City of London Release Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Release Manager role in IT contracts within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Release Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Durham East of England England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Huddersfield Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	215	184
Rank change on same period last year	-31
Matching contract IT job ads	8	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.101 %	0.224 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£450
Average daily rate	£463	£478
% change on same period last year	-3.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£550	£505
UK excluding London average daily rate	£442	£465
% change on same period last year	-5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.04	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	7886	6685
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	10.47 %	6.859 %
Daily rates quoted	4237	2793
Average minimum daily rate	£426	£449
Average daily rate	£463	£483
% change on same period last year	-4.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£501	£516
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£352
% change on same period last year	+1.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	328	237
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.93	£21.86
Average hourly rate	£26.68	£23.21
% change on same period last year	+14.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.44	£24.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.42	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.89 %
Release Manager London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Release Manager across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Release Manager across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Release Manager across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Release Manager across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Release Manager in their job title 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 with Release Manager in their job title.

1 23 (54.76 %) Release Management 2 16 (38.10 %) Banking 3 15 (35.71 %) Investment Banking 4 14 (33.33 %) UNIX 5 12 (28.57 %) Ant 6 11 (26.19 %) SAP 7 10 (23.81 %) Perl 7 10 (23.81 %) Subversion 8 9 (21.43 %) Solaris 8 9 (21.43 %) Linux 8 9 (21.43 %) AutoSys 9 8 (19.05 %) Apache 9 8 (19.05 %) Tomcat 9 8 (19.05 %) Migration 9 8 (19.05 %) Process Management

10 7 (16.67 %) Integration Testing 11 5 (11.90 %) Java 12 4 (9.524 %) Oracle 12 4 (9.524 %) Siebel 12 4 (9.524 %) Configuration Management 12 4 (9.524 %) Change Management 12 4 (9.524 %) Back Office 13 3 (7.143 %) Front Office 13 3 (7.143 %) Finance 13 3 (7.143 %) Government 13 3 (7.143 %) CruiseControl 13 3 (7.143 %) Calypso 13 3 (7.143 %) ERP 13 3 (7.143 %) ITIL 14 2 (4.762 %) PRINCE2

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Release Manager in their job title 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 with Release Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (4.762 %) J2EE 1 2 (4.762 %) SAP XI 2 1 (2.381 %) .NET 2 1 (2.381 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 8 (19.05 %) Apache 1 8 (19.05 %) Tomcat 2 1 (2.381 %) JBoss
Business Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Summit	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.381 %) ATM 1 1 (2.381 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.381 %) RDBMS 1 1 (2.381 %) Reference Data	Development Applications 1 12 (28.57 %) Ant 2 10 (23.81 %) Subversion 3 3 (7.143 %) CruiseControl 4 1 (2.381 %) Atlassian Bamboo 4 1 (2.381 %) ClearCase 4 1 (2.381 %) LoadRunner
General 1 16 (38.10 %) Banking 2 15 (35.71 %) Investment Banking 3 4 (9.524 %) Back Office 4 3 (7.143 %) Finance 4 3 (7.143 %) Government 4 3 (7.143 %) Front Office 5 1 (2.381 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (2.381 %) Retail 5 1 (2.381 %) Health 5 1 (2.381 %) Local Government 5 1 (2.381 %) Online Banking	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.762 %) Derivative 2 1 (2.381 %) Interest Rate Derivative 2 1 (2.381 %) Equity Derivative 2 1 (2.381 %) Mathematics 2 1 (2.381 %) Physics 2 1 (2.381 %) Computer Science 2 1 (2.381 %) Credit Risk 2 1 (2.381 %) Market Risk 2 1 (2.381 %) Data Integration 2 1 (2.381 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 1 (2.381 %) Economics
Operating Systems 1 14 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 9 (21.43 %) Solaris 2 9 (21.43 %) Linux 3 2 (4.762 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (54.76 %) Release Management 2 8 (19.05 %) Process Management 2 8 (19.05 %) Migration 3 7 (16.67 %) Integration Testing 4 4 (9.524 %) Change Management 4 4 (9.524 %) Configuration Management 5 3 (7.143 %) ITIL 5 3 (7.143 %) ERP 6 2 (4.762 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (4.762 %) CRM 6 2 (4.762 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (4.762 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (4.762 %) Workflow 7 1 (2.381 %) Continuous Integration 7 1 (2.381 %) CTC Cleared 7 1 (2.381 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (2.381 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (2.381 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (2.381 %) Regression Testing 7 1 (2.381 %) Risk Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (23.81 %) Perl 2 5 (11.90 %) Java 3 2 (4.762 %) Shell Script 3 2 (4.762 %) SQL 4 1 (2.381 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 1 (2.381 %) ISEB 1 1 (2.381 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.381 %) Basel II	Systems Management 1 9 (21.43 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 11 (26.19 %) SAP 2 4 (9.524 %) Siebel 2 4 (9.524 %) Oracle 3 3 (7.143 %) Calypso 4 2 (4.762 %) Sybase 5 1 (2.381 %) Fundtech