Build Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Build Engineer
England > London

The median Build Engineer daily rate in London is £238, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 375 448
Rank change year-on-year +26 +73 +159
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 15 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.061% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.065% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 3
10th Percentile £183 £325 £144
25th Percentile £196 £506 £147
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £625 £151
Median % change year-on-year -62.00% +313.91% -34.35%
75th Percentile £475 £769 £194
90th Percentile - £775 £220
England median daily rate £300 £475 £200
% change year-on-year -36.84% +137.50% -6.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 12,392 15,300 20,765
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 93.99% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,286 10,210 15,153
10th Percentile £331 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 179 226
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.45 £18.08
25th Percentile £22.98 £23.80 £22.06
Median hourly rate £29.54 £35.00 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -3.50% +12.47%
75th Percentile £50.00 £56.75 £62.31
90th Percentile £65.40 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Build Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Build Engineer job vacancies in London

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Engineer in London over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Build Engineer in London

Build Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Build Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Build Engineer job vacancies 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 21 September 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
Central London +2 3 £238 -66.07% 1
Build Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 September 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 London region featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) Finance
4 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
5 5 (33.33%) Build Automation
5 5 (33.33%) Linux
6 4 (26.67%) Python
6 4 (26.67%) C
6 4 (26.67%) C++
6 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
6 4 (26.67%) Electronics
6 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
6 4 (26.67%) SAP
6 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
6 4 (26.67%) Marketing
6 4 (26.67%) Digital Marketing
6 4 (26.67%) SCCM
6 4 (26.67%) AWS
6 4 (26.67%) Bash
6 4 (26.67%) Clang
6 4 (26.67%) GCP
6 4 (26.67%) GCC
6 4 (26.67%) Docker
6 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
6 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
6 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (26.67%) Onboarding

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 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Clang
1 4 (26.67%) GCC
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Subversion
3 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Electronics
2 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (26.67%) Marketing
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Telecoms
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) International Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Build Automation
2 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Digital Marketing
2 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
3 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Product Management
5 1 (6.67%) Compliance Audit
5 1 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Virtualisation
5 1 (6.67%) Fintech
5 1 (6.67%) ITSM
5 1 (6.67%) Logistics
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Patch Management
5 1 (6.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) C
2 4 (26.67%) C++
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.67%) Apple
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft