Release Manager Contracts in England

Release Manager
UK > England

The median Release Manager daily rate in England is £570 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 616 616
Rank change year-on-year +121 0 -82
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 53 52 164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.10% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 28 108
10th Percentile £356 £413 £400
25th Percentile £400 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.62% -6.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £628 £575 £638
90th Percentile £630 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £570 £528 £513
% change year-on-year +8.06% +2.93% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £54.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £59.19 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Manager in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +104 24 £614 +20.89% 4
South West +28 9 £570 -34.10% 3
Midlands - 6 £363 - 1
North of England +30 5 £363 -36.96% 1
South East +6 5 £363 -19.44%
North West +17 4 £363 -36.96%
East Midlands - 3 £363 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £363 -
Yorkshire +23 1 - - 1
East of England +9 1 £363 -23.68%
Release Manager
UK

Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Release Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 36 (67.92%) Release Management
2 23 (43.40%) Change Management
3 18 (33.96%) Configuration Management
3 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
3 18 (33.96%) AWS
4 17 (32.08%) Confluence
4 17 (32.08%) SC Cleared
4 17 (32.08%) JIRA
4 17 (32.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (26.42%) Performance Testing
5 14 (26.42%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 14 (26.42%) SDLC
6 13 (24.53%) Slack
6 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
6 13 (24.53%) Jenkins
6 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
6 13 (24.53%) Programme Management
7 12 (22.64%) Finance
7 12 (22.64%) SAP
7 12 (22.64%) Telecoms
8 11 (20.75%) ITIL
9 9 (16.98%) Manufacturing
9 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
9 9 (16.98%) Security Patching
10 8 (15.09%) Marketing
10 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (15.09%) Electronics
10 8 (15.09%) Digital Marketing
11 7 (13.21%) Agile
11 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making

Release Manager Skill Set
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 17 (32.08%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP Retail
1 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.96%) AWS
2 13 (24.53%) Slack
3 1 (1.89%) Azure
3 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.89%) Metadata
1 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (32.08%) JIRA
2 13 (24.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.77%) GitLab
General
1 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.64%) Finance
2 12 (22.64%) Telecoms
3 9 (16.98%) Manufacturing
3 9 (16.98%) Public Sector
4 8 (15.09%) Electronics
4 8 (15.09%) Marketing
5 4 (7.55%) Retail
6 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.89%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (67.92%) Release Management
2 23 (43.40%) Change Management
3 18 (33.96%) Configuration Management
4 17 (32.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (26.42%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 14 (26.42%) Performance Testing
5 14 (26.42%) SDLC
6 13 (24.53%) Programme Management
7 11 (20.75%) ITIL
8 9 (16.98%) Security Patching
9 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (15.09%) Digital Marketing
10 7 (13.21%) Agile
10 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making
11 6 (11.32%) DevOps
12 5 (9.43%) Project Delivery
12 5 (9.43%) Roadmaps
12 5 (9.43%) Waterfall
13 4 (7.55%) Release Automation
13 4 (7.55%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) SAP
2 4 (7.55%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.77%) Cadence
3 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.89%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.89%) Oracle