Release Automation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Release Automation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Release Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Automation over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 - 164
Rank change year-on-year - - -23
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.15% - 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +73.33%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £525 - £575
% change year-on-year - - +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Release Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,335 2,654 3,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.45% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,309 1,852 2,114
10th Percentile £213 £323 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year - +3.31% +7.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 62 87
10th Percentile £14.42 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.78
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.38
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Release Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Release Automation in the Thames Valley

Release Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Automation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Release Automation in the Thames Valley

Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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 - 4 £525 -
Release Automation
South East

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Release Manager
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
2 3 (75.00%) Use Case
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) API Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow