Release Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Release Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 262 258
Rank change year-on-year +34 -4 -36
Contract jobs citing Release Management 165 175 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.76% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.86% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 118 188
10th Percentile £332 £300 £352
25th Percentile £393 £427 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £542 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% +8.30% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £575
90th Percentile £608 £662 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile - £35.97 £16.43
25th Percentile - £45.66 £17.64
Median hourly rate £38.00 £58.24 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.75% +132.95% +24.91%
75th Percentile - £67.11 £33.75
90th Percentile - £68.09 £34.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £59.69 £28.75
% change year-on-year -36.34% +107.61% +43.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,124 20,462 27,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.83% 89.37% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,216 14,060 18,912
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,098 1,246 1,350
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.73 £62.28
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South East +30 79 £575 +4.55% 44
Scotland +28 19 £475 -13.64% 2
Midlands +28 19 £450 -25.00% 14
South West +4 19 £625 +72.41% 7
East of England +17 15 £356 -25.00% 10
North of England +20 13 £350 -39.13% 10
West Midlands +8 13 £450 -25.00% 11
Yorkshire +15 11 £240 -56.36% 3
East Midlands +27 6 £475 - 2
North West +22 2 £356 -38.04% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.45%) Confluence
3 4 (2.42%) IIS
3 4 (2.42%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.61%) PTC Creo
1 1 (0.61%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 2 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.61%) Relativity
2 1 (0.61%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 42 (25.45%) Azure
2 21 (12.73%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (11.52%) Azure Monitor
3 19 (11.52%) Entra ID
4 18 (10.91%) Azure Storage
5 14 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.27%) AWS
7 5 (3.03%) GCP
7 5 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.03%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.82%) SaaS
9 2 (1.21%) Boomi
9 2 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.21%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.36%) DNS
2 26 (15.76%) DHCP
3 21 (12.73%) Firewall
4 5 (3.03%) VPN
5 4 (2.42%) LAN
5 4 (2.42%) VSAN
5 4 (2.42%) WAN
6 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.61%) HTTP
7 1 (0.61%) SAN
7 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.03%) NoSQL
1 5 (3.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.82%) Power BI
3 2 (1.21%) MySQL
3 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.61%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.61%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 20 (12.12%) JIRA
2 7 (4.24%) Git
3 6 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.03%) Robot Framework
4 5 (3.03%) Selenium
5 3 (1.82%) GitLab
6 2 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.61%) MSI
7 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.85%) Finance
4 7 (4.24%) Banking
5 6 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.42%) Law
6 4 (2.42%) Legal
7 3 (1.82%) Front Office
8 1 (0.61%) Billing
8 1 (0.61%) Electronics
8 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.61%) Marketing
8 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (13.94%) Windows Engineer
2 18 (10.91%) Active Directory Support
2 18 (10.91%) Build Engineer
2 18 (10.91%) Developer
2 18 (10.91%) Windows Build Engineer
3 15 (9.09%) Analyst
4 14 (8.48%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (8.48%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (8.48%) Support Engineer
4 14 (8.48%) Support Specialist
5 12 (7.27%) IT Manager
6 11 (6.67%) Service Manager
7 10 (6.06%) IT Services Manager
7 10 (6.06%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Release Analyst
9 8 (4.85%) Release Manager
10 7 (4.24%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.52%) ARM Templates
2 11 (6.67%) Spring
3 10 (6.06%) Spring Boot
4 9 (5.45%) RESTful
5 8 (4.85%) HTML
5 8 (4.85%) Kafka
5 8 (4.85%) React
6 6 (3.64%) .NET
6 6 (3.64%) Angular 2
6 6 (3.64%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.64%) CSS
6 6 (3.64%) HTML5
6 6 (3.64%) Java Concurrency
6 6 (3.64%) Middleware
6 6 (3.64%) REST
6 6 (3.64%) Spring MVC
6 6 (3.64%) Web Services
7 4 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.21%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.21%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.33%) PKI
2 21 (12.73%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.06%) Client/Server
4 6 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.03%) Clustering
5 5 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.03%) SCADA
6 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.82%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.21%) Replication
8 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 68 (41.21%) Windows
2 56 (33.94%) Windows Server
3 42 (25.45%) Linux
4 37 (22.42%) Windows Server 2016
4 37 (22.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (12.73%) Windows 10
6 19 (11.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 18 (10.91%) Windows NT
8 13 (7.88%) Unix
9 11 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (3.03%) VMS
11 3 (1.82%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (50.91%) ITIL
2 60 (36.36%) Service Management
3 53 (32.12%) Agile
4 49 (29.70%) DevOps
5 31 (18.79%) CI/CD
6 28 (16.97%) User Acceptance Testing
7 23 (13.94%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (12.73%) Analytics
8 21 (12.73%) RBAC
9 20 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
10 19 (11.52%) Customer Service
10 19 (11.52%) Identity Management
10 19 (11.52%) Log Analytics
10 19 (11.52%) Scrum
11 18 (10.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 18 (10.91%) Privileged Identity Management
11 18 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (10.30%) ITSM
13 16 (9.70%) Change Management
14 15 (9.09%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.03%) PowerShell
2 28 (16.97%) VBScript
3 19 (11.52%) Bicep
4 18 (10.91%) C#
4 18 (10.91%) VB
5 15 (9.09%) Java
5 15 (9.09%) Python
6 13 (7.88%) SQL
7 8 (4.85%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.42%) Scala
10 3 (1.82%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.82%) Go
10 3 (1.82%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.82%) SOQL
10 3 (1.82%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.21%) C++
12 1 (0.61%) Perl
12 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 55 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 45 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 36 (21.82%) Degree
5 18 (10.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 6 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.42%) VCAP
7 4 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.61%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.12%) QA
2 8 (4.85%) SLA
3 3 (1.82%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.21%) GDPR
4 2 (1.21%) GxP
4 2 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (35.76%) Active Directory
2 32 (19.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (15.15%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (10.91%) Firmware
4 18 (10.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (6.67%) Docker
6 7 (4.24%) vSphere
7 5 (3.03%) Hyper-V
7 5 (3.03%) VMware NSX
7 5 (3.03%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.61%) XenApp
8 1 (0.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (24.24%) WSUS
2 38 (23.03%) SCCM
3 29 (17.58%) Kubernetes
4 23 (13.94%) SCOM
5 19 (11.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 18 (10.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (10.91%) Sysprep
7 6 (3.64%) Terraform
8 5 (3.03%) Ansible
9 4 (2.42%) Grafana
10 3 (1.82%) Rancher
11 2 (1.21%) AirWatch
11 2 (1.21%) CEMLI
11 2 (1.21%) PowerCLI
11 2 (1.21%) Prometheus
11 2 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.61%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.61%) Puppet
12 1 (0.61%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 52 (31.52%) Microsoft
2 34 (20.61%) VMware
3 8 (4.85%) ServiceNow
4 7 (4.24%) BMC
5 5 (3.03%) Oracle
5 5 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.03%) SAP
6 3 (1.82%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.82%) Splunk
7 2 (1.21%) HP
7 2 (1.21%) Remedy
8 1 (0.61%) 3PAR
8 1 (0.61%) ArcSight
8 1 (0.61%) Citrix
8 1 (0.61%) Dell
8 1 (0.61%) IBM
8 1 (0.61%) NetApp
8 1 (0.61%) Qualys
8 1 (0.61%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.61%) Veritas