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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 273 307 293
Rank change year-on-year +34 -14 -51
Contract jobs citing Release Management 356 482 814
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.83% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.92% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 337 547
10th Percentile £356 £336 £404
25th Percentile £450 £461 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +6.48% +2.86%
75th Percentile £612 £645 £650
90th Percentile £675 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 6
10th Percentile - £38.70 £16.63
25th Percentile - £52.50 £19.48
Median hourly rate £38.00 £64.38 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.97% +123.91% +43.64%
75th Percentile £47.75 £68.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £53.60 £86.00 £43.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £64.38 £25.00
% change year-on-year -40.97% +157.50% +24.91%

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 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 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
England +8 303 £564 -1.96% 98
UK excluding London +48 163 £550 +10.00% 60
London +30 149 £575 -4.17% 41
Work from Home +35 123 £575 +0.44% 65
South East +31 80 £575 +4.55% 16
South West +3 24 £570 +90.00% 5
Scotland +38 18 £463 +9.47% 7
Midlands +26 18 £450 -20.00% 17
West Midlands +17 13 £450 -20.00% 11
East of England +10 13 £369 -22.37% 6
North of England +7 11 £350 -39.13% 7
Yorkshire +27 9 £240 -56.87% 2
East Midlands +23 5 £425 - 6
North West +7 2 £356 -38.04% 5

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 27 (7.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (7.30%) Confluence
3 5 (1.40%) IIS
4 4 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.25%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.25%) Endur
2 7 (1.97%) Oracle 11i
2 7 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (1.97%) Oracle EBS R12
3 5 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.40%) Oracle Cash Management
3 5 (1.40%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (1.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.56%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.56%) Remedy AR System
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 88 (24.72%) Azure
2 53 (14.89%) AWS
3 33 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
5 20 (5.62%) Entra ID
6 18 (5.06%) SaaS
7 17 (4.78%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (4.49%) Azure Storage
8 16 (4.49%) GitHub
9 15 (4.21%) PaaS
10 14 (3.93%) Slack
11 13 (3.65%) Power Platform
12 11 (3.09%) GCP
12 11 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.09%) IaaS
13 9 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.69%) OCI
15 6 (1.69%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.40%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.43%) DNS
2 28 (7.87%) DHCP
3 23 (6.46%) Firewall
4 6 (1.69%) SSH
5 5 (1.40%) VPN
6 4 (1.12%) LAN
6 4 (1.12%) VSAN
6 4 (1.12%) WAN
6 4 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.84%) SAN
7 3 (0.84%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.49%) NoSQL
1 16 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.93%) Relational Database
3 9 (2.53%) Data Lake
4 8 (2.25%) Power BI
5 5 (1.40%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (1.40%) Metadata
5 5 (1.40%) MySQL
6 4 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.12%) Redis
6 4 (1.12%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.84%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle ODI
9 1 (0.28%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 48 (13.48%) JIRA
2 21 (5.90%) Jenkins
3 15 (4.21%) Git
4 10 (2.81%) SonarQube
5 8 (2.25%) Cucumber
6 7 (1.97%) JUnit
7 5 (1.40%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.40%) Gatling
7 5 (1.40%) Mockito
7 5 (1.40%) Robot Framework
7 5 (1.40%) Selenium
7 5 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.12%) GitLab
8 4 (1.12%) ScalaTest
9 2 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.56%) webpack
10 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 93 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.19%) Finance
3 38 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.55%) Banking
5 28 (7.87%) Front Office
6 18 (5.06%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.21%) Marketing
7 15 (4.21%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (4.21%) Telecoms
8 13 (3.65%) Investment Banking
9 10 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.25%) Electronics
11 7 (1.97%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.69%) Law
12 6 (1.69%) Legal
13 5 (1.40%) Retail
14 4 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.84%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 49 (13.76%) Developer
2 42 (11.80%) Analyst
3 37 (10.39%) Release Manager
4 25 (7.02%) Windows Engineer
5 20 (5.62%) Build Engineer
5 20 (5.62%) Windows Build Engineer
6 16 (4.49%) Active Directory Support
6 16 (4.49%) Applications Support
6 16 (4.49%) Java Developer
7 15 (4.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (4.21%) IT Manager
7 15 (4.21%) Project Manager
7 15 (4.21%) Senior
7 15 (4.21%) Support Engineer
7 15 (4.21%) Support Specialist
8 14 (3.93%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (3.93%) Architect
8 14 (3.93%) Azure Specialist
9 13 (3.65%) Change Manager
9 13 (3.65%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (7.87%) ARM Templates
2 22 (6.18%) Spring
3 17 (4.78%) Web Services
4 16 (4.49%) RESTful
5 14 (3.93%) .NET
5 14 (3.93%) React
5 14 (3.93%) REST
6 12 (3.37%) JPA
6 12 (3.37%) XML
7 11 (3.09%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.09%) Spring Boot
7 11 (3.09%) Spring MVC
8 10 (2.81%) Azure Blueprints
8 10 (2.81%) Hibernate
8 10 (2.81%) HTML
9 9 (2.53%) CSS
9 9 (2.53%) Middleware
10 8 (2.25%) HTML5
10 8 (2.25%) JSON
10 8 (2.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.74%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.90%) PKI
3 19 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 19 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.37%) Client/Server
4 12 (3.37%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.81%) Clustering
6 10 (2.81%) Derivative
7 9 (2.53%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.97%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.40%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (1.40%) SCADA
11 4 (1.12%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 107 (30.06%) Windows
2 66 (18.54%) Linux
3 57 (16.01%) Windows Server
4 40 (11.24%) Windows Server 2016
4 40 (11.24%) Windows Server 2019
5 34 (9.55%) Unix
6 25 (7.02%) Windows Server 2012
7 24 (6.74%) Windows 10
8 20 (5.62%) Windows NT
9 12 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (1.40%) VMS
11 3 (0.84%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.28%) CentOS
12 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (30.06%) ITIL
2 103 (28.93%) Agile
3 94 (26.40%) DevOps
4 69 (19.38%) Service Management
5 62 (17.42%) Change Management
6 46 (12.92%) SDLC
7 45 (12.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 44 (12.36%) CI/CD
9 42 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (11.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 40 (11.24%) Scrum
11 39 (10.96%) Configuration Management
12 38 (10.67%) Analytics
13 36 (10.11%) Deployment Automation
14 35 (9.83%) Test Automation
15 34 (9.55%) Risk Management
16 33 (9.27%) Project Management
17 32 (8.99%) Proactive Monitoring
18 28 (7.87%) Software Engineering
19 26 (7.30%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 78 (21.91%) SQL
2 65 (18.26%) PowerShell
3 55 (15.45%) Python
4 27 (7.58%) C#
4 27 (7.58%) Java
5 25 (7.02%) VBScript
6 21 (5.90%) JavaScript
7 17 (4.78%) Bicep
7 17 (4.78%) VB
8 10 (2.81%) Scala
8 10 (2.81%) TypeScript
9 8 (2.25%) PL/SQL
9 8 (2.25%) VB.NET
10 7 (1.97%) Go
11 6 (1.69%) Perl
11 6 (1.69%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.40%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.40%) Bash
13 4 (1.12%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.12%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 106 (29.78%) Security Cleared
2 73 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 51 (14.33%) DV Cleared
4 45 (12.64%) Degree
5 16 (4.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.12%) VCAP
8 4 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.28%) MCSA
10 1 (0.28%) MCSE
10 1 (0.28%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (11.80%) QA
2 10 (2.81%) NCSC
3 7 (1.97%) SLA
4 5 (1.40%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.84%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) MiFID
7 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.28%) EMIR
7 1 (0.28%) GxP
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (17.13%) Active Directory
2 34 (9.55%) Docker
3 30 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (6.46%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (5.62%) Firmware
6 18 (5.06%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (1.97%) vSphere
8 5 (1.40%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.40%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.40%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.56%) XenApp
9 2 (0.56%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.28%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 65 (18.26%) Kubernetes
2 45 (12.64%) SCCM
3 42 (11.80%) WSUS
4 21 (5.90%) SCOM
5 20 (5.62%) Sysprep
6 19 (5.34%) Terraform
7 18 (5.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (4.78%) Grafana
8 17 (4.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (4.49%) Ansible
10 8 (2.25%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (1.97%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.84%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.84%) Rancher
13 2 (0.56%) CEMLI
13 2 (0.56%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.56%) Puppet
13 2 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.28%) Dell DRAC
14 1 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 92 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.55%) Oracle
2 34 (9.55%) VMware
3 22 (6.18%) SAP
4 14 (3.93%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.81%) IBM
6 9 (2.53%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.25%) BMC
7 8 (2.25%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.97%) Databricks
9 5 (1.40%) Atlassian
9 5 (1.40%) Google
9 5 (1.40%) OpenLink
10 4 (1.12%) HP
10 4 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.84%) 3PAR
11 3 (0.84%) NetApp
11 3 (0.84%) Remedy
11 3 (0.84%) Splunk
11 3 (0.84%) Veritas