The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 22 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 London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 131 176 166
Rank change year-on-year
+45 -10
Contract jobs citing Release Management 335 295 353
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.523% 1.079% 1.152%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.041% 1.503% 1.618%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 212 214
Average daily rate £443 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 1
Average hourly rate £30.50 £38.25 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.26% +4.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £20.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+48.14% -46.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16410 19631 21812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.61% 71.81% 71.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11259 12893 14383
Average daily rate £450 £450 £485
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 338 344
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Release Management
England

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Release Management Daily Rate Trend

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Release Management across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Release Management Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region.

London Release Management Hourly Rate Trend

Release Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Release Management across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Release Management Hourly Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London 0 78 £425 +3.03%
Canary Wharf -5 8 £562 +22.17%
Hounslow - 7 £450 -
Docklands, London +4 5 £400 -27.86%
Brentford - 3 - -
Harrow - 3 £400 -
Uxbridge +3 2 £560 +26.55%
Bromley - 2 £400 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 - -
West Drayton - 1 £363 -
Greenwich - 1 £350 -
Release Management
England

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 163 (31.23%) ITIL
2 140 (26.82%) Finance
3 120 (22.99%) SQL
4 116 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 116 (22.22%) Change Management
4 116 (22.22%) Banking
5 115 (22.03%) Oracle
6 107 (20.50%) .NET
7 97 (18.58%) Windows
8 95 (18.20%) Project Management
9 85 (16.28%) Java
10 82 (15.71%) C#
11 80 (15.33%) Microsoft
12 71 (13.60%) Configuration Management
13 68 (13.03%) UNIX
14 65 (12.45%) Investment Banking
15 64 (12.26%) User Acceptance Testing
16 62 (11.88%) Linux
17 59 (11.30%) Service Management
18 58 (11.11%) Degree
19 57 (10.92%) Problem Management
20 55 (10.54%) Agile Software Development
21 52 (9.962%) PRINCE2
22 51 (9.770%) QA
23 50 (9.579%) Change Control
24 47 (9.004%) Continuous Improvement
25 45 (8.621%) Service Delivery
26 43 (8.238%) XML
27 42 (8.046%) Subversion
28 40 (7.663%) MS Excel

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 107 (20.50%) .NET
2 43 (8.238%) XML
3 38 (7.280%) Middleware
4 29 (5.556%) Web Services
5 23 (4.406%) CSS
6 20 (3.831%) HTML
7 19 (3.640%) jQuery
8 17 (3.257%) WebSphere
8 17 (3.257%) WPF
9 15 (2.874%) Java EE
10 14 (2.682%) ASP.NET
11 13 (2.490%) Spring
11 13 (2.490%) .NET Framework
12 12 (2.299%) JSON
12 12 (2.299%) WCF
13 11 (2.107%) SOAP
13 11 (2.107%) Ajax
14 10 (1.916%) REST
14 10 (1.916%) LINQ
14 10 (1.916%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 38 (7.280%) SharePoint
2 28 (5.364%) IIS
3 16 (3.065%) MQSeries
4 15 (2.874%) Rendezvous
5 14 (2.682%) BizTalk Server
6 13 (2.490%) Apache
7 10 (1.916%) ESB
8 9 (1.724%) WebSphere MQ
8 9 (1.724%) TIBCO EMS
9 8 (1.533%) WebLogic
9 8 (1.533%) WebSphere Application Server
9 8 (1.533%) Tomcat
10 7 (1.341%) SharePoint 2010
10 7 (1.341%) IBM HTTP Server
11 6 (1.149%) CMS
11 6 (1.149%) Oracle Collaboration Suite
11 6 (1.149%) Lync
11 6 (1.149%) Windows Azure
12 5 (0.958%) Sitecore CMS
12 5 (0.958%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 40 (7.663%) MS Excel
2 33 (6.322%) MS Office
3 19 (3.640%) MS Project
4 18 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
5 17 (3.257%) MS Visio
6 15 (2.874%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 10 (1.916%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (1.724%) BusinessWorks
3 6 (1.149%) LatentZero
3 6 (1.149%) Minerva
