The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Kent 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 34 35 36
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Contract jobs citing Release Management 2 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.697% 0.379% 1.325%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.081% 0.535% 2.326%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
Average daily rate £463 £313 £272
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+48.00% +14.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £313 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £313 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £362
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+66.66% -52.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
185 187 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 64.46% 70.83% 56.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 97 103
Average daily rate £303 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.92% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £138 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 15
Average hourly rate £19.39 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.80% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.60 £8.75 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.00 £67.50 £49.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Release Management
South East

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Release Management across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Kent Release Management Jobs Demand Trend

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent Release Management Daily Rate Trend

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Release Management Hourly Rate Trend

Release Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Sittingbourne - 2 £463 -
Release Management
South East

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) HP
2 5 (62.50%) Dell
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) Juniper
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (62.50%) LAN
2 5 (62.50%) WLAN
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
2 5 (62.50%) DHCP
2 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 5 (62.50%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) IPsec
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 2000 Server
3 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 3 (37.50%) MCSA
3 3 (37.50%) Terminal Server
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (25.00%) EMC
4 2 (25.00%) Terminal Services
4 2 (25.00%) webMethods
4 2 (25.00%) VBScript
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) IPv6
4 2 (25.00%) SCOM
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) LAN
1 5 (62.50%) WLAN
1 5 (62.50%) WAN
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) VPN
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) IPsec
2 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) IPv6
4 1 (12.50%) IP Telephony
4 1 (12.50%) LLU
4 1 (12.50%) VoIP
4 1 (12.50%) ADSL
4 1 (12.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Server Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Server Support
3 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Project Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Server Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Build Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Wintel Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) VoIP Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 2000 Server
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) VBScript
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) MCSA
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Terminal Server
3 2 (25.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) HP
2 5 (62.50%) Dell
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) Juniper
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) EMC
3 2 (25.00%) webMethods
4 1 (12.50%) Aastra
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) BT