The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 66 53 45
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -8
Contract jobs citing Release Management 8 14 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.083% 1.611% 1.415%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.481% 2.269% 2.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
Average daily rate £375 £355 £378
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.63% -5.96%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
540 617 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.07% 71.00% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 367 208
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+151.85% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Release Management
West Yorkshire

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Release Management Hourly Rate Trend

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (46.67%) COBOL
1 7 (46.67%) SLA
1 7 (46.67%) CICS
1 7 (46.67%) zOS
1 7 (46.67%) Problem Management
2 5 (33.33%) Control-M
2 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 5 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 5 (33.33%) ChangeMan
3 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
4 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 3 (20.00%) Linux
5 2 (13.33%) Process Management
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (13.33%) Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
5 2 (13.33%) CruiseControl
5 2 (13.33%) Subversion
5 2 (13.33%) UNIX
5 2 (13.33%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (13.33%) Ant
5 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
5 2 (13.33%) IIS
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.667%) Middleware
2 1 (6.667%) .NET
2 1 (6.667%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 7 (46.67%) CICS
2 2 (13.33%) WebLogic
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
3 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) ChangeMan
2 2 (13.33%) CruiseControl
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) Ant
2 2 (13.33%) Hudson
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
3 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Marketing
3 1 (6.667%) Retail
3 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Test Manager
2 2 (13.33%) QA Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Release Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) QA Test Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Test Project Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) DBA
3 1 (6.667%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Administrator
3 1 (6.667%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.667%) CMDB
2 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) zOS
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) UNIX
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem Management
2 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Process Management
4 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Change Control
4 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (6.667%) Software Deployment
5 1 (6.667%) ITIL V2
5 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
5 1 (6.667%) Project Management
5 1 (6.667%) Document Management
5 1 (6.667%) Business Continuity
5 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.667%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Service Management
5 1 (6.667%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) COBOL
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.667%) VB
3 1 (6.667%) C
3 1 (6.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) BC Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.667%) ISEB
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.667%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) SLA
2 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Control-M
2 1 (6.667%) ZENworks
2 1 (6.667%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) NetApp
2 1 (6.667%) Novell
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) VMware
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