Deployment Engineer Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Deployment Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £165, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 81 103
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.71% 0.26% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.27% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile - - £210
25th Percentile £150 £375 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £400 £250
Median % change year-on-year -58.75% +60.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £198 £425 £275
90th Percentile £200 - £290
North West median daily rate £180 £191 £230
% change year-on-year -5.88% -16.85% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.75 -
North West median hourly rate - £15.75 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 920 1,097 1,580
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 94.08% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 663 1,143
10th Percentile £305 £325 £285
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £656 £688 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 35 62
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.55 £14.20
25th Percentile £16.53 £18.39 £16.37
Median hourly rate £21.71 £31.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.98% +63.16% -2.56%
75th Percentile £31.40 £62.50 £42.71
90th Percentile £61.13 £85.60 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £34.08
% change year-on-year -32.04% +8.57% +48.17%

Deployment Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Engineer in Manchester

Deployment Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Deployment Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Deployment Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Wigan - 1 £150 -
Deployment Engineer
North West

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 22 September 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 Manchester region featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) VSAN
3 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 10
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) VMware