Building Information Modelling Contract Job Trends in the South East

Building Information Modelling (BIM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Building Information Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 162 -
Rank change year-on-year -66 - -
Contract jobs citing Building Information Modelling 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.045% 0.084% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.095% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £635 - -
25th Percentile £650 £225 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £250 -
Median % change year-on-year +180.00% - -
75th Percentile £725 £275 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £512 £463 £494
% change year-on-year +10.70% -6.33% -26.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Building Information Modelling falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,355 3,173 3,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.62% 89.36% 82.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 1,973 2,337
10th Percentile £280 £238 £260
25th Percentile £421 £393 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £674 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 602 308 294
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%
75th Percentile £71.00 £53.56 £70.39
90th Percentile £88.00 £69.65 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Building Information Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Building Information Modelling relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Building Information Modelling job vacancy trend in the South East

Building Information Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Building Information Modelling.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Building Information Modelling

Building Information Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Building Information Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Building Information Modelling

Building Information Modelling
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Building Information Modelling within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 August 2026. 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
Surrey - 3 £700 - 4
Building Information Modelling
England

Building Information Modelling
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
General
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ArchiMate
1 3 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Business Case
1 3 (100.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
1 3 (100.00%) ISO 19650
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft