Release Automation Jobs

Release Automation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 909 897
Rank change year-on-year +430 -12 +298
Permanent jobs citing Release Automation 247 1 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.001% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.001% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 29 1 59
10th Percentile £57,500 - £58,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £90,534 £87,049
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,859 £120,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.94% -20.12% +118.18%
75th Percentile £93,778 £101,185 £150,000
90th Percentile £140,677 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,253 - £42,500
% change year-on-year - - +6.25%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Automation over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
England +394 247 £82,500 -13.94% 19
Work from Home +337 242 £82,500 -13.94% 14
London +202 83 £72,500 -24.37% 12
UK excluding London - 81 £85,253 - 12
East of England - 26 - -
South East - 25 - - 4
South West - 17 £122,773 - 5
North of England - 9 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 5 £62,500 -
Midlands - 4 - -
North West - 3 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
East Midlands - 2 - -
North East - 1 - -

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 (1.21%) IIS
2 1 (0.40%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (11.34%) Azure
2 17 (6.88%) npm
3 13 (5.26%) GitHub
4 12 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (4.45%) GCP
6 6 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (2.43%) Datadog
7 3 (1.21%) AWS
7 3 (1.21%) IaaS
7 3 (1.21%) PaaS
7 3 (1.21%) SaaS
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 215 (87.04%) Broadband
2 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.21%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 215 (87.04%) JIRA
2 14 (5.67%) Git
3 11 (4.45%) Cucumber
3 11 (4.45%) Cypress.io
3 11 (4.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (4.45%) webpack
4 5 (2.02%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.81%) MSTest
5 2 (0.81%) NUnit
5 2 (0.81%) Selenium
6 1 (0.40%) Gradle
6 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) Maven
General
1 11 (4.45%) Banking
1 11 (4.45%) Finance
2 1 (0.40%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (87.85%) Release Engineer
2 215 (87.04%) Embedded Engineer
3 12 (4.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (2.43%) Java Engineer
4 6 (2.43%) Lead
4 6 (2.43%) Lead Java Engineer
5 5 (2.02%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 5 (2.02%) Software Engineer
6 4 (1.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (1.21%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (1.21%) Senior
7 3 (1.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (0.81%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (0.81%) Test Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) Analyst
9 1 (0.40%) CloudOps Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (0.40%) Product Analyst
9 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (87.04%) Middleware
2 17 (6.88%) React
3 11 (4.45%) Jest
3 11 (4.45%) RESTful
3 11 (4.45%) Spring Boot
3 11 (4.45%) Web Services
4 5 (2.02%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.02%) Node.js
5 3 (1.21%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.81%) .NET
6 2 (0.81%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.81%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 215 (87.04%) Embedded Systems
2 18 (7.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.43%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.43%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.43%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.43%) Linux
2 5 (2.02%) Windows
3 3 (1.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (98.79%) CI/CD
2 239 (96.76%) Agile
3 227 (91.90%) Software Delivery
4 215 (87.04%) Artificial Intelligence
4 215 (87.04%) Continuous Deployment
4 215 (87.04%) Roadmaps
4 215 (87.04%) Strategic Thinking
5 21 (8.50%) Containerisation
6 18 (7.29%) DevOps
7 14 (5.67%) Test Automation
8 13 (5.26%) Build Automation
8 13 (5.26%) Migration
8 13 (5.26%) Release Management
9 12 (4.86%) DevSecOps
9 12 (4.86%) Intelligent Automation
9 12 (4.86%) Microservices
9 12 (4.86%) Observability
9 12 (4.86%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (4.45%) End-to-End Testing
10 11 (4.45%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.29%) Java
2 16 (6.48%) Python
3 9 (3.64%) Bash
3 9 (3.64%) PowerShell
4 8 (3.24%) TypeScript
5 7 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.21%) Bicep
7 2 (0.81%) C#
7 2 (0.81%) SQL
7 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
1 3 (1.21%) Degree
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 12 (4.86%) Docker
2 3 (1.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.43%) Prometheus
2 4 (1.62%) Ansible
2 4 (1.62%) Terraform
3 3 (1.21%) SCCM
4 2 (0.81%) Control-M
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (1.21%) Microsoft
1 3 (1.21%) VMware
2 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.40%) Splunk