Deployment Engineer Contracts in England

Deployment Engineer
UK > England

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in England is £223 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 517 548
Rank change year-on-year +65 +31 -54
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 87 129 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.26% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.28% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 91 158
10th Percentile £140 £140 £127
25th Percentile £165 £160 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £223 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% - +21.21%
75th Percentile £256 £238 £238
90th Percentile £344 £331 £310
UK median daily rate £210 £189 £200
% change year-on-year +11.26% -5.63% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - £18.20 £14.96
25th Percentile £11.75 £19.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £12.50 £22.00 £18.10
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +21.55% +18.69%
75th Percentile £13.25 £22.50 £20.00
90th Percentile - £22.80 -
UK median hourly rate £12.50 £20.35 £18.10
% change year-on-year -38.57% +12.43% +23.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,087 46,245 67,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,605 32,838 47,758
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £761 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,370 1,849
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 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
London +102 35 £248 +37.50%
Midlands +25 17 £200 +5.26% 2
South East +9 16 £250 +21.95% 4
North of England +23 11 £240 +23.08% 2
West Midlands +16 10 £200 +9.59% 2
North West +20 9 £240 +41.18% 2
East Midlands +16 7 £175 -12.50%
East of England +4 4 £325 +85.98%
South West 0 4 £200 -
Yorkshire +8 2 - -
Deployment Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 across the England region featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (64.37%) Windows
2 30 (34.48%) Windows 10
3 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
4 24 (27.59%) SCCM
5 23 (26.44%) Active Directory
6 19 (21.84%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (20.69%) Microsoft
8 14 (16.09%) Azure
9 13 (14.94%) Migration
10 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
11 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
11 10 (11.49%) Legal
12 9 (10.34%) Windows Server
12 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
13 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
13 8 (9.20%) DNS
14 7 (8.05%) Apple
14 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
15 6 (6.90%) NHS
15 6 (6.90%) Change Management
15 6 (6.90%) Data Protection
16 5 (5.75%) Application Packaging
16 5 (5.75%) Load Balancing
16 5 (5.75%) Citrix
16 5 (5.75%) NetApp
16 5 (5.75%) SharePoint
16 5 (5.75%) Patch Management
16 5 (5.75%) OneDrive
16 5 (5.75%) Virtual Desktop
16 5 (5.75%) Terraform

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 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.84%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (16.09%) Azure
3 5 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (5.75%) OneDrive
4 4 (4.60%) AWS
4 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.45%) Akamai
6 2 (2.30%) GCP
6 2 (2.30%) GitHub
6 2 (2.30%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.15%) PaaS
7 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.20%) DNS
2 5 (5.75%) NetScaler
3 4 (4.60%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (3.45%) LAN
5 2 (2.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
General
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Legal
3 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.45%) Finance
6 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.30%) Node.js
1 2 (2.30%) OAuth
1 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
1 2 (2.30%) RESTful
2 1 (1.15%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.15%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) NHS
2 2 (2.30%) Clustering
2 2 (2.30%) EMC VNX
2 2 (2.30%) EPoS
2 2 (2.30%) Fat Client
2 2 (2.30%) Replication
2 2 (2.30%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.15%) CMDB
3 1 (1.15%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.15%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 56 (64.37%) Windows
2 30 (34.48%) Windows 10
3 9 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.60%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.30%) AIX
5 2 (2.30%) Solaris
5 2 (2.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (14.94%) Migration
2 6 (6.90%) Change Management
2 6 (6.90%) Data Protection
3 5 (5.75%) Application Packaging
3 5 (5.75%) Load Balancing
3 5 (5.75%) Patch Management
4 4 (4.60%) ITIL
4 4 (4.60%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (3.45%) Asset Management
5 3 (3.45%) Customer Service
5 3 (3.45%) Software Testing
5 3 (3.45%) Test Automation
5 3 (3.45%) Time Management
6 2 (2.30%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (2.30%) Data Migration
6 2 (2.30%) Decision-Making
6 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (2.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (2.30%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.49%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.30%) Bash
2 2 (2.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.75%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 5 (5.75%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (5.75%) XenApp
2 5 (5.75%) XenDesktop
3 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.30%) Docker
4 2 (2.30%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 24 (27.59%) SCCM
2 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.75%) Terraform
3 2 (2.30%) Ansible
3 2 (2.30%) EMC TimeFinder
3 2 (2.30%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.30%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.15%) AirWatch
4 1 (1.15%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 18 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) Apple
3 5 (5.75%) Citrix
3 5 (5.75%) NetApp
4 4 (4.60%) VMware
5 3 (3.45%) Dell
6 2 (2.30%) Brocade
6 2 (2.30%) Cisco
6 2 (2.30%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (2.30%) Dell Compellent
6 2 (2.30%) EMC
6 2 (2.30%) EqualLogic
6 2 (2.30%) Isilon
6 2 (2.30%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.15%) Ivanti
7 1 (1.15%) Leostream
7 1 (1.15%) SOTI