Deployment Engineer Contracts

Deployment Engineer
UK

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in the UK is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 527 598
Rank change year-on-year +57 +71 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 109 173 265
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 123 197
10th Percentile £143 £140 £129
25th Percentile £165 £160 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £175 £200
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +20.06%
75th Percentile £250 £225 £244
90th Percentile £338 £300 £309
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £170 £200
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 15
10th Percentile - £17.86 £14.77
25th Percentile £11.75 £18.40 £16.00
Median hourly rate £12.50 £20.35 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% +16.29% +19.54%
75th Percentile £13.25 £22.25 £19.38
90th Percentile - £22.70 £20.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.50 £22.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -43.18% +25.71% +24.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

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 26 April 2024.

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 16 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 26 April 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
England +58 92 £210 +18.31% 3
UK excluding London +4 68 £200 +17.65% 2
London +114 37 £245 +38.03% 1
South East +18 19 £225 +12.50% 2
Midlands +26 18 £200 +15.94%
Work from Home +129 17 £325 +62.50% 1
West Midlands +33 12 £200 +19.40%
North of England +15 11 £240 +20.00%
North West +22 8 £240 +41.18%
Scotland +24 7 £210 +31.25%
East Midlands +18 6 £175 -21.35%
Northern Ireland +12 5 £250 -
East of England -3 4 £325 +88.68%
Yorkshire +12 3 £250 +33.33%
South West +3 3 £160 -20.00%
Wales +13 1 £166 -7.78%

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (62.39%) Windows
2 38 (34.86%) Windows 10
3 30 (27.52%) Active Directory
4 29 (26.61%) Social Skills
5 28 (25.69%) SCCM
6 27 (24.77%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (22.02%) Microsoft
8 16 (14.68%) Security Cleared
9 15 (13.76%) Migration
10 14 (12.84%) Azure
11 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
11 11 (10.09%) Legal
12 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 10 (9.17%) SC Cleared
12 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
13 9 (8.26%) Windows Server
14 8 (7.34%) Data Protection
14 8 (7.34%) DNS
15 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
16 6 (5.50%) Application Packaging
16 6 (5.50%) SharePoint
16 6 (5.50%) NHS
16 6 (5.50%) Apple
16 6 (5.50%) Change Management
17 5 (4.59%) NetApp
17 5 (4.59%) Dell
17 5 (4.59%) Citrix
17 5 (4.59%) ITIL
17 5 (4.59%) Load Balancing
17 5 (4.59%) NetScaler

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 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.92%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.92%) JBoss
3 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.92%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.92%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.77%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (12.84%) Azure
3 5 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (4.59%) OneDrive
4 4 (3.67%) AWS
4 4 (3.67%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.75%) Akamai
6 2 (1.83%) GCP
6 2 (1.83%) GitHub
6 2 (1.83%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.92%) PaaS
7 1 (0.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.34%) DNS
2 5 (4.59%) NetScaler
3 4 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.75%) LAN
5 2 (1.83%) Firewall
6 1 (0.92%) HTTP
6 1 (0.92%) Internet
6 1 (0.92%) VLAN
6 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (0.92%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 29 (26.61%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.09%) Legal
3 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Finance
6 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Retail
7 1 (0.92%) Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Dutch Language
7 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.83%) Node.js
1 2 (1.83%) OAuth
1 2 (1.83%) OAuth2
1 2 (1.83%) RESTful
2 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.92%) J2EE
2 1 (0.92%) JWT
2 1 (0.92%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) NHS
2 2 (1.83%) Clustering
2 2 (1.83%) Driving Licence
2 2 (1.83%) EMC VNX
2 2 (1.83%) EPoS
2 2 (1.83%) Fat Client
2 2 (1.83%) iPad
2 2 (1.83%) Replication
2 2 (1.83%) Thin Client
3 1 (0.92%) CMDB
3 1 (0.92%) Handset
3 1 (0.92%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.92%) IoT
3 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 68 (62.39%) Windows
2 38 (34.86%) Windows 10
3 9 (8.26%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.59%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.83%) AIX
5 2 (1.83%) Solaris
5 2 (1.83%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (13.76%) Migration
2 8 (7.34%) Data Protection
3 6 (5.50%) Application Packaging
3 6 (5.50%) Change Management
4 5 (4.59%) ITIL
4 5 (4.59%) Load Balancing
4 5 (4.59%) Patch Management
5 4 (3.67%) Software Deployment
6 3 (2.75%) Customer Service
6 3 (2.75%) Data Migration
6 3 (2.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (2.75%) Software Testing
6 3 (2.75%) Test Automation
6 3 (2.75%) Time Management
7 2 (1.83%) High Availability
7 2 (1.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (1.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (1.83%) Service Delivery
7 2 (1.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (1.83%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.09%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.83%) Bash
2 2 (1.83%) Python
3 1 (0.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) Degree
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.83%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.92%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 30 (27.52%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.59%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 5 (4.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (4.59%) XenApp
2 5 (4.59%) XenDesktop
3 3 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.83%) Docker
4 2 (1.83%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 28 (25.69%) SCCM
2 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.59%) Terraform
4 2 (1.83%) Ansible
4 2 (1.83%) EMC TimeFinder
4 2 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.92%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.92%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 24 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) Apple
3 5 (4.59%) Citrix
3 5 (4.59%) Dell
3 5 (4.59%) NetApp
4 4 (3.67%) VMware
5 2 (1.83%) Brocade
5 2 (1.83%) Cisco
5 2 (1.83%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.83%) Dell Compellent
5 2 (1.83%) EMC
5 2 (1.83%) EqualLogic
5 2 (1.83%) Isilon
5 2 (1.83%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.83%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.92%) Canon
6 1 (0.92%) IBM
6 1 (0.92%) MobileIron
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle
6 1 (0.92%) SOTI