Octopus Deploy Contracts

Octopus Deploy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Octopus Deploy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Octopus Deploy over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 570 622
Rank change year-on-year +79 +52 +17
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 28 30 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.069% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.68% 0.58% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 23 74
10th Percentile £351 £395 £450
25th Percentile £453 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £703 £700 £778
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £523
% change year-on-year +5.56% -13.88% +4.50%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

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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 30 April 2025.

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 8 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 30 April 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
England +57 22 £550 -12.00% 49
London +31 17 £650 -3.70% 30
Work from Home +55 12 £550 +10.00% 34
UK excluding London +51 5 £475 +5.56% 20
North of England +28 3 £479 -4.25% 5
South East - 2 £475 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £479 -
North West +9 1 - - 4

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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 (7.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.00%) Redis
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) TeamCity
3 3 (10.71%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.71%) Spinnaker
3 3 (10.71%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (7.14%) NUnit
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 8 (28.57%) Banking
4 7 (25.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Arabic Language
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Developer
2 8 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 7 (25.00%) C# Developer - Commodities
4 6 (21.43%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
5 5 (17.86%) SQL Developer
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Site Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Analyst
8 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Lead
8 2 (7.14%) Release Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Applications Support
9 1 (3.57%) Consultant
9 1 (3.57%) Senior
9 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
9 1 (3.57%) Software Engineer
9 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.14%) HTML
3 2 (7.14%) HTML5
3 2 (7.14%) WCF
3 2 (7.14%) Web Services
3 2 (7.14%) YAML
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) CSS
4 1 (3.57%) CSS3
4 1 (3.57%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.57%) jQuery
4 1 (3.57%) JSON
4 1 (3.57%) Kendo UI
4 1 (3.57%) MSMQ
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Derivative
2 3 (10.71%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Linux
4 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) DevOps
2 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
3 8 (28.57%) Microservices
4 6 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
6 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Release Automation
6 3 (10.71%) Software Delivery
7 2 (7.14%) Change Management
7 2 (7.14%) Incident Management
7 2 (7.14%) ITSM
7 2 (7.14%) MVC
7 2 (7.14%) Unit Testing
8 1 (3.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) C#
2 14 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) Bash
4 6 (21.43%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.57%) MCAD
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) HL7
1 1 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Argo
2 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) VMware