Release Train Contracts in England

Release Train
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 521 611 680
Rank change year-on-year +90 +69 -89
Contract jobs citing Release Train 15 43 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.086% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.095% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 29 56
10th Percentile £475 £516 £509
25th Percentile £519 £613 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +24.40%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £738
90th Percentile £825 £675 £775
UK median daily rate £519 £625 £606
% change year-on-year -17.04% +3.09% +19.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £90.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Release Train 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 32,110 45,282 64,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.21% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,055 31,791 45,856
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,587 1,766
10th Percentile £12.95 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.68
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Release Train
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Train in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Release Train in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Train in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Train in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Train in England

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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 Train within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Midlands +31 6 £675 +8.00% 1
London +85 5 £688 +10.00% 2
West Midlands +23 5 £675 +8.00%
East of England +10 1 - -
South West - 1 £575 -
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UK

Release Train
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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Miro
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Release Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Release Train Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum Master
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Delivery Director
5 1 (6.67%) Platform Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Release Manager
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technology Director
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 8 (53.33%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (33.33%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Product Management
7 3 (20.00%) Project Management
7 3 (20.00%) Release Management
8 2 (13.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
8 2 (13.33%) Change Management
8 2 (13.33%) Coaching
8 2 (13.33%) Conflict Resolution
8 2 (13.33%) Product Vision
8 2 (13.33%) Rainbow Teams
8 2 (13.33%) SDLC
8 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (20.00%) PMP
2 1 (6.67%) CISM
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) COBIT
1 1 (6.67%) GxP
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce