The first table below looks at the demand for the Release Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the West Yorkshire region.

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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Engineer
Rank 89 - 75
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Release Engineer 6 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.434% - 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.459% - 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £375 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £333
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - -
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1307 1611 1081
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.57% 95.04% 93.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 899 519
Average daily rate £315 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 67 83
Average hourly rate £12.75 £15.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.60 £34.75 £28.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Release Engineer
Yorkshire

Release Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Release Engineer across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

West Yorkshire Release Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Release Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Release Engineer across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Release Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Release Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
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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
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Vacancies
Leeds - 6 £375 - 1
Release Engineer
Yorkshire

Release Engineer
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Release Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Java
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 3 (50.00%) Release Management
2 3 (50.00%) Hudson
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) ATG
2 3 (50.00%) ATG Dynamo
2 3 (50.00%) AWK
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (50.00%) Solaris
2 3 (50.00%) JBoss
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Perl

Release Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Release Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 3 (50.00%) Tomcat
2 3 (50.00%) ATG Dynamo
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Ant
1 6 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 6 (100.00%) Subversion
1 6 (100.00%) Maven
2 3 (50.00%) Hudson
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) UNIX
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (50.00%) AWK
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) JBoss
1 3 (50.00%) ATG
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