Release Automation Jobs in the UK excluding London

Release Automation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Release Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Release Automation over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 - 745
Rank change year-on-year - - +92
Permanent jobs citing Release Automation 82 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% - 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 15 0 8
10th Percentile £58,750 - -
25th Percentile £76,727 - £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 - £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.25%
75th Percentile £140,677 - £97,290
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £95,859 £120,000
% change year-on-year -13.94% -20.12% +119.33%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,036 59,839 56,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.94% 83.54% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18,067 41,285 29,232
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Release Automation in the UK excluding London

Release Automation
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Automation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Release Automation in the UK excluding London

Release Automation
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Automation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England - 26 - -
South East - 25 - - 3
South West - 17 £122,773 - 7
North of England - 9 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £62,500 -
Midlands - 4 - - 1
North West - 3 - - 1
East Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £85,253 - 2
North East - 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.66%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.29%) Azure
2 12 (14.63%) GCP
2 12 (14.63%) npm
3 3 (3.66%) IaaS
3 3 (3.66%) PaaS
3 3 (3.66%) SaaS
4 1 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 65 (79.27%) Broadband
2 3 (3.66%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (79.27%) JIRA
2 12 (14.63%) Cypress.io
2 12 (14.63%) Git
2 12 (14.63%) Sonatype Nexus
2 12 (14.63%) webpack
3 11 (13.41%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (14.63%) Banking
1 12 (14.63%) Finance
Job Titles
1 65 (79.27%) Embedded Engineer
1 65 (79.27%) Release Engineer
2 6 (7.32%) Java Engineer
2 6 (7.32%) Lead
2 6 (7.32%) Lead Java Engineer
2 6 (7.32%) Software Engineer
3 5 (6.10%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 4 (4.88%) Senior
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (3.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (1.22%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (79.27%) Middleware
2 12 (14.63%) Jest
2 12 (14.63%) RESTful
2 12 (14.63%) Spring Boot
2 12 (14.63%) Web Services
3 6 (7.32%) React
4 5 (6.10%) AngularJS
4 5 (6.10%) Node.js
5 3 (3.66%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.22%) CSS
6 1 (1.22%) HTML
6 1 (1.22%) Playwright
6 1 (1.22%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 65 (79.27%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (8.54%) Public Cloud
3 6 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.32%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.10%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Linux
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (96.34%) CI/CD
2 76 (92.68%) Agile
3 65 (79.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 65 (79.27%) Continuous Deployment
3 65 (79.27%) Roadmaps
3 65 (79.27%) Software Delivery
3 65 (79.27%) Strategic Thinking
4 14 (17.07%) Containerisation
5 12 (14.63%) Micro Frontends
5 12 (14.63%) Microservices
5 12 (14.63%) Test Automation
6 11 (13.41%) API Design
6 11 (13.41%) Change Management
6 11 (13.41%) End-to-End Testing
6 11 (13.41%) Event-Driven
6 11 (13.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 11 (13.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 6 (7.32%) Architectural Design
7 6 (7.32%) DevOps
7 6 (7.32%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.54%) Java
2 6 (7.32%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.66%) Bash
3 3 (3.66%) Bicep
3 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.66%) Python
4 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (13.41%) Docker
2 3 (3.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.66%) Ansible
1 3 (3.66%) SCCM
1 3 (3.66%) Terraform
2 2 (2.44%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (3.66%) Microsoft
1 3 (3.66%) VMware