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The table below looks at the demand for the Release Engineer role in IT contracts within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Release Engineer
Location
3 months to
21 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank507596
Rank change on same period last yearUp+89
Matching contract IT job ads1229
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.019 %0.031 %
As % of the category below0.023 %0.036 %
Daily rates quoted72
Average minimum daily rate£262£350
Average daily rate£275£400
% change on same period last year-31.35 %
Average maximum daily rate£287£450
UK excluding London average daily rate£218-
% change on same period last year-
Hourly rates quoted01
Average minimum hourly rate-£32.00
Average hourly rate-£32.00
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate-£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£32.00
% change on same period last year-
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
England
Matching contract IT job ads5225079626
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled82.30 %85.32 %
Daily rates quoted1686424512
Average minimum daily rate£366£390
Average daily rate£392£414
% change on same period last year-5.34 %
Average maximum daily rate£417£438
UK excluding London average daily rate£353£351
% change on same period last year+0.72 %
Hourly rates quoted51377273
Average minimum hourly rate£22.14£23.57
Average hourly rate£23.59£25.15
% change on same period last year-6.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.04£26.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.37£24.42
% change on same period last year-4.31 %
Release Engineer UKRelease Engineer
UK

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.

Release Engineer
Demand Trend

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

England Release Engineer Demand Trend

Release Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Release Engineer across the England region.

England Release Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Release Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Release Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

England Release Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Release Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Release Engineer across the England region.

England Release Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Release Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+868£297-25.65 %
East of EnglandNew entry-2£150-
South WestNew entry-1--
South EastUp+341£285-
Release Engineer UKRelease Engineer
UK

Release Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Release Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

110 (50.00 %)Java
28 (40.00 %)Perl
37 (35.00 %)Release Management
46 (30.00 %)J2EE
46 (30.00 %)C++
46 (30.00 %)Ant
46 (30.00 %)UNIX
55 (25.00 %)AIX
64 (20.00 %)Windows
64 (20.00 %)ClearCase
64 (20.00 %)Subversion
73 (15.00 %)Configuration Management
73 (15.00 %)ITIL
73 (15.00 %)VSS/SourceSafe
73 (15.00 %)Oracle
73 (15.00 %)Python
82 (10.00 %)SQL Server
82 (10.00 %)PeopleSoft
82 (10.00 %)WebLogic
82 (10.00 %)OO
82 (10.00 %)Shell Script
82 (10.00 %)Scrum
82 (10.00 %)Agile Software Development
82 (10.00 %)TDD
82 (10.00 %)Change Management
82 (10.00 %)WebSphere
91 (5.000 %)JIRA
91 (5.000 %)Load Balancing
91 (5.000 %)QA
91 (5.000 %)Telecoms

Release Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Release Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (30.00 %)J2EE
22 (10.00 %)WebSphere
31 (5.000 %)HTML
31 (5.000 %)COM+
31 (5.000 %)CSS
31 (5.000 %)SOAP
31 (5.000 %)XML
31 (5.000 %)XSL
31 (5.000 %)Swing
31 (5.000 %)AWT
31 (5.000 %)Hibernate
31 (5.000 %)Spring
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (10.00 %)WebLogic
21 (5.000 %)IIS
21 (5.000 %)SharePoint
21 (5.000 %)TeamSite
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (5.000 %)TCP/IP
11 (5.000 %)DNS
11 (5.000 %)VLAN
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (10.00 %)SQL Server
21 (5.000 %)Oracle 9i
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
16 (30.00 %)Ant
24 (20.00 %)ClearCase
24 (20.00 %)Subversion
33 (15.00 %)VSS/SourceSafe
41 (5.000 %)Eclipse
41 (5.000 %)JIRA
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (5.000 %)Telecoms
11 (5.000 %)Banking
11 (5.000 %)Retail
11 (5.000 %)Investment Banking
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (5.000 %)Fixed Income
11 (5.000 %)Grid Computing
11 (5.000 %)Clustering
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
16 (30.00 %)UNIX
25 (25.00 %)AIX
34 (20.00 %)Windows
41 (5.000 %)Solaris
41 (5.000 %)Linux
41 (5.000 %)Windows 2000
41 (5.000 %)Windows Server 2003
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
17 (35.00 %)Release Management
23 (15.00 %)ITIL
23 (15.00 %)Configuration Management
32 (10.00 %)OO
32 (10.00 %)Change Management
32 (10.00 %)Scrum
32 (10.00 %)Agile Software Development
32 (10.00 %)TDD
41 (5.000 %)Software Engineering
41 (5.000 %)Load Balancing
41 (5.000 %)UML
41 (5.000 %)User Acceptance Testing
41 (5.000 %)Continuous Integration
41 (5.000 %)E-Commerce
41 (5.000 %)OOD
41 (5.000 %)Benchmarking
41 (5.000 %)Project Management
41 (5.000 %)Service Management
41 (5.000 %)Service Delivery
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
110 (50.00 %)Java
28 (40.00 %)Perl
36 (30.00 %)C++
43 (15.00 %)Python
52 (10.00 %)Shell Script
61 (5.000 %)C
61 (5.000 %)SQL
61 (5.000 %)VB
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (5.000 %)QA
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (5.000 %)Active Directory
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
13 (15.00 %)Oracle
22 (10.00 %)PeopleSoft
31 (5.000 %)Interwoven
31 (5.000 %)TIBCO
31 (5.000 %)Serena
31 (5.000 %)Sybase