Release Engineer Contracts in London

Release Engineer
England > London

The median Release Engineer daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 472 593
Rank change year-on-year +87 +121 -118
Contract jobs requiring a Release Engineer 3 29 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.11% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.11% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 23 11
10th Percentile £465 £550 £414
25th Percentile £488 £610 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -0.62%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £665
90th Percentile £775 £798 £713
England median daily rate £593 £625 £695
% change year-on-year -5.20% -10.07% +18.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Release Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Release Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Release Engineer in London

Release Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Release Engineer in London

Release Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Engineer in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Engineer in London

Release Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Release Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Release Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Release Train
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) PgMP
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (33.33%) PMP
3 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Rainbow Teams
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making

Release Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Release Train
2 2 (66.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PgMP
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 Release Engineer jobs in England