England Release Management Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Release Management skills within the England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Management over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Londonderry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Elland England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Paignton Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Romford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Stevenage Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	310	335
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching permanent IT job ads	1107	1102
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.543 %	0.488 %
As % of the category below	1.032 %	0.964 %
Salaries quoted	836	768
Average minimum salary	£43,186	£46,224
Average salary	£46,563	£49,631
% change on same period last year	-6.18 %
Average maximum salary	£49,941	£53,038
UK excluding London average salary	£41,172	£40,489
% change on same period last year	+1.68 %
Processes & Methodologies England
Matching permanent IT job ads	107264	114271
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	52.59 %	50.59 %
Salaries quoted	87873	91345
Average minimum salary	£43,347	£44,482
Average salary	£47,464	£48,555
% change on same period last year	-2.24 %
Average maximum salary	£51,581	£52,627
UK excluding London average salary	£42,840	£44,076
% change on same period last year	-2.80 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Release Management across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Release Management across the England region over the past 3 months.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	+40	585	£51,632	-12.04 %
2	South East	-41	152	£42,115	-6.96 %
3	South West	+36	104	£39,174	-2.51 %
4	East of England	+34	97	£45,367	-5.97 %
5	North West	+32	66	£38,896	+40.10 %
6	Yorkshire	-55	63	£35,011	-6.52 %
7	West Midlands	-10	24	£40,313	+3.60 %
8	East Midlands	-31	16	£40,364	+27.42 %
9	North East	-4	2	£33,750	+21.46 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Release Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Release Management.

1 599 (28.17 %) ITIL 2 540 (25.40 %) SQL 3 507 (23.85 %) Finance 4 467 (21.97 %) Unix 5 369 (17.36 %) Change Management 6 317 (14.91 %) Oracle 7 300 (14.11 %) Java 8 280 (13.17 %) Windows 8 280 (13.17 %) Banking 9 279 (13.12 %) SQL Server 10 277 (13.03 %) .NET 11 258 (12.14 %) Configuration Management 12 237 (11.15 %) Microsoft 13 226 (10.63 %) Service Management 14 223 (10.49 %) Linux

15 193 (9.078 %) Project Management 15 193 (9.078 %) Degree 16 185 (8.702 %) C# 17 164 (7.714 %) Perl 18 156 (7.338 %) Service Delivery 19 143 (6.726 %) QA 20 136 (6.397 %) Solaris 21 132 (6.209 %) PRINCE2 22 127 (5.974 %) MS Excel 23 122 (5.738 %) ITIL Certification 24 119 (5.597 %) J2EE 25 116 (5.456 %) OO 25 116 (5.456 %) Investment Banking 26 108 (5.080 %) Internet 27 106 (4.986 %) SLA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England region citing Release Management also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Release Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 