Release Management Contracts in Scotland

Release Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 113 142 162
Rank change year-on-year +29 +20 -20
Contract jobs citing Release Management 15 21 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.73% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.79% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 13
10th Percentile £351 £325 £259
25th Percentile £360 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -8.89% +12.50%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £619
90th Percentile £547 £653 £650
UK median daily rate £563 £563 £540
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £38.00 £66.56 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.91% - -
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £59.69 £28.75
% change year-on-year -36.34% +107.61% +41.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,967 2,651 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.60% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,908 2,312
10th Percentile £229 £263 £240
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Scotland

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Scotland

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Scotland

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Scotland

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Glasgow +1 9 £378 -7.80% 3
Edinburgh +34 5 £523 +23.67% 1
Renfrewshire - 1 £770 -
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) OpenShift
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (26.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Backend Developer
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Life and Pensions Project Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Implementation Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Implementation Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) RESTful
2 3 (20.00%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.67%) OpenTracing
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
1 4 (26.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
1 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (33.33%) Scrum
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 5 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) SDLC
3 3 (20.00%) Change Management
3 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.67%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (6.67%) Post-Production
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) Kotlin
3 3 (20.00%) Scala
4 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft