Octopus Deploy Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Octopus Deploy
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Octopus Deploy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 337 405
Rank change year-on-year -54 +68 +61
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 1 26 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.16% 0.082%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.039% 1.25% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 13
10th Percentile - £350 £501
25th Percentile £463 £375 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £488 £613 £583
90th Percentile - £656 £628
UK median daily rate £506 £600 £546
% change year-on-year -15.63% +9.84% -0.68%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,539 2,088 2,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.18% 12.55% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,747 1,240 1,740
10th Percentile £313 £337 £358
25th Percentile £400 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £509
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -4.18% -3.10%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £633 £653 £672
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £544
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.32% -2.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 124 200
10th Percentile £16.84 £41.63 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.31 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

Octopus Deploy
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Octopus Deploy job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Octopus Deploy
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Octopus Deploy
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Octopus Deploy.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
East of England - 1 £475 -
Octopus Deploy
UK

Octopus Deploy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SaltStack