277 (13.03 %) .NET 2 119 (5.597 %) J2EE 3 97 (4.563 %) XML 4 91 (4.280 %) ASP.NET 5 73 (3.434 %) HTML 5 73 (3.434 %) WebSphere 6 52 (2.446 %) ASP 7 49 (2.305 %) WebServices 8 47 (2.211 %) CSS 9 40 (1.881 %) .NET Framework 10 33 (1.552 %) Spring 11 31 (1.458 %) MFC 12 30 (1.411 %) XSLT 13 29 (1.364 %) Middleware 13 29 (1.364 %) AJAX 14 28 (1.317 %) Hibernate 15 26 (1.223 %) JSP 16 22 (1.035 %) Swing 17 20 (0.941 %) STL 17 20 (0.941 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 75 (3.528 %) WebLogic 2 72 (3.387 %) Apache 3 70 (3.293 %) BizTalk Server 4 66 (3.104 %) CMS 5 61 (2.869 %) SharePoint 6 48 (2.258 %) IIS 7 34 (1.599 %) Tomcat 8 31 (1.458 %) MS Exchange 9 21 (0.988 %) Lotus Notes 10 20 (0.941 %) Oracle Workflow 11 18 (0.847 %) EPiServer 11 18 (0.847 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 17 (0.800 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 14 (0.659 %) SAS 13 14 (0.659 %) MQSeries 14 12 (0.564 %) SharePoint Server 2007 15 11 (0.517 %) Exchange Server 2003 16 10 (0.470 %) Exchange Server 2007 16 10 (0.470 %) Lotus Domino 17 9 (0.423 %) JBoss
Applications 1 127 (5.974 %) MS Excel 2 49 (2.305 %) MS Visio 3 42 (1.976 %) MS Office 4 16 (0.753 %) MS PowerPoint 5 6 (0.282 %) MS Project 6 5 (0.235 %) Photoshop 7 2 (0.094 %) CA Clarity 8 1 (0.047 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 21 (0.988 %) RMDS 2 19 (0.894 %) Capstone 3 14 (0.659 %) SAP Retail 3 14 (0.659 %) Navision 3 14 (0.659 %) Movex 4 8 (0.376 %) WebTrends 5 7 (0.329 %) Summit 6 4 (0.188 %) Dynamics AX 7 3 (0.141 %) Microsoft CRM 8 2 (0.094 %) Eagle PACE 9 1 (0.047 %) SAP ERP 9 1 (0.047 %) SimCorp Dimension 9 1 (0.047 %) assyst 9 1 (0.047 %) Oracle Financials 9 1 (0.047 %) SAP HR 9 1 (0.047 %) Oracle Applications 9 1 (0.047 %) SAP Payroll
Communications & Networking 1 108 (5.080 %) Internet 2 81 (3.810 %) TCP/IP 3 40 (1.881 %) Intranet 3 40 (1.881 %) Firewall 4 37 (1.740 %) FTP 5 30 (1.411 %) HTTP 6 27 (1.270 %) DNS 7 26 (1.223 %) SAN 8 21 (0.988 %) WAN 9 18 (0.847 %) WINS 10 17 (0.800 %) VPN 11 15 (0.706 %) SNMP 12 14 (0.659 %) SMTP 12 14 (0.659 %) Extranet 12 14 (0.659 %) DSL 13 12 (0.564 %) LAN 14 11 (0.517 %) Broadband 14 11 (0.517 %) DHCP 14 11 (0.517 %) Ethernet 15 10 (0.470 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 279 (13.12 %) SQL Server 2 71 (3.340 %) SQL Server 2005 3 61 (2.869 %) SQL Server 2000 4 59 (2.775 %) RDBMS 5 44 (2.070 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 32 (1.505 %) MySQL 7 28 (1.317 %) DTS 8 23 (1.082 %) SQL Server 7 9 22 (1.035 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 21 (0.988 %) DB2 11 20 (0.941 %) Oracle 9i 11 20 (0.941 %) ETL 12 19 (0.894 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 13 17 (0.800 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 14 16 (0.753 %) Oracle 10g 15 15 (0.706 %) MS Access 15 15 (0.706 %) Datawarehouse 16 12 (0.564 %) OLAP 17 11 (0.517 %) SQL Server Integration Services 18 8 (0.376 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 47 (2.211 %) Visual Studio 2 43 (2.023 %) Ant 3 36 (1.693 %) Subversion 4 33 (1.552 %) ClearCase 5 28 (1.317 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 24 (1.129 %) Eclipse 7 22 (1.035 %) TestDirector 8 16 (0.753 %) ClearQuest 8 16 (0.753 %) PVCS 9 15 (0.706 %) NUnit 10 13 (0.611 %) CruiseControl 11 12 (0.564 %) QuickTest Pro 12 10 (0.470 %) MSI 12 10 (0.470 %) JUnit 13 9 (0.423 %) Rational Robot 14 8 (0.376 %) WinRunner 14 8 (0.376 %) StarTeam 14 8 (0.376 %) JIRA 15 7 (0.329 %) Flash 16 5 (0.235 %) Synon	General 1 507 (23.85 %) Finance 2 280 (13.17 %) Banking 3 116 (5.456 %) Investment Banking 4 94 (4.421 %) Telecoms 5 91 (4.280 %) Front Office 5 91 (4.280 %) Insurance 6 72 (3.387 %) Health 7 69 (3.246 %) Pensions 8 66 (3.104 %) Retail 9 50 (2.352 %) Billing 10 28 (1.317 %) Publishing 11 24 (1.129 %) Financial Institution 12 23 (1.082 %) Back Office 13 21 (0.988 %) Marketing 14 16 (0.753 %) Education 15 14 (0.659 %) Games 16 12 (0.564 %) Government 16 12 (0.564 %) Legal 16 12 (0.564 %) Manufacturing 17 10 (0.470 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 524 (24.65 %) Analyst 2 312 (14.68 %) Release Manager 3 215 (10.11 %) Support Analyst 4 193 (9.078 %) Developer 5 186 (8.749 %) Applications Support 6 150 (7.056 %) Project Manager 7 96 (4.516 %) Administrator 8 95 (4.468 %) Service Manager 9 92 (4.327 %) Change Manager 10 86 (4.045 %) Team Leader 11 77 (3.622 %) Release Analyst 11 77 (3.622 %) Configuration Manager 12 70 (3.293 %) Consultant 12 70 (3.293 %) Applications Support Analyst 13 69 (3.246 %) Business Analyst 14 60 (2.822 %) DBA 15 57 (2.681 %) IT Manager 16 54 (2.540 %) Support Engineer 16 54 (2.540 %) Applications Manager 17 53 (2.493 %) Senior Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 97 (4.563 %) Derivative 2 87 (4.092 %) Asset Management 3 81 (3.810 %) Equities 4 43 (2.023 %) Fixed Income 5 34 (1.599 %) Management Information System 6 32 (1.505 %) Clustering 7 28 (1.317 %) Computer Science 8 27 (1.270 %) Mainframe 9 21 (0.988 %) CMDB 10 20 (0.941 %) French Language 10 20 (0.941 %) Credit Derivative 11 19 (0.894 %) Spanish Language 12 16 (0.753 %) Mathematics 13 15 (0.706 %) VAX 14 13 (0.611 %) AS400 14 13 (0.611 %) Data Extraction 15 11 (0.517 %) Fund Management 15 11 (0.517 %) Replication 15 11 (0.517 %) Equity Derivative 16 10 (0.470 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 467 (21.97 %) Unix 2 280 (13.17 %) Windows 3 223 (10.49 %) Linux 4 136 (6.397 %) Solaris 5 49 (2.305 %) Windows 2000 6 37 (1.740 %) AIX 7 30 (1.411 %) HPUX 8 14 (0.659 %) Windows Server 2003 9 13 (0.611 %) Windows NT 10 12 (0.564 %) Windows XP 11 4 (0.188 %) OpenVMS 12 2 (0.094 %) OS/400 12 2 (0.094 %) Windows CE 12 2 (0.094 %) Tru64 12 2 (0.094 %) SUSE 12 2 (0.094 %) Debian 12 2 (0.094 %) Windows Mobile 13 1 (0.047 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 599 (28.17 %) ITIL 2 369 (17.36 %) Change Management 3 258 (12.14 %) Configuration Management 4 226 (10.63 %) Service Management 5 193 (9.078 %) Project Management 6 156 (7.338 %) Service Delivery 7 132 (6.209 %) PRINCE2 8 116 (5.456 %) OO 9 103 (4.845 %) Problem Management 10 100 (4.704 %) Incident Management 11 81 (3.810 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 78 (3.669 %) RUP 13 67 (3.151 %) Investment Management 14 65 (3.057 %) E-Commerce 15 61 (2.869 %) Software Engineering 16 60 (2.822 %) Agile Software Development 17 51 (2.399 %) Disaster Recovery 18 45 (2.117 %) Integration Testing 19 39 (1.834 %) Workflow 19 39 (1.834 %) Content Management
