The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category.

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 Management
Rank 163 228 166
Rank change year-on-year
+65 -62
Contract jobs citing Release Management 598 449 707
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 1.243% 0.774% 1.136%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.748% 1.133% 1.687%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 263 367
Average daily rate £425 £417 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.91% -1.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £558 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £388 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.22% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 5
Average hourly rate £37.75 £38.25 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.30% +4.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.75 £17.40 £32.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £94.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year
-16.66% -5.26%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34218 39623 41917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.12% 68.27% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20499 22617 23889
Average daily rate £413 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 1259 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.83 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Release Management within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Release Management Jobs Demand Trend

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Release Management Daily Rate Trend

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Release Management Daily Rate Histogram

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Release Management Hourly Rate Trend

Release Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Release Management Hourly Rate Histogram

Release Management
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 Management 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 +54 560 £425 +0.71% 108
London +62 378 £435 -3.33% 55
South East +60 91 £400 +8.10% 21
City of London +10 87 £425 -10.52% 21
Berkshire +34 35 £400 +19.49% 5
Yorkshire -1 26 £375 +5.63% 2
Hampshire -1 20 £400 +6.66% 6
South West +20 17 £440 +5.01% 3
West Yorkshire -11 17 £375 +4.16% 2
Oxfordshire +17 16 £335 - 3
North West +22 14 £325 -18.75% 4
Reading +8 14 £381 +13.89%
Leeds -4 14 £375 +4.16% 2
Bracknell - 14 £394 -
Canary Wharf +10 13 £594 +30.54%
Scotland -7 13 £419 +26.89% 6
East of England +16 12 £375 +30.43% 13
West Midlands +4 11 £350 -12.50% 3
Surrey +16 9 - - 3
Wiltshire +10 8 £438 -2.77%
Swindon +2 8 £438 -
Basingstoke -1 8 £400 -15.78%
Wales +15 7 £275 -26.66%
Manchester +10 7 £295 - 4
East Midlands +3 7 - - 6
Docklands, London +8 6 £400 -27.86%
Essex +1 6 £270 -6.08% 2
Sheffield - 6 - -
South Yorkshire - 6 - -
Havant - 6 £450 - 1

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Release Management also 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 that cited Release Management.

1 260 (27.34%) ITIL
2 234 (24.61%) Finance
3 203 (21.35%) Oracle
4 195 (20.50%) Windows
5 189 (19.87%) Configuration Management
6 184 (19.35%) Microsoft
7 176 (18.51%) Change Management
8 172 (18.09%) .NET
9 168 (17.67%) SQL
9 168 (17.67%) Project Management
10 158 (16.61%) Java
11 156 (16.40%) SQL Server
12 149 (15.67%) Banking
13 147 (15.46%) C#
14 120 (12.62%) UNIX
15 119 (12.51%) Linux
16 107 (11.25%) MS Excel
17 99 (10.41%) Problem Management
18 91 (9.569%) Service Management
18 91 (9.569%) Agile Software Development
19 81 (8.517%) QA
19 81 (8.517%) Degree
20 80 (8.412%) PRINCE2
21 78 (8.202%) Investment Banking
21 78 (8.202%) Security Cleared
22 77 (8.097%) XML
23 76 (7.992%) SharePoint
24 71 (7.466%) Change Control
25 69 (7.256%) Migration
26 68 (7.150%) Stakeholder Management

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Release Management also 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 that cited Release Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 172 (18.09%) .NET
2 77 (8.097%) XML
3 62 (6.519%) Web Services
3 62 (6.519%) Middleware
4 41 (4.311%) ASP.NET
5 36 (3.785%) WebSphere
6 30 (3.155%) CSS
7 24 (2.524%) jQuery
7 24 (2.524%) Java EE
8 22 (2.313%) Rendezvous
8 22 (2.313%) HTML
8 22 (2.313%) Spring
8 22 (2.313%) WPF
9 21 (2.208%) SOAP
10 20 (2.103%) .NET Framework
11 17 (1.788%) WCF
12 16 (1.682%) J2EE
12 16 (1.682%) Ajax
12 16 (1.682%) REST
13 15 (1.577%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 76 (7.992%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.522%) IIS
3 31 (3.260%) WebLogic
4 23 (2.419%) ESB
5 21 (2.208%) Windows Azure
5 21 (2.208%) BizTalk Server
6 20 (2.103%) Tomcat
7 18 (1.893%) Apache
7 18 (1.893%) Amazon EC2
8 16 (1.682%) MQSeries
9 15 (1.577%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 14 (1.472%) SharePoint Server
11 13 (1.367%) MS Exchange
12 10 (1.052%) TIBCO EMS
12 10 (1.052%) SharePoint 2010
12 10 (1.052%) Liferay
13 9 (0.946%) MS Project Server
13 9 (0.946%) CICS
14 8 (0.841%) WebSphere Application Server
14 8 (0.841%) CMS
Applications
1 107 (11.25%) MS Excel
2 68 (7.150%) MS Office
3 44 (4.627%) MS Project
4 32 (3.365%) MS PowerPoint
5 28 (2.944%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.421%) PowerPivot
7 3 (0.315%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.105%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.105%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 14 (1.472%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.841%) BusinessWorks
3 7 (0.736%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (0.631%) LatentZero
4 6 (0.631%) Minerva
5 5 (0.526%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.526%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.421%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.421%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.315%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.315%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.315%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.315%) SAP FI
8 2 (0.210%) Summit
8 2 (0.210%) SAP MDM
8 2 (0.210%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.210%) Oracle Retail
9 1 (0.105%) SunGard Stream Clearvision
9 1 (0.105%) CA Clarity
9 1 (0.105%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.680%) SAN
2 32 (3.365%) TCP/IP
3 27 (2.839%) VPN
4 25 (2.629%) LAN
5 23 (2.419%) Internet
6 20 (2.103%) HTTP
7 18 (1.893%) WAN
8 15 (1.577%) NAS
8 15 (1.577%) DNS
8 15 (1.577%) Firewall
9 14 (1.472%) LDAP
10 8 (0.841%) DHCP
10 8 (0.841%) NetScreen
11 7 (0.736%) BIG-IP
12 6 (0.631%) VoIP
13 5 (0.526%) IPsec
14 4 (0.421%) WLAN
14 4 (0.421%) Network Security
15 3 (0.315%) SSH
15 3 (0.315%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (16.40%) SQL Server
2 38 (3.996%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (3.680%) SQL Server 2005
4 32 (3.365%) SQL Server 2008
5 29 (3.049%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 24 (2.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (1.893%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 16 (1.682%) Oracle 11g
9 12 (1.262%) MS Access
9 12 (1.262%) Oracle 8/8i
9 12 (1.262%) OLAP
10 11 (1.157%) TOAD
11 10 (1.052%) DTS
11 10 (1.052%) Oracle 10g
11 10 (1.052%) Oracle BI EE
12 9 (0.946%) Oracle Discoverer
13 7 (0.736%) RDBMS
13 7 (0.736%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.631%) PowerCenter
14 6 (0.631%) IDOL
Development Applications
1 59 (6.204%) Subversion
2 35 (3.680%) Visual Studio
3 31 (3.260%) Team Foundation Server
4 30 (3.155%) JIRA
5 28 (2.944%) Maven
6 27 (2.839%) ClearCase
7 26 (2.734%) Git (software)
7 26 (2.734%) MSBuild
8 23 (2.419%) CruiseControl
9 20 (2.103%) TeamCity
10 19 (1.998%) Ant
10 19 (1.998%) ClearQuest
11 17 (1.788%) NUnit
12 16 (1.682%) VSS/SourceSafe
13 12 (1.262%) MSI
13 12 (1.262%) Hudson
13 12 (1.262%) Jenkins
14 10 (1.052%) WiX
15 9 (0.946%) JUnit
16 8 (0.841%) Oracle Forms
General
1 234 (24.61%) Finance
2 149 (15.67%) Banking
3 78 (8.202%) Investment Banking
4 57 (5.994%) Front Office
5 35 (3.680%) Retail
6 27 (2.839%) Telecoms
7 18 (1.893%) Legal
7 18 (1.893%) Publishing
8 14 (1.472%) Games
8 14 (1.472%) Billing
9 9 (0.946%) Financial Institution
10 8 (0.841%) Manufacturing
10 8 (0.841%) Marketing
11 7 (0.736%) Back Office
12 5 (0.526%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.421%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.421%) Military
14 3 (0.315%) Automotive
15 2 (0.210%) Electronics
15 2 (0.210%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 192 (20.19%) Analyst
2 152 (15.98%) Developer
3 94 (9.884%) Release Manager
4 88 (9.253%) Project Manager
5 51 (5.363%) Support Analyst
6 46 (4.837%) Business Analyst
6 46 (4.837%) Configuration Manager
7 45 (4.732%) Java Developer
8 28 (2.944%) Service Manager
9 27 (2.839%) Service Analyst
10 25 (2.629%) Applications Support
10 25 (2.629%) Senior Developer
11 23 (2.419%) Release Analyst
12 21 (2.208%) Administrator
13 20 (2.103%) Consultant
13 20 (2.103%) Environment Manager
13 20 (2.103%) Release Engineer
14 19 (1.998%) Architect
14 19 (1.998%) Delivery Manager
14 19 (1.998%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.468%) Management Information System
2 34 (3.575%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 30 (3.155%) Derivative
4 29 (3.049%) Credit Risk
5 27 (2.839%) Open Source
6 24 (2.524%) Fixed Income
7 21 (2.208%) CMDB
8 17 (1.788%) Mainframe
9 13 (1.367%) Online Games
9 13 (1.367%) Market Risk
10 12 (1.262%) Computer Science
11 11 (1.157%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.052%) Client/Server
12 10 (1.052%) Clustering
12 10 (1.052%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.052%) Data Integration
13 7 (0.736%) PaaS
13 7 (0.736%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.736%) Mathematics
13 7 (0.736%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 195 (20.50%) Windows
2 120 (12.62%) UNIX
3 119 (12.51%) Linux
4 40 (4.206%) Windows Server 2003
5 39 (4.101%) Windows Server 2008
6 24 (2.524%) Solaris
7 11 (1.157%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (1.052%) Windows NT
8 10 (1.052%) Windows 2000
9 9 (0.946%) Windows 7
9 9 (0.946%) zOS
9 9 (0.946%) Windows XP
10 6 (0.631%) AIX
10 6 (0.631%) Windows 8
11 5 (0.526%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.526%) VMS
12 4 (0.421%) Windows Phone
12 4 (0.421%) Windows 2000 Server
12 4 (0.421%) Android
13 3 (0.315%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (27.34%) ITIL
2 189 (19.87%) Configuration Management
3 176 (18.51%) Change Management
4 168 (17.67%) Project Management
5 99 (10.41%) Problem Management
6 91 (9.569%) Service Management
6 91 (9.569%) Agile Software Development
7 80 (8.412%) PRINCE2
8 71 (7.466%) Change Control
9 69 (7.256%) Migration
10 68 (7.150%) Stakeholder Management
10 68 (7.150%) User Acceptance Testing
11 66 (6.940%) Service Delivery
12 64 (6.730%) Scrum
13 58 (6.099%) Continuous Integration
14 53 (5.573%) Incident Management
15 48 (5.047%) Data Modelling
15 48 (5.047%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (4.732%) Disaster Recovery
17 43 (4.522%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 168 (17.67%) SQL
2 158 (16.61%) Java
3 147 (15.46%) C#
4 36 (3.785%) JavaScript
5 32 (3.365%) C++
5 32 (3.365%) C
6 29 (3.049%) T-SQL
7 28 (2.944%) Python
8 22 (2.313%) Perl
8 22 (2.313%) Ruby
8 22 (2.313%) PowerShell
9 20 (2.103%) PL/SQL
10 16 (1.682%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.262%) Korn
12 11 (1.157%) VB.NET
12 11 (1.157%) COBOL
13 10 (1.052%) VBScript
14 8 (0.841%) VB
14 8 (0.841%) Bash shell
15 7 (0.736%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 81 (8.517%) Degree
2 78 (8.202%) Security Cleared
3 54 (5.678%) SC Cleared
4 35 (3.680%) Microsoft Certification
5 30 (3.155%) ITIL Certification
6 29 (3.049%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 18 (1.893%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.052%) PMI Certification
9 9 (0.946%) CISSP
10 6 (0.631%) MCSD
10 6 (0.631%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.526%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 5 (0.526%) CISM
12 4 (0.421%) MCSE
12 4 (0.421%) MCSA
12 4 (0.421%) ISEB
12 4 (0.421%) PMP
12 4 (0.421%) CCSP
12 4 (0.421%) CFA
12 4 (0.421%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.517%) QA
2 32 (3.365%) SLA
3 14 (1.472%) ISO 9001
4 5 (0.526%) Basel III
4 5 (0.526%) COBIT
4 5 (0.526%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.421%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.105%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.105%) GxP
System Software
1 33 (3.470%) Active Directory
1 33 (3.470%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (1.577%) Xen
3 12 (1.262%) VMware ESX
4 9 (0.946%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.736%) XenServer
