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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 334 372
Rank change year-on-year -67 +38 +64
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 14 16 22
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.080% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.59% 0.87% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 16
10th Percentile £513 £313 £500
25th Percentile £550 £356 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £750
90th Percentile £813 - £844
England median daily rate £663 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +20.45% -12.00% -12.28%

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 2,373 1,835 2,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.53% 14.40% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,581 1,240 1,660
10th Percentile £350 £349 £363
25th Percentile £416 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 25
10th Percentile - £22.93 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.99
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -22.58% -32.61%
75th Percentile £72.63 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.88 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.97%

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 25 April 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 25 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
Central London -15 2 £890 - 1
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
2 1 (7.14%) Datadog
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (57.14%) Redis
3 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
3 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) TeamCity
2 3 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (57.14%) Banking
1 8 (57.14%) Investment Banking
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (50.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Developer
2 9 (64.29%) C# Developer
3 5 (35.71%) C# Developer - Commodities
4 4 (28.57%) .NET Developer
4 4 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Delphi Developer
6 2 (14.29%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 1 (7.14%) C# Quant Developer
7 1 (7.14%) Front Office Developer
7 1 (7.14%) Lead
7 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
2 3 (21.43%) React
3 1 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
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 6 (42.86%) Clean Code
2 6 (42.86%) Refactoring
3 3 (21.43%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (21.43%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (21.43%) Low Latency
3 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
3 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.14%) Observability
5 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Research
5 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Runbook
5 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) C#
2 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Delphi
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Python
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 3 (21.43%) DevExpress
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) UiPath