Deployment Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Deployment Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 336 314
Rank change year-on-year +15 -22 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 65 121 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.51% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.55% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 84 147
10th Percentile £158 £151 £121
25th Percentile £184 £160 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £188 £200
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £250 £231 £230
90th Percentile £337 £297 £250
UK median daily rate £220 £188 £200
% change year-on-year +17.33% -6.25% +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 15
10th Percentile - £18.20 £14.77
25th Percentile £11.75 £19.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £12.50 £22.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.18% +25.71% +24.73%
75th Percentile £13.25 £22.50 £19.38
90th Percentile - £22.80 £20.00
UK median hourly rate £12.50 £20.35 £17.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% +16.29% +19.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Deployment Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Engineer in the UK excluding London

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Engineer in the UK excluding London

Deployment Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Engineer in the UK excluding London

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Engineer in the UK excluding London

Deployment Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Midlands +28 17 £200 +9.59% 1
South East +11 16 £250 +21.95% 3
North of England +14 11 £240 +20.00% 1
West Midlands +24 10 £200 +14.29% 1
North West +26 9 £240 +41.18% 1
Scotland +37 7 £210 +31.25%
East Midlands +16 7 £175 -12.50%
Northern Ireland +11 5 £250 -
South West +1 4 £200 -
East of England -6 4 £325 +85.71%
Yorkshire +18 2 - -
Wales +17 1 £166 -17.00%
Deployment Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 UK excluding London region featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (73.85%) Windows
2 30 (46.15%) Windows 10
3 19 (29.23%) Active Directory
3 19 (29.23%) SCCM
4 18 (27.69%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
6 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
7 13 (20.00%) Migration
8 10 (15.38%) Legal
9 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
10 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (10.77%) PowerShell
12 6 (9.23%) Azure
12 6 (9.23%) Windows Server
12 6 (9.23%) Data Protection
12 6 (9.23%) Change Management
13 5 (7.69%) Citrix
13 5 (7.69%) NetApp
13 5 (7.69%) DNS
13 5 (7.69%) SharePoint
13 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
13 5 (7.69%) Application Packaging
13 5 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
13 5 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (7.69%) XenApp
13 5 (7.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 5 (7.69%) XenDesktop
13 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (7.69%) NetScaler
13 5 (7.69%) Patch Management

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (12.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.54%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.54%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (1.54%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (9.23%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (7.69%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) DNS
1 5 (7.69%) NetScaler
2 3 (4.62%) LAN
2 3 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.54%) HTTP
3 1 (1.54%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (1.54%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.38%) Legal
3 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Retail
5 1 (1.54%) Banking
5 1 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) J2EE
1 1 (1.54%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.08%) EMC VNX
1 2 (3.08%) EPoS
1 2 (3.08%) Fat Client
1 2 (3.08%) Replication
1 2 (3.08%) Thin Client
2 1 (1.54%) CMDB
2 1 (1.54%) IoT
2 1 (1.54%) NHS
2 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 48 (73.85%) Windows
2 30 (46.15%) Windows 10
3 6 (9.23%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.08%) AIX
4 2 (3.08%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.00%) Migration
2 6 (9.23%) Change Management
2 6 (9.23%) Data Protection
3 5 (7.69%) Application Packaging
3 5 (7.69%) Patch Management
4 4 (6.15%) Asset Management
5 3 (4.62%) Customer Service
5 3 (4.62%) Data Migration
5 3 (4.62%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (4.62%) Software Deployment
6 2 (3.08%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (3.08%) Data Extraction
6 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (3.08%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (3.08%) ITIL
6 2 (3.08%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (3.08%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (3.08%) Service Delivery
6 2 (3.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (1.54%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
System Software
1 19 (29.23%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.69%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 5 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (7.69%) XenApp
2 5 (7.69%) XenDesktop
3 2 (3.08%) SRDF
3 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (29.23%) SCCM
2 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.08%) EMC TimeFinder
4 1 (1.54%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.69%) Citrix
2 5 (7.69%) NetApp
3 3 (4.62%) Apple
3 3 (4.62%) Dell
4 2 (3.08%) Brocade
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco
4 2 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (3.08%) Dell Compellent
4 2 (3.08%) EMC
4 2 (3.08%) EqualLogic
4 2 (3.08%) Isilon
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) VMware
5 1 (1.54%) Canon
5 1 (1.54%) IBM
5 1 (1.54%) Ivanti
5 1 (1.54%) SOTI