Release Automation Contracts in England

Release Automation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Release Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Automation over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 605 733
Rank change year-on-year +84 +128 -183
Contract jobs citing Release Automation 16 26 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.044% 0.054% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.060% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 27
10th Percentile £510 £569 £400
25th Percentile £600 £614 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £704 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £710 £798 £650
90th Percentile £726 - £700
UK median daily rate £704 £675 £525
% change year-on-year +4.30% +28.57% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,369 43,074 63,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.13% 90.02% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,561 30,212 45,513
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,271 1,523 1,744
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%
75th Percentile £60.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Release Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Release Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Automation in England.

Daily rate trend for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Automation in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Automation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Release Automation in England

Release Automation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Automation within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +85 13 £710 +1.43%
North of England +28 2 £600 -2.04% 2
Yorkshire +19 2 £600 -7.69% 2
South East - 1 £525 -
Release Automation
UK

Release Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (18.75%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (25.00%) PaaS
4 3 (18.75%) Azure API Management
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (12.50%) AWS
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 2 (12.50%) IPv4
3 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (31.25%) Bitbucket
2 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
2 3 (18.75%) Robot Framework
2 3 (18.75%) Selenium
2 3 (18.75%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Delivery Manager
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Field Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Programme Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) HTML
1 3 (18.75%) JSON
1 3 (18.75%) YAML
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 2 (12.50%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Swagger
2 2 (12.50%) WebSockets
3 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) DevOps
2 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
4 6 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) Code Quality
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Deployment
5 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Kanban
6 3 (18.75%) Microservices
6 3 (18.75%) Release Management
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) SDLC
6 3 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) TDD
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Bicep
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Netcool
2 3 (18.75%) Puppet
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Salesforce
3 3 (18.75%) AppDynamics
3 3 (18.75%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) BMC
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Remedy
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow