Deployment Engineer Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Deployment Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Deployment Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 564 572
Rank change year-on-year +63 +8 +182
Permanent jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 8 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.006% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.006% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £41,450 - -
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £43,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.43% - -
75th Percentile - £44,250 -
90th Percentile £66,500 - -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £48,500 -
% change year-on-year +13.40% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 38,388 33,377 32,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.52% 92.91% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,454 16,215 24,936
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,609 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% +5.22% -5.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

Deployment Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Deployment Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Deployment Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Deployment Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for Deployment Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Salary distribution trend for Deployment Engineer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Deployment Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Deployment Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Deployment Engineer in the UK excluding London

Deployment Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Deployment Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +24 6 £54,250 +24.71% 2
North of England +12 6 £54,250 +24.71% 7
South East - 1 - - 13
Scotland - 1 £65,000 - 2
Deployment Engineer
UK

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Deployment Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Deployment Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) AI
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) ATM
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) ChatGPT
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (12.50%) Google Gemini
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) KVM
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Multicast
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture

Deployment Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (12.50%) ChatGPT
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Google Gemini
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) ATM
1 1 (12.50%) Multicast
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) tcpdump
1 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
General
1 5 (62.50%) Aerospace
1 5 (62.50%) Automotive
2 4 (50.00%) Aeronautics
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) CCTV
1 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) AI
1 1 (12.50%) Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (12.50%) Fraud Detection
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
1 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
1 1 (12.50%) Security Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) KVM
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) VMware