The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 24 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 Cardiff region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 60 - 34
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 7 0 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.259% - 5.575%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.741% - 7.002%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 30
Average salary £38,000 - £44,500
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 - £34,850
10% offered a salary of more than £39,750 - £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- -5.55%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
402 300 457
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 72.30% 68.03% 79.62%
Number of salaries quoted 351 280 426
Average salary £34,500 £34,008 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -5.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Release Management
South Wales

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff Release Management Jobs Demand Trend

Release Management
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Release Management across the Cardiff region.

Cardiff Release Management Salary Trend

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Release Management.

1 11 (64.71%) Change Management
2 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (41.18%) XML
3 7 (41.18%) ITIL
3 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
3 7 (41.18%) Code Coverage
4 6 (35.29%) Visual Studio Team System
4 6 (35.29%) CMDB
4 6 (35.29%) MSBuild
5 5 (29.41%) Degree
6 4 (23.53%) SLA
6 4 (23.53%) RPG
6 4 (23.53%) SQL
6 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (17.65%) AS400
7 3 (17.65%) Workflow
7 3 (17.65%) Workflow Management
7 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
7 3 (17.65%) QA
7 3 (17.65%) Change Control
8 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
8 2 (11.76%) Legal
9 1 (5.882%) Business Continuity
9 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
9 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (5.882%) ITSM
9 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
9 1 (5.882%) Service Management
9 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cardiff 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Release Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 7 (41.18%) XML
3 1 (5.882%) HTML
3 1 (5.882%) CSS
3 1 (5.882%) JSP
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) Internet
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (35.29%) Visual Studio Team System
2 6 (35.29%) MSBuild
General
1 2 (11.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Analyst
2 11 (64.71%) Release Analyst
3 8 (47.06%) Configuration Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Release Manager
5 3 (17.65%) Change Manager
6 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) CMDB
2 3 (17.65%) AS400
3 1 (5.882%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Change Management
2 7 (41.18%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) Code Coverage
3 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (17.65%) Workflow
4 3 (17.65%) Workflow Management
4 3 (17.65%) Change Control
5 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
6 1 (5.882%) Business Continuity
6 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
6 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.882%) ITSM
6 1 (5.882%) Service Management
6 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) RPG
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
2 1 (5.882%) Java
2 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) SLA
2 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft