The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Canary Wharf 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 33 43 56
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +13
Contract jobs citing Release Management 13 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 3.881% 1.799% 1.190%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.514% 2.295% 1.579%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
Average daily rate £594 £455 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.54% -24.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £527 £390 £319
10% offered a daily rate of more than £645 £494 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £388 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.22% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -5.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
288 305 380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 85.97% 78.41% 75.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 195 290
Average daily rate £525 £550 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £350 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £65.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +333.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Release Management
London

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Release Management Daily Rate Trend

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Release Management across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Canary Wharf Release Management Daily Rate Histogram

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 8 (44.44%) ITIL
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
1 8 (44.44%) Change Management
1 8 (44.44%) Change Control
2 7 (38.89%) SOA
3 6 (33.33%) UML
3 6 (33.33%) Project Management
3 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 6 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 6 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 6 (33.33%) Data Management
3 6 (33.33%) ESB
4 5 (27.78%) Market Risk
4 5 (27.78%) MS Project
4 5 (27.78%) MS Office
4 5 (27.78%) ISO 9001
4 5 (27.78%) OOA/OOD
4 5 (27.78%) RUP
4 5 (27.78%) OOD
4 5 (27.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Credit Risk
6 3 (16.67%) Banking
6 3 (16.67%) PowerPivot
6 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (11.11%) Murex

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) WPF
2 1 (5.556%) WCF
2 1 (5.556%) .NET
2 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) ESB
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (5.556%) Lync
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
3 1 (5.556%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) MS Project
1 5 (27.78%) MS Office
2 3 (16.67%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) Firewall
1 1 (5.556%) Internet
1 1 (5.556%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Maven
1 1 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Front Office
4 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.556%) Back Office
4 1 (5.556%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Project Manager
2 6 (33.33%) Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Project Leader
6 1 (5.556%) Java Analyst Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior SQL Server Developer
6 1 (5.556%) C# Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Project Leader
6 1 (5.556%) Credit Risk Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Senior SQL Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Pricing Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) C# Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Release Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (5.556%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 5 (27.78%) Market Risk
3 3 (16.67%) Credit Risk
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.11%) Mathematics
5 1 (5.556%) Physics
5 1 (5.556%) CMDB
5 1 (5.556%) Derivative
5 1 (5.556%) Economics
5 1 (5.556%) Online Banking
5 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) UNIX
1 1 (5.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) ITIL
1 8 (44.44%) Change Management
1 8 (44.44%) Change Control
2 7 (38.89%) SOA
3 6 (33.33%) UML
3 6 (33.33%) Project Management
3 6 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 6 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 6 (33.33%) Data Management
4 5 (27.78%) OOA/OOD
4 5 (27.78%) RUP
4 5 (27.78%) OOD
5 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.11%) Code Coverage
7 2 (11.11%) Business Analysis
8 1 (5.556%) Wealth Management
8 1 (5.556%) Problem Management
8 1 (5.556%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) C#
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.556%) F#
2 1 (5.556%) Java
2 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.556%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.556%) QA
2 1 (5.556%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (5.556%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Murex
2 2 (11.11%) Remedy
3 1 (5.556%) Aveksa
3 1 (5.556%) VMware
3 1 (5.556%) SAP
3 1 (5.556%) Symantec