Hybrid/Remote Octopus Deploy Job Trends

Octopus Deploy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work 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 452 391 422
Rank change year-on-year -61 +31 +23
Permanent jobs citing Octopus Deploy 7 27 70
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.029% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.46% 1.83% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 39
10th Percentile £58,500 £58,500 £52,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +17.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £70,500 - £84,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.77% +1.79% -3.45%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,521 1,473 2,482
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.35% 9.05% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 994 906 1,514
10th Percentile £38,836 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,875 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +5.02% -10.82%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

Octopus Deploy
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Octopus Deploy and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Octopus Deploy job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Octopus Deploy
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Octopus Deploy.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Octopus Deploy

Octopus Deploy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (71.43%) IIS
1 5 (71.43%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Cloudflare
3 5 (71.43%) Azure AKS
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Monitor
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Pipelines
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) IaaS
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
1 5 (71.43%) ARM Templates
1 5 (71.43%) Loki
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Deployment
3 5 (71.43%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 1 (14.29%) High Availability
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (71.43%) Bicep
2 5 (71.43%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 5 (71.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Grafana
2 5 (71.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
2 1 (14.29%) New Relic
2 1 (14.29%) VMware