Release Automation Contract Job Trends in the South East

Release Automation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Release Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 155 200
Rank change year-on-year -52 +45 -
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.053% 0.034% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.065% 0.037% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £414 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £489 - £538
90th Percentile £496 - -
England median daily rate £490 £490 £704
% change year-on-year +0.10% -30.47% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.73 - -
75th Percentile £65.60 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.73 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,632 2,734 4,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.03% 91.59% 86.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,020 1,758 2,838
10th Percentile £290 £254 £225
25th Percentile £411 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.20%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £615
90th Percentile £713 £675 £689
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 161 433
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.38 £16.95 £18.32
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -37.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.50 £62.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Release Automation job vacancy trend in the South East

Release Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Release Automation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Release Automation

Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Berkshire -32 1 £500 +11.11%
Thames Valley -44 1 £500 +11.11%
East Sussex - 1 - - 1
Release Automation
England

Release Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Environment Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JWT
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) WSDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) FinOps
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) RBAC
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft