Octopus Deploy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Octopus Deploy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 338 442
Rank change year-on-year +46 +104 +48
Contract jobs citing Octopus Deploy 12 7 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.046% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.81% 0.38% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 28
10th Percentile £431 £370 £468
25th Percentile £491 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -21.57% +21.43%
75th Percentile - £938 £750
90th Percentile £588 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £700
% change year-on-year -10.20% -12.50% +27.27%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Octopus Deploy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Octopus Deploy as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Octopus Deploy trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Octopus Deploy
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Octopus Deploy.

Octopus Deploy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Octopus Deploy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Octopus Deploy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Octopus Deploy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Octopus Deploy
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) Spinnaker
2 3 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) NUnit
3 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Release Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Environment Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Migration Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Release Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Release Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) HTML5
1 2 (16.67%) WCF
1 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) CSS3
2 1 (8.33%) jQuery
2 1 (8.33%) MSMQ
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) WPF
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Release Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (16.67%) MVC
7 1 (8.33%) Change Management
7 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
7 1 (8.33%) Microservices
7 1 (8.33%) Migration
7 1 (8.33%) MVVM
7 1 (8.33%) OOP
7 1 (8.33%) OWASP
7 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 3 (25.00%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) MCAD
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft