Release Automation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Release Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 299 335 451
Rank change year-on-year +36 +116 +165
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 5 10 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.065% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.074% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 18
10th Percentile £452 £531 £588
25th Percentile £454 £559 £627
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £613 £688
Median % change year-on-year -18.37% -10.91% +30.95%
75th Percentile £550 £659 £786
90th Percentile - £684 £798
UK median daily rate £515 £704 £663
% change year-on-year -26.85% +6.26% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Release Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Release Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Release Automation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Release Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Release Automation.

Release Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Git
2 3 (60.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (60.00%) Spinnaker
2 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Release Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Release Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Release Automation Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) Release Management
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 1 (20.00%) Kanban
5 1 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) SDLC
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce