Deployment Specialist Contracts

Deployment Specialist
UK

The median Deployment Specialist daily rate in the UK is £388 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 713 849
Rank change year-on-year +125 +136 -162
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Specialist 3 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.008% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.009% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £381 £240 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £250 £250
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% - -31.03%
75th Percentile £394 - £275
90th Percentile - - £350
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £250 £213
% change year-on-year +55.00% +17.65% -38.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.63 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.63 - -

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Deployment Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Specialist in the UK

Deployment Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Specialist in the UK

Deployment Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Specialist in the UK

Deployment Specialist
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +108 3 £388 +55.00% 5
UK excluding London +64 3 £388 +55.00% 4
North of England - 1 £388 -
Work from Home - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - - 4
Midlands - 1 - - 4
North West - 1 £388 -
South West - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Deployment Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving

Deployment Specialist 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (33.33%) NsoIT
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) OOP
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Server Management
1 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Dell DRAC
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) VMware