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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 508 555
Rank change year-on-year +27 +47 +63
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 20 25 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.072% 0.076% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.48% 0.57% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 37
10th Percentile £308 £495 £440
25th Percentile £419 £538 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £568
Median % change year-on-year -21.37% +23.26% +7.23%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £683
90th Percentile - £750 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £700 £525
% change year-on-year -21.37% +33.24% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
UK median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

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 4,134 4,364 5,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 13.35% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,803 3,930
10th Percentile £325 £353 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -2.74%
75th Percentile £603 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 168 227
10th Percentile £44.63 £37.31 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.27 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.75
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Octopus Deploy
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Octopus Deploy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Octopus Deploy in England

Octopus Deploy
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

Octopus Deploy
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Octopus Deploy in England over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Octopus Deploy in England

Octopus Deploy
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 17 September 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
London +32 20 £550 -22.81% 16
Octopus Deploy
UK

Octopus Deploy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (35.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Moq
3 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (45.00%) Banking
1 9 (45.00%) Investment Banking
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) C# Developer
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) C# Developer - Commodities
3 5 (25.00%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Site Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Environment Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Release Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Microservices
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.00%) ITSM
6 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Re-Platforming
7 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
7 1 (5.00%) Distributed Cache
7 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven
7 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (5.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 1 (5.00%) Sprint Review
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) C#
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) Bicep
6 1 (5.00%) Python
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL