The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Release Management skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Release Management over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Release Management
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank239243236
Rank change year-on-year
Up+4Down-7
Matching permanent IT job ads12711191856
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.054 %0.971 %0.897 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category1.429 %1.334 %1.266 %
Number of salaries quoted1065962666
Average salary£47,500£50,000£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00 %+5.26 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£33,000£35,000£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£75,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£45,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.55 %+12.50 %
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
889158928967609
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK73.73 %72.82 %70.81 %
Number of salaries quoted755227477355328
Average salary£47,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£77,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %-

Release Management
Demand Trend

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

Release Management Demand Trend

Release Management
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Release Management within the UK.

Release Management Salary Trend

Release Management
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Release Management over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Release Management Salary Histogram

Release Management
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+21203£47,500-5.00 %
LondonUp+8664£50,000-9.09 %
South EastUp+7258£45,000-8.16 %
City of LondonDown-5157£47,500-13.63 %
SurreyUp+1590£47,500-3.06 %
East of EnglandUp+1684£37,500-2.59 %
YorkshireDown-1159£35,000-17.64 %
HampshireUp+758£42,500+2.40 %
South WestDown-1444£40,000+5.26 %
HertfordshireUp+4440£33,000-14.83 %
StainesUp+2937£55,000+42.85 %
North WestDown-1436£38,000-20.00 %
East MidlandsNo change031£35,000-26.31 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1328£42,500-19.04 %
BerkshireDown-5727£35,000-36.36 %
West MidlandsDown-926£45,000-18.18 %
NottinghamUp+1825£35,000-26.31 %
NottinghamshireUp+1825£35,000-30.00 %
OxfordshireUp+625£55,000+12.24 %
ScotlandDown-1225£38,000-20.83 %
Milton KeynesUp+2023£41,250-23.25 %
North YorkshireUp+1322£35,000-10.25 %
West YorkshireDown-2920£36,000-20.00 %
CroydonUp+619£50,500-19.20 %
LeedsDown-2317£40,000-20.00 %
CheshireUp+116£45,000+11.11 %
CambridgeshireDown-416£36,500+17.74 %
YorkUp+515--
Canary WharfUp+314£70,000-
BedfordshireDown-214£40,000+1.91 %

Release Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1676 (28.86 %)Finance
2607 (25.92 %)ITIL
3495 (21.14 %)Java
4491 (20.96 %)SQL
5464 (19.81 %)Oracle
6426 (18.19 %)UNIX
7404 (17.25 %)Linux
8387 (16.52 %)Microsoft
9382 (16.31 %)Windows
10381 (16.27 %)Configuration Management
11354 (15.12 %)Project Management
12346 (14.77 %)Change Management
13343 (14.65 %)SQL Server
14282 (12.04 %)Degree
15280 (11.96 %).NET
16254 (10.85 %)Agile Software Development
17248 (10.59 %)XML
18243 (10.38 %)QA
19230 (9.821 %)C#
20227 (9.693 %)Banking
21221 (9.436 %)Perl
22198 (8.454 %)Subversion
23192 (8.198 %)CRM
24184 (7.857 %)Apache
24184 (7.857 %)Service Management
24184 (7.857 %)Problem Management
25183 (7.814 %)MS Excel
26181 (7.728 %)PHP
27165 (7.045 %)JavaScript
28160 (6.832 %)Business Analysis

Release Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1280 (11.96 %).NET
2248 (10.59 %)XML
3155 (6.618 %)J2EE
4153 (6.533 %)HTML
5133 (5.679 %)CSS
6120 (5.124 %)Web Services
7115 (4.910 %)LAMP
8107 (4.569 %)ASP.NET
993 (3.971 %)Middleware
1092 (3.928 %)WebSphere
1173 (3.117 %)Ajax
1272 (3.074 %)Hibernate
1359 (2.519 %)Spring
1454 (2.306 %)jQuery
1549 (2.092 %)WCF
1648 (2.050 %).NET Framework
1746 (1.964 %)XSLT
1840 (1.708 %)ASP
1840 (1.708 %)Servlets
1935 (1.494 %)WinForms
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1184 (7.857 %)Apache
2134 (5.722 %)SharePoint
3130 (5.551 %)WebLogic
4124 (5.295 %)Tomcat
5111 (4.740 %)IIS
665 (2.775 %)CMS
756 (2.391 %)MS Exchange
836 (1.537 %)SharePoint 2010
934 (1.452 %)Exchange Server 2010
1029 (1.238 %)SharePoint Server
1125 (1.067 %)Exchange Server 2003
1223 (0.982 %)BizTalk Server
1320 (0.854 %)Exchange Server 2007
1419 (0.811 %)NetWeaver
1419 (0.811 %)SAP Portal
1517 (0.726 %)ESB
1616 (0.683 %)Amazon AWS
1714 (0.598 %)GlassFish
1812 (0.512 %)Documentum
1910 (0.427 %)SAS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1183 (7.814 %)MS Excel
2146 (6.234 %)MS Office
373 (3.117 %)MS Visio
431 (1.324 %)MS Project
527 (1.153 %)MS PowerPoint
610 (0.427 %)Photoshop
76 (0.256 %)InfoPath
76 (0.256 %)Spreadsheet
81 (0.043 %)Mingle
81 (0.043 %)Fireworks
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
128 (1.196 %)SAP FI
128 (1.196 %)SAP FI/CO
128 (1.196 %)SAP CO
227 (1.153 %)Dynamics CRM
318 (0.769 %)SAP Oil and Gas
318 (0.769 %)SAP GRC
417 (0.726 %)SAP HR
512 (0.512 %)Summit
69 (0.384 %)Dynamics NAV
69 (0.384 %)Oracle Applications
69 (0.384 %)Oracle Retail
78 (0.342 %)Oracle BPM
78 (0.342 %)SAP SD
78 (0.342 %)Remedy ITSM
87 (0.299 %)Misys Equation
95 (0.213 %)HFM
95 (0.213 %)RMDS
104 (0.171 %)SAP ERP
113 (0.128 %)Dynamics AX
113 (0.128 %)assyst
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1120 (5.124 %)Internet
286 (3.672 %)DNS
377 (3.288 %)LAN
469 (2.946 %)TCP/IP
544 (1.879 %)Firewall
643 (1.836 %)Wireless
742 (1.793 %)OSPF
841 (1.751 %)WLAN
937 (1.580 %)Unified Communications
1036 (1.537 %)HTTP
1036 (1.537 %)SAN
1134 (1.452 %)SNMP
1231 (1.324 %)SMTP
1330 (1.281 %)H.323
1429 (1.238 %)MGCP
1528 (1.196 %)WAN
1627 (1.153 %)SCCP
1725 (1.067 %)DHCP
1823 (0.982 %)VPN
1920 (0.854 %)IP Telephony
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1343 (14.65 %)SQL Server
295 (4.056 %)SQL Server 2005
393 (3.971 %)MySQL
474 (3.160 %)RDBMS
565 (2.775 %)SQL Server 2008
664 (2.733 %)ETL
758 (2.477 %)Data Warehouse
847 (2.007 %)Oracle 8/8i
937 (1.580 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1033 (1.409 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1131 (1.324 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1226 (1.110 %)NoSQL
1325 (1.067 %)Oracle 10g
1421 (0.897 %)DB2
1517 (0.726 %)Oracle 11g
1616 (0.683 %)QlikView
1714 (0.598 %)SQL Server 2000
1812 (0.512 %)ProClarity
1812 (0.512 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1812 (0.512 %)SQL Server 7
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1198 (8.454 %)Subversion
285 (3.629 %)Visual Studio
369 (2.946 %)Selenium
465 (2.775 %)Team Foundation Server
557 (2.434 %)JIRA
650 (2.135 %)Hudson
746 (1.964 %)Git (software)
843 (1.836 %)Ant
941 (1.751 %)LoadRunner
1039 (1.665 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1039 (1.665 %)Maven
1130 (1.281 %)NUnit
1228 (1.196 %)WinRunner
1327 (1.153 %)ClearCase
1327 (1.153 %)Cucumber
1425 (1.067 %)MSBuild
1521 (0.897 %)MSI
1619 (0.811 %)JUnit
1718 (0.769 %)PVCS
1718 (0.769 %)TeamCity
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1676 (28.86 %)Finance
2227 (9.693 %)Banking
3102 (4.355 %)Telecoms
488 (3.757 %)Investment Banking
586 (3.672 %)Marketing
681 (3.459 %)Retail
769 (2.946 %)German Language
866 (2.818 %)Games
866 (2.818 %)Front Office
948 (2.050 %)French Language
1046 (1.964 %)Italian Language
1046 (1.964 %)Back Office
1142 (1.793 %)Law
1241 (1.751 %)Publishing
1340 (1.708 %)Financial Institution
1439 (1.665 %)Advertising
1537 (1.580 %)Legal
1622 (0.939 %)Billing
1717 (0.726 %)Electronics
1814 (0.598 %)Manufacturing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1427 (18.23 %)Analyst
2318 (13.58 %)Developer
3244 (10.42 %)Release Manager
4148 (6.319 %)Support Analyst
5133 (5.679 %)Architect
6120 (5.124 %)Consultant
7106 (4.526 %)Applications Support
