The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Wiltshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 40 51 40
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -11
Contract jobs citing Release Management 10 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 2.198% 0.322% 1.105%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.003% 0.495% 1.554%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 3
Average daily rate £439 £419 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.77% -0.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £394 £404
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £444 £604
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+33.33% -40.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
333 404 386
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 73.19% 65.06% 71.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 257 212
Average daily rate £425 £380 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.84% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £238 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £492 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 23
Average hourly rate £15.75 £26.50 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.56% -14.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £19.95 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.25 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Release Management
South West

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Release Management Daily Rate Trend

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Wiltshire Release Management Hourly Rate Trend

Release Management
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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Swindon - 9 £439 -
Corsham - 1 - -
Release Management
South West

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region 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 11 (78.57%) Change Management
2 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 10 (71.43%) ITIL
2 10 (71.43%) Oracle
3 8 (57.14%) VMware
3 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (50.00%) Information Assurance
4 7 (50.00%) NAS
4 7 (50.00%) SAN
4 7 (50.00%) WAN
4 7 (50.00%) VPN
5 6 (42.86%) PRINCE2
5 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
5 6 (42.86%) LAN
6 5 (35.71%) Oracle Applications
6 5 (35.71%) Management Information System
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (28.57%) Middleware
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (21.43%) Performance Management
8 3 (21.43%) Workflow
8 3 (21.43%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (21.43%) Scrum
8 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (21.43%) Stellent
8 3 (21.43%) Java
8 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region 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 4 (28.57%) Middleware
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (21.43%) J2EE
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 1 (7.143%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle 10gAS
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (7.143%) Maximo
3 1 (7.143%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) NAS
1 7 (50.00%) SAN
1 7 (50.00%) WAN
1 7 (50.00%) VPN
2 6 (42.86%) LAN
3 1 (7.143%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (7.143%) Retail
3 1 (7.143%) Military
3 1 (7.143%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Team Leader
1 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 3 (21.43%) Information Assurance Leader
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 1 (7.143%) Release Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.143%) Architect
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) Windows
1 1 (7.143%) Linux
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Change Management
2 10 (71.43%) ITIL
3 7 (50.00%) Information Assurance
4 6 (42.86%) PRINCE2
4 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Management
5 3 (21.43%) Workflow
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) CRM
5 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (21.43%) SOA
6 1 (7.143%) BPEL
6 1 (7.143%) PRINCE
6 1 (7.143%) ETL
6 1 (7.143%) Business Transformation
6 1 (7.143%) Security Architecture
6 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) OCP
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli
1 1 (7.143%) Netcool
1 1 (7.143%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Oracle
2 8 (57.14%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Stellent
3 3 (21.43%) Hyperion
4 1 (7.143%) Remedy
4 1 (7.143%) BMC
4 1 (7.143%) Informatica
4 1 (7.143%) Cisco
4 1 (7.143%) IBM
4 1 (7.143%) Microsoft