Release Automation Contracts

Release Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 666 804
Rank change year-on-year +100 +138 -167
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 18 31 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.056% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.062% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 27
10th Percentile £511 £573 £400
25th Percentile £563 £623 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £702 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +17.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £710 £774 £663
90th Percentile £724 £798 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £613 £575
% change year-on-year -8.16% +6.52% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Release Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Automation over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Automation.

Hourly rate trend for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England +78 17 £702 +0.29% 11
London +74 14 £707 +1.00% 3
Work from Home +98 7 £613 -10.91% 5
UK excluding London +30 3 £563 -8.16% 8
North of England +17 2 £600 -2.04% 4
Yorkshire +15 2 £600 -7.69% 3
South East - 1 £525 -

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 4 (22.22%) PaaS
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure API Management
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) IPv4
3 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (27.78%) Bitbucket
2 4 (22.22%) Selenium
3 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 3 (16.67%) Robot Framework
3 3 (16.67%) SonarQube
4 2 (11.11%) Git
5 1 (5.56%) Gradle
5 1 (5.56%) JUnit
5 1 (5.56%) Maven
5 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.56%) Serenity BDD
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) DevOps Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Site Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Programme Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) CSS
1 3 (16.67%) HTML
1 3 (16.67%) JSON
1 3 (16.67%) YAML
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 2 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) Swagger
2 2 (11.11%) WebSockets
3 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
3 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 6 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (27.78%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) Code Quality
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Deployment
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 4 (22.22%) Release Management
7 3 (16.67%) Change Management
7 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (16.67%) Kanban
7 3 (16.67%) Scrum
7 3 (16.67%) SDLC
7 3 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) TDD
8 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) Bash
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Netcool
2 3 (16.67%) Puppet
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Salesforce
3 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 3 (16.67%) Splunk
4 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) BMC
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (5.56%) Remedy