Release Automation Contracts in England

Release Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Release Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Automation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 635 731
Rank change year-on-year +116 +96 -193
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 18 27 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.054% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.060% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 27
10th Percentile £493 £570 £424
25th Percentile £513 £594 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £704 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +21.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £710 £798 £650
90th Percentile £726 - £700
UK median daily rate £704 £663 £525
% change year-on-year +6.26% +26.19% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Release Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,086 45,187 64,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.18% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 31,727 45,864
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,594 1,765
10th Percentile £12.96 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.69
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Release Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Automation in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. 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
London +86 14 £707 +1.00%
South East - 3 £525 -
North of England +28 1 - - 2
Yorkshire +21 1 - - 2
Release Automation
UK

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (16.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 4 (22.22%) PaaS
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (27.78%) Bitbucket
2 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (16.67%) Robot Framework
2 3 (16.67%) Selenium
2 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Release Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Telecoms Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) CSS
1 3 (16.67%) HTML
1 3 (16.67%) JSON
1 3 (16.67%) YAML
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Swagger
2 2 (11.11%) WebSockets
3 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (44.44%) Agile
5 6 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (33.33%) Release Management
6 5 (27.78%) Code Quality
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 3 (16.67%) Kanban
7 3 (16.67%) Microservices
7 3 (16.67%) Scrum
7 3 (16.67%) SDLC
7 3 (16.67%) TDD
8 2 (11.11%) API Design
8 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 2 (11.11%) Runbook
8 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Netcool
2 3 (16.67%) Puppet
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Salesforce
3 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 2 (11.11%) Atlassian
5 1 (5.56%) BMC
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (5.56%) Remedy
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow