Glasgow Release Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Release Management skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Brighton Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	64
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	2	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.556 %	1.078 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£360	-
Average daily rate	£360	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£360	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£399	£379
% change on same period last year	+5.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.50	£24.67
% change on same period last year	+39.87 %
Processes & Methodologies Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	360	464
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.474 %	0.492 %
Daily rates quoted	93	150
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£321
Average daily rate	£336	£335
% change on same period last year	+0.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.56	£23.86
Average hourly rate	£21.72	£25.32
% change on same period last year	-14.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.87	£26.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.47	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Release Management Scotland

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Release Management across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (43.75 %) RPG 1 7 (43.75 %) Change Management 2 6 (37.50 %) Project Management 3 5 (31.25 %) Test Management 3 5 (31.25 %) AS400 3 5 (31.25 %) Configuration Management 4 4 (25.00 %) Finance 4 4 (25.00 %) Requirements Analysis 5 3 (18.75 %) Software Testing 5 3 (18.75 %) Service Management 5 3 (18.75 %) ISTQB 5 3 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (18.75 %) ISEB 5 3 (18.75 %) ClearCase 6 2 (12.50 %) Java

6 2 (12.50 %) Linux 6 2 (12.50 %) SQL 6 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 6 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (12.50 %) Red Hat 6 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE 6 2 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (12.50 %) System Testing 6 2 (12.50 %) Banking 6 2 (12.50 %) ISEB Practitioner 7 1 (6.250 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (6.250 %) Derivative 7 1 (6.250 %) Pensions 7 1 (6.250 %) JIRA 7 1 (6.250 %) Oracle RAC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) Apache	Communications & Networking 1 1 (6.250 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (6.250 %) RDBMS 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 3 (18.75 %) ClearCase 2 1 (6.250 %) CruiseControl 2 1 (6.250 %) Subversion 2 1 (6.250 %) JIRA 2 1 (6.250 %) PVCS 2 1 (6.250 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 4 (25.00 %) Finance 2 2 (12.50 %) Banking 3 1 (6.250 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 7 (43.75 %) Analyst 2 4 (25.00 %) Test Manager 2 4 (25.00 %) Environment Manager 3 2 (12.50 %) Administrator 3 2 (12.50 %) Release Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Release Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Oracle DBA 4 1 (6.250 %) Change Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Implementation Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) DBA 4 1 (6.250 %) Configuration Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Process Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Software Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (31.25 %) AS400 2 1 (6.250 %) Derivative	Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) Linux 2 1 (6.250 %) Tru64 2 1 (6.250 %) Unix 2 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2 1 (6.250 %) AIX 2 1 (6.250 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (43.75 %) Change Management 2 6 (37.50 %) Project Management 3 5 (31.25 %) Test Management 3 5 (31.25 %) Configuration Management 4 4 (25.00 %) Requirements Analysis 5 3 (18.75 %) Service Management 5 3 (18.75 %) Software Testing 5 3 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE 6 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 6 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (12.50 %) System Testing 6 2 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (6.250 %) Data Modelling 7 1 (6.250 %) Risk Assessment 7 1 (6.250 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 7 (43.75 %) RPG 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL 2 2 (12.50 %) Java 3 1 (6.250 %) Perl 3 1 (6.250 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (18.75 %) ISEB 1 3 (18.75 %) ISTQB 2 2 (12.50 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 2 (12.50 %) Red Hat 2 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 2 1 (6.250 %) Sybase