4 3 (0.575%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.383%) Summit
5 2 (0.383%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.383%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.383%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.383%) Endur
5 2 (0.383%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.383%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.192%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
6 1 (0.192%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.192%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.192%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.192%) RMDS
6 1 (0.192%) SAP MDM
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.490%) Internet
1 13 (2.490%) HTTP
2 12 (2.299%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.533%) Firewall
4 6 (1.149%) BIG-IP
5 5 (0.958%) LDAP
6 4 (0.766%) DNS
7 3 (0.575%) NAS
7 3 (0.575%) SAN
8 2 (0.383%) SSH
8 2 (0.383%) Cisco IPT
8 2 (0.383%) WAN
8 2 (0.383%) LAN
8 2 (0.383%) SSL
8 2 (0.383%) H.323
8 2 (0.383%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.192%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.192%) Intranet
9 1 (0.192%) MPLS
9 1 (0.192%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.747%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (4.789%) SQL Server 2008
3 25 (4.789%) SQL Server 2005
4 21 (4.023%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 17 (3.257%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (3.065%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (1.916%) MS Access
8 7 (1.341%) Oracle 8/8i
9 6 (1.149%) RDBMS
9 6 (1.149%) Oracle 10g
10 4 (0.766%) OLAP
10 4 (0.766%) OLTP
10 4 (0.766%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.766%) Oracle 11g
11 3 (0.575%) QlikView
11 3 (0.575%) SQL Server 2012
11 3 (0.575%) MySQL
11 3 (0.575%) DB2
12 2 (0.383%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 42 (8.046%) Subversion
2 21 (4.023%) JIRA
3 19 (3.640%) Git (software)
4 18 (3.448%) ClearCase
5 16 (3.065%) CruiseControl
6 15 (2.874%) ClearQuest
6 15 (2.874%) NUnit
7 14 (2.682%) Team Foundation Server
8 13 (2.490%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 10 (1.916%) MSI
9 10 (1.916%) MSBuild
10 9 (1.724%) Visual Studio
11 8 (1.533%) Jenkins
11 8 (1.533%) WiX
11 8 (1.533%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.341%) Hudson
13 6 (1.149%) JUnit
13 6 (1.149%) Introscope
14 5 (0.958%) Ant
14 5 (0.958%) Maven
General
1 140 (26.82%) Finance
2 116 (22.22%) Banking
3 65 (12.45%) Investment Banking
4 35 (6.705%) Front Office
5 19 (3.640%) Retail
6 17 (3.257%) Legal
7 12 (2.299%) Publishing
8 9 (1.724%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.149%) Back Office
10 5 (0.958%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.766%) Marketing
12 3 (0.575%) Billing
13 2 (0.383%) Music
13 2 (0.383%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.192%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.192%) Electronics
14 1 (0.192%) German Language
14 1 (0.192%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.192%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.192%) Games
Job Titles
1 145 (27.78%) Analyst
2 98 (18.77%) Developer
3 60 (11.49%) Release Manager
4 42 (8.046%) Support Analyst
5 41 (7.854%) Business Analyst
6 36 (6.897%) Service Analyst
7 35 (6.705%) Project Manager
8 27 (5.172%) Service Transition Analyst
9 25 (4.789%) Configuration Manager
10 22 (4.215%) Senior Developer
11 19 (3.640%) Credit Risk Analyst
11 19 (3.640%) Credit Risk Business Analyst
12 18 (3.448%) Java Developer
12 18 (3.448%) Applications Support
13 16 (3.065%) Release Analyst
14 15 (2.874%) C# Developer
15 13 (2.490%) Programme Manager
15 13 (2.490%) Administrator
16 12 (2.299%) Risk Analyst
16 12 (2.299%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.088%) Derivative
2 30 (5.747%) Management Information System
3 29 (5.556%) Credit Risk
4 26 (4.981%) Open Source
5 25 (4.789%) Market Risk
6 23 (4.406%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 17 (3.257%) Fixed Income
8 12 (2.299%) Computer Science
9 9 (1.724%) CMDB
9 9 (1.724%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (1.341%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.149%) Mathematics
11 6 (1.149%) PMI
12 5 (0.958%) PaaS
12 5 (0.958%) SWIFT
12 5 (0.958%) Kindle
12 5 (0.958%) Mobile App
12 5 (0.958%) Freedom of Information Act
