Build Manager Contract Job Trends

Build Manager
UK

The median Build Manager daily rate in the UK is £609, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 615 526 577
Rank change year-on-year -89 +51 +130
Contract jobs requiring a Build Manager 8 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.017% 0.014% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.015% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 £485 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £490 £375
Median % change year-on-year +24.23% +30.67% -
75th Percentile £682 £495 £388
90th Percentile £685 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £668 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 43,137 27,188 40,489
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.59% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,662 17,796 26,412
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.13% -1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,772 1,030 2,642
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.48 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.85 £29.24 £35.68
Median % change year-on-year +46.55% -18.05% -20.71%
75th Percentile £65.67 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.52 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.52% -23.33% -11.76%

Build Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Build Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Build Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Build Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Build Manager job vacancies in the UK

Build Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Manager over the 6 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Build Manager in the UK

Build Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Build Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Build Manager job vacancies in the UK

Build Manager
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Build Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England -91 8 £609 +24.23% 7
North of England -62 7 £668 - 3
UK excluding London -78 7 £668 - 5
Yorkshire - 7 £668 - 2
London -71 1 £550 - 2

Build Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2026, Build Manager 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 featuring Build Manager in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (50.00%) ESRI
2 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) QA
2 4 (50.00%) SAP
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (12.50%) Cutover Planning
3 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery

Build Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Dependency Management
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (12.50%) Cutover Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
3 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Sprint Backlog
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ESRI
1 4 (50.00%) SAP