Newcastle Release Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Release Management skills within the Newcastle region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Brighton Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dunstable Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northern Ireland Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	29
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	3	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.885 %	3.311 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£250
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£402	£385
% change on same period last year	+4.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.50	£24.67
% change on same period last year	+39.87 %
Processes & Methodologies Newcastle
Matching contract IT job ads	104	151
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.158 %
Daily rates quoted	29	34
Average minimum daily rate	£429	£285
Average daily rate	£440	£304
% change on same period last year	+44.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£451	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.00	£34.29
Average hourly rate	£27.09	£38.21
% change on same period last year	-29.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.18	£42.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Release Management Tyne and Wear

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Release Management across the Newcastle region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle 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 14 (82.35 %) HP 1 14 (82.35 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 14 (82.35 %) McAfee Security 1 14 (82.35 %) SC Cleared 1 14 (82.35 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (29.41 %) Government 3 1 (5.882 %) Pensions 3 1 (5.882 %) Integration Testing 3 1 (5.882 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle 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.

General 1 5 (29.41 %) Government 2 1 (5.882 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 2 (11.76 %) Release Manager 2 1 (5.882 %) Server Engineer 2 1 (5.882 %) Applications Support
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (82.35 %) SC Cleared 1 14 (82.35 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (5.882 %) Integration Testing 2 1 (5.882 %) ITIL	Systems Management 1 14 (82.35 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 14 (82.35 %) HP 1 14 (82.35 %) McAfee Security