Release Management Contracts in Reading

Release Management
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 78 83
Rank change year-on-year +31 +5 -18
Contract jobs citing Release Management 48 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.03% 0.86% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 0.96% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 9 9
10th Percentile £563 £525 £431
25th Percentile - £590 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +23.23% -13.91%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £619
90th Percentile - £619 £766
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £570 £565
% change year-on-year +0.88% +0.88% +41.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,074 936 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.18% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 620 824
10th Percentile £213 £363 £252
25th Percentile £413 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £660 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £509 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 8
10th Percentile £27.58 £45.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £53.74 £53.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £62.07 £65.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +132.14% -32.93%
75th Percentile £82.55 £74.40 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £40.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
% change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 15 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) Azure
2 17 (35.42%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (35.42%) Entra ID
3 16 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 15 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.25%) AWS
7 1 (2.08%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 17 (35.42%) DNS
1 17 (35.42%) Firewall
2 16 (33.33%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Robot Framework
1 3 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (2.08%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.08%) Git
General
1 44 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (43.75%) Build Engineer
1 21 (43.75%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (43.75%) Windows Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (31.25%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (29.17%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (29.17%) Support Specialist
4 3 (6.25%) Analyst
4 3 (6.25%) Defect Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Incident Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Release Manager
4 3 (6.25%) Solutions Analyst
4 3 (6.25%) Telecoms Manager
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Consultant
6 1 (2.08%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) PKI
1 16 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.25%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 40 (83.33%) Windows
2 39 (81.25%) Windows Server
3 36 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 36 (75.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (43.75%) Windows 10
4 21 (43.75%) Windows NT
4 21 (43.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 18 (37.50%) Linux
6 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (79.17%) Service Management
2 37 (77.08%) ITIL
3 23 (47.92%) DevOps
4 22 (45.83%) Agile
4 22 (45.83%) Deployment Automation
5 21 (43.75%) Customer Service
5 21 (43.75%) User Acceptance Testing
6 17 (35.42%) Analytics
6 17 (35.42%) Identity Management
6 17 (35.42%) Log Analytics
7 16 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (33.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 16 (33.33%) Privileged Identity Management
7 16 (33.33%) RBAC
8 15 (31.25%) CI/CD
9 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
10 4 (8.33%) Incident Management
10 4 (8.33%) Release Automation
10 4 (8.33%) SDLC
11 3 (6.25%) Application Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 19 (39.58%) VBScript
3 16 (33.33%) Bicep
3 16 (33.33%) C#
3 16 (33.33%) VB
4 3 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 40 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 16 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 15 (31.25%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 38 (79.17%) Active Directory
2 21 (43.75%) Firmware
3 16 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (77.08%) SCCM
1 37 (77.08%) WSUS
2 21 (43.75%) Sysprep
3 17 (35.42%) Kubernetes
4 16 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (33.33%) SCOM
5 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (77.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 3 (6.25%) VMware
3 1 (2.08%) BMC
3 1 (2.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Remedy
3 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow