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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 370 414
Rank change year-on-year +28 +44 +79
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 20 14 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.086% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.94% 0.59% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 21
10th Percentile £308 £500 £343
25th Percentile £419 £558 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £713 £615
Median % change year-on-year -22.81% +15.85% +6.96%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £725
90th Percentile - £750 £750
England median daily rate £550 £700 £568
% change year-on-year -21.37% +23.26% +7.23%
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 2,128 2,391 3,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.83% 14.68% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,611 2,356
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £769 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Octopus Deploy
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Octopus Deploy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Octopus Deploy 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -3 1 - -
Octopus Deploy
England

Octopus Deploy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (35.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Moq
3 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (45.00%) Banking
1 9 (45.00%) Investment Banking
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) C# Developer
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) C# Developer - Commodities
3 5 (25.00%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Developer
4 4 (20.00%) Site Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Environment Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Release Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Derivative
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
2 9 (45.00%) Microservices
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.00%) ITSM
6 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Re-Platforming
7 1 (5.00%) Containerisation
7 1 (5.00%) Distributed Cache
7 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven
7 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (5.00%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (5.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 1 (5.00%) Sprint Review
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) C#
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 7 (35.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) Bicep
6 1 (5.00%) Python
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL