Release Manager Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Release Manager 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 Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 22 May 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Manager
Rank 408 472 391
Rank change year-on-year
+64 -81
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 126 114 203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.267% 0.192% 0.337%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.290% 0.208% 0.364%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 50 110
Average daily rate £450 £425 £493
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -13.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £321 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £578 £503 £628
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £365 £453
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -19.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
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 2155 2623 2895
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 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Release Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Release Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Release Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Release Manager Daily Rate Trend

Release Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Release Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Release Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Release Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Release Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Release Manager
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 Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 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
England +65 114 £450 +5.88%
London +46 77 £475 +1.60%
City of London +13 26 £550 +10.00%
South East +9 11 £400 +9.58%
Hampshire +7 9 £400 -11.11%
East of England +21 7 £375 -
Basingstoke - 7 £400 -
North West +12 6 £450 +38.46%
Scotland -15 5 £338 +3.84%
West Midlands +11 4 £350 -17.64%
Leeds +6 4 - -
Yorkshire -4 4 - -
West Yorkshire -4 4 - -
Glasgow -17 4 £338 +3.84%
Cambridgeshire - 4 £400 -
East Midlands -1 3 £375 -
Peterborough - 3 £375 -
Nottingham - 3 £375 -
Cheshire - 3 £563 -
Nottinghamshire - 3 £375 -
Hertfordshire +12 2 - -
Berkshire +7 2 £400 +12.67%
Merseyside +3 2 £450 +38.46%
Solihull - 2 - -
South West +26 1 £420 +20.00%
Shropshire +5 1 £350 -
Reading +4 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 £420 -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Essex - 1 £313 -

Release Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Release Manager 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 Manager in their job title.

1 89 (42.79%) Release Management
2 55 (26.44%) Finance
3 53 (25.48%) ITIL
4 49 (23.56%) Project Management
5 47 (22.60%) Configuration Management
6 42 (20.19%) Java
6 42 (20.19%) Oracle
7 38 (18.27%) Banking
8 28 (13.46%) UNIX
9 26 (12.50%) Windows
10 24 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
11 22 (10.58%) Change Management
12 21 (10.10%) Agile Software Development
12 21 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (10.10%) Subversion
13 20 (9.615%) Investment Banking
14 19 (9.135%) TeamCity
14 19 (9.135%) .NET
15 18 (8.654%) Microsoft
15 18 (8.654%) Retail
16 16 (7.692%) Migration
16 16 (7.692%) Maven
16 16 (7.692%) QA
17 15 (7.212%) User Acceptance Testing
17 15 (7.212%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (6.731%) PowerShell
19 13 (6.250%) JIRA
19 13 (6.250%) Service Management
19 13 (6.250%) C#
19 13 (6.250%) Solaris

Release Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Release Manager 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 Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (9.135%) .NET
2 8 (3.846%) Java EE
3 7 (3.365%) SOAP
3 7 (3.365%) XML
3 7 (3.365%) soapUI
4 5 (2.404%) Middleware
4 5 (2.404%) SAP Basis
5 3 (1.442%) CSS
5 3 (1.442%) Servlets
5 3 (1.442%) HTML
5 3 (1.442%) Software Packaging
6 2 (0.962%) J2EE
7 1 (0.481%) COM
7 1 (0.481%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 10 (4.808%) BizTalk Server
1 10 (4.808%) IIS
2 7 (3.365%) ESB
3 3 (1.442%) NetWeaver
3 3 (1.442%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.442%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.442%) Jetty
4 2 (0.962%) Confluence
4 2 (0.962%) MS Exchange
4 2 (0.962%) SAS
5 1 (0.481%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (0.481%) Windows Azure
5 1 (0.481%) Google App Engine
5 1 (0.481%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 8 (3.846%) MS Excel
2 6 (2.885%) MS Visio
3 5 (2.404%) MS Project
3 5 (2.404%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (0.962%) Mingle
4 2 (0.962%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.365%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (2.885%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.962%) Summit
3 2 (0.962%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.481%) Endur
4 1 (0.481%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.481%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.481%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.481%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.404%) HTTP
2 3 (1.442%) SAN
2 3 (1.442%) LAN
2 3 (1.442%) WAN
3 2 (0.962%) Cisco PIX
3 2 (0.962%) Firewall
3 2 (0.962%) Internet
4 1 (0.481%) FTP
4 1 (0.481%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.481%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.808%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.885%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.404%) RDBMS
4 4 (1.923%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.442%) MySQL
6 2 (0.962%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.481%) SQLPlus
7 1 (0.481%) DB2
7 1 (0.481%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.481%) MS Access
7 1 (0.481%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.481%) Oracle 9i
7 1 (0.481%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.481%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (10.10%) Subversion
2 19 (9.135%) TeamCity
3 16 (7.692%) Maven
4 13 (6.250%) JIRA
4 13 (6.250%) MSBuild
5 12 (5.769%) Git (software)
6 11 (5.288%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (3.365%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (1.923%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.442%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.442%) ClearCase
9 3 (1.442%) Hudson
10 2 (0.962%) dbdeploy
10 2 (0.962%) WiX
10 2 (0.962%) NWDI
10 2 (0.962%) Ant
10 2 (0.962%) JUnit
10 2 (0.962%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 1 (0.481%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.481%) Mercurial
General
1 55 (26.44%) Finance
2 38 (18.27%) Banking
3 20 (9.615%) Investment Banking
4 18 (8.654%) Retail
5 5 (2.404%) Financial Institution
6 4 (1.923%) Publishing
7 2 (0.962%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.962%) German Language
7 2 (0.962%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.481%) Front Office
8 1 (0.481%) Back Office
8 1 (0.481%) Legal
8 1 (0.481%) Marketing
8 1 (0.481%) Advertising
8 1 (0.481%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.365%) CMDB
2 5 (2.404%) SWIFT
3 3 (1.442%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (1.442%) Firmware
3 3 (1.442%) Client/Server
3 3 (1.442%) Credit Risk
3 3 (1.442%) Open Source
3 3 (1.442%) Wiki
4 2 (0.962%) Equities
4 2 (0.962%) Market Risk
4 2 (0.962%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.481%) PMI
5 1 (0.481%) EPoS
5 1 (0.481%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.481%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.481%) Data Conversion
5 1 (0.481%) Derivative
5 1 (0.481%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (0.481%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.481%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.46%) UNIX
2 26 (12.50%) Windows
3 13 (6.250%) Solaris
4 9 (4.327%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (3.365%) Linux
6 1 (0.481%) AIX
6 1 (0.481%) Android
6 1 (0.481%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (42.79%) Release Management
2 53 (25.48%) ITIL
3 49 (23.56%) Project Management
4 47 (22.60%) Configuration Management
5 24 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
6 22 (10.58%) Change Management
7 21 (10.10%) Agile Software Development
7 21 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (7.692%) Migration
9 15 (7.212%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (6.250%) Service Management
11 11 (5.288%) PRINCE2
12 9 (4.327%) Change Control
13 8 (3.846%) Test Scripting
13 8 (3.846%) CRM
13 8 (3.846%) SOA
13 8 (3.846%) Service Delivery
14 7 (3.365%) E-Commerce
14 7 (3.365%) Test Automation
14 7 (3.365%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (20.19%) Java
2 14 (6.731%) PowerShell
3 13 (6.250%) C#
4 9 (4.327%) SQL
5 6 (2.885%) Bash shell
5 6 (2.885%) C++
5 6 (2.885%) Perl
5 6 (2.885%) Python
5 6 (2.885%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.442%) ABAP
7 2 (0.962%) Korn
7 2 (0.962%) VBScript
8 1 (0.481%) REXX
8 1 (0.481%) JCL
8 1 (0.481%) C
8 1 (0.481%) VB
8 1 (0.481%) PHP
8 1 (0.481%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.481%) VBA
8 1 (0.481%) Lua
Qualifications
1 15 (7.212%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (3.365%) Degree
3 5 (2.404%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (0.962%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.962%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.962%) ISEB
5 1 (0.481%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.481%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.481%) MCAD
5 1 (0.481%) MCSD
5 1 (0.481%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.481%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.692%) QA
2 4 (1.923%) Basel III
3 1 (0.481%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.962%) Xen
1 2 (0.962%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (0.962%) Hyper-V
1 2 (0.962%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.481%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 7 (3.365%) Puppet
2 3 (1.442%) BladeLogic
3 2 (0.962%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.481%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (0.481%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.481%) WMI
Vendors
1 42 (20.19%) Oracle
2 18 (8.654%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.327%) SAP
4 6 (2.885%) Perforce
5 5 (2.404%) IBM
6 4 (1.923%) HP
7 3 (1.442%) Remedy
7 3 (1.442%) Business Objects
7 3 (1.442%) ATG
8 2 (0.962%) VMware
8 2 (0.962%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.962%) Cisco
8 2 (0.962%) Sybase
8 2 (0.962%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.962%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (0.962%) Citrix
9 1 (0.481%) Calypso
9 1 (0.481%) Murex
9 1 (0.481%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.481%) Lotus
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