The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 17 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 Lancashire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Release Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.510% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.826% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £305 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £388 £375
% change year-on-year
- +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+28.88% -40.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
121 245 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 61.73% 56.71% 51.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 141 53
Average daily rate £315 £375 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £190 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £422 £489 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 16
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £16.00 £21.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.07 £21.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Release Management
North West

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Chorley - 1 £305 -
Release Management
North West

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Billing
2 1 (25.00%) Information Management
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (25.00%) XHTML
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) ClearCase

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 Development
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XHTML
1 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) PowerExchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (25.00%) PowerCenter
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Release Manager
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) VB.NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Build Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
1 1 (25.00%) ETL
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Information Management
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Trillium
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica