Build Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Build Engineer
England > North of England

The median Build Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £360, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 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
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 - 188
Rank change year-on-year - - +62
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 7 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% - 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £179 - £129
25th Percentile £204 - £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - £175
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.35%
75th Percentile £471 - £238
90th Percentile £476 - £560
England median daily rate £315 £575 £220
% change year-on-year -45.22% +161.36% -18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile - - £15.75
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £20.25
90th Percentile - - £22.10
England median hourly rate £25.15 £15.10 £16.75
% change year-on-year +66.56% -9.85% -6.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,635 3,840 5,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 92.20% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,337 2,369 3,458
10th Percentile £253 £263 £263
25th Percentile £368 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.40% +2.04%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £638 £670 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 282 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.47 £15.39
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.65
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +14.29% +31.25%
75th Percentile £46.65 £51.90 £44.64
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £56.24
England median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -43.73% +5.88% +66.67%

Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Build Engineer in the North of England

Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Build Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Build Engineer in the North of England

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Build Engineer in the North of England

Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Build Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Build Engineer in the North of England

Build Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 August 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
North West - 5 £455 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £185 -
North East - 1 £275 -
Build Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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 North of England region featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 3 (42.86%) Dell
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) GitLab
3 3 (42.86%) Server Building
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Apple
4 2 (28.57%) DMZ
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) SCCM
5 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Okta
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (14.29%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) AWS

Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DMZ
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Server Building
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Order Management
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Project Governance
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Dell
3 2 (28.57%) Apple
3 2 (28.57%) CyberArk
4 1 (14.29%) MobileIron
4 1 (14.29%) Okta