Octopus Deploy Job Trends

Octopus Deploy
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Octopus Deploy skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 772 602 661
Rank change year-on-year -170 +59 -41
Permanent jobs citing Octopus Deploy 21 71 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.47% 1.88% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 14 68 80
10th Percentile £56,625 £51,975 £50,750
25th Percentile £58,125 £52,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £70,938 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £100,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +3.85%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,502 3,778 6,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.97% 7.62% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,860 2,253 3,944
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,650 £38,575
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,218 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.49% +4.03% -6.78%

Octopus Deploy
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Octopus Deploy job vacancy trend in the UK

Octopus Deploy
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Octopus Deploy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Octopus Deploy over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Octopus Deploy in the UK

Octopus Deploy
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Octopus Deploy within the UK over the 6 months to 13 September 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
England -133 21 £65,000 -21.21% 45
UK excluding London -143 17 £65,000 +8.33% 10
South East -62 8 £65,000 -21.21% 2
Work from Home -61 7 £65,000 -21.21% 22
North of England -54 4 £70,000 +16.67% 3
London -58 4 £70,000 -30.00% 34
North East -59 3 £70,000 +16.67% 1
Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands - 3 - -
South West -69 2 £47,500 -36.67% 4
North West -14 1 - - 2

Octopus Deploy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (23.81%) IIS
1 5 (23.81%) nginx
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.76%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) Azure
2 14 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) AWS
4 7 (33.33%) GitHub
5 6 (28.57%) Cloudflare
6 5 (23.81%) Azure AKS
6 5 (23.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 5 (23.81%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (23.81%) Azure Pipelines
6 5 (23.81%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (23.81%) GCP
7 3 (14.29%) Serverless
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (9.52%) Datadog
8 2 (9.52%) dbt
8 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
8 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) SQL Server
2 7 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (23.81%) Delta Lake
4 3 (14.29%) Parquet
5 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (9.52%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
1 4 (19.05%) TeamCity
2 3 (14.29%) Artifactory
2 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 3 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 2 (9.52%) CircleCI
3 2 (9.52%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) JMeter
4 1 (4.76%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.76%) Postman
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.76%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.76%) TestRail
4 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Legal
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing
3 2 (9.52%) Retail
4 1 (4.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Terraform
2 8 (38.10%) .NET
3 7 (33.33%) Loki
4 5 (23.81%) ARM Templates
5 3 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (14.29%) PySpark
6 2 (9.52%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (9.52%) OpenTofu
6 2 (9.52%) Pandas
6 2 (9.52%) Streamlit
6 2 (9.52%) YAML
7 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
7 1 (4.76%) CSS
7 1 (4.76%) CSS3
7 1 (4.76%) HTML
7 1 (4.76%) HTML5
7 1 (4.76%) JSON
7 1 (4.76%) React
7 1 (4.76%) RESTful
7 1 (4.76%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
1 9 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (80.95%) DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) Analytics
4 8 (38.10%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
6 6 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
6 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
7 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
7 5 (23.81%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (23.81%) Microservices
7 5 (23.81%) Validation
8 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (19.05%) Observability
9 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (14.29%) Data Science
9 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 3 (14.29%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) SQL
2 13 (61.90%) Python
3 12 (57.14%) PowerShell
4 10 (47.62%) C#
5 5 (23.81%) Bicep
6 3 (14.29%) Bash
6 3 (14.29%) Java
7 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
8 1 (4.76%) Go
8 1 (4.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) Docker
2 5 (23.81%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (47.62%) Grafana
3 7 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (14.29%) Ansible
4 3 (14.29%) Control-M
4 3 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (9.52%) Argo
5 2 (9.52%) Scalr
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) VMware
3 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
4 2 (9.52%) Databricks
4 2 (9.52%) New Relic
5 1 (4.76%) Adobe
5 1 (4.76%) EMC
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce