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 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 428 494
Rank change year-on-year +30 +66 -62
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 3 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.009% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.010% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £521 £569 £483
25th Percentile £534 £578 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +6.52% +27.78%
75th Percentile £584 £653 £588
90th Percentile £594 £666 -
UK median daily rate £702 £675 £575
% change year-on-year +4.00% +17.39% +9.52%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 24 June 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
North of England +17 2 £600 -2.04% 2
Yorkshire +15 2 £600 -7.69% 1
South East - 1 £525 -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) IPv4
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Site Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Management
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Boundary Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Log Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BMC
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow