Deployment Engineer Contracts

Deployment Engineer
UK

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in the UK is £210 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 May 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
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 553 591
Rank change year-on-year +101 +38 -57
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 117 142 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.27% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 102 174
10th Percentile £140 £140 £123
25th Percentile £165 £160 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £189 £200
Median % change year-on-year +11.26% -5.63% +14.29%
75th Percentile £263 £231 £238
90th Percentile £400 £353 £313
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £194 £200
% change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 17
10th Percentile £14.55 £17.58 £15.16
25th Percentile £18.76 £17.70 £16.00
Median hourly rate £21.45 £18.70 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% - +33.29%
75th Percentile £22.23 £22.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.99 £22.60 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.75 £20.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -11.25% +6.95% +33.29%

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 39,539 53,460 83,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.63% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,741 37,320 58,759
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,737 1,489 2,014
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.99 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Deployment Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Engineer in the UK

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Engineer in the UK

Deployment Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Engineer over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Engineer in the UK

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Engineer in the UK

Deployment Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 24 May 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 +87 103 £220 +15.79% 11
UK excluding London +4 68 £200 +3.23% 6
London +110 45 £248 +39.44% 6
Midlands +30 18 £200 +0.63% 1
South East +6 18 £250 +25.00% 3
Work from Home +124 14 £350 +75.00% 5
North of England +26 13 £240 +26.32% 2
North West +36 11 £240 +41.18% 2
West Midlands +18 11 £200 +5.26% 1
East Midlands +19 7 £175 -12.50%
Northern Ireland +8 6 £200 -
East of England +4 5 £325 +85.71%
Scotland +18 4 £200 +25.00%
South West +9 4 £200 -
Yorkshire +4 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 2024, Deployment 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 Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (66.67%) Windows
2 44 (37.61%) Windows 10
3 33 (28.21%) Social Skills
4 27 (23.08%) SCCM
5 26 (22.22%) Active Directory
6 24 (20.51%) Microsoft
7 23 (19.66%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (18.80%) Migration
9 16 (13.68%) Security Cleared
10 15 (12.82%) Azure
11 10 (8.55%) Legal
11 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
11 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
12 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
12 9 (7.69%) Windows Server
13 8 (6.84%) NHS
13 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
14 7 (5.98%) Linux
14 7 (5.98%) Apple
15 6 (5.13%) Finance
15 6 (5.13%) Change Management
15 6 (5.13%) Citrix
15 6 (5.13%) DNS
15 6 (5.13%) Data Protection
15 6 (5.13%) Informatics
15 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
15 6 (5.13%) OneDrive
15 6 (5.13%) Health Informatics
16 5 (4.27%) Entra ID

Deployment 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 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.85%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.85%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.85%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.66%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (12.82%) Azure
3 6 (5.13%) OneDrive
4 5 (4.27%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
5 4 (3.42%) AWS
6 2 (1.71%) GCP
6 2 (1.71%) GitHub
6 2 (1.71%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.85%) Akamai
7 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.85%) PaaS
7 1 (0.85%) SaaS
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.13%) DNS
2 5 (4.27%) NetScaler
3 4 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.56%) LAN
5 2 (1.71%) Firewall
6 1 (0.85%) HTTP
6 1 (0.85%) Internet
6 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.85%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 33 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.55%) Legal
3 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.13%) Finance
5 4 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.71%) Retail
7 1 (0.85%) Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.85%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.71%) Node.js
1 2 (1.71%) OAuth
1 2 (1.71%) OAuth2
1 2 (1.71%) RESTful
2 1 (0.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.85%) eBPF
2 1 (0.85%) J2EE
2 1 (0.85%) JWT
2 1 (0.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.84%) NHS
2 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.42%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.71%) Clustering
4 2 (1.71%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.71%) EMC VNX
4 2 (1.71%) EPoS
4 2 (1.71%) Fat Client
4 2 (1.71%) Replication
4 2 (1.71%) Thin Client
5 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.85%) CMDB
5 1 (0.85%) Handset
5 1 (0.85%) IoT
5 1 (0.85%) iPad
5 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 78 (66.67%) Windows
2 44 (37.61%) Windows 10
3 9 (7.69%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.98%) Linux
5 4 (3.42%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.71%) AIX
6 2 (1.71%) Solaris
6 2 (1.71%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (18.80%) Migration
2 6 (5.13%) Change Management
2 6 (5.13%) Data Protection
2 6 (5.13%) Health Informatics
2 6 (5.13%) Informatics
3 5 (4.27%) Application Packaging
3 5 (4.27%) ITIL
3 5 (4.27%) Patch Management
3 5 (4.27%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (3.42%) Asset Management
4 4 (3.42%) Customer Service
4 4 (3.42%) Inventory Management
5 3 (2.56%) Data Migration
5 3 (2.56%) Load Balancing
5 3 (2.56%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (2.56%) Software Testing
5 3 (2.56%) Test Automation
5 3 (2.56%) Time Management
6 2 (1.71%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (1.71%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.56%) Python
3 2 (1.71%) Bash
4 1 (0.85%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.55%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.71%) Degree
4 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
System Software
1 26 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 5 (4.27%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (4.27%) XenApp
2 5 (4.27%) XenDesktop
3 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.71%) Docker
4 2 (1.71%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 27 (23.08%) SCCM
2 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.27%) Terraform
4 3 (2.56%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.71%) Ansible
5 2 (1.71%) EMC TimeFinder
5 2 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.85%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.85%) Cilium
6 1 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 24 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.98%) Apple
3 6 (5.13%) Citrix
4 5 (4.27%) Altiris
4 5 (4.27%) NetApp
5 4 (3.42%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.42%) VMware
6 3 (2.56%) Dell
7 2 (1.71%) Brocade
7 2 (1.71%) Cisco
7 2 (1.71%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.71%) Dell Compellent
7 2 (1.71%) EMC
7 2 (1.71%) EqualLogic
7 2 (1.71%) Google
7 2 (1.71%) Isilon
7 2 (1.71%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.85%) Canon
8 1 (0.85%) Ivanti
8 1 (0.85%) SOTI