Release Automation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Release Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 388 587 648
Rank change year-on-year +199 +61 +176
Permanent jobs citing Release Automation 25 2 23
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.006% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.006% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 24 2 15
10th Percentile - £91,761 -
25th Percentile £71,250 £93,602 £87,049
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £108,110 £92,169
Median % change year-on-year -21.14% +17.29% +130.42%
75th Percentile £140,677 £128,731 £101,185
90th Percentile - £134,240 -
UK median annual salary £82,500 £108,110 £120,000
% change year-on-year -23.69% -9.91% +119.75%

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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Release Automation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Release Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Release Automation over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Release Automation salary histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 24 (96.00%) Azure
2 19 (76.00%) npm
3 13 (52.00%) GCP
4 9 (36.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (36.00%) GitHub
4 9 (36.00%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (24.00%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (24.00%) Datadog
6 2 (8.00%) IaaS
6 2 (8.00%) PaaS
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Cucumber
1 13 (52.00%) Cypress.io
1 13 (52.00%) Git
1 13 (52.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 13 (52.00%) webpack
2 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
General
1 13 (52.00%) Banking
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Java Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Lead
2 8 (32.00%) Lead Java Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) React
2 13 (52.00%) Jest
2 13 (52.00%) RESTful
2 13 (52.00%) Spring Boot
2 13 (52.00%) Web Services
3 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (20.00%) Node.js
4 2 (8.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (68.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (32.00%) Distributed Applications
2 8 (32.00%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (32.00%) Public Cloud
3 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (88.00%) Agile
3 18 (72.00%) Containerisation
4 14 (56.00%) DevOps
5 13 (52.00%) API Design
5 13 (52.00%) Change Management
5 13 (52.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 13 (52.00%) Event-Driven
5 13 (52.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 13 (52.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 13 (52.00%) Micro Frontends
5 13 (52.00%) Microservices
5 13 (52.00%) Test Automation
6 9 (36.00%) DevSecOps
6 9 (36.00%) Intelligent Automation
6 9 (36.00%) Migration
6 9 (36.00%) Observability
6 9 (36.00%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (36.00%) Release Management
6 9 (36.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) Java
2 11 (44.00%) Python
3 8 (32.00%) Bash
3 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
5 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 13 (52.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) SCCM
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) VMware