6 5 (0.526%) XenApp
6 5 (0.526%) vSphere
6 5 (0.526%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (0.421%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.421%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.315%) IAG
8 3 (0.315%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.210%) ClearTrust
10 1 (0.105%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.105%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.105%) Varnish
10 1 (0.105%) Novell eDirectory
10 1 (0.105%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.105%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 42 (4.416%) SCOM
2 23 (2.419%) Control-M
3 19 (1.998%) BladeLogic
4 13 (1.367%) WMI
5 12 (1.262%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 11 (1.157%) SCCM
7 8 (0.841%) TIBCO Hawk
7 8 (0.841%) HP SiteScope
8 6 (0.631%) Puppet
8 6 (0.631%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 6 (0.631%) HP Quality Center
9 5 (0.526%) WSUS
9 5 (0.526%) NetBackup
10 4 (0.421%) OpenView
11 3 (0.315%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 3 (0.315%) Norton AntiVirus
12 2 (0.210%) Netcool
12 2 (0.210%) Netcool/OMNIbus
12 2 (0.210%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.210%) Nagios
Vendors
1 203 (21.35%) Oracle
2 184 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 59 (6.204%) VMware
4 40 (4.206%) IBM
5 38 (3.996%) TIBCO
6 34 (3.575%) Citrix
7 32 (3.365%) HP
8 30 (3.155%) SAP
9 27 (2.839%) Remedy
10 22 (2.313%) Informatica
11 19 (1.998%) Cisco
12 15 (1.577%) Symantec
13 13 (1.367%) Altiris
13 13 (1.367%) Business Objects
14 12 (1.262%) Sybase
14 12 (1.262%) Reuters
15 11 (1.157%) Bloomberg
16 10 (1.052%) Juniper
16 10 (1.052%) F5
17 9 (0.946%) Murex
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Vivid Resourcing Ltd
Posted: 14 June 2013
Berkshire
You should have excellent Business Analysis and Change Management experience (Functional analysis; requirements gathering, documentation, development of Functional specs etc...); strong Financial Services experience, particularly in the Asset...
I.T. Skillfinder
Rate: £0.0000 per month
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Candidates need to have experience of: Straight configuration and service asset based configuration with configuration management systems and databases in an ITIL environment.Service Transition/Configuration Analyst Role:*...
Sand Resources
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Optimising the build and tear-down of these platforms will ensure that the development and test personnel are able to focus on their responsibilities without concern over the...
JAM
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
East London
Your role will be to plan, document the release / implementation within this environment which is UNIX and Oracle based... Required Skills: - Unix, Windows and Linux - Build release tools(...
McGregor Boyall
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 28 May 2013
Brentwood, Essex
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: £35 - £39 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Rullion IT Plus
Posted: 14 June 2013
Berkshire
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
West London
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £425 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Guildford, South East
Rate: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Competitive Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
London
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Berkshire
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £300 - £370 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
City of London
Real Staffing
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
People Source Consulting
Rate: £350 - £420 per day + excellent benefits scheme
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
People Source Consulting
Rate: £350 - £420 per day + excellent benefits scheme
Posted: 12 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
Orgtel
Posted: 21 May 2013
Havant, Hampshire
Advanced Resource Managers
Rate: Neg
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Rate: £400 per day
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Rate: £300 per day
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Cambridgeshire
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Rate: Dependent on experience
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