Release Automation Contracts in the South East

Release Automation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 - 259
Rank change year-on-year - - -51
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.054% - 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% - 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £538 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £704 £700 £575
% change year-on-year +0.57% +21.74% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,650 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.33% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Release Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Release Automation in the South East

Release Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Automation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Release Automation in the South East

Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire - 3 £525 -
Thames Valley - 3 £525 -
Release Automation
England

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Release Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Release Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (33.33%) BMC
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow