The first table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 21 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Management
Rank 55 57 53
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 1 12 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.267% 2.367% 0.318%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.322% 3.117% 0.481%
Number of salaries quoted 0 12 1
Average salary - £40,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -23.80%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- -5.55%
All Processes & Methodologies
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
311 385 208
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 83.16% 75.94% 66.24%
Number of salaries quoted 268 331 163
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £30,950
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Release Management
Merseyside

Release Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Release Management Salary Trend

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 8 (88.89%) TDD
2 7 (77.78%) Software Testing
2 7 (77.78%) QA
3 6 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 6 (66.67%) System Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Resource Management
3 6 (66.67%) Regression Testing
3 6 (66.67%) LAMP
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
3 6 (66.67%) Java
3 6 (66.67%) Oracle
3 6 (66.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) Windows
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (22.22%) Law
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (22.22%) Web Development
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 6 (66.67%) LAMP
2 2 (22.22%) CSS
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) HTML
2 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
1 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Interactive Media
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Software Manager
1 6 (66.67%) Quality Manager
1 6 (66.67%) QA Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Web Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) TDD
2 7 (77.78%) Software Testing
3 6 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 6 (66.67%) System Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Resource Management
3 6 (66.67%) Regression Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (22.22%) Web Development
5 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Operations Management
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle