The first table below looks at the demand for the Release Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Engineer
Rank 63 59 57
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Engineer 4 8 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 0.681% 1.377% 1.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.692% 1.411% 1.077%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
Average salary £32,500 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -7.89%
All Job Titles
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
578 567 557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 98.47% 97.59% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 492 488 443
Average salary £35,079 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.30% -
90% offered a salary of more than £18,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £62,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Release Engineer
West Midlands

Release Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Release Engineer Salary Trend

Release Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 8 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 8 (100.00%) Change Control
2 6 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (75.00%) Mercurial
2 6 (75.00%) Git (software)
2 6 (75.00%) Subversion
3 3 (37.50%) Maven
3 3 (37.50%) Ruby
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
3 3 (37.50%) AccuRev
3 3 (37.50%) CruiseControl
3 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (37.50%) VB.NET
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (37.50%) Ant
3 3 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Remedy
3 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 3 (37.50%) C#
3 3 (37.50%) Hudson
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (12.50%) Degree
5 1 (12.50%) Bugzilla
5 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft

Release Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 3 (37.50%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (75.00%) Mercurial
1 6 (75.00%) Git (software)
1 6 (75.00%) Subversion
2 3 (37.50%) Maven
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) CruiseControl
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Ant
2 3 (37.50%) Hudson
3 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
4 1 (12.50%) Bugzilla
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Change Control
2 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Ruby
2 3 (37.50%) VB.NET
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) AccuRev
1 3 (37.50%) Remedy
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft