The first table below looks at the demand for the Release Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Release Engineer
Rank 788 786 802
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Engineer 74 113 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.068% 0.094% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.099% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 71 98 69
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -7.89%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102035 114410 117207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.41% 94.80% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 84835 98106 99148
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Release Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Release Engineer Salary Trend

Release Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Release Engineer over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

Release Engineer Salary Histogram

Release Engineer
Top 28 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 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
England -6 69 £45,000 +5.88%
London +12 29 £47,500 +5.55%
Yorkshire +15 13 £45,000 -
South East +17 12 £45,000 -
South West 0 10 £32,500 +3.17%
Somerset - 10 £32,500 -
Bath - 10 £32,500 -
Berkshire +11 9 £45,000 -
Reading +7 9 £45,000 -
West Yorkshire - 9 £45,000 -
Leeds - 7 £45,000 -
City of London -3 5 £47,500 +5.55%
Cheshire +1 4 £32,500 -
North West 0 4 £32,500 -
Staffordshire -4 4 £32,500 -
West Midlands -28 4 £32,500 -48.00%
Shropshire - 3 £32,500 -
Derbyshire - 3 £32,500 -
East Midlands - 3 £32,500 -
Hammersmith - 2 £47,500 -
Ealing -11 1 £42,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Surrey - 1 £52,500 -
Kent - 1 £55,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £40,000 -
County Antrim - 1 - -
High Wycombe - 1 £40,000 -
Belfast - 1 - -

Release Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 61 (48.80%) Continuous Integration
2 50 (40.00%) SQL
3 48 (38.40%) UNIX
4 42 (33.60%) Subversion
5 41 (32.80%) Linux
6 40 (32.00%) Jenkins
7 39 (31.20%) Java
8 38 (30.40%) Windows
9 37 (29.60%) Configuration Management
9 37 (29.60%) Maven
10 34 (27.20%) .NET
11 33 (26.40%) Release Management
12 32 (25.60%) Team Foundation Server
13 31 (24.80%) Perl
13 31 (24.80%) Python
14 28 (22.40%) C#
14 28 (22.40%) Ant
14 28 (22.40%) Finance
15 27 (21.60%) IIS
16 25 (20.00%) Oracle
16 25 (20.00%) SQL Server
17 24 (19.20%) JIRA
18 23 (18.40%) MS Excel
18 23 (18.40%) E-Commerce
18 23 (18.40%) Build Automation
19 21 (16.80%) Git (software)
20 20 (16.00%) WebSphere
21 19 (15.20%) PowerShell
21 19 (15.20%) Hudson
22 18 (14.40%) Bash shell

Release Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 34 (27.20%) .NET
2 20 (16.00%) WebSphere
3 10 (8.000%) Spring
4 9 (7.200%) ASP
5 7 (5.600%) ASP.NET
6 6 (4.800%) J2EE
7 5 (4.000%) Hibernate
7 5 (4.000%) WCF
7 5 (4.000%) WPF
7 5 (4.000%) Silverlight
8 4 (3.200%) XML
9 3 (2.400%) Lucene
9 3 (2.400%) XSL
9 3 (2.400%) Middleware
10 2 (1.600%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (0.800%) CSS
11 1 (0.800%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 27 (21.60%) IIS
2 17 (13.60%) WebLogic
3 11 (8.800%) Tomcat
4 8 (6.400%) Apache
5 6 (4.800%) GlassFish
6 5 (4.000%) ATG Dynamo
6 5 (4.000%) SharePoint
7 3 (2.400%) Apache Solr
8 2 (1.600%) Jetty
9 1 (0.800%) CMS
9 1 (0.800%) Drupal
9 1 (0.800%) Magento
Applications
1 23 (18.40%) MS Excel
2 7 (5.600%) MS Office
3 5 (4.000%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (1.600%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.000%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.600%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.600%) MySQL
3 9 (7.200%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.600%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.600%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.800%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.800%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.800%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.800%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (0.800%) SQLPlus
6 1 (0.800%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (33.60%) Subversion
2 40 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 37 (29.60%) Maven
4 32 (25.60%) Team Foundation Server
5 28 (22.40%) Ant
6 24 (19.20%) JIRA
7 21 (16.80%) Git (software)
8 19 (15.20%) Hudson
9 12 (9.600%) CruiseControl
10 8 (6.400%) Mercurial
10 8 (6.400%) Gradle
11 7 (5.600%) Visual Studio
11 7 (5.600%) ClearCase
11 7 (5.600%) QuickTest Pro
12 6 (4.800%) TeamCity
12 6 (4.800%) MSBuild
12 6 (4.800%) Selenium
13 3 (2.400%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (2.400%) Talend Open Studio
14 2 (1.600%) Build Forge
General
1 28 (22.40%) Finance
2 14 (11.20%) Banking
3 9 (7.200%) Marketing
4 8 (6.400%) Financial Institution
5 7 (5.600%) Telecoms
5 7 (5.600%) Games
6 5 (4.000%) Publishing
7 1 (0.800%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.600%) Client/Server
2 7 (5.600%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.800%) Online Games
4 5 (4.000%) SaaS
5 3 (2.400%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.600%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.800%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.800%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 48 (38.40%) UNIX
2 41 (32.80%) Linux
3 38 (30.40%) Windows
4 17 (13.60%) Windows Server 2008
5 12 (9.600%) Solaris
6 10 (8.000%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (1.600%) CentOS
7 2 (1.600%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (48.80%) Continuous Integration
2 37 (29.60%) Configuration Management
3 33 (26.40%) Release Management
4 23 (18.40%) E-Commerce
4 23 (18.40%) Build Automation
5 17 (13.60%) Change Control
6 12 (9.600%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (9.600%) Regression Testing
7 9 (7.200%) Business Analysis
7 9 (7.200%) Service Delivery
7 9 (7.200%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (7.200%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (5.600%) Automated Testing
8 7 (5.600%) Web Testing
9 6 (4.800%) ITIL
10 5 (4.000%) Scrum
10 5 (4.000%) Change Management
10 5 (4.000%) SOA
10 5 (4.000%) Waterfall
11 3 (2.400%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (40.00%) SQL
2 39 (31.20%) Java
3 31 (24.80%) Perl
3 31 (24.80%) Python
4 28 (22.40%) C#
5 19 (15.20%) PowerShell
6 18 (14.40%) Bash shell
7 16 (12.80%) Shell Script
8 14 (11.20%) VB.NET
9 12 (9.600%) AWK
10 10 (8.000%) T-SQL
11 9 (7.200%) C
12 7 (5.600%) Jython
12 7 (5.600%) Ruby
12 7 (5.600%) VB
13 3 (2.400%) VBScript
13 3 (2.400%) PHP
13 3 (2.400%) JavaScript
14 2 (1.600%) C++
14 2 (1.600%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (4.000%) ISEB
2 4 (3.200%) Degree
3 1 (0.800%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) QA
2 5 (4.000%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.800%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.000%) VMware ESX
3 2 (1.600%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.600%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.600%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (7.200%) Puppet
2 7 (5.600%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (2.400%) SCOM
3 3 (2.400%) Splunk
4 1 (0.800%) BladeLogic
4 1 (0.800%) YUM
Vendors
1 25 (20.00%) Oracle
2 18 (14.40%) Microsoft
3 17 (13.60%) JBoss
4 15 (12.00%) Perforce
5 8 (6.400%) IBM
6 6 (4.800%) AccuRev
6 6 (4.800%) VMware
7 5 (4.000%) ATG
7 5 (4.000%) Remedy
8 3 (2.400%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.400%) Akamai
8 3 (2.400%) Talend
9 2 (1.600%) HP
9 2 (1.600%) Endeca
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