Programming Languages 1 540 (25.40 %) SQL 2 300 (14.11 %) Java 3 185 (8.702 %) C# 4 164 (7.714 %) Perl 5 90 (4.233 %) C++ 6 83 (3.904 %) Shell Script 7 68 (3.198 %) VB 8 58 (2.728 %) JavaScript 9 51 (2.399 %) Transact-SQL 10 49 (2.305 %) C 11 38 (1.787 %) VB.NET 11 38 (1.787 %) AWK 12 37 (1.740 %) VC++ 13 30 (1.411 %) PL/SQL 14 26 (1.223 %) PHP 14 26 (1.223 %) VBA 15 19 (0.894 %) XPath 16 17 (0.800 %) VBScript 16 17 (0.800 %) RPG 17 14 (0.659 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 193 (9.078 %) Degree 2 122 (5.738 %) ITIL Certification 3 84 (3.951 %) ISEB 4 58 (2.728 %) Microsoft Certification 5 44 (2.070 %) MCSE 6 13 (0.611 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 10 (0.470 %) CCNP 7 10 (0.470 %) Cisco Certification 8 9 (0.423 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 8 (0.376 %) MCSA 9 8 (0.376 %) MCP 10 7 (0.329 %) PMI Certification 11 6 (0.282 %) PMP 12 5 (0.235 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 4 (0.188 %) MCDBA 13 4 (0.188 %) RHCT 14 2 (0.094 %) MCTS 14 2 (0.094 %) ISTQB 14 2 (0.094 %) HND 14 2 (0.094 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 143 (6.726 %) QA 2 106 (4.986 %) SLA 3 18 (0.847 %) COBIT 4 17 (0.800 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 15 (0.706 %) ISO9001 6 4 (0.188 %) ISO9000 7 2 (0.094 %) TickIT 8 1 (0.047 %) Basel II	System Software 1 72 (3.387 %) Active Directory 2 10 (0.470 %) NetBackup 3 6 (0.282 %) Backup Exec 4 5 (0.235 %) Terminal Server 4 5 (0.235 %) Terminal Services 5 4 (0.188 %) Oracle RMAN 6 2 (0.094 %) MetaFrame 6 2 (0.094 %) NFS 6 2 (0.094 %) Citrix Presentation Server 7 1 (0.047 %) AquaLogic 7 1 (0.047 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 7 1 (0.047 %) Oracle RAC 7 1 (0.047 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 7 1 (0.047 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 21 (0.988 %) CONTROL-M 2 15 (0.706 %) Tivoli 3 13 (0.611 %) OpenView 3 13 (0.611 %) AutoSys 4 7 (0.329 %) Foglight 5 5 (0.235 %) OVSD 5 5 (0.235 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 5 (0.235 %) SCOM 6 3 (0.141 %) OpenView Configuration Management 7 2 (0.094 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 7 2 (0.094 %) Nagios 7 2 (0.094 %) ZENworks 7 2 (0.094 %) BMC Marimba 7 2 (0.094 %) EMC NetWorker 8 1 (0.047 %) ServiceCenter 8 1 (0.047 %) Unicenter 8 1 (0.047 %) Tivoli Configuration Manager 8 1 (0.047 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 317 (14.91 %) Oracle 2 237 (11.15 %) Microsoft 3 87 (4.092 %) Citrix 4 83 (3.904 %) Sybase 5 64 (3.010 %) SAP 6 58 (2.728 %) HP 7 57 (2.681 %) IBM 8 54 (2.540 %) Sun 9 44 (2.070 %) BEA 10 43 (2.023 %) Siebel 11 37 (1.740 %) Perforce 12 32 (1.505 %) Cisco 13 31 (1.458 %) Serena 14 29 (1.364 %) Remedy 14 29 (1.364 %) Vignette 15 27 (1.270 %) VMware 16 26 (1.223 %) LatentZero 17 21 (0.988 %) Lotus 18 18 (0.847 %) Reuters 19 17 (0.800 %) Bloomberg