Release Automation Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Release Automation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Release Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.052% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £500 -
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,517 846 1,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 78.93% 86.41% 78.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 903 564 651
10th Percentile £359 £303 £360
25th Percentile £465 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.89% +8.57%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £730 £654 £713
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 91 84
10th Percentile £13.45 - £26.25
25th Percentile £15.93 £18.87 £52.14
Median hourly rate £48.86 £25.08 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.86% -59.88% +13.64%
75th Percentile £60.00 £41.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.72 £58.75 £78.75
South East median hourly rate £49.00 £21.82 £57.50
% change year-on-year +124.54% -62.05% +9.52%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Release Automation job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Release Automation
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 2026. 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
Romsey - 1 £550 - 1
Release Automation
South East

Release Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher