The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 21 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 Coventry 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank - 22 -
Contract jobs citing Release Management 0 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry - 2.335% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 3.409% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £28.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -40.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
164 176 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 77.36% 68.48% 73.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 68 58
Average daily rate £375 £340 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.29% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 4
Average hourly rate £37.80 £30.00 £31.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+26.00% -3.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Release Management
West Midlands

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Release Management Daily Rate Trend

Release Management
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Matrix Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL V3

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Service Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Matrix Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL V3