Deployment Engineer Contracts

Deployment Engineer
UK

The median Deployment Engineer daily rate in the UK is £210 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 553 599
Rank change year-on-year +64 +46 -77
Contract jobs requiring a Deployment Engineer 102 153 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.28% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 109 184
10th Percentile £141 £140 £126
25th Percentile £166 £160 £149
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £188 £200
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £259 £228 £238
90th Percentile £344 £306 £313
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £183 £200
% change year-on-year +9.59% -8.75% +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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +73 87 £223 +11.25% 7
UK excluding London -2 64 £200 +9.59% 6
London +92 35 £248 +37.50% 1
Midlands +31 17 £200 +5.26% 1
South East +16 16 £250 +21.95% 4
Work from Home +133 15 £350 +75.00% 3
North of England +18 11 £240 +23.08% 1
West Midlands +22 10 £200 +9.59% 1
North West +18 9 £240 +41.18% 1
East Midlands +20 7 £175 -12.50%
Scotland +32 6 £200 +25.00%
Northern Ireland +9 5 £250 -
South West +2 4 £200 -
East of England -1 4 £325 +85.98%
Yorkshire +10 2 - -
Wales +17 1 £166 -17.00%

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 63 (61.76%) Windows
2 34 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 27 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 27 (26.47%) Active Directory
4 26 (25.49%) SCCM
5 23 (22.55%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (20.59%) Microsoft
7 15 (14.71%) Migration
7 15 (14.71%) Security Cleared
8 14 (13.73%) Azure
9 11 (10.78%) Legal
10 10 (9.80%) PowerShell
10 10 (9.80%) Public Sector
11 9 (8.82%) Windows Server
11 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
11 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
12 8 (7.84%) DNS
13 7 (6.86%) Apple
14 6 (5.88%) NHS
14 6 (5.88%) Change Management
14 6 (5.88%) Data Protection
14 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (4.90%) NetScaler
15 5 (4.90%) XenApp
15 5 (4.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 5 (4.90%) XenDesktop
15 5 (4.90%) OneDrive
15 5 (4.90%) Patch Management
15 5 (4.90%) Application Packaging
15 5 (4.90%) Load Balancing

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 9 (8.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.98%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (0.98%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.55%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (13.73%) Azure
3 5 (4.90%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (4.90%) OneDrive
4 4 (3.92%) AWS
4 4 (3.92%) Entra ID
5 3 (2.94%) Akamai
6 2 (1.96%) GCP
6 2 (1.96%) GitHub
6 2 (1.96%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.98%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.98%) PaaS
7 1 (0.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) DNS
2 5 (4.90%) NetScaler
3 4 (3.92%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.94%) LAN
5 2 (1.96%) Firewall
6 1 (0.98%) HTTP
6 1 (0.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.98%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 27 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.78%) Legal
3 10 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.94%) Finance
6 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Retail
7 1 (0.98%) Banking
7 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.96%) Node.js
1 2 (1.96%) OAuth
1 2 (1.96%) OAuth2
1 2 (1.96%) RESTful
2 1 (0.98%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.98%) J2EE
2 1 (0.98%) JWT
2 1 (0.98%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) NHS
2 2 (1.96%) Clustering
2 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
2 2 (1.96%) EMC VNX
2 2 (1.96%) EPoS
2 2 (1.96%) Fat Client
2 2 (1.96%) Replication
2 2 (1.96%) Thin Client
3 1 (0.98%) CMDB
3 1 (0.98%) Handset
3 1 (0.98%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.98%) IoT
3 1 (0.98%) iPad
3 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
3 1 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 63 (61.76%) Windows
2 34 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 9 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.92%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.96%) AIX
5 2 (1.96%) Solaris
5 2 (1.96%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (14.71%) Migration
2 6 (5.88%) Change Management
2 6 (5.88%) Data Protection
3 5 (4.90%) Application Packaging
3 5 (4.90%) ITIL
3 5 (4.90%) Load Balancing
3 5 (4.90%) Patch Management
4 4 (3.92%) Asset Management
4 4 (3.92%) Customer Service
4 4 (3.92%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (3.92%) Software Deployment
5 3 (2.94%) Data Migration
5 3 (2.94%) Software Testing
5 3 (2.94%) Test Automation
5 3 (2.94%) Time Management
6 2 (1.96%) High Availability
6 2 (1.96%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (1.96%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (1.96%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (1.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.80%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.96%) Bash
2 2 (1.96%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.96%) Degree
4 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 27 (26.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.90%) Citrix Hypervisor
2 5 (4.90%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (4.90%) XenApp
2 5 (4.90%) XenDesktop
3 3 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.96%) Docker
4 2 (1.96%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 26 (25.49%) SCCM
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (4.90%) Terraform
4 2 (1.96%) Ansible
4 2 (1.96%) EMC TimeFinder
4 2 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.98%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.98%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 21 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.86%) Apple
3 5 (4.90%) Citrix
3 5 (4.90%) NetApp
4 4 (3.92%) Dell
4 4 (3.92%) VMware
5 2 (1.96%) Brocade
5 2 (1.96%) Cisco
5 2 (1.96%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (1.96%) Dell Compellent
5 2 (1.96%) EMC
5 2 (1.96%) EqualLogic
5 2 (1.96%) Isilon
5 2 (1.96%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.98%) Canon
6 1 (0.98%) IBM
6 1 (0.98%) Ivanti
6 1 (0.98%) Leostream
6 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.98%) SOTI