Release Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Release Management
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 95 117 127
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 -23
Contract jobs citing Release Management 14 23 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.96% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.09% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 29
10th Percentile £277 £413 £463
25th Percentile £356 £481 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +8.27%
75th Percentile £488 £650 -
90th Percentile £638 £788 £575
England median daily rate £570 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,617 2,114 3,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.00% 88.67% 90.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 1,452 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £401 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +5.03% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 69
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the West Midlands

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the West Midlands

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Warwickshire +1 7 £450 -25.00% 1
Birmingham +7 5 £475 +11.76% 3
Solihull - 2 £275 -
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Chatbot
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Boomi
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Law
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Legal
4 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Analyst
1 2 (14.29%) Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Consultant
1 2 (14.29%) Environment Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Functional Consultant
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Financials Consultant
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Functional Consultant
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Salesforce Solution Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
1 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) Test Environment Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Test Manager
2 1 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (7.14%) Configuration Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Middleware
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (14.29%) SAML
3 2 (14.29%) Visualforce
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Data Centre
1 5 (35.71%) SCADA
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Team
3 2 (14.29%) Replication
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) ITIL
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 5 (35.71%) Data Centre Operations
2 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
2 5 (35.71%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (35.71%) Risk Management
2 5 (35.71%) Service Management
3 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
4 3 (21.43%) Problem Management
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 2 (14.29%) Cash Management
5 2 (14.29%) Change Control
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (14.29%) Record to Report
5 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Apex Code
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 2 (14.29%) SOQL
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) CEMLI
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.14%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) BMC
2 4 (28.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) 3PAR
4 1 (7.14%) HP
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (7.14%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) UiPath
4 1 (7.14%) Veritas