Release Automation Contracts

Release Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 686 799
Rank change year-on-year +108 +113 -203
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 20 33 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.055% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.061% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 30
10th Percentile £493 £574 £459
25th Percentile £513 £614 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £704 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% +20.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £710 £762 £650
90th Percentile £726 £798 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -14.29% +6.52% +61.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Automation over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +120 19 £704 +0.57% 3
London +93 14 £707 +1.00%
Work from Home +115 10 £613 -10.91% 1
UK excluding London +67 5 £525 -14.29% 3
South East - 4 £525 -
North of England +32 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +20 1 - - 1

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (15.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (20.00%) PaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (10.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.00%) Robot Framework
2 3 (15.00%) Selenium
2 3 (15.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Release Manager
2 4 (20.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) CSS
1 3 (15.00%) HTML
1 3 (15.00%) JSON
1 3 (15.00%) YAML
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (10.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Swagger
2 2 (10.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) DevOps
2 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 9 (45.00%) Agile
5 8 (40.00%) Release Management
6 6 (30.00%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 5 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (15.00%) Change Management
8 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (15.00%) Kanban
8 3 (15.00%) Roadmaps
8 3 (15.00%) Runbook
8 3 (15.00%) Scrum
8 3 (15.00%) TDD
8 3 (15.00%) Use Case
8 3 (15.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Netcool
2 3 (15.00%) Puppet
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (15.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (15.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (15.00%) Splunk
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) BMC
5 1 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (5.00%) Remedy