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The table below looks at the demand for the Release Manager role in IT jobs within the City of London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Release Manager
Location
3 months to
5 Sep 2008
Same period last year
Rank278328
Rank change on same period last yearUp+50
Matching permanent IT job ads6812
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.038 %0.005 %
As % of the category below0.390 %0.068 %
Salaries quoted588
Average minimum salary£61,914£67,625
Average salary£67,664£70,438
% change on same period last year-3.93 %
Average maximum salary£73,414£73,250
UK excluding London average salary£42,808£45,251
% change on same period last year-5.39 %
City of London IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads1743017677
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled9.645 %7.413 %
Salaries quoted1483313353
Average minimum salary£48,003£51,011
Average salary£52,923£55,586
% change on same period last year-4.79 %
Average maximum salary£57,842£60,162
UK excluding London average salary£38,058£39,448
% change on same period last year-3.52 %
Release Manager LondonRelease Manager
London

Release Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Release Manager across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Release Manager Demand Trend

Release Manager
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Release Manager across the City of London region.

City of London Release Manager Salary Trend

Release Manager
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Release Manager across the City of London region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

City of London Release Manager Salary Histogram

Release Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Release Manager 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 IT job ads sampled with Release Manager in their job title.

178 (65.00 %)Release Management
231 (25.83 %)Equities
329 (24.17 %)Banking
427 (22.50 %)ITIL
525 (20.83 %)Finance
622 (18.33 %)Insurance
622 (18.33 %)User Acceptance Testing
721 (17.50 %)Java
820 (16.67 %)UNIX
916 (13.33 %)Configuration Management
1013 (10.83 %)Windows
1013 (10.83 %)ITIL Certification
1112 (10.00 %)Ant
1211 (9.167 %)Degree
1211 (9.167 %)Investment Banking
1310 (8.333 %)Shell Script
1310 (8.333 %)TIBCO
1310 (8.333 %)Middleware
1310 (8.333 %)Change Management
149 (7.500 %)Project Management
149 (7.500 %)Stakeholder Management
157 (5.833 %)Regression Testing
157 (5.833 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
157 (5.833 %)Oracle
157 (5.833 %)SQL
157 (5.833 %)Datawarehouse
157 (5.833 %)Summit
157 (5.833 %)Subversion
157 (5.833 %)Credit Risk
157 (5.833 %)System Testing

Release Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Release Manager 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 IT job ads sampled with Release Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
110 (8.333 %)Middleware
26 (5.000 %)J2EE
32 (1.667 %).NET
City of London IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (1.667 %)Tomcat
12 (1.667 %)SharePoint Server 2007
21 (0.833 %)SharePoint
City of London IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
13 (2.500 %)MS Office
13 (2.500 %)MS Visio
22 (1.667 %)MS PowerPoint
22 (1.667 %)MS Excel
31 (0.833 %)MS Project
City of London IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
17 (5.833 %)Summit
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (0.833 %)SMS
11 (0.833 %)Intranet
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
17 (5.833 %)Datawarehouse
21 (0.833 %)Oracle 10g
21 (0.833 %)SQLPlus
21 (0.833 %)SQL Server
21 (0.833 %)Oracle 9i
City of London IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
112 (10.00 %)Ant
27 (5.833 %)Subversion
35 (4.167 %)VSS/SourceSafe
42 (1.667 %)Eclipse
42 (1.667 %)WinRunner
42 (1.667 %)TestDirector
42 (1.667 %)LoadRunner
42 (1.667 %)FitNesse
51 (0.833 %)PVCS
City of London IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
129 (24.17 %)Banking
225 (20.83 %)Finance
322 (18.33 %)Insurance
411 (9.167 %)Investment Banking
55 (4.167 %)Front Office
64 (3.333 %)Pensions
73 (2.500 %)Publishing
82 (1.667 %)Financial Institution
91 (0.833 %)General Ledger
91 (0.833 %)Back Office
91 (0.833 %)Education
91 (0.833 %)Government
City of London IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
131 (25.83 %)Equities
27 (5.833 %)Credit Risk
33 (2.500 %)Computer Science
42 (1.667 %)Data Conversion
51 (0.833 %)Mainframe
City of London IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
120 (16.67 %)UNIX
213 (10.83 %)Windows
31 (0.833 %)Solaris
31 (0.833 %)Linux
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
178 (65.00 %)Release Management
227 (22.50 %)ITIL
322 (18.33 %)User Acceptance Testing
416 (13.33 %)Configuration Management
510 (8.333 %)Change Management
69 (7.500 %)Project Management
69 (7.500 %)Stakeholder Management
77 (5.833 %)Regression Testing
77 (5.833 %)System Testing
86 (5.000 %)Service Management
95 (4.167 %)Continuous Integration
104 (3.333 %)Time Management
104 (3.333 %)Disaster Recovery
104 (3.333 %)Business Continuity
104 (3.333 %)Asset Management
113 (2.500 %)Fund Management
122 (1.667 %)Matrix Management
122 (1.667 %)Test Management
122 (1.667 %)Automated Testing
122 (1.667 %)IT Governance
City of London IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
121 (17.50 %)Java
210 (8.333 %)Shell Script
37 (5.833 %)SQL
46 (5.000 %)PL/SQL
City of London IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
113 (10.83 %)ITIL Certification
211 (9.167 %)Degree
33 (2.500 %)ISEB
City of London IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (5.833 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
24 (3.333 %)QA
City of London IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
110 (8.333 %)TIBCO
27 (5.833 %)Oracle
34 (3.333 %)Cognizant
42 (1.667 %)Microsoft
42 (1.667 %)HP
51 (0.833 %)BEA
51 (0.833 %)Sun