Release Automation Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Release Automation
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Release Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £571 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Release Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 695 575 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.09% 89.29% 85.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 390 373
10th Percentile £263 £200 £271
25th Percentile £400 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -2.81%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £679
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 15 36
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £13.69
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £19.59
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.00 £35.77
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% -16.13% +157.80%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £68.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £24.65
% change year-on-year -7.36% -12.41% +39.27%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Release Automation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Release Automation job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Release Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Release Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Release Automation

Release Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) SLSA
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Attestation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype