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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 628 504 490
Rank change year-on-year -124 -14 +44
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 17 19 38
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.036% 0.068% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.31% 0.44% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 23
10th Percentile £476 £308 £385
25th Percentile £525 £344 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £519 £638
Median % change year-on-year +22.17% -18.63% +12.33%
75th Percentile £731 £694 £738
90th Percentile £755 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £634 £519 £600
% change year-on-year +22.17% -13.54% +14.29%

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 5,434 4,282 4,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.60% 15.22% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,446 2,979 2,695
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 97 159
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.90 £41.51
25th Percentile £50.67 £50.00 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.68 £76.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -104 15 £650 +18.18% 37
South East - 1 - - 6
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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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Headless CMS
2 1 (5.88%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub
3 4 (23.53%) NuGet
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.88%) Datadog
5 1 (5.88%) dbt
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) Redis
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) TeamCity
2 5 (29.41%) Git
3 4 (23.53%) Artifactory
4 2 (11.76%) MSBuild
5 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.88%) GitLab
5 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.88%) Maven
5 1 (5.88%) NUnit
5 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (52.94%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Front Office
3 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 6 (35.29%) C# Developer
3 5 (29.41%) Front Office Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Build Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) C# Developer - Commodities
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (5.88%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Electronic Trading Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Sitecore Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) .NET Framework
3 3 (17.65%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
5 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
5 1 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (5.88%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Derivative
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.76%) AI Agents
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Deployment Automation
3 6 (35.29%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (17.65%) SBOM
6 3 (17.65%) Secure Coding
6 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
6 3 (17.65%) Static Application Security Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Clean Code
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Observability
7 2 (11.76%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) CodeQL
6 2 (11.76%) Bash
6 2 (11.76%) Java
6 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.88%) Go
7 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Argo
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 2 (11.76%) CyberArk
2 2 (11.76%) New Relic
3 1 (5.88%) EMC
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Sitecore
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) VMware