Release Management Contracts in the South East

Release Management
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 159 181
Rank change year-on-year +39 +22 -22
Contract jobs citing Release Management 79 59 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.43% 1.04% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.16% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 43 53
10th Percentile £415 £413 £390
25th Percentile £501 £460 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.65% +41.25%
75th Percentile £599 £614 £688
90th Percentile £608 £620 £756
England median daily rate £565 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £29.50 £15.63
Median hourly rate - £31.00 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year - +90.77% -36.27%
75th Percentile - £32.50 £16.88
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year - +91.30% +43.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,658 5,075 6,852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.40% 89.18% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,720 3,524 4,648
10th Percentile £255 £248 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 223 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.37 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.76
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +127.91% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +34 66 £575 +4.55% 9
Berkshire +19 52 £575 +2.22% 8
Buckinghamshire +26 14 £431 -9.22% 1
Hampshire -9 9 £565 -6.77% 7
Surrey +13 3 £500 +11.42%
West Sussex +7 1 £500 -
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 20 (25.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.06%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (35.44%) Azure
2 17 (21.52%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (21.52%) Entra ID
3 16 (20.25%) Azure Storage
3 16 (20.25%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.06%) AWS
6 1 (1.27%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.27%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.27%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (31.65%) DNS
2 24 (30.38%) DHCP
3 17 (21.52%) Firewall
4 4 (5.06%) VSAN
5 3 (3.80%) SAN
5 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.53%) LAN
6 2 (2.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.27%) Power BI
1 1 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Robot Framework
1 5 (6.33%) Selenium
2 4 (5.06%) JIRA
3 3 (3.80%) GitLab
4 1 (1.27%) Git
4 1 (1.27%) MSI
General
1 43 (54.43%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.80%) Front Office
5 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Legal
5 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Build Engineer
1 20 (25.32%) Windows Build Engineer
1 20 (25.32%) Windows Engineer
2 16 (20.25%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (17.72%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (17.72%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (17.72%) Support Specialist
4 9 (11.39%) Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Change Analyst
6 5 (6.33%) Change and Release Analyst
6 5 (6.33%) Release Analyst
7 4 (5.06%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Incident Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Solutions Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.52%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.06%) .NET
3 3 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.27%) Middleware
4 1 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.32%) PKI
2 16 (20.25%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (10.13%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.80%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 55 (69.62%) Windows
2 45 (56.96%) Windows Server
3 39 (49.37%) Windows Server 2016
3 39 (49.37%) Windows Server 2019
4 33 (41.77%) Linux
5 23 (29.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 21 (26.58%) Windows 10
7 20 (25.32%) Windows NT
8 11 (13.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (3.80%) Ubuntu
9 3 (3.80%) Unix
10 1 (1.27%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (73.42%) ITIL
2 42 (53.16%) Service Management
3 35 (44.30%) Agile
4 30 (37.97%) DevOps
5 21 (26.58%) Deployment Automation
6 20 (25.32%) Customer Service
6 20 (25.32%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (24.05%) CI/CD
7 19 (24.05%) RBAC
8 18 (22.78%) Analytics
8 18 (22.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (21.52%) Identity Management
9 17 (21.52%) Log Analytics
10 16 (20.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 16 (20.25%) Privileged Identity Management
11 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (12.66%) Test Automation
12 9 (11.39%) Application Packaging
13 8 (10.13%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.51%) PowerShell
2 24 (30.38%) VBScript
3 17 (21.52%) Bicep
4 16 (20.25%) C#
4 16 (20.25%) VB
5 9 (11.39%) Python
6 3 (3.80%) Go
6 3 (3.80%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.80%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.53%) C++
8 1 (1.27%) Perl
8 1 (1.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (82.28%) Security Cleared
2 49 (62.03%) DV Cleared
3 34 (43.04%) SC Cleared
4 24 (30.38%) Degree
5 16 (20.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (5.06%) VCAP
6 4 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.80%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.27%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (26.58%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.80%) SLA
3 1 (1.27%) GxP
3 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (60.76%) Active Directory
2 20 (25.32%) Firmware
3 19 (24.05%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (24.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (20.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (8.86%) vSphere
6 4 (5.06%) VMware NSX
7 3 (3.80%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.27%) XenApp
8 1 (1.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (50.63%) WSUS
2 37 (46.84%) SCCM
3 20 (25.32%) Kubernetes
3 20 (25.32%) Sysprep
4 19 (24.05%) SCOM
5 17 (21.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (20.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (6.33%) Terraform
8 4 (5.06%) Ansible
9 3 (3.80%) NetBackup
9 3 (3.80%) Rancher
Vendors
1 48 (60.76%) Microsoft
2 20 (25.32%) VMware
3 6 (7.59%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.80%) 3PAR
4 3 (3.80%) HP
4 3 (3.80%) NetApp
4 3 (3.80%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.80%) Veritas
5 1 (1.27%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.27%) BMC
5 1 (1.27%) Citrix
5 1 (1.27%) Databricks
5 1 (1.27%) FireEye
5 1 (1.27%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle
5 1 (1.27%) Qualys
5 1 (1.27%) Remedy
5 1 (1.27%) Tanium