Build Engineer Contracts

Build Engineer
UK

The median Build Engineer daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 619 773
Rank change year-on-year +85 +154 -184
Contract jobs requiring a Build Engineer 45 81 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.14% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 57 51
10th Percentile £185 £153 £143
25th Percentile £299 £206 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £330 £230
Median % change year-on-year +74.24% +43.48% -14.81%
75th Percentile - £575 £350
90th Percentile - £675 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £345 £200
% change year-on-year +66.67% +72.50% -25.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 16
10th Percentile - £12.38 £11.00
25th Percentile - £12.94 £12.24
Median hourly rate £15.10 £15.25 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% +17.33% -13.35%
75th Percentile - £16.94 £20.00
90th Percentile - £17.13 £23.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.10 £15.25 £13.00
% change year-on-year -0.98% +17.33% -13.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Build Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Build Engineer in the UK

Build Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Build Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Build Engineer in the UK

Build Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Build Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Build Engineer in the UK

Build Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Build Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Build Engineer in the UK

Build Engineer
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +84 44 £575 +79.69% 17
UK excluding London +49 38 £575 +66.67% 15
South East +26 26 £575 -0.86% 7
London +101 7 £555 +122.00% 2
North of England +22 6 £431 +64.19% 3
Yorkshire +18 3 £289 +65.14% 3
East Midlands +22 2 £205 -17.17%
South West +22 2 £250 +88.68%
North East +22 2 £423 +41.00%
Midlands +21 2 £205 +28.13% 1
Work from Home +108 1 - - 3
Scotland +30 1 - -
North West +16 1 £550 +91.30%
East of England +8 1 - - 4

Build Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 featuring Build Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (73.33%) Windows
2 27 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
3 26 (57.78%) Customer Service
4 25 (55.56%) Windows Server
4 25 (55.56%) SCCM
5 24 (53.33%) Security Cleared
5 24 (53.33%) Active Directory
5 24 (53.33%) ITIL
6 23 (51.11%) Service Management
7 22 (48.89%) QA
7 22 (48.89%) Windows 10
7 22 (48.89%) DV Cleared
8 21 (46.67%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (46.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (46.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 21 (46.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (46.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 21 (46.67%) Release Management
8 21 (46.67%) Sysprep
8 21 (46.67%) WSUS
8 21 (46.67%) Firmware
8 21 (46.67%) Windows NT
9 8 (17.78%) Linux
10 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
11 5 (11.11%) Python
11 5 (11.11%) Finance
11 5 (11.11%) Azure
11 5 (11.11%) DevOps

Build Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.44%) Google Workspace
2 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.22%) AWS
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.22%) GitHub
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) AMQP
1 2 (4.44%) DMZ
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
1 2 (4.44%) Modbus
1 2 (4.44%) MQTT
1 2 (4.44%) SSL
2 1 (2.22%) 2G
2 1 (2.22%) 3G
2 1 (2.22%) 4G
2 1 (2.22%) DSL
2 1 (2.22%) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (2.22%) CMake
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) Maven
4 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.44%) Marketing
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Bazel
2 2 (4.44%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (4.44%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (4.44%) JSON
2 2 (4.44%) Kafka
2 2 (4.44%) Web Services
2 2 (4.44%) XML
2 2 (4.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (4.44%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.44%) IoT
2 2 (4.44%) PKI
2 2 (4.44%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.22%) NHS
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (73.33%) Windows
2 25 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 22 (48.89%) Windows 10
4 21 (46.67%) Windows NT
4 21 (46.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 21 (46.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (46.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (17.78%) Linux
6 1 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Customer Service
2 24 (53.33%) ITIL
3 23 (51.11%) Service Management
4 21 (46.67%) Deployment Automation
4 21 (46.67%) Release Management
4 21 (46.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.11%) DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) Asset Management
7 4 (8.89%) ITSM
8 3 (6.67%) Change Management
8 3 (6.67%) Migration
8 3 (6.67%) Server Building
9 2 (4.44%) Analytics
9 2 (4.44%) CRUD
9 2 (4.44%) Data Engineering
9 2 (4.44%) Proactive Monitoring
9 2 (4.44%) Reverse Engineering
9 2 (4.44%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) Python
2 3 (6.67%) C++
3 2 (4.44%) Java
3 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) Bash
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) Ruby
4 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 22 (48.89%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) MCITP
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) MBCS
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (48.89%) QA
System Software
1 24 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 21 (46.67%) Firmware
3 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (55.56%) SCCM
2 21 (46.67%) Sysprep
2 21 (46.67%) WSUS
3 3 (6.67%) Ansible
4 2 (4.44%) Grafana
5 1 (2.22%) AirWatch
5 1 (2.22%) CFEngine
5 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.22%) PowerBroker
5 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.22%) Puppet
5 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Apple
2 2 (4.44%) Google
2 2 (4.44%) IBM
2 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.44%) Solace
3 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.22%) Databricks
3 1 (2.22%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.22%) Ivanti
3 1 (2.22%) Mavenir
3 1 (2.22%) Remedy
3 1 (2.22%) SOTI