Release Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Release Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 261 340
Rank change year-on-year +40 +79 -140
Contract jobs citing Release Management 122 218 303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.81% 0.87% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.97% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 155 195
10th Percentile £425 £360 £346
25th Percentile £475 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -
75th Percentile £626 £681 £625
90th Percentile £650 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.48% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £26.88
25th Percentile - £62.50 £29.69
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year - +122.22% +110.94%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £39.31
90th Percentile - £93.50 £47.08
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £64.38 £28.75
% change year-on-year -40.97% +123.91% +43.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Release Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Release Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Management.

Release Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Release Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Release Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Management.

Release Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 21 (17.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.92%) Confluence
3 2 (1.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.82%) CMS
4 1 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.82%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (2.46%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Oracle 11i
1 7 (5.74%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (5.74%) Oracle EBS R12
2 6 (4.92%) Endur
3 3 (2.46%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (2.46%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (2.46%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 49 (40.16%) Azure
2 23 (18.85%) AWS
3 20 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (14.75%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (13.93%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (13.93%) Entra ID
6 16 (13.11%) Azure Storage
7 13 (10.66%) GitHub
7 13 (10.66%) SaaS
8 11 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (9.02%) IaaS
8 11 (9.02%) PaaS
9 5 (4.10%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.10%) Slack
10 4 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.28%) OCI
11 3 (2.46%) Serverless
12 2 (1.64%) Asana
12 2 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.03%) DNS
2 21 (17.21%) DHCP
3 17 (13.93%) Firewall
4 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.82%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.10%) Power BI
3 4 (3.28%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.46%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.46%) MySQL
4 3 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.46%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.82%) Big Data
5 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.82%) Looker
5 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (8.20%) SonarQube
2 8 (6.56%) JIRA
3 7 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.10%) Git
5 3 (2.46%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.82%) Gatling
6 1 (0.82%) Mockito
6 1 (0.82%) ScalaTest
6 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.75%) Finance
3 11 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.20%) Front Office
5 6 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.10%) Banking
6 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.46%) Legal
8 3 (2.46%) Marketing
8 3 (2.46%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.46%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.82%) Back Office
10 1 (0.82%) French Language
10 1 (0.82%) German Language
10 1 (0.82%) Italian Language
10 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 16 (13.11%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (11.48%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (11.48%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (11.48%) Support Specialist
3 11 (9.02%) Developer
3 11 (9.02%) Release Manager
4 10 (8.20%) Analyst
5 7 (5.74%) Unix Support
6 6 (4.92%) Business Analyst
6 6 (4.92%) Data Business Analyst
6 6 (4.92%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.10%) Applications Support
7 5 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Change Analyst
8 4 (3.28%) Change and Release Analyst
8 4 (3.28%) Consultant
8 4 (3.28%) HR Manager
8 4 (3.28%) Release Analyst
8 4 (3.28%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.13%) ARM Templates
2 10 (8.20%) Azure Blueprints
3 6 (4.92%) .NET
4 5 (4.10%) RESTful
5 3 (2.46%) Blazor
5 3 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.64%) CSS
6 2 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.64%) Web Services
7 1 (0.82%) Express.js
7 1 (0.82%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.82%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.82%) HTML
7 1 (0.82%) Kafka
7 1 (0.82%) Middleware
7 1 (0.82%) Node.js
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.82%) REST
7 1 (0.82%) XML
7 1 (0.82%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) PKI
2 17 (13.93%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (12.30%) Management Information System
4 11 (9.02%) Product Ownership
5 10 (8.20%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.74%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.64%) Clustering
8 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.69%) Windows
2 22 (18.03%) Linux
3 17 (13.93%) Windows Server
3 17 (13.93%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (13.93%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (9.84%) Unix
5 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.64%) VMS
6 1 (0.82%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.70%) Agile
2 45 (36.89%) DevOps
3 35 (28.69%) Analytics
4 30 (24.59%) ITIL
5 25 (20.49%) Service Management
6 22 (18.03%) Change Management
6 22 (18.03%) CI/CD
7 20 (16.39%) Project Management
8 18 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (14.75%) RBAC
9 17 (13.93%) Identity Management
9 17 (13.93%) Log Analytics
10 16 (13.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 16 (13.11%) Privileged Identity Management
10 16 (13.11%) Software Engineering
10 16 (13.11%) Test Automation
11 15 (12.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (11.48%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (10.66%) Containerisation
13 13 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.23%) PowerShell
2 25 (20.49%) SQL
3 23 (18.85%) C#
4 17 (13.93%) Bicep
5 16 (13.11%) VB
5 16 (13.11%) VBScript
6 9 (7.38%) Python
7 5 (4.10%) VB.NET
8 4 (3.28%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.28%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.46%) Java
9 3 (2.46%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.46%) Scala
10 2 (1.64%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.64%) Bash
10 2 (1.64%) C++
10 2 (1.64%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.82%) PHP
11 1 (0.82%) SOQL
11 1 (0.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (31.15%) Security Cleared
2 36 (29.51%) SC Cleared
3 25 (20.49%) Degree
4 19 (15.57%) DV Cleared
5 16 (13.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 10 (8.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.82%) MCSA
9 1 (0.82%) MCSE
9 1 (0.82%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) NCSC
2 7 (5.74%) QA
3 2 (1.64%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.64%) SLA
4 1 (0.82%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (19.67%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.57%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (14.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (11.48%) Docker
5 2 (1.64%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.64%) vSphere
6 1 (0.82%) XenApp
6 1 (0.82%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (27.87%) Kubernetes
2 20 (16.39%) WSUS
3 18 (14.75%) SCCM
4 16 (13.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (13.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (13.11%) SCOM
5 13 (10.66%) Terraform
6 11 (9.02%) Ansible
7 2 (1.64%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.82%) Grafana
8 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (31.15%) Microsoft
2 19 (15.57%) Oracle
3 7 (5.74%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.10%) Databricks
5 4 (3.28%) VMware
6 3 (2.46%) OpenLink
6 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.64%) Google
7 2 (1.64%) Pardot
7 2 (1.64%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.82%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.82%) BMC
8 1 (0.82%) Cisco
8 1 (0.82%) Citrix
8 1 (0.82%) IronPort
8 1 (0.82%) Qualys
8 1 (0.82%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.82%) Remedy
8 1 (0.82%) Workday