Release Automation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Release Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Release Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Release Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 394 459
Rank change year-on-year +62 +65 +38
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 4 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.024% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.028% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £458 - £569
25th Percentile £469 £513 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +6.52%
75th Percentile £572 £538 £653
90th Percentile £578 - £666
UK median daily rate £515 £704 £663
% change year-on-year -26.85% +6.26% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Release Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Release Automation in the UK excluding London

Release Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Automation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Release Automation in the UK excluding London

Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North of England +21 3 £531 - 34
Yorkshire +9 2 £531 - 15
South East +43 1 £450 -14.29% 36
North West - 1 - - 15
Release Automation
UK

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) X++
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Control-M
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft