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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 355 377
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 +70
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 16 18 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.12% 0.12% 0.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.72% 0.82% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 36
10th Percentile £308 £459 £384
25th Percentile £438 £575 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £700 £571
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +22.54% -0.65%
75th Percentile £600 £738 £713
90th Percentile £701 £750 £750
England median daily rate £525 £619 £568
% change year-on-year -15.15% +9.03% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +50.00%

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 2,225 2,203 2,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.15% 14.11% 13.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 1,459 2,045
10th Percentile £356 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £666 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 28
10th Percentile £39.95 £25.63 £28.73
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.71 £40.16
Median hourly rate £56.50 £35.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.12% -35.85% +24.69%
75th Percentile £88.75 £55.76 £73.68
90th Percentile £110.00 £66.34 £80.22
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 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
Central London +1 4 - - 8
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 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) Redis
3 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (6.25%) AppVeyor
4 1 (6.25%) Moq
4 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (50.00%) Banking
2 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 7 (43.75%) Investment Banking
3 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) C# Developer
3 3 (18.75%) C# Developer - Commodities
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Delphi Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (6.25%) Playwright
2 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Microservices
2 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 2 (12.50%) ITSM
5 2 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (6.25%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.25%) Distributed Cache
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (6.25%) SOLID
6 1 (6.25%) Sprint Planning
6 1 (6.25%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (6.25%) Sprint Review
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C#
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) Bash
4 2 (12.50%) Bicep
4 2 (12.50%) Delphi
4 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) DevExpress
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle