Release Automation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Release Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Release Automation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 891 924 1159
Rank change year-on-year +33 +235 -337
Permanent jobs citing Release Automation 3 65 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.062% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.065% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 3 57 29
10th Percentile £92,988 £47,115 -
25th Percentile £96,671 £87,049 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,360 £120,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% +140.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £137,913 £150,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £84,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £120,360 £43,440 £45,000
% change year-on-year +177.08% -3.47% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Release Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,476 100,576 147,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.05% 95.63% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,789 58,947 82,930
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,476
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,700 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.86% +2.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Release Automation in the UK

Release Automation
Top 5 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 25 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Work from Home +80 3 £120,360 +30.59% 1
UK excluding London -5 2 £120,360 +177.08% 3
Scotland - 2 £120,360 -
London +75 1 £95,859 -28.99%
England +46 1 £95,859 -20.12% 3

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Gatling
3 1 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Software Developer
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Software Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior JavaScript Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) Express.js
1 2 (66.67%) Jest
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) API Design
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) Micro Frontends
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) OCP
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace