Release Automation Contract Job Trends in the South West

Release Automation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Release Automation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 122 -
Rank change year-on-year -32 - -
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.11% 0.051% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.056% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £673 - -
England median daily rate £514 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.80% -9.09% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,917 1,789 2,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 77.83% 90.81% 83.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,626 1,026 1,229
10th Percentile £329 £213 £300
25th Percentile £450 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £620 £638
90th Percentile £734 £715 £724
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 480 265 204
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.10 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £48.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +8.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Release Automation job vacancy trend in the South West

Release Automation
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Release Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Automation in the South West over the 6 months to 1 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Release Automation in the South West

Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Bristol -13 1 £375 - 2
Wiltshire - 1 £400 -
Avon - 1 - - 2
Release Automation
England

Release Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Software Distribution
4 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) F5