Release Automation Contracts in England

Release Automation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Release Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Release Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 523 626
Rank change year-on-year +45 +103 +110
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 7 19 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.051% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.059% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 17
10th Percentile £452 £493 £570
25th Percentile £462 £513 £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £704 £700
Median % change year-on-year -26.85% +0.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £552 £710 £798
90th Percentile £572 £726 -
UK median daily rate £515 £704 £663
% change year-on-year -26.85% +6.26% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +27 3 £510 -27.86% 19
North of England +21 3 £531 - 34
Yorkshire +9 2 £531 - 15
South East +43 1 £450 -14.29% 36
North West - 1 - - 15
Release Automation
UK

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Release Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Release Management
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Change Control
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Service Design
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) X++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Control-M
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce