Release Train Contracts with Work from Home Options

Release Train
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 Train skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Train over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 429 534
Rank change year-on-year +96 +105 -62
Contract jobs citing Release Train 12 28 87
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 57
10th Percentile £463 £407 £465
25th Percentile - £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £700
90th Percentile - £650 £735
UK median daily rate £487 £625 £606
% change year-on-year -22.08% +3.09% +16.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Release Train 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 12,922 21,983 40,479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.64% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 15,568 29,399
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 508 539
10th Percentile £14.74 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Release Train
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Release Train trend for jobs with a WFH option

Release Train
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 Train.

Release Train daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Train
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Release Train over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Release Train daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Release Train
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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Miro
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Advertising
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Release Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Release Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Release Train Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Release Train Manager
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Systems Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (58.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (50.00%) Scrum
5 4 (33.33%) Coaching
6 2 (16.67%) DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (8.33%) Iteration Planning
7 1 (8.33%) Kanban
7 1 (8.33%) Logistics
7 1 (8.33%) Product Management
7 1 (8.33%) Project Management
7 1 (8.33%) Release Management
7 1 (8.33%) Sprint Retrospective
7 1 (8.33%) System Testing
7 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft