Octopus Deploy Contract Job Trends in England

Octopus Deploy
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Octopus Deploy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 561 447 512
Rank change year-on-year -114 +65 +56
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 16 22 30
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.040% 0.090% 0.081%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.32% 0.66% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 23
10th Percentile £373 £327 £395
25th Percentile £513 £391 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year +14.63% -18.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £763 £681 £725
90th Percentile £808 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +6.82% -12.00% -10.71%

All Development Application Skills
England

Octopus Deploy falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,992 3,337 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.62% 13.61% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 2,244 2,884
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 62 168
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.54 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £50.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.19 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

Octopus Deploy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Octopus Deploy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Octopus Deploy job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Octopus Deploy.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Octopus Deploy

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Octopus Deploy in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Octopus Deploy in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Octopus Deploy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Octopus Deploy within the England region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -65 13 £663 +20.45% 5
North of England -63 3 £358 -25.22% 2
North West -46 2 £358 -
Yorkshire -65 1 - -
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UK

Octopus Deploy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) Datadog
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) Redis
3 4 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) TeamCity
2 4 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Banking
2 6 (37.50%) Investment Banking
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Front Office
4 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) C# Developer
3 5 (31.25%) C# Developer - Commodities
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Delphi Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Configuration Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
6 1 (6.25%) C# Quant Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Database Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead
6 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 2 (12.50%) React
3 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Low-Code
2 1 (6.25%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Microservices
2 4 (25.00%) Clean Code
2 4 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 4 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (12.50%) Low Latency
4 2 (12.50%) Multithreading
5 1 (6.25%) Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Change Management
5 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
5 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.25%) Quantitative Research
5 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.25%) Task Automation
5 1 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) Delphi
3 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) DevExpress
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) UiPath