Release Management Contracts

Release Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 292 317 300
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 -62
Contract jobs citing Release Management 338 486 814
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.78% 0.81% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.91% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 342 548
10th Percentile £356 £313 £405
25th Percentile £463 £450 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +2.86%
75th Percentile £620 £645 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +19.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile - £36.40 £16.63
25th Percentile - £46.75 £19.48
Median hourly rate £38.00 £59.69 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -36.34% +107.61% +33.35%
75th Percentile £47.75 £67.11 £34.69
90th Percentile £53.60 £68.09 £43.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £64.38 £25.00
% change year-on-year -40.97% +157.50% +15.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Release Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
England +21 291 £570 -0.87% 102
London +31 151 £564 -6.04% 43
UK excluding London +28 148 £550 +10.00% 59
Work from Home +39 119 £575 +3.14% 51
South East +37 77 £575 +9.52% 16
Midlands +22 19 £450 -25.00% 13
Scotland +28 15 £400 -2.44% 5
South West -12 15 £570 +90.00% 3
West Midlands +22 14 £450 -25.00% 6
East of England +14 13 £369 -22.37% 6
North of England +8 10 £301 -47.61% 13
Yorkshire +23 9 £240 -56.87% 4
East Midlands +23 5 £425 - 7
North West +4 1 £363 -34.98% 9

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (7.10%) Confluence
3 5 (1.48%) IIS
4 4 (1.18%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.89%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.37%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (2.66%) Oracle 11i
1 9 (2.66%) Oracle EBS
1 9 (2.66%) Oracle EBS R12
2 8 (2.37%) Endur
3 6 (1.78%) Oracle Cash Management
3 6 (1.78%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.59%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.59%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.30%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (24.56%) Azure
2 49 (14.50%) AWS
3 32 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (5.92%) Entra ID
6 17 (5.03%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (4.73%) Azure Storage
7 16 (4.73%) GitHub
8 14 (4.14%) PaaS
8 14 (4.14%) SaaS
8 14 (4.14%) Slack
9 11 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (2.96%) IaaS
11 9 (2.66%) Power Platform
12 7 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (2.07%) GCP
13 6 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (1.78%) OCI
14 5 (1.48%) Collibra
15 4 (1.18%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.88%) DNS
2 28 (8.28%) DHCP
3 23 (6.80%) Firewall
4 5 (1.48%) SSH
4 5 (1.48%) VPN
5 4 (1.18%) LAN
5 4 (1.18%) VSAN
5 4 (1.18%) WAN
5 4 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.89%) SAN
6 3 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.30%) HTTP
7 1 (0.30%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.14%) NoSQL
2 13 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 13 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 9 (2.66%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.07%) Power BI
5 5 (1.48%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (1.48%) Metadata
5 5 (1.48%) MySQL
6 4 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.18%) Redis
6 4 (1.18%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.30%) Big Data
9 1 (0.30%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 40 (11.83%) JIRA
2 19 (5.62%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.55%) Git
4 10 (2.96%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.78%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.78%) JUnit
6 5 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.48%) Gatling
6 5 (1.48%) Mockito
6 5 (1.48%) Robot Framework
6 5 (1.48%) Selenium
6 5 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.18%) ScalaTest
8 3 (0.89%) GitLab
9 2 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.59%) webpack
10 1 (0.30%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 90 (26.63%) Social Skills
2 80 (23.67%) Finance
3 37 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.76%) Banking
5 28 (8.28%) Front Office
6 17 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.03%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.14%) Marketing
9 12 (3.55%) Investment Banking
10 11 (3.25%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.66%) Electronics
12 6 (1.78%) Law
13 5 (1.48%) Retail
14 3 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.89%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.59%) French Language
15 2 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (13.91%) Developer
2 39 (11.54%) Release Manager
3 38 (11.24%) Analyst
4 26 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
5 21 (6.21%) Build Engineer
5 21 (6.21%) Windows Build Engineer
6 17 (5.03%) Applications Support
7 15 (4.44%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (4.44%) Azure Specialist
7 15 (4.44%) Support Engineer
7 15 (4.44%) Support Specialist
8 14 (4.14%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (4.14%) Change Manager
8 14 (4.14%) Lead
8 14 (4.14%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.14%) Senior
9 12 (3.55%) Architect
9 12 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (3.55%) Java Developer
10 11 (3.25%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.99%) ARM Templates
2 19 (5.62%) Spring
2 19 (5.62%) Web Services
3 17 (5.03%) XML
4 16 (4.73%) .NET
5 14 (4.14%) React
5 14 (4.14%) RESTful
6 13 (3.85%) REST
7 12 (3.55%) Middleware
8 11 (3.25%) AngularJS
8 11 (3.25%) JPA
8 11 (3.25%) Spring MVC
9 10 (2.96%) Azure Blueprints
9 10 (2.96%) HTML
10 9 (2.66%) CSS
10 9 (2.66%) Hibernate
11 8 (2.37%) HTML5
11 8 (2.37%) Spring Boot
12 7 (2.07%) Angular 2
12 7 (2.07%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.21%) Management Information System
1 21 (6.21%) PKI
2 19 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (5.03%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.55%) Client/Server
5 11 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.96%) Clustering
6 10 (2.96%) Derivative
7 9 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.66%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.66%) Mobile App
8 7 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.78%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.48%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (1.48%) SCADA
11 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 110 (32.54%) Windows
2 63 (18.64%) Linux
3 57 (16.86%) Windows Server
4 40 (11.83%) Windows Server 2016
4 40 (11.83%) Windows Server 2019
5 32 (9.47%) Unix
6 26 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
7 25 (7.40%) Windows 10
8 21 (6.21%) Windows NT
9 11 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.18%) VMS
11 3 (0.89%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.30%) CentOS
12 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (28.40%) Agile
2 92 (27.22%) ITIL
3 87 (25.74%) DevOps
4 60 (17.75%) Change Management
5 54 (15.98%) Service Management
6 45 (13.31%) User Acceptance Testing
7 43 (12.72%) SDLC
8 41 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 40 (11.83%) CI/CD
10 37 (10.95%) Deployment Automation
10 37 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (10.06%) Analytics
11 34 (10.06%) Configuration Management
11 34 (10.06%) Proactive Monitoring
11 34 (10.06%) Scrum
12 33 (9.76%) Test Automation
13 32 (9.47%) Risk Management
14 30 (8.88%) Incident Management
15 29 (8.58%) Project Management
16 27 (7.99%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 76 (22.49%) SQL
2 66 (19.53%) PowerShell
3 56 (16.57%) Python
4 29 (8.58%) C#
5 25 (7.40%) VBScript
6 23 (6.80%) Java
7 20 (5.92%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.03%) VB
9 16 (4.73%) Bicep
10 10 (2.96%) Scala
10 10 (2.96%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.96%) VB.NET
11 9 (2.66%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.78%) Go
12 6 (1.78%) Perl
12 6 (1.78%) T-SQL
12 6 (1.78%) XPath
13 5 (1.48%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.18%) Bash
14 4 (1.18%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 102 (30.18%) Security Cleared
2 69 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 52 (15.38%) DV Cleared
4 42 (12.43%) Degree
5 16 (4.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.78%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.18%) VCAP
8 4 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.30%) MCSA
10 1 (0.30%) MCSE
10 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.72%) QA
2 10 (2.96%) NCSC
3 7 (2.07%) SLA
4 5 (1.48%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.89%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.59%) GDPR
6 2 (0.59%) MiFID
7 1 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.30%) EMIR
7 1 (0.30%) NIST
7 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 62 (18.34%) Active Directory
2 29 (8.58%) Docker
2 29 (8.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.80%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (6.21%) Firmware
5 18 (5.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (2.07%) vSphere
7 5 (1.48%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.48%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.48%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.59%) XenApp
8 2 (0.59%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.30%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 59 (17.46%) Kubernetes
2 46 (13.61%) SCCM
3 43 (12.72%) WSUS
4 21 (6.21%) SCOM
4 21 (6.21%) Sysprep
5 18 (5.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (5.33%) Terraform
6 17 (5.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (4.44%) Grafana
8 14 (4.14%) Ansible
9 9 (2.66%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (2.07%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.89%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.59%) CEMLI
12 2 (0.59%) Kibana
12 2 (0.59%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.59%) Rancher
12 2 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.30%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 83 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.76%) VMware
3 31 (9.17%) Oracle
4 23 (6.80%) SAP
5 11 (3.25%) IBM
6 10 (2.96%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.37%) BMC
8 8 (2.37%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.07%) Databricks
10 6 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.48%) OpenLink
11 5 (1.48%) Workday
12 4 (1.18%) Google
12 4 (1.18%) HP
12 4 (1.18%) Red Hat
13 3 (0.89%) NetApp
13 3 (0.89%) Pardot
13 3 (0.89%) Remedy
13 3 (0.89%) Veritas