Build Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Build Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 354 390
Rank change year-on-year +41 +36 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 29 37 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.20% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 40
10th Percentile £173 £180 £160
25th Percentile £185 £295 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £575 £369
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +55.93% +84.38%
75th Percentile £468 - £638
90th Percentile £469 - £675
UK median daily rate £250 £575 £335
% change year-on-year -56.52% +71.64% +45.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £13.13
25th Percentile - - £14.81
Median hourly rate - £15.10 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year - -9.85% +11.67%
75th Percentile - - £18.38
90th Percentile - - £19.95
UK median hourly rate - £15.10 £16.75
% change year-on-year - -9.85% +11.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,683 18,741 21,586
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.78% 92.50% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,462 11,456 15,029
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.82% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 812 2,282 1,102
10th Percentile £13.87 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.72 £18.04
Median hourly rate £26.42 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.96% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +88.21%

Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Build Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Build Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Build Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Build Engineer in the UK excluding London

Build Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
South West +48 12 £315 +26.00% 1
North of England +17 6 £445 +3.25% 3
Scotland - 5 - -
North West - 5 £455 - 3
South East +26 3 £190 -66.96% 2
Midlands +19 3 £163 -54.86% 10
West Midlands - 2 £163 - 8
Yorkshire +13 1 £185 -35.99%
East Midlands +10 1 - - 1
Build Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (55.17%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
3 7 (24.14%) DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
4 6 (20.69%) Server Building
4 6 (20.69%) Application Packaging
4 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
5 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
5 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
6 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
6 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
6 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
6 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
6 4 (13.79%) Azure
6 4 (13.79%) AWS
6 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (13.79%) GitHub
6 4 (13.79%) Linux
6 4 (13.79%) Java
6 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
6 4 (13.79%) Maven
6 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (10.34%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (10.34%) Retail
7 3 (10.34%) Military
7 3 (10.34%) Finance

Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) AWS
1 4 (13.79%) Azure
1 4 (13.79%) GitHub
2 3 (10.34%) GCP
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) DHCP
2 2 (6.90%) DMZ
2 2 (6.90%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Maven
2 3 (10.34%) GitLab
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (10.34%) Military
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Windows
2 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Windows 10
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.90%) Android
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) DevOps
2 6 (20.69%) Application Packaging
2 6 (20.69%) Server Building
3 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
4 4 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 3 (10.34%) Migration
5 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (3.45%) Agile
6 1 (3.45%) Batch Scripting
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.45%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (3.45%) Order Management
6 1 (3.45%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (3.45%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (3.45%) Project Delivery
6 1 (3.45%) Project Governance
6 1 (3.45%) Project Management
6 1 (3.45%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.79%) Java
2 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (10.34%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Dell
3 2 (6.90%) CyberArk
3 2 (6.90%) VMware
4 1 (3.45%) Apple
4 1 (3.45%) Citrix
4 1 (3.45%) MobileIron