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 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 476 540
Rank change year-on-year +94 +64 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 144 107 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.27% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 80 120
10th Percentile £153 £142 £140
25th Percentile £183 £164 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £200 £178
Median % change year-on-year - +12.68% -11.25%
75th Percentile £228 £252 £229
90th Percentile £338 £339 £303
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £200 £175
% change year-on-year - +14.61% -12.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £18.50 - £17.86
25th Percentile £18.51 £11.75 £18.40
Median hourly rate £18.76 £12.50 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% -38.57% +16.29%
75th Percentile £19.63 £13.25 £22.25
90th Percentile £19.85 - £22.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.76 £12.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +50.04% -43.18% +25.71%

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 27,094 40,274 56,187
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,701 26,219 39,262
10th Percentile £300 £276 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,672 1,567
10th Percentile £14.15 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.38
Median hourly rate £28.88 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% -19.07% +94.45%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.22% -6.94% +117.95%

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 3 May 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 3 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
England +90 115 £200 - 23
UK excluding London +94 102 £200 - 20
London +44 35 £325 +31.31% 10
South East +41 23 £200 -20.00% 3
North of England +19 19 £200 -16.67% 7
Midlands +18 18 £200 - 2
West Midlands +18 16 £200 - 2
Scotland +18 14 £188 -10.45% 4
South West +39 13 £200 +11.11% 5
Work from Home +36 9 £273 -16.15% 2
North West +9 8 £200 -16.67% 4
Yorkshire +13 7 £188 - 2
East of England +40 6 £158 -51.54%
Wales +12 6 £200 +20.48%
North East - 4 £200 - 1
Northern Ireland -8 3 £200 -20.00%
East Midlands +9 2 £140 -20.00%

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 94 (65.28%) Windows
2 83 (57.64%) Social Skills
3 47 (32.64%) SCCM
4 44 (30.56%) Microsoft
5 40 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
6 34 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (20.83%) Windows 10
8 24 (16.67%) Active Directory
9 23 (15.97%) Legal
10 22 (15.28%) Microsoft Intune
11 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
11 18 (12.50%) Security Cleared
12 17 (11.81%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (10.42%) Migration
14 13 (9.03%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (9.03%) Customer Service
15 12 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
15 12 (8.33%) Service Management
16 11 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
16 11 (7.64%) Asset Management
17 10 (6.94%) Collaborative Working
18 9 (6.25%) Public Sector
18 9 (6.25%) HP
18 9 (6.25%) ITSM
19 8 (5.56%) Finance
19 8 (5.56%) ITIL
19 8 (5.56%) VPN
19 8 (5.56%) Azure
20 7 (4.86%) Software Deployment
20 7 (4.86%) Logistics

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 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (7.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.39%) 1Password
4 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (5.56%) Azure
3 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 2 (1.39%) GCP
4 2 (1.39%) Google Workspace
4 2 (1.39%) Mimecast
4 2 (1.39%) SaaS
4 2 (1.39%) Slack
5 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.56%) VPN
2 7 (4.86%) Firewall
2 7 (4.86%) Network Security
3 6 (4.17%) BGP
3 6 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (4.17%) EIGRP
3 6 (4.17%) HSRP
3 6 (4.17%) NX-OS
3 6 (4.17%) OSPF
3 6 (4.17%) RIP
3 6 (4.17%) Spanning Tree
3 6 (4.17%) VRRP
3 6 (4.17%) Wireshark
4 3 (2.08%) DNS
4 3 (2.08%) LAN
4 3 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (2.08%) WAN
4 3 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.39%) Skype
5 2 (1.39%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
1 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (0.69%) Subversion
1 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 83 (57.64%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.97%) Legal
3 13 (9.03%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.56%) Finance
6 6 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.47%) Banking
8 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.39%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Automotive
9 1 (0.69%) International Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.69%) OAuth
2 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.69%) OpenID
2 1 (0.69%) SAML
2 1 (0.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.08%) Driving Licence
1 3 (2.08%) NHS
2 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (1.39%) EPoS
2 2 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.39%) iPhone
2 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.69%) Handset
3 1 (0.69%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 94 (65.28%) Windows
2 30 (20.83%) Windows 10
3 7 (4.86%) Linux
4 4 (2.78%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.78%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.39%) Android
6 1 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.69%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (10.42%) Migration
3 13 (9.03%) Customer Service
4 12 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 12 (8.33%) Service Management
5 11 (7.64%) Asset Management
6 10 (6.94%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (6.25%) ITSM
8 8 (5.56%) ITIL
9 7 (4.86%) Logistics
9 7 (4.86%) Software Deployment
10 6 (4.17%) Agile
10 6 (4.17%) Inventory Management
10 6 (4.17%) Matrix Organization
10 6 (4.17%) Mobile Device Management
10 6 (4.17%) Network Monitoring
10 6 (4.17%) Validation
11 4 (2.78%) Configuration Management
11 4 (2.78%) Visualisation
12 3 (2.08%) Disk Encryption
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.17%) PowerShell
2 4 (2.78%) Python
3 2 (1.39%) VB
3 2 (1.39%) VBScript
4 1 (0.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 18 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (4.86%) CCNP
3 7 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.08%) CCNA
5 3 (2.08%) Degree
5 3 (2.08%) MCSE
6 2 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.69%) CCIE
7 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.69%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.69%) JNCIS
7 1 (0.69%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.69%) QA
1 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.08%) BitLocker
2 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (32.64%) SCCM
2 22 (15.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.39%) Ansible
3 2 (1.39%) Terraform
4 1 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 44 (30.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.25%) HP
3 7 (4.86%) Cisco
3 7 (4.86%) Dell
4 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.47%) Apple
6 4 (2.78%) VMware
7 3 (2.08%) Broadcom
7 3 (2.08%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.39%) Adobe
8 2 (1.39%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (1.39%) Datto
8 2 (1.39%) Freshdesk
8 2 (1.39%) Google
8 2 (1.39%) Netskope
8 2 (1.39%) Okta
9 1 (0.69%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.69%) MobileIron
9 1 (0.69%) NetApp
9 1 (0.69%) Salesforce