Deployment Engineer Contracts in London

Deployment Engineer
England > London

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in London is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 360 454
Rank change year-on-year +44 +94 +110
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 35 36 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.28% 0.21% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 21
10th Percentile £178 £140 -
25th Percentile £200 £150 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £250 £178
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +40.85% -15.48%
75th Percentile £356 £283 £200
90th Percentile £400 £395 £250
England median daily rate £200 £220 £190
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,669 16,334 24,595
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 93.45% 95.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,989 11,808 17,870
10th Percentile £344 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 318 283
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.07 £22.69
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.05 £62.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.32 £80.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%

Deployment Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Engineer in London

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Engineer in London

Deployment Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Engineer in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Engineer in London

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Engineer in London

Deployment Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London +3 4 £260 -22.39%
Deployment Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 London region featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (68.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (57.14%) Windows
3 14 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
5 10 (28.57%) SCCM
5 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (25.71%) Migration
7 7 (20.00%) Azure
7 7 (20.00%) Network Security
7 7 (20.00%) Cisco
7 7 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (20.00%) CCNP
7 7 (20.00%) Firewall
7 7 (20.00%) Windows 10
8 6 (17.14%) 802.1X
8 6 (17.14%) NX-OS
8 6 (17.14%) Spanning Tree
8 6 (17.14%) HSRP
8 6 (17.14%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (17.14%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) Service Management
8 6 (17.14%) Finance
8 6 (17.14%) EIGRP
8 6 (17.14%) VRRP
8 6 (17.14%) OSPF
8 6 (17.14%) BGP

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) 1Password
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (5.71%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.71%) Mimecast
4 2 (5.71%) SaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Slack
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) Firewall
1 7 (20.00%) Network Security
2 6 (17.14%) BGP
2 6 (17.14%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (17.14%) EIGRP
2 6 (17.14%) HSRP
2 6 (17.14%) NX-OS
2 6 (17.14%) OSPF
2 6 (17.14%) RIP
2 6 (17.14%) Spanning Tree
2 6 (17.14%) VPN
2 6 (17.14%) VRRP
2 6 (17.14%) Wireshark
3 1 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) DWDM
3 1 (2.86%) LAN
3 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.86%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
1 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (2.86%) Subversion
1 1 (2.86%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (68.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 1 (2.86%) International Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.14%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.86%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Windows
2 7 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.86%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Migration
2 6 (17.14%) Matrix Organization
2 6 (17.14%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (17.14%) Service Management
3 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
5 2 (5.71%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (5.71%) ITSM
5 2 (5.71%) SIEM
5 2 (5.71%) Task Automation
5 2 (5.71%) User Experience
6 1 (2.86%) CI/CD
6 1 (2.86%) Disk Encryption
6 1 (2.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (2.86%) Key Management
6 1 (2.86%) Network Architecture
6 1 (2.86%) Runbook
6 1 (2.86%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.00%) CCNP
2 7 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (8.57%) CCNA
5 2 (5.71%) Degree
6 1 (2.86%) CCIE
6 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.86%) JNCIA
6 1 (2.86%) JNCIS
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 10 (28.57%) SCCM
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Cisco
3 4 (11.43%) CyberArk
4 3 (8.57%) Apple
5 2 (5.71%) Adobe
5 2 (5.71%) Barracuda Networks
5 2 (5.71%) Datto
5 2 (5.71%) Freshdesk
5 2 (5.71%) Google
5 2 (5.71%) Netskope
6 1 (2.86%) Arista
6 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow