The first table below looks at the demand for the Release Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Engineer
Rank 414 435 412
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Engineer 12 1 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.055% 0.004% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.004% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 12 1 9
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -7.89%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20815 22625 21200
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.89% 95.21% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 17267 19553 18212
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Release Engineer
England

Release Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Release Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Release Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Release Engineer
Salary Trend

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

South East Release Engineer Salary Trend

Release Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Release Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

South East Release Engineer Salary Histogram

Release Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Berkshire +13 9 £45,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £40,000 -
Kent - 1 £55,000 -
Surrey - 1 £52,500 -
Release Engineer
England

Release Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Release Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 17 (80.95%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (66.67%) Java
2 14 (66.67%) SQL
3 10 (47.62%) UNIX
3 10 (47.62%) Maven
4 9 (42.86%) Spring
4 9 (42.86%) Shell Script
4 9 (42.86%) Configuration Management
4 9 (42.86%) Build Automation
5 8 (38.10%) Finance
5 8 (38.10%) Ant
6 7 (33.33%) MySQL
6 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
6 7 (33.33%) Gradle
6 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
6 7 (33.33%) Release Management
6 7 (33.33%) Puppet
7 6 (28.57%) Hudson
7 6 (28.57%) Perl
7 6 (28.57%) JIRA
7 6 (28.57%) CruiseControl
8 5 (23.81%) Hibernate
8 5 (23.81%) Banking
8 5 (23.81%) Financial Institution
8 5 (23.81%) C
8 5 (23.81%) Linux
8 5 (23.81%) Bash shell
9 4 (19.05%) Change Control
9 4 (19.05%) SaaS
9 4 (19.05%) Git (software)

Release Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Release Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (42.86%) Spring
2 5 (23.81%) Hibernate
3 4 (19.05%) ASP
4 3 (14.29%) Lucene
5 1 (4.762%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Solr
2 1 (4.762%) WebLogic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) MySQL
2 4 (19.05%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Maven
2 8 (38.10%) Ant
3 7 (33.33%) Gradle
3 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (28.57%) Hudson
4 6 (28.57%) CruiseControl
4 6 (28.57%) JIRA
5 4 (19.05%) Git (software)
6 3 (14.29%) Talend Open Studio
7 1 (4.762%) TeamCity
7 1 (4.762%) Subversion
7 1 (4.762%) ClearCase
7 1 (4.762%) Build Forge
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Banking
2 5 (23.81%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) UNIX
2 5 (23.81%) Linux
3 2 (9.524%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (42.86%) Build Automation
2 9 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 7 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 7 (33.33%) Release Management
4 4 (19.05%) Change Control
4 4 (19.05%) SOA
5 3 (14.29%) Change Management
5 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Java
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) Shell Script
3 6 (28.57%) Perl
4 5 (23.81%) C
4 5 (23.81%) Bash shell
5 4 (19.05%) Python
6 1 (4.762%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Perforce
2 3 (14.29%) Talend
3 1 (4.762%) Oracle
3 1 (4.762%) JBoss
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Automated build systems for continuous integration (any of: Cruise Control, Jenkins, ANT, Gradle, Maven, Hudson, Puppet)... * Understanding of Java. * Shell scripting. * SQL. * Hibernate, Spring, MySQL, Talend, Lucene/Solr.
The People Network
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013