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 22 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 368 439
Rank change year-on-year +11 +71 +69
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Release Automation 10 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.011% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.013% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £443 - £529
25th Percentile £450 - £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +6.67% +16.88%
75th Percentile £500 - £584
90th Percentile £508 - £586
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £700
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,713 15,053 19,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.21% 82.75% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,234 8,986 12,838
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £366 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,387 1,466 1,202
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.55
Median hourly rate £22.84 £41.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.96% +10.67% +70.45%
75th Percentile £43.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -2.41% +54.56%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Release Automation
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 5 £500 -
Scotland - 2 £475 - 2
North of England -19 1 - - 4
South West - 1 - - 2
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -
North West - 1 - - 1
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 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (20.00%) npm
2 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 2 (20.00%) webpack
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Release Manager
1 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Cutover Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Planning Manager
2 2 (20.00%) QA Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) CSS
2 2 (20.00%) HTML
2 2 (20.00%) Jest
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Release Management
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Coaching
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) TMMi
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) X++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP ALM
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) HP