Octopus Deploy Contract Job Trends in London

Octopus Deploy
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Octopus Deploy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 339 350
Rank change year-on-year -45 +11 +66
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 14 13 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.086% 0.10% 0.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.59% 0.72% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 34
10th Percentile - £347 £465
25th Percentile £513 £366 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £513 £660
Median % change year-on-year +29.27% -22.35% -8.97%
75th Percentile £775 £625 £750
90th Percentile £837 £678 -
England median daily rate £525 £463 £625
% change year-on-year +13.51% -26.00% -

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,357 1,817 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.55% 14.07% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,597 1,238 1,671
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -6.19% -5.83%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.25% -4.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 19
10th Percentile - £22.93 £24.40
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £28.98
Median hourly rate £44.75 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.17% -29.41% -26.09%
75th Percentile £81.31 £71.25 £62.88
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.50 £73.67
England median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.20% -3.85% +5.69%

Octopus Deploy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Octopus Deploy job vacancy trend in London

Octopus Deploy
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Octopus Deploy
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Octopus Deploy in London over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Octopus Deploy in London

Octopus Deploy
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Central London -14 4 £890 -
Octopus Deploy
England

Octopus Deploy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (7.14%) Datadog
2 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (50.00%) Redis
3 4 (28.57%) RDBMS
3 4 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) TeamCity
2 4 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 4 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (7.14%) AppVeyor
General
1 8 (57.14%) Banking
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) C# Developer
3 4 (28.57%) C# Developer - Commodities
4 3 (21.43%) Delphi Developer
5 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 2 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (7.14%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
6 1 (7.14%) C# Quant Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead
6 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 2 (14.29%) React
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Microservices
2 5 (35.71%) SDLC
3 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
3 3 (21.43%) Refactoring
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Concurrent Programming
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 2 (14.29%) Multithreading
5 1 (7.14%) Coaching
5 1 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Experience
5 1 (7.14%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Research
5 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Runbook
5 1 (7.14%) SDET
5 1 (7.14%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Delphi
3 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) DevExpress
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) UiPath