Release Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Release Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 442 600
Rank change year-on-year +109 +158 -201
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 8 26 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.053% 0.10% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.060% 0.12% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 18 12
10th Percentile £531 £588 -
25th Percentile £559 £627 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £688 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +30.95% -
75th Percentile £659 £786 £552
90th Percentile £684 £798 £645
UK median daily rate £702 £663 £530
% change year-on-year +5.96% +25.00% +0.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Release Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Release Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Release Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Automation.

Release Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Release Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Release Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Azure API Management
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (25.00%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) YAML
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (25.00%) Swagger
2 2 (25.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Release Management
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) API Design
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Identity Management
5 1 (12.50%) ITSM
5 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Use Case
5 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bicep
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) BMC
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Remedy
3 1 (12.50%) Salesforce