Release Management Contracts in England

Release Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Release Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 275 306 276
Rank change year-on-year +31 -30 -37
Contract jobs citing Release Management 291 423 715
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.84% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.93% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 304 489
10th Percentile £356 £371 £419
25th Percentile £475 £462 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £644 £650
90th Percentile £680 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £563 £563 £550
% change year-on-year - +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £31.80 £16.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £35.25 £19.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% +49.57% +33.35%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.25 £34.69
90th Percentile - £55.00 £43.63
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £59.69 £28.75
% change year-on-year -36.34% +107.61% +33.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Release Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in England

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +26 151 £564 -6.04% 41
South East +42 77 £575 +9.52% 17
Midlands +19 19 £450 -20.00% 13
South West -5 15 £570 +90.00% 3
West Midlands +22 14 £450 -20.00% 7
East of England +22 13 £369 -22.37% 3
North of England +9 10 £301 -47.61% 8
Yorkshire +20 9 £240 -56.87% 4
East Midlands +22 5 £425 - 6
North West -3 1 £363 -34.98% 4
Release Management
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Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (8.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.56%) Confluence
3 5 (1.72%) IIS
4 4 (1.37%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.03%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.69%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.75%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (2.75%) Endur
2 3 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.69%) FLEXCUBE
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.69%) Remedy AR System
3 2 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.34%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (22.68%) Azure
2 33 (11.34%) AWS
3 25 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (6.87%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (6.87%) Entra ID
5 17 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
6 16 (5.50%) Azure Storage
7 13 (4.47%) Slack
8 8 (2.75%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.72%) Collibra
11 5 (1.72%) GCP
12 4 (1.37%) PaaS
12 4 (1.37%) SaaS
13 3 (1.03%) GitHub
13 3 (1.03%) OCI
13 3 (1.03%) Serverless
14 2 (0.69%) Asana
14 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.31%) DNS
2 28 (9.62%) DHCP
3 23 (7.90%) Firewall
4 5 (1.72%) SSH
4 5 (1.72%) VPN
5 4 (1.37%) LAN
5 4 (1.37%) VSAN
5 4 (1.37%) WAN
5 4 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.03%) SAN
6 3 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.34%) HTTP
7 1 (0.34%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.47%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.78%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.44%) NoSQL
4 9 (3.09%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.06%) Power BI
6 5 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
6 5 (1.72%) Metadata
7 4 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.37%) Redis
7 4 (1.37%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.03%) MySQL
9 2 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.69%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.34%) Big Data
10 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (11.34%) JIRA
2 14 (4.81%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.41%) Git
4 6 (2.06%) Cucumber
4 6 (2.06%) JUnit
5 5 (1.72%) Gatling
5 5 (1.72%) Mockito
5 5 (1.72%) Robot Framework
5 5 (1.72%) Selenium
5 5 (1.72%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.37%) ScalaTest
7 2 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.69%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.69%) GitLab
7 2 (0.69%) webpack
8 1 (0.34%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 88 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 76 (26.12%) Finance
3 36 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (9.97%) Banking
5 28 (9.62%) Front Office
6 17 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.84%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.47%) Marketing
9 11 (3.78%) Investment Banking
10 10 (3.44%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.09%) Electronics
12 6 (2.06%) Law
13 5 (1.72%) Retail
14 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.03%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.69%) Back Office
15 2 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (14.09%) Developer
2 36 (12.37%) Analyst
3 35 (12.03%) Release Manager
4 26 (8.93%) Windows Engineer
5 21 (7.22%) Build Engineer
5 21 (7.22%) Windows Build Engineer
6 17 (5.84%) Applications Support
7 15 (5.15%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (5.15%) Azure Specialist
7 15 (5.15%) Support Engineer
7 15 (5.15%) Support Specialist
8 14 (4.81%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (4.81%) Change Manager
