The first table below looks at the demand for the Release Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Hampshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Manager
Rank 91 90 89
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 9 3 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.561% 0.192% 0.857%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.599% 0.206% 0.917%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 7
Average daily rate £400 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £370 £413
% change year-on-year
+8.10% -10.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £52.50 -
All Job Titles
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1502 1454 1744
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 93.58% 93.03% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 685 748
Average daily rate £345 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.75% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 203 237
Average hourly rate £18.00 £21.00 £27.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -24.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Release Manager
South East

Release Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Release Manager across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hampshire Release Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Release Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Release Manager across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire Release Manager Daily Rate Trend

Release Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Release Manager across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hampshire Release Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Release Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Release Manager across the Hampshire region.

Hampshire Release Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Release Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Manager within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Vacancies
Basingstoke - 7 £400 -
Release Manager
South East

Release Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Release Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Release Management
2 7 (63.64%) Test Scripting
2 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (63.64%) TeamCity
2 7 (63.64%) Git (software)
2 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) soapUI
2 7 (63.64%) MSBuild
2 7 (63.64%) Maven
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) Java EE
2 7 (63.64%) ESB
2 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (63.64%) IIS
2 7 (63.64%) SOAP
2 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) C#
2 7 (63.64%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 2 (18.18%) ATG
4 1 (9.091%) JIRA
4 1 (9.091%) IBM
4 1 (9.091%) Software AG
4 1 (9.091%) AIX
4 1 (9.091%) Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management

Release Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region that cited Release Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (63.64%) SOAP
1 7 (63.64%) Java EE
1 7 (63.64%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) IIS
1 7 (63.64%) BizTalk Server
1 7 (63.64%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Maven
1 7 (63.64%) TeamCity
1 7 (63.64%) Git (software)
1 7 (63.64%) MSBuild
2 1 (9.091%) JIRA
2 1 (9.091%) Subversion
General
1 1 (9.091%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
1 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (9.091%) AIX
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Release Management
2 7 (63.64%) Test Scripting
2 7 (63.64%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
3 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
4 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) C#
1 7 (63.64%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) ATG
2 1 (9.091%) IBM
2 1 (9.091%) Software AG
2 1 (9.091%) webMethods