The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 53 56 71
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +15
Contract jobs citing Release Management 3 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.365% 0.828% 0.227%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.537% 1.238% 0.344%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 2
Average daily rate - £350 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £386 £400 £362
% change year-on-year
-3.56% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+66.66% -52.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
559 727 873
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.09% 66.88% 66.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 362 475
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £249 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.26 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £38.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Release Management
Scotland

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Release Management Daily Rate Trend

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Release Management across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Release Management Hourly Rate Trend

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (42.86%) Oracle
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Primavera
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) Struts
3 1 (14.29%) ClearCase
3 1 (14.29%) SharePoint

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
2 1 (14.29%) J2EE
2 1 (14.29%) Struts
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) ClearCase
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst Programmer
1 1 (14.29%) Programmer
1 1 (14.29%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Release Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
1 1 (14.29%) Development Team Leader
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Lead Technical Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Test Management
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Primavera
3 1 (14.29%) IBM