Octopus Deploy Contracts

Octopus Deploy
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Octopus Deploy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Octopus Deploy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 629 629
Rank change year-on-year +61 0 -134
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 30 90 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.59% 0.99% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 73 195
10th Percentile £395 £450 £425
25th Percentile £500 £513 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £788 £663
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Octopus Deploy is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

Octopus Deploy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Octopus Deploy in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Octopus Deploy.

Daily rate trend for Octopus Deploy in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Octopus Deploy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Octopus Deploy in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Octopus Deploy.

Hourly rate trend for Octopus Deploy in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +70 28 £625 -12.28% 33
London +58 21 £675 -6.90% 16
UK excluding London +55 8 £450 -10.00% 18
Work from Home +104 7 £500 -23.08% 21
North of England +26 3 £500 +2.56% 8
South West +19 3 £319 -39.29%
North West +13 3 £500 +2.56% 3
Scotland - 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £400 - 4
Midlands - 1 £400 - 4

Octopus Deploy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) EPiServer
1 2 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) IntelliMatch
1 3 (10.00%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (16.67%) GitHub
4 3 (10.00%) AWS
4 3 (10.00%) PaaS
4 3 (10.00%) Sumo Logic
5 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.33%) IaaS
6 1 (3.33%) npm
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (56.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.33%) Redis
4 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.33%) Couchbase
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 27 (90.00%) TeamCity
2 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (20.00%) Git
3 6 (20.00%) NUnit
3 6 (20.00%) Selenium
4 2 (6.67%) Jasmine
4 2 (6.67%) JIRA
4 2 (6.67%) SpecFlow
4 2 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (6.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.33%) Gradle
5 1 (3.33%) gulp
5 1 (3.33%) Hudson
5 1 (3.33%) Maven
5 1 (3.33%) Spock
5 1 (3.33%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Banking
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Agriculture
5 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (66.67%) Developer
2 16 (53.33%) C# Developer
3 11 (36.67%) .NET Developer
4 7 (23.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (20.00%) Angular Developer
6 5 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
6 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack C# Developer
6 5 (16.67%) SQL Developer
7 4 (13.33%) Full Stack .NET Developer
8 3 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
8 3 (10.00%) Developer in Test
8 3 (10.00%) Report Developer
8 3 (10.00%) Senior
8 3 (10.00%) Software Developer
8 3 (10.00%) SSIS Developer
8 3 (10.00%) SSRS Developer
9 2 (6.67%) Architect
9 2 (6.67%) C# Architect
9 2 (6.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (56.67%) .NET
2 11 (36.67%) .NET Core
2 11 (36.67%) AngularJS
3 8 (26.67%) Entity Framework
3 8 (26.67%) jQuery
4 7 (23.33%) .NET Framework
4 7 (23.33%) JSON
5 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (20.00%) WCF
6 5 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
6 5 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (16.67%) REST
7 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (10.00%) MassTransit
8 2 (6.67%) gRPC
8 2 (6.67%) HTML
8 2 (6.67%) Kafka
8 2 (6.67%) LINQ
9 1 (3.33%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Derivative
2 4 (13.33%) Equities
2 4 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 4 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
1 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) MVC
2 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (30.00%) TDD
3 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 8 (26.67%) Agile
4 8 (26.67%) DevOps
5 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (23.33%) Microservices
6 6 (20.00%) Line Management
7 5 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) SDET
8 4 (13.33%) Fintech
8 4 (13.33%) Scrum
9 3 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
10 2 (6.67%) Computer Science
10 2 (6.67%) Software Architecture
10 2 (6.67%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) C#
2 19 (63.33%) SQL
3 10 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
5 6 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 3 (10.00%) C
6 3 (10.00%) Java
6 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.67%) Groovy
7 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.33%) Bash
8 1 (3.33%) Bicep
8 1 (3.33%) Go
8 1 (3.33%) PHP
8 1 (3.33%) Python
8 1 (3.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.67%) MiFID
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Ansible
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Grafana
2 2 (6.67%) Kibana
2 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) logstash
2 2 (6.67%) Packer
2 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) IBM
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Bloomberg
3 3 (10.00%) ION Trading
4 2 (6.67%) Optimizely
5 1 (3.33%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (3.33%) SAP