12 5 (0.958%) Wiki
12 5 (0.958%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 97 (18.58%) Windows
2 68 (13.03%) UNIX
3 62 (11.88%) Linux
4 16 (3.065%) Solaris
5 14 (2.682%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (1.916%) Windows 2000
6 10 (1.916%) Windows NT
7 6 (1.149%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (1.149%) Windows Server 2008
8 5 (0.958%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.766%) AIX
9 4 (0.766%) Windows Phone
9 4 (0.766%) Windows 8
9 4 (0.766%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.766%) Android
9 4 (0.766%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.575%) Windows XP
10 3 (0.575%) Windows Mobile
11 2 (0.383%) SUSE
11 2 (0.383%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (31.23%) ITIL
2 116 (22.22%) Change Management
3 95 (18.20%) Project Management
4 71 (13.60%) Configuration Management
5 64 (12.26%) User Acceptance Testing
6 59 (11.30%) Service Management
7 57 (10.92%) Problem Management
8 55 (10.54%) Agile Software Development
9 52 (9.962%) PRINCE2
10 50 (9.579%) Change Control
11 47 (9.004%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (8.621%) Service Delivery
13 37 (7.088%) Data Modelling
14 36 (6.897%) Risk Management
14 36 (6.897%) Continuous Integration
15 35 (6.705%) Stakeholder Management
16 33 (6.322%) Scrum
16 33 (6.322%) Incident Management
17 32 (6.130%) TDD
18 31 (5.939%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 120 (22.99%) SQL
2 85 (16.28%) Java
3 82 (15.71%) C#
4 22 (4.215%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.023%) T-SQL
6 17 (3.257%) C++
7 13 (2.490%) Perl
8 10 (1.916%) Ruby
9 9 (1.724%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.724%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.341%) Python
11 6 (1.149%) PHP
11 6 (1.149%) Bash shell
12 5 (0.958%) C
13 4 (0.766%) Korn
13 4 (0.766%) VBA
13 4 (0.766%) VB
13 4 (0.766%) XAML
13 4 (0.766%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.575%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 58 (11.11%) Degree
2 17 (3.257%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 16 (3.065%) ITIL Certification
3 16 (3.065%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (1.916%) PMI Certification
5 7 (1.341%) CISM
5 7 (1.341%) CISSP
6 6 (1.149%) Security Cleared
7 5 (0.958%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.766%) PMP
9 2 (0.383%) CCVP
9 2 (0.383%) CFA
9 2 (0.383%) MCDBA
10 1 (0.192%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.192%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.192%) HP ASE
10 1 (0.192%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.192%) CCNP
10 1 (0.192%) CCNA
10 1 (0.192%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (9.770%) QA
2 16 (3.065%) SLA
3 11 (2.107%) ISO 9001
4 8 (1.533%) COBIT
5 6 (1.149%) Basel III
6 2 (0.383%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.192%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (1.533%) VMware ESX
1 8 (1.533%) Active Directory
1 8 (1.533%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.383%) ClearTrust
2 2 (0.383%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.192%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.192%) XenApp
3 1 (0.192%) XenDesktop
3 1 (0.192%) Varnish
3 1 (0.192%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 13 (2.490%) BladeLogic
2 10 (1.916%) Control-M
3 8 (1.533%) WMI
3 8 (1.533%) TIBCO Hawk
3 8 (1.533%) SCOM
4 6 (1.149%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 6 (1.149%) HP SiteScope
5 5 (0.958%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (0.766%) OpenView
6 4 (0.766%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 4 (0.766%) SCCM
7 3 (0.575%) Puppet
7 3 (0.575%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.383%) WSUS
8 2 (0.383%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 2 (0.383%) Nagios
9 1 (0.192%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.192%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.192%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 115 (22.03%) Oracle
2 80 (15.33%) Microsoft
3 28 (5.364%) Remedy
3 28 (5.364%) TIBCO
4 19 (3.640%) VMware
5 13 (2.490%) Business Objects
6 12 (2.299%) IBM
6 12 (2.299%) Bloomberg
7 11 (2.107%) Reuters
7 11 (2.107%) Informatica
7 11 (2.107%) Citrix
7 11 (2.107%) HP
8 10 (1.916%) SAP
9 9 (1.724%) F5
