Deployment Engineer Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Deployment Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in Berkshire is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 90 129
Rank change year-on-year -28 +39 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 2 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.12% 0.47% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.51% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £217 £183 -
25th Percentile £258 £185 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £190 -
Median % change year-on-year +71.05% - -
75th Percentile £393 £195 -
90th Percentile £433 £198 -
South East median daily rate £190 £200 £205
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +28.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £12.47
25th Percentile - - £13.55
Median hourly rate - - £15.73
75th Percentile - - £17.53
90th Percentile - - £18.38
South East median hourly rate £25.00 - £15.73

All Contract IT Job Roles
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,574 1,171 1,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 92.13% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 664 1,030
10th Percentile £300 £265 £213
25th Percentile £403 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -1.96%
75th Percentile £595 £625 £601
90th Percentile £653 £668 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 30 114
10th Percentile £19.40 £39.73 £18.97
25th Percentile £36.30 £49.97 £41.25
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +6.03% -10.32%
75th Percentile £94.94 £65.39 £67.44
90th Percentile £106.00 £80.71 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £43.67
% change year-on-year -17.65% -2.67% -2.97%

Deployment Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Deployment Engineer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Deployment Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Deployment Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Deployment Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Deployment Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Engineer in Berkshire

Deployment Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Deployment Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Deployment Engineer job vacancies in Berkshire

Deployment Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
Reading -11 1 £190 -
Wokingham - 1 £460 - 1
Deployment Engineer
South East

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 27 February 2026, Deployment Engineer 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 across the Berkshire region featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat