Deployment Engineer Contracts

Deployment Engineer
UK

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in the UK is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 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
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 481 561
Rank change year-on-year +115 +80 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 184 115 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.27% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.29% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 90 93
10th Percentile £150 £144 £140
25th Percentile £175 £189 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £223 £198
Median % change year-on-year -10.21% +12.78% -1.25%
75th Percentile £213 £297 £225
90th Percentile £324 £414 £300
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £199
% change year-on-year - +0.63% -0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 7
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.30 £17.62
25th Percentile £18.74 £15.63 £18.20
Median hourly rate £25.08 £21.09 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% +5.45% +6.95%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.80 £22.00
90th Percentile - £22.82 £22.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £15.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year +59.68% -25.00% +12.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 29,425 40,103 54,114
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 92.99% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,757 25,815 37,579
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.03%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,334 2,768 1,584
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.62 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.58
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.07% +96.06%

Deployment Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Engineer in the UK

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Engineer in the UK

Deployment Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Engineer over the 6 months to 8 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Engineer in the UK

Deployment Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Engineer in the UK

Deployment Engineer
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 July 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
England +87 139 £200 -10.21% 27
UK excluding London +114 136 £200 - 24
London +27 40 £200 -20.00% 8
North of England +18 31 £195 -2.50% 2
South East +48 25 £200 -11.11% 8
Scotland +23 23 £188 -5.97% 4
Midlands +14 19 £200 - 4
South West +58 18 £200 - 6
West Midlands +11 16 £200 -
North West +2 15 £170 -15.00%
Yorkshire +10 10 £190 - 2
Wales - 10 £230 -
East of England +25 7 £180 -44.62%
North East - 6 £200 -
Work from Home +28 5 £325 -20.73% 8
Northern Ireland -13 4 £200 -
East Midlands -1 3 £139 -21.64% 4

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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 featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 126 (68.48%) Windows
2 110 (59.78%) Social Skills
3 67 (36.41%) SCCM
4 51 (27.72%) Microsoft
5 47 (25.54%) Microsoft 365
6 43 (23.37%) Windows 10
7 40 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (21.20%) Active Directory
9 36 (19.57%) Legal
10 33 (17.93%) Security Cleared
11 30 (16.30%) SC Cleared
12 26 (14.13%) Migration
13 25 (13.59%) Public Sector
14 23 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
15 22 (11.96%) Microsoft Intune
16 19 (10.33%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (8.70%) Customer Service
18 15 (8.15%) Service Management
18 15 (8.15%) Asset Management
19 14 (7.61%) Finance
19 14 (7.61%) Deployment Automation
20 11 (5.98%) VPN
20 11 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
21 10 (5.43%) ITSM
21 10 (5.43%) PowerShell
22 9 (4.89%) Banking
22 9 (4.89%) Apple
22 9 (4.89%) HP
22 9 (4.89%) Collaborative Working
22 9 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.09%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (25.54%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (4.35%) Azure
3 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (0.54%) dbt
4 1 (0.54%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (0.54%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.54%) GitHub
4 1 (0.54%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.98%) VPN
2 7 (3.80%) Firewall
2 7 (3.80%) Network Security
3 6 (3.26%) BGP
3 6 (3.26%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (3.26%) EIGRP
3 6 (3.26%) HSRP
3 6 (3.26%) NX-OS
3 6 (3.26%) OSPF
3 6 (3.26%) RIP
3 6 (3.26%) Spanning Tree
3 6 (3.26%) VRRP
3 6 (3.26%) Wireshark
4 3 (1.63%) DNS
4 3 (1.63%) LAN
4 3 (1.63%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (1.63%) WAN
4 3 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.09%) DHCP
5 2 (1.09%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.54%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (0.54%) Subversion
1 1 (0.54%) TeamCity
General
1 110 (59.78%) Social Skills
2 36 (19.57%) Legal
3 25 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 19 (10.33%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (7.61%) Finance
6 9 (4.89%) Banking
6 9 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.63%) Law
8 3 (1.63%) Marketing
9 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) International Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.26%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.09%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.80%) Driving Licence
2 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (2.17%) Device Driver
4 2 (1.09%) Handset
4 2 (1.09%) iPhone
4 2 (1.09%) NHS
4 2 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.54%) CMDB
5 1 (0.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.54%) EPoS
5 1 (0.54%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.54%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.54%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.54%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 126 (68.48%) Windows
2 43 (23.37%) Windows 10
3 7 (3.80%) Linux
4 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.17%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.54%) Android
6 1 (0.54%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (14.13%) Migration
3 16 (8.70%) Customer Service
4 15 (8.15%) Asset Management
4 15 (8.15%) Service Management
5 14 (7.61%) Deployment Automation
6 10 (5.43%) ITSM
7 9 (4.89%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (4.35%) ITIL
8 8 (4.35%) Logistics
8 8 (4.35%) Software Deployment
9 6 (3.26%) Agile
9 6 (3.26%) Inventory Management
9 6 (3.26%) Matrix Organization
9 6 (3.26%) Mobile Device Management
9 6 (3.26%) Network Monitoring
9 6 (3.26%) Validation
10 5 (2.72%) Configuration Management
11 4 (2.17%) Application Packaging
11 4 (2.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (1.63%) Python
3 2 (1.09%) VB
3 2 (1.09%) VBScript
4 1 (0.54%) C
4 1 (0.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 23 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.80%) CCNP
5 7 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.63%) CCNA
6 3 (1.63%) Degree
6 3 (1.63%) MCSA
7 2 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.09%) MCSE
8 1 (0.54%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.54%) CCIE
8 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.54%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.54%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.54%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.17%) QA
2 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (21.20%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.63%) BitLocker
2 3 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.54%) Firmware
3 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (36.41%) SCCM
2 22 (11.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.72%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Terraform
4 1 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (27.72%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.89%) Apple
2 9 (4.89%) HP
2 9 (4.89%) ServiceNow
3 8 (4.35%) Cisco
4 7 (3.80%) Dell
5 4 (2.17%) CyberArk
5 4 (2.17%) VMware
6 3 (1.63%) Broadcom
6 3 (1.63%) Remedy
7 2 (1.09%) Samsung
8 1 (0.54%) Arista
8 1 (0.54%) Computacenter
8 1 (0.54%) Databricks
8 1 (0.54%) Juniper
8 1 (0.54%) MobileIron
8 1 (0.54%) NetApp
8 1 (0.54%) Snow