The first table below looks at the demand for the Release Analyst role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Analyst
Rank 516 546 572
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Release Analyst 25 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.052% 0.041% 0.047%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.045% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 22
Average daily rate £381 £202 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+88.73% -30.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £94 £241
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £314 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £94 £290
% change year-on-year
+312.23% -67.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £94.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £94.00 -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Release Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Release Analyst within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Release Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Release Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Release Analyst within the UK.

Release Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Release Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Release Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Release Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Release Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Release Analyst within the UK.

Release Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Release Analyst
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +14 24 £381 +88.73% 3
London +37 15 £360 +16.12% 2
City of London +9 10 £450 -
South East - 6 £394 -
Berkshire - 6 £394 -
Reading - 5 £388 -
Reigate - - - -
Weybridge - - - -
Wolverhampton - - - -
Leicestershire - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
Warwickshire - - - -
West Sussex - - - -
Wiltshire - - - -
Cardiff - - - -
Caterham - - - -
Chippenham - - - -
Crawley - - - -
Dorking - - - -
Horley - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
Leicester - - - -
South Wales - - - -
South West - - - - 1
Wales - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Nottingham - - - -
Lewisham - - - -

Release Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Release Analyst in their job title 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 with Release Analyst in their job title.

1 28 (54.90%) ITIL
2 23 (45.10%) Release Management
3 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
4 15 (29.41%) Service Management
4 15 (29.41%) Change Management
5 12 (23.53%) Oracle
6 10 (19.61%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (17.65%) SQL
7 9 (17.65%) Windows
8 8 (15.69%) Service Delivery
9 7 (13.73%) IIS
9 7 (13.73%) Serena
10 6 (11.76%) Asset Management
10 6 (11.76%) WSUS
10 6 (11.76%) Change Control
10 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
10 6 (11.76%) DNS
10 6 (11.76%) RDBMS
10 6 (11.76%) Project Management
10 6 (11.76%) Finance
10 6 (11.76%) Clustering
11 5 (9.804%) Risk Management
11 5 (9.804%) Validation
11 5 (9.804%) Migration
11 5 (9.804%) IBM
11 5 (9.804%) Remedy
11 5 (9.804%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (9.804%) SQL Server
11 5 (9.804%) Data Migration
11 5 (9.804%) Degree

Release Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Release Analyst in their job title 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 with Release Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.922%) LAMP
2 1 (1.961%) JMS
2 1 (1.961%) COM
2 1 (1.961%) XML
2 1 (1.961%) .NET
2 1 (1.961%) WPF
2 1 (1.961%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 7 (13.73%) IIS
2 2 (3.922%) SAS
3 1 (1.961%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.961%) ESB
Applications
1 4 (7.843%) MS Office
1 4 (7.843%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.922%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.922%) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) DNS
2 1 (1.961%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) RDBMS
2 5 (9.804%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.961%) MS Access
3 1 (1.961%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.961%) DB2
3 1 (1.961%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (5.882%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.882%) Hudson
2 3 (5.882%) JIRA
2 3 (5.882%) Selenium
2 3 (5.882%) Subversion
3 1 (1.961%) ClearQuest
General
1 6 (11.76%) Finance
2 4 (7.843%) Banking
3 3 (5.882%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.882%) Games
3 3 (5.882%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.922%) Back Office
5 1 (1.961%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.961%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Clustering
2 4 (7.843%) Freedom of Information
2 4 (7.843%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.843%) Freedom of Information Act
3 3 (5.882%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.922%) Market Risk
4 2 (3.922%) Open Source
4 2 (3.922%) Social Media
5 1 (1.961%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.961%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 4 (7.843%) UNIX
2 4 (7.843%) Linux
3 3 (5.882%) AIX
4 1 (1.961%) SUSE
4 1 (1.961%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (54.90%) ITIL
2 23 (45.10%) Release Management
3 15 (29.41%) Service Management
3 15 (29.41%) Change Management
4 8 (15.69%) Service Delivery
5 6 (11.76%) Asset Management
5 6 (11.76%) Change Control
5 6 (11.76%) Project Management
6 5 (9.804%) Risk Management
6 5 (9.804%) Validation
6 5 (9.804%) Migration
6 5 (9.804%) Data Migration
7 4 (7.843%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (7.843%) Scrum
7 4 (7.843%) Data Protection
7 4 (7.843%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (7.843%) PRINCE2
7 4 (7.843%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (5.882%) Regression Testing
8 3 (5.882%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 9 (17.65%) SQL
2 1 (1.961%) JCL
2 1 (1.961%) REXX
2 1 (1.961%) Java
2 1 (1.961%) Perl
2 1 (1.961%) VB
2 1 (1.961%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (9.804%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (9.804%) Degree
2 4 (7.843%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.922%) MOS
3 2 (3.922%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.922%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.882%) SLA
2 2 (3.922%) QA
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.961%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (1.961%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) WSUS
2 1 (1.961%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.961%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.53%) Oracle
3 7 (13.73%) Serena
4 5 (9.804%) IBM
4 5 (9.804%) Remedy
5 3 (5.882%) ATG
5 3 (5.882%) webMethods
5 3 (5.882%) Software AG
6 2 (3.922%) HP
6 2 (3.922%) CA
6 2 (3.922%) Red Hat
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