Release Management Contracts in the North of England

Release Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Release Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Management over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 182 182
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -42
Contract jobs citing Release Management 11 34 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.59% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.65% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 25 37
10th Percentile £234 £200 £348
25th Percentile £235 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £369 £640 £550
90th Percentile £478 £668 £600
England median daily rate £570 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £19.85
25th Percentile - - £23.16
Median hourly rate - - £28.75
75th Percentile - - £34.06
90th Percentile - - £34.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - +91.30% +36.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Release Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,052 5,254 6,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.81% 90.62% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,482 3,656 4,652
10th Percentile £300 £303 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 205 259
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.19 £12.86
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.20% +3.15%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £50.91
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the North of England

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +21 9 £240 -56.87% 3
North West -1 2 £356 -36.10% 6
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Architect
1 2 (18.18%) IT Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Support
1 2 (18.18%) Linux Support Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Release Manager
1 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Windows Support Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Change and Release Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Change Manager
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Manager
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Release Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) Akka
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Software Packaging
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) VMS
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (27.27%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) CRM
3 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Storage Management
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Design
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Availability Management
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
4 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Scala
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) SAP