Release Management Contracts in the South West

Release Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 125 144
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -30
Contract jobs citing Release Management 15 42 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.47% 1.16% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 1.29% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 31 23
10th Percentile £532 £200 £273
25th Percentile £560 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £300 £475
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -36.84% -6.17%
75th Percentile £580 £607 £531
90th Percentile £753 £625 £618
England median daily rate £570 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,629 3,250 3,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.83% 89.63% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,396 2,332
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 335 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.00 £17.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.36 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the South West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bristol +22 9 £570 +18.44% 3
Wiltshire -13 5 £688 +14.58%
Gloucestershire -7 1 - -
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (53.33%) Electronics
1 8 (53.33%) Finance
1 8 (53.33%) Manufacturing
1 8 (53.33%) Marketing
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
1 8 (53.33%) Telecoms
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Change and Release Manager
1 9 (60.00%) Change Manager
1 9 (60.00%) ITIL Change Manager
1 9 (60.00%) ITIL Manager
1 9 (60.00%) ITIL Release Manager
1 9 (60.00%) Release Manager
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Deployment Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Change Management
1 11 (73.33%) ITIL
2 9 (60.00%) Security Patching
3 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (53.33%) Digital Marketing
3 8 (53.33%) Programme Management
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
5 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
5 2 (13.33%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (13.33%) OO
5 2 (13.33%) OOP
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Scrum
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (6.67%) NsoIT
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (13.33%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (6.67%) Puppet
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) SAP
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) HP