Deployment Manager Contracts

Deployment Manager
UK

The median Deployment Manager daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 522 556 679
Rank change year-on-year +34 +123 +119
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Manager 16 21 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.048% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.052% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 8
10th Percentile £353 £408 £462
25th Percentile £450 £425 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £615
90th Percentile £716 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £415 £675
% change year-on-year +35.54% -38.52% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.00 -

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 27,724 40,402 52,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 92.96% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,773 25,924 36,491
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
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% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,210 2,937 1,505
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.37 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%
75th Percentile £57.44 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

Deployment Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Deployment Manager in the UK

Deployment Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Deployment Manager in the UK

Deployment Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deployment Manager over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deployment Manager in the UK

Deployment Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Deployment Manager in the UK

Deployment Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +57 16 £500 -10.31% 13
Work from Home +37 8 £550 - 6
London +49 7 £525 -12.50% 3
UK excluding London +48 5 £563 +35.54% 8
South East +48 2 £488 +39.29% 1
North of England +27 1 £600 - 3
East of England +23 1 - - 1
North West +8 1 £600 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £575 -
Midlands - 1 £575 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Deployment Manager 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 Manager in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Stakeholder Management
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Migration
4 5 (31.25%) Project Management
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
5 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (25.00%) Marketing
5 4 (25.00%) CMS
5 4 (25.00%) Finance
6 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
6 3 (18.75%) Change Management
6 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
6 3 (18.75%) SAP
6 3 (18.75%) Windows
6 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
7 2 (12.50%) Cost Management
7 2 (12.50%) Contentful
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (12.50%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (12.50%) PMO
7 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (12.50%) Software Deployment
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps

Deployment Manager 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 4 (25.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Contentful
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Datadog
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) 2G
1 1 (6.25%) 3G
1 1 (6.25%) 4G
1 1 (6.25%) 5G
1 1 (6.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
5 2 (12.50%) Electronics
5 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 2 (12.50%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) EPoS
2 1 (6.25%) LIMS
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Migration
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Project Management
5 4 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (18.75%) Change Management
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
6 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
7 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (12.50%) Cost Management
7 2 (12.50%) CRM
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 2 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (12.50%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) APMG
2 1 (6.25%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk