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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 350 371
Rank change year-on-year -74 +21 +57
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 14 18 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.070% 0.13% 0.084%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.86% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 13
10th Percentile £493 £308 £500
25th Percentile £638 £388 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year +20.83% -14.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile £763 £750 £750
90th Percentile £813 - -
England median daily rate £725 £550 £638
% change year-on-year +31.82% -13.73% +2.00%

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 2,488 2,100 2,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.44% 15.37% 14.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 1,425 1,657
10th Percentile £363 £343 £363
25th Percentile £433 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £754 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 24
10th Percentile - £26.04 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.50 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.63 £71.25
90th Percentile £83.95 £88.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 - 2 £808 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) NuGet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (71.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) TeamCity
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
3 1 (7.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) MSBuild
General
1 10 (71.43%) Front Office
2 9 (64.29%) Finance
3 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
4 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 5 (35.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) C# Developer
1 10 (71.43%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) C# Developer - Commodities
2 5 (35.71%) Front Office Developer
3 3 (21.43%) .NET Developer
3 3 (21.43%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (14.29%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
4 2 (14.29%) Electronic Trading Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Build Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) C# Quant Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 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%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Derivative
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (35.71%) Clean Code
2 5 (35.71%) Refactoring
3 3 (21.43%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Electronic Trading
3 3 (21.43%) Low Latency
3 3 (21.43%) Multithreading
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Artefact Management
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (7.14%) Observability
5 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Research
5 1 (7.14%) SDLC
5 1 (7.14%) Secure Coding
5 1 (7.14%) Software Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) C#
2 10 (71.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) CodeQL
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
1 1 (7.14%) New Relic
1 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
1 1 (7.14%) Splunk