Octopus Deploy Job Trends in the South East

Octopus Deploy
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Octopus Deploy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 253 297
Rank change year-on-year -55 +44 +7
Permanent jobs citing Octopus Deploy 9 39 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.054% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.20% 6.27% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9 37 39
10th Percentile - £50,750 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +50.00% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £70,250 - £83,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -18.75% +18.52% -10.00%

All Development Application Skills
South East

Octopus Deploy falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 749 622 1,144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.52% 7.17% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 535 398 871
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Octopus Deploy
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Octopus Deploy relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Octopus Deploy job vacancy trend in the South East

Octopus Deploy
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Octopus Deploy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Octopus Deploy within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Surrey -24 6 £65,000 -7.14%
Hampshire - 3 £60,000 -
Octopus Deploy
England

Octopus Deploy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (55.56%) IIS
1 5 (55.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (66.67%) Cloudflare
4 5 (55.56%) Azure AKS
4 5 (55.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (55.56%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (55.56%) Azure Pipelines
4 5 (55.56%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (44.44%) AWS
6 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (33.33%) Datadog
6 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
6 3 (33.33%) Serverless
6 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Loki
2 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) ARM Templates
3 3 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (55.56%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (55.56%) Continuous Deployment
4 5 (55.56%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (55.56%) Microservices
4 5 (55.56%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (33.33%) API Management
6 3 (33.33%) Migration
6 3 (33.33%) Observability
7 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
7 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (11.11%) High Availability
7 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (88.89%) SQL
3 5 (55.56%) Bicep
3 5 (55.56%) C#
4 4 (44.44%) Python
5 3 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 5 (55.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Grafana
1 8 (88.89%) Prometheus
2 6 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 3 (33.33%) Scalr
5 1 (11.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) EMC
2 1 (11.11%) New Relic
2 1 (11.11%) VMware