Deployment Engineer Contracts in England

Deployment Engineer
UK > England

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in England is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 449 511
Rank change year-on-year +77 +62 +48
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 113 93 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 71 101
10th Percentile £153 £140 £140
25th Percentile £184 £163 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £180
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £284 £250 £233
90th Percentile £338 £338 £331
UK median daily rate £200 £200 £175
% change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £18.50 - £18.20
25th Percentile £18.51 £11.75 £19.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £12.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% -43.18% +25.71%
75th Percentile £19.75 £13.25 £22.50
90th Percentile £19.90 - £22.80
UK median hourly rate £18.76 £12.50 £20.35
% change year-on-year +50.04% -38.57% +16.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Deployment Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Engineer in England

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Engineer in England

Deployment Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Engineer in England

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Engineer in England

Deployment Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +35 34 £322 +31.43% 8
South East +51 23 £200 -20.00% 2
North of England +27 19 £200 -16.67% 8
Midlands +20 17 £200 - 2
West Midlands +17 15 £200 - 2
South West +55 13 £200 +11.11% 5
North West +16 8 £200 -16.67% 4
Yorkshire +13 7 £188 - 2
East of England +32 6 £158 -51.54%
North East - 4 £200 - 2
East Midlands +5 2 £140 -20.00%
Deployment Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the England region featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (62.83%) Windows
2 68 (60.18%) Social Skills
3 31 (27.43%) SCCM
4 30 (26.55%) Microsoft
5 28 (24.78%) Windows 10
5 28 (24.78%) Microsoft 365
6 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (20.35%) Active Directory
8 17 (15.04%) Security Cleared
8 17 (15.04%) SC Cleared
9 16 (14.16%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (14.16%) Legal
10 13 (11.50%) Migration
11 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (7.08%) Azure
12 8 (7.08%) VPN
12 8 (7.08%) Service Management
12 8 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (7.08%) Customer Service
12 8 (7.08%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (6.19%) Deployment Automation
13 7 (6.19%) Finance
13 7 (6.19%) Firewall
13 7 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (6.19%) CCNP
13 7 (6.19%) Cisco
13 7 (6.19%) Network Security
14 6 (5.31%) Wireshark
14 6 (5.31%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (5.31%) HSRP

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.77%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.54%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.77%) 1Password
4 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.78%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.08%) Azure
3 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (1.77%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 2 (1.77%) GCP
4 2 (1.77%) Google Workspace
4 2 (1.77%) Mimecast
4 2 (1.77%) SaaS
4 2 (1.77%) Slack
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.08%) VPN
2 7 (6.19%) Firewall
2 7 (6.19%) Network Security
3 6 (5.31%) BGP
3 6 (5.31%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (5.31%) EIGRP
3 6 (5.31%) HSRP
3 6 (5.31%) NX-OS
3 6 (5.31%) OSPF
3 6 (5.31%) RIP
3 6 (5.31%) Spanning Tree
3 6 (5.31%) VRRP
3 6 (5.31%) Wireshark
4 3 (2.65%) DNS
4 3 (2.65%) LAN
4 3 (2.65%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (2.65%) WAN
4 3 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.77%) DHCP
5 2 (1.77%) Skype
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (0.88%) Subversion
1 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (60.18%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.16%) Legal
3 8 (7.08%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (6.19%) Finance
5 6 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.42%) Banking
6 5 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.77%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.77%) Retail
8 1 (0.88%) International Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Law
8 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (1.77%) Driving Licence
1 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (1.77%) EPoS
1 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (1.77%) iPhone
1 2 (1.77%) NHS
1 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
2 1 (0.88%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 71 (62.83%) Windows
2 28 (24.78%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.65%) Linux
3 3 (2.65%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.77%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (11.50%) Migration
3 8 (7.08%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (7.08%) Customer Service
3 8 (7.08%) Service Management
4 7 (6.19%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (5.31%) Matrix Organization
5 6 (5.31%) Mobile Device Management
5 6 (5.31%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (4.42%) ITSM
6 5 (4.42%) Software Deployment
7 4 (3.54%) Asset Management
7 4 (3.54%) Configuration Management
7 4 (3.54%) ITIL
7 4 (3.54%) Validation
8 3 (2.65%) Disk Encryption
9 2 (1.77%) IT Asset Management
9 2 (1.77%) SIEM
9 2 (1.77%) Task Automation
9 2 (1.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.65%) Python
3 2 (1.77%) VB
3 2 (1.77%) VBScript
4 1 (0.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (15.04%) SC Cleared
1 17 (15.04%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.19%) CCNP
3 7 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.65%) CCNA
4 3 (2.65%) Degree
4 3 (2.65%) MCSE
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) CCIE
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.88%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.88%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.88%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (20.35%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.65%) BitLocker
2 3 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (27.43%) SCCM
2 16 (14.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.77%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.88%) Terraform
4 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 30 (26.55%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.19%) Cisco
3 5 (4.42%) Dell
4 4 (3.54%) Apple
4 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.54%) VMware
5 3 (2.65%) Broadcom
5 3 (2.65%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.77%) Adobe
6 2 (1.77%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (1.77%) Datto
6 2 (1.77%) Freshdesk
6 2 (1.77%) Google
6 2 (1.77%) HP
6 2 (1.77%) Netskope
7 1 (0.88%) Arista
7 1 (0.88%) Okta
7 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.88%) Samsung
7 1 (0.88%) Zscaler