The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 106 96 97
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +1
Contract jobs citing Release Management 14 12 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.574% 0.455% 0.675%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.840% 0.707% 1.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 12
Average daily rate £419 £385 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.76% +0.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £315 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £533 £525 £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £386 £400 £362
% change year-on-year
-3.56% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+66.66% -52.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1666 1697 1890
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.25% 64.30% 67.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 859 860 974
Average daily rate £364 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.92% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 68 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £24.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.30 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Release Management Hourly Rate Trend

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 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
Glasgow -20 6 £320 -
Edinburgh +3 3 - -
Renfrewshire - 3 £525 -
Aberdeen - 2 £413 -
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (40.00%) Windows
2 12 (34.29%) Configuration Management
3 11 (31.43%) Finance
4 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
5 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (25.71%) Solaris
5 9 (25.71%) Java
6 8 (22.86%) SQL
6 8 (22.86%) ITIL
6 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
6 8 (22.86%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (22.86%) Korn
6 8 (22.86%) Security Architecture
7 7 (20.00%) Linux
7 7 (20.00%) Oracle
8 6 (17.14%) Perl
8 6 (17.14%) VBScript
8 6 (17.14%) C#
8 6 (17.14%) ERP
8 6 (17.14%) Bourne shell
9 5 (14.29%) Lumension
9 5 (14.29%) Windows XP
9 5 (14.29%) .NET
9 5 (14.29%) Cisco
9 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (14.29%) Subversion
9 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (14.29%) Management Information System
10 4 (11.43%) Service Management

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 5 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (8.571%) J2EE
2 3 (8.571%) Spring
3 2 (5.714%) jQuery
3 2 (5.714%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.714%) Middleware
3 2 (5.714%) ActiveX
3 2 (5.714%) JMS
3 2 (5.714%) ODBC
3 2 (5.714%) ADO
3 2 (5.714%) ASP
3 2 (5.714%) ASP.NET
3 2 (5.714%) DCOM
3 2 (5.714%) CSS
3 2 (5.714%) SOAP
3 2 (5.714%) RESTful
3 2 (5.714%) Smart GWT
4 1 (2.857%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.857%) Struts
4 1 (2.857%) Spring MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.714%) Tomcat
1 2 (5.714%) SAS
2 1 (2.857%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.857%) ESB
Applications
1 4 (11.43%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Firewall
1 4 (11.43%) LAN
1 4 (11.43%) WAN
1 4 (11.43%) VPN
1 4 (11.43%) NetScreen
2 3 (8.571%) SNMP
2 3 (8.571%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.714%) FTP
4 1 (2.857%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.857%) BGP
4 1 (2.857%) MPLS
4 1 (2.857%) OSPF
4 1 (2.857%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (2.857%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.714%) DTS
1 2 (5.714%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (5.714%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (5.714%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Subversion
2 3 (8.571%) TeamCity
2 3 (8.571%) Ant
2 3 (8.571%) Maven
2 3 (8.571%) JIRA
3 2 (5.714%) CruiseControl
3 2 (5.714%) JUnit
3 2 (5.714%) Eclipse
3 2 (5.714%) MSBuild
4 1 (2.857%) MSTest
4 1 (2.857%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.857%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.857%) ClearCase
General
1 11 (31.43%) Finance
2 4 (11.43%) Manufacturing
2 4 (11.43%) Telecoms
2 4 (11.43%) Banking
3 3 (8.571%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.714%) Retail
4 2 (5.714%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (14.29%) Configuration Manager
2 4 (11.43%) Security Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Developer
3 3 (8.571%) Analyst
3 3 (8.571%) Programmer
3 3 (8.571%) Applications Developer
4 2 (5.714%) Senior Developer
4 2 (5.714%) Senior Applications Developer
4 2 (5.714%) Change Analyst
4 2 (5.714%) Release Analyst
4 2 (5.714%) Web Programmer
4 2 (5.714%) Designer
5 1 (2.857%) Senior Architect
5 1 (2.857%) Test Manager
5 1 (2.857%) Technical Architect
5 1 (2.857%) Web Developer
5 1 (2.857%) Consultant
5 1 (2.857%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.857%) Coordinator
5 1 (2.857%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.43%) CMDB
2 4 (11.43%) SaaS
3 2 (5.714%) Derivative
3 2 (5.714%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (5.714%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Windows
2 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (25.71%) Solaris
3 8 (22.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (20.00%) Linux
5 5 (14.29%) Windows XP
6 4 (11.43%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (34.29%) Configuration Management
2 8 (22.86%) ITIL
2 8 (22.86%) Security Architecture
3 6 (17.14%) ERP
4 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (11.43%) Service Management
5 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
5 4 (11.43%) Unit Testing
5 4 (11.43%) Project Management
6 3 (8.571%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (8.571%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.571%) OO
7 2 (5.714%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (5.714%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (5.714%) Workflow
7 2 (5.714%) Risk Management
7 2 (5.714%) Time Management
7 2 (5.714%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) Java
2 8 (22.86%) SQL
2 8 (22.86%) Korn
3 6 (17.14%) Perl
3 6 (17.14%) VBScript
3 6 (17.14%) C#
3 6 (17.14%) Bourne shell
4 3 (8.571%) PHP
4 3 (8.571%) C
5 2 (5.714%) Jython
5 2 (5.714%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.714%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.714%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.714%) VB
5 2 (5.714%) VB.NET
5 2 (5.714%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.714%) Python
5 2 (5.714%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) CCSP
3 4 (11.43%) CISSP
3 4 (11.43%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.714%) Degree
4 2 (5.714%) MOS
5 1 (2.857%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (5.714%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.714%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) Tivoli
1 3 (8.571%) Netcool
1 3 (8.571%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 1 (2.857%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 1 (2.857%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (2.857%) HP UCMDB
2 1 (2.857%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Oracle
3 5 (14.29%) Lumension
3 5 (14.29%) Cisco
4 4 (11.43%) IBM
4 4 (11.43%) HP
4 4 (11.43%) Juniper
5 2 (5.714%) VMware
5 2 (5.714%) CA
5 2 (5.714%) McAfee
5 2 (5.714%) Sybase
6 1 (2.857%) Primavera
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Posted: 20 May 2013