOTI