Build Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Build Engineer
England > South West

The median Build Engineer daily rate in the South West is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 133 153
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.19% 0.042% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.045% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £309 - -
25th Percentile £312 £205 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £210 £190
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% +10.53% -55.29%
75th Percentile £324 £215 £195
90th Percentile £325 - -
England median daily rate £225 £475 £225
% change year-on-year -52.63% +111.11% +14.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 1,895 2,209 2,979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.05% 92.20% 95.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,080 1,336 1,981
10th Percentile £220 £228 £275
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £515 £535
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -3.74% +1.90%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £706 £710
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 186 311
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.79 £17.70
25th Percentile £18.22 £31.97 £40.93
Median hourly rate £26.97 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -58.51% +15.06% -8.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £73.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.66 £45.88
% change year-on-year -38.15% -11.37% +52.93%

Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Build Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Build Engineer job vacancy trend in the South West

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Build Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Build Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Build Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Build Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Build Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Build Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Wiltshire +6 3 £320 +52.38%
Bristol - 1 - - 2
Build Engineer
England

Build Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Build Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (25.00%) Bazel
2 1 (25.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) CMake
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering

Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CMake
1 1 (25.00%) Gradle
General
1 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Bazel
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Open Source
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft