The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cambridgeshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 48 61 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing Release Management 3 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.547% 0.571% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.980% 0.988% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £375 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £20.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+48.14% -46.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
306 405 333
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 55.84% 57.86% 64.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 200 171
Average daily rate £375 £390 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 35 40
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +54.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.75 £12.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Release Management
East of England

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Release Management across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cambridgeshire Release Management Jobs Demand Trend

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Release Management across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Release Management Daily Rate Trend

Release Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Peterborough - 2 £375 -
Cambridge +10 1 £425 -
Release Management
East of England

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Release Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Release Management.

1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Build Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) XenApp
3 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (50.00%) Fat Client
3 4 (50.00%) AppSense
3 4 (50.00%) Thin Client
3 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Change Control
4 3 (37.50%) IAG
4 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 3 (37.50%) SCOM
4 3 (37.50%) vSphere
4 3 (37.50%) SLA
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (37.50%) Wyse
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) VMware
4 3 (37.50%) XenServer
4 3 (37.50%) XenDesktop
5 2 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Release Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Release Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Release Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 4 (50.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) UNIX
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Build Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (50.00%) Change Control
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) MCSE
2 2 (25.00%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) XenApp
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) IAG
3 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (37.50%) vSphere
3 3 (37.50%) XenServer
3 3 (37.50%) XenDesktop
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCOM
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
1 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 4 (50.00%) AppSense
3 3 (37.50%) Wyse
3 3 (37.50%) VMware