10 7 (1.341%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.341%) Cisco
10 7 (1.341%) Altiris
11 6 (1.149%) Sybase
11 6 (1.149%) Murex
11 6 (1.149%) InterSystems
City of London
Service Transition/Configuration Analyst Role:*Work with the IS Configuration & Release Manager to establish and refine repeatable, structure processes and procedures for management of Service Transition processes.*Responsible...
Sand Resources
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
You will develop and rollout software build and deployment processes and standards based around Microsoft Team Foundation Server... The successful candidate will have Technical experience of Microsoft Team...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
PurposeLead the technical strategy, design, development and implementation of one or more applications in a Delivery team, to ensure that the system meets the needs of the business...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £325 - £350 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
City of London
The successful candidate's main skills will be: * Experience of ground up configuration of RTC for defect tracking, source control and release management.* Good knowledge of SVN, JIRA,...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
It is essential that the successful candidate has experience Linux (Oracle 5.x/6.x), with any knowledge or experience of Windows 2008/12 operating systems as an...
Experis IT
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Knowledge of MSBuild, WebDeploy,Desirable Knowledge & Experience:*Knowledge of Microsoft technical implementation toolsets (Visual Studio, C# / ASP.NET 1.1 - 4.5)*Knowledge of IIS6 - 8*Knowledge of...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Responsible for the validation of all GxP relevant applications and maintaining the validated state of those applications... Qualifications: Demonstrated Oracle project management skills including project initiation, scoping, resourcing,...
Networking People
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Good knowledge of SVN, JIRA, Quality Center (ALM) and Wiki (preferably Confluence). Understand concepts of Oracle database objects (script deployment & logging)... Windows and Unix Operating systems. Scripting in...
IT Human Resources
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013
City of London
Carrying out fault diagnosis relating to moderately complex problems, reporting the results.Key skills:Experience in a similar Systems Integration Analyst type role (Integration Engineer, Software Build Engineer,...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £400 - £430 per day
Posted: 26 April 2013
London
Establish, document, implement, manage and monitor the Release Management process such that it satisfies the requirements platform. Develop & implement Release Management policies and procedures and ensure that the...
Avance Consulting
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
PMI/Prince 2 project management qualification Educated to degree level or equivalent Previous experience of a large scale programme in the Cards Acquiring industry is preferable but not...
WorldPay
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Currently the team are running two significant strategic programmes: Liquidity Reporting and Capital Reporting to support FSA and Basel 3 requirements. Role: To take ownership of the release...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Document Management System implementation * Good data modelling skills * Good in requirements gathering and verification... * Past participation in UAT execution and analysis. * Experience in Credit Risk Business processes and...
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: neg
Posted: 10 May 2013
City of London
Legal documents & Data is a major change initiative in the banks legal department. The Programme will improve risk management processes as they relate to the documentation and legal...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
We're looking for candidates to work on a cutting edge project which will combine Mobile/tablet, system integration, web services all within a TDD/BDD environment... - Experience...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £250.00 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013