Release Automation Contract Job Trends in London

Release Automation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Release Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 374 347 382
Rank change year-on-year -27 +35 +164
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 6 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.042% 0.036% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.040% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £528 £470
25th Percentile £713 £531 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £738 £569 £611
90th Percentile - £573 £678
England median daily rate £625 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,078 12,600 15,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.28% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,638 8,043 11,412
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.60 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.60 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Release Automation job vacancy trend in London

Release Automation
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Release Automation
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Release Automation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Release Automation

Release Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (33.33%) Datadog
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (33.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SSDT
2 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) git-flow
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Database Developer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) CRM Developer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Database Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Spring
1 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth
2 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (16.67%) OpenID
2 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (16.67%) SAML
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Licensing
1 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Observability
3 2 (33.33%) Release Management
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Runbook
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) AI
4 1 (16.67%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Security Operations
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Go
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (33.33%) Argo
2 2 (33.33%) Grafana
2 2 (33.33%) Opsgenie
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Qualys
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Black Duck
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Intel
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) PagerDuty
2 1 (16.67%) Veracode