9 13 (4.47%) Lead
9 13 (4.47%) Senior
10 12 (4.12%) Architect
11 11 (3.78%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (3.78%) Project Manager
11 11 (3.78%) Support Analyst
12 10 (3.44%) Change and Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.53%) Web Services
2 17 (5.84%) Spring
3 16 (5.50%) .NET
3 16 (5.50%) ARM Templates
3 16 (5.50%) XML
4 14 (4.81%) React
5 13 (4.47%) REST
6 12 (4.12%) Middleware
7 11 (3.78%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.78%) JPA
7 11 (3.78%) Spring MVC
8 10 (3.44%) HTML
9 9 (3.09%) CSS
9 9 (3.09%) Hibernate
10 8 (2.75%) HTML5
11 7 (2.41%) Java Concurrency
11 7 (2.41%) Node.js
11 7 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.41%) RESTful
11 7 (2.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.22%) PKI
2 18 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.50%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.12%) Client/Server
5 10 (3.44%) Clustering
5 10 (3.44%) Derivative
5 10 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.09%) Data Centre
7 7 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.06%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.06%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.72%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (1.72%) SCADA
10 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (1.03%) Replication
10 3 (1.03%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.69%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 108 (37.11%) Windows
2 61 (20.96%) Linux
3 57 (19.59%) Windows Server
4 40 (13.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 40 (13.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 28 (9.62%) Unix
6 26 (8.93%) Windows Server 2012
7 25 (8.59%) Windows 10
8 21 (7.22%) Windows NT
9 11 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.34%) CentOS
11 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (30.93%) ITIL
2 88 (30.24%) Agile
3 69 (23.71%) DevOps
4 53 (18.21%) Change Management
5 52 (17.87%) Service Management
6 39 (13.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 38 (13.06%) SDLC
7 38 (13.06%) User Acceptance Testing
8 34 (11.68%) Proactive Monitoring
9 33 (11.34%) CI/CD
9 33 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
10 32 (11.00%) Configuration Management
10 32 (11.00%) Risk Management
11 29 (9.97%) Scrum
12 28 (9.62%) Incident Management
13 26 (8.93%) Deployment Automation
14 24 (8.25%) Analytics
14 24 (8.25%) Customer Service
15 19 (6.53%) RBAC
15 19 (6.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (24.40%) SQL
2 65 (22.34%) PowerShell
3 52 (17.87%) Python
4 29 (9.97%) C#
5 25 (8.59%) VBScript
6 19 (6.53%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.19%) Java
8 17 (5.84%) VB
9 16 (5.50%) Bicep
10 10 (3.44%) TypeScript
10 10 (3.44%) VB.NET
11 9 (3.09%) PL/SQL
12 7 (2.41%) Scala
13 6 (2.06%) Go
13 6 (2.06%) Perl
13 6 (2.06%) T-SQL
13 6 (2.06%) XPath
14 4 (1.37%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.37%) C
14 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (30.93%) Security Cleared
2 57 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 52 (17.87%) DV Cleared
4 41 (14.09%) Degree
5 16 (5.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (1.72%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.37%) VCAP
7 4 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) MCSA
9 1 (0.34%) MCSE
9 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (14.43%) QA
2 7 (2.41%) SLA
3 5 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.03%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.69%) GDPR
5 2 (0.69%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.34%) EMIR
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 62 (21.31%) Active Directory
2 29 (9.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (7.90%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (7.22%) Firmware
5 18 (6.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (4.12%) Docker
7 7 (2.41%) vSphere
8 5 (1.72%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.72%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.72%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.69%) XenApp
9 2 (0.69%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.34%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 46 (15.81%) SCCM
2 45 (15.46%) Kubernetes
3 43 (14.78%) WSUS
4 21 (7.22%) SCOM
4 21 (7.22%) Sysprep
5 18 (6.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (5.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (5.15%) Grafana
8 9 (3.09%) ITRS Geneos
9 7 (2.41%) Terraform
10 6 (2.06%) Prometheus
11 4 (1.37%) Ansible
12 3 (1.03%) NetBackup
13 2 (0.69%) CEMLI
13 2 (0.69%) Kibana
13 2 (0.69%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.69%) Rancher
13 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
14 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 82 (28.18%) Microsoft
2 33 (11.34%) VMware
3 22 (7.56%) SAP
4 21 (7.22%) Oracle
5 11 (3.78%) IBM
6 10 (3.44%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.75%) BMC
8 7 (2.41%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.06%) Atlassian
9 6 (2.06%) Databricks
10 5 (1.72%) OpenLink
10 5 (1.72%) Workday
11 4 (1.37%) Google
11 4 (1.37%) HP
11 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.03%) 3PAR
12 3 (1.03%) NetApp
12 3 (1.03%) Remedy
12 3 (1.03%) Veritas