Release Automation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Release Automation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Release Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 - 132
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.042% - 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £704
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.57%
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £375 - £704
% change year-on-year - - +0.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,086 1,756 1,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.66% 94.00% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 1,133 1,324
10th Percentile £368 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% -22.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £30.41
% change year-on-year -28.74% +6.89% -13.13%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Release Automation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Release Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Release Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Release Automation

Release Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft