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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 480 516
Rank change year-on-year -44 +36 +61
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 20 42 65
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.066% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.43% 1.02% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 51
10th Percentile £358 £385 £450
25th Percentile £472 £447 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £568
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.73% +3.18%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £679
90th Percentile £675 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £588 £568
% change year-on-year -10.64% +3.52% +3.18%
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 4,660 4,111 4,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 13.08% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,248 2,544 3,538
10th Percentile £328 £348 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £647
90th Percentile £695 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 118 223
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.94
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% +5.69%

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

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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +12 16 £538 -23.21% 6
North of England -43 3 £358 -37.74% 4
North West -24 2 £358 -43.82% 3
Yorkshire -31 1 - -
East of England - 1 £475 - 1
Octopus Deploy
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 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.00%) Route 53
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (30.00%) Redis
3 4 (20.00%) RDBMS
3 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 7 (35.00%) Git
3 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 4 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.00%) AppVeyor
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Moq
4 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Banking
3 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 7 (35.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) C# Developer
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) C# Developer - Commodities
4 3 (15.00%) Delphi Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Configuration Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Software Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Database Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 1 (5.00%) LDAP
3 1 (5.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) WCF
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Microservices
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) SDLC
3 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Re-Platforming
6 1 (5.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (5.00%) Customer Experience
6 1 (5.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 1 (5.00%) Distributed Cache
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.00%) Software Testing
6 1 (5.00%) SOLID
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Optimisation
6 1 (5.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) C#
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) Delphi
4 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (15.00%) Bash
5 3 (15.00%) Python
6 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Nagios
1 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (5.00%) Puppet
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) DevExpress
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) SaltStack