895 (4.056 %)Service Manager
991 (3.886 %)Administrator
991 (3.886 %)Project Manager
1078 (3.330 %)Senior Developer
1172 (3.074 %)Support Engineer
1264 (2.733 %)Configuration Manager
1363 (2.690 %)Test Manager
1462 (2.647 %)Lead Architect
1560 (2.562 %)Java Developer
1659 (2.519 %)Systems Administrator
1758 (2.477 %)Applications Support Analyst
1758 (2.477 %)Team Leader
1857 (2.434 %).NET Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1103 (4.398 %)Computer Science
279 (3.373 %)Management Information System
340 (1.708 %)Derivative
435 (1.494 %)Fixed Income
534 (1.452 %)Online Games
534 (1.452 %)SaaS
632 (1.366 %)Open Source
632 (1.366 %)Client/Server
632 (1.366 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
730 (1.281 %)CMDB
829 (1.238 %)W3C
829 (1.238 %)Replication
923 (0.982 %)Blackberry
923 (0.982 %)Hedge funds
1018 (0.769 %)SWIFT
1117 (0.726 %)Equities
1117 (0.726 %)Mathematics
1216 (0.683 %)Taxonomies
1315 (0.640 %)PDA
1414 (0.598 %)N-Tier
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1426 (18.19 %)UNIX
2404 (17.25 %)Linux
3382 (16.31 %)Windows
4109 (4.654 %)Windows Server 2008
5104 (4.441 %)Solaris
674 (3.160 %)Windows Server 2003
771 (3.032 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
850 (2.135 %)Windows XP
931 (1.324 %)Windows 7
1025 (1.067 %)AIX
1124 (1.025 %)Windows 2000 Server
1217 (0.726 %)Android
1316 (0.683 %)Debian
1413 (0.555 %)Ubuntu
1413 (0.555 %)Apple iOS
158 (0.342 %)CentOS
158 (0.342 %)VMS
165 (0.213 %)HPUX
165 (0.213 %)Mac OS X
174 (0.171 %)Windows 2000
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1607 (25.92 %)ITIL
2381 (16.27 %)Configuration Management
3354 (15.12 %)Project Management
4346 (14.77 %)Change Management
5254 (10.85 %)Agile Software Development
6192 (8.198 %)CRM
7184 (7.857 %)Service Management
7184 (7.857 %)Problem Management
8160 (6.832 %)Business Analysis
9153 (6.533 %)E-Commerce
10140 (5.978 %)Service Delivery
11138 (5.892 %)Incident Management
12133 (5.679 %)Scrum
13131 (5.594 %)User Acceptance Testing
13131 (5.594 %)Continuous Integration
14128 (5.465 %)Change Control
15126 (5.380 %)OO
16118 (5.038 %)Migration
17108 (4.611 %)TDD
18106 (4.526 %)Waterfall
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1495 (21.14 %)Java
2491 (20.96 %)SQL
3230 (9.821 %)C#
4221 (9.436 %)Perl
5181 (7.728 %)PHP
6165 (7.045 %)JavaScript
7126 (5.380 %)Shell Script
8103 (4.398 %)Python
995 (4.056 %)C++
1084 (3.587 %)Bash shell
1157 (2.434 %)C
1251 (2.178 %)PL/SQL
1349 (2.092 %)VBA
1448 (2.050 %)T-SQL
1540 (1.708 %)Ruby
1634 (1.452 %)PowerShell
1733 (1.409 %)VB
1832 (1.366 %)Korn
1928 (1.196 %)AWK
1928 (1.196 %)ABAP
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1282 (12.04 %)Degree
2135 (5.764 %)ITIL Certification
368 (2.904 %)Cisco Certification
448 (2.050 %)Security Cleared
542 (1.793 %)ISEB
639 (1.665 %)SC Cleared
737 (1.580 %)Microsoft Certification
835 (1.494 %)CCNA
933 (1.409 %)CCNP
1028 (1.196 %)ISTQB
1124 (1.025 %)CCVP
1218 (0.769 %)PMI Certification
1315 (0.640 %)PMP
1414 (0.598 %)CCSP
1512 (0.512 %)CCIE
1512 (0.512 %)MCSE
1512 (0.512 %)CISSP
1611 (0.470 %)MCSA
1710 (0.427 %)Sun Certification
188 (0.342 %)ISEB Practitioner
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1243 (10.38 %)QA
2146 (6.234 %)SLA
333 (1.409 %)ISO 9000
428 (1.196 %)WAI
527 (1.153 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
618 (0.769 %)COBIT
716 (0.683 %)ISO 9001
810 (0.427 %)PCI DSS
810 (0.427 %)ISO/IEC 27001
95 (0.213 %)Data Quality
95 (0.213 %)COSO
95 (0.213 %)Basel II
103 (0.128 %)ISO 12207
112 (0.085 %)GxP
112 (0.085 %)BS15000
112 (0.085 %)Solvency II
121 (0.043 %)JTAG
121 (0.043 %)HL7
121 (0.043 %)GAMP
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
187 (3.715 %)VMware Infrastructure
264 (2.733 %)Active Directory
321 (0.897 %)Citrix Presentation Server
416 (0.683 %)Hyper-V
416 (0.683 %)vSphere
512 (0.512 %)XenApp
512 (0.512 %)VMware ESX
611 (0.470 %)ClearTrust
611 (0.470 %)XenDesktop
79 (0.384 %)VMware Workstation
88 (0.342 %)Squid
97 (0.299 %)vCloud
106 (0.256 %)Oracle RMAN
106 (0.256 %)Oracle RAC
115 (0.213 %)Terminal Services
124 (0.171 %)Samba
124 (0.171 %)Postfix
124 (0.171 %)Sendmail
124 (0.171 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
133 (0.128 %)PowerHA
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
163 (2.690 %)HP Quality Center
241 (1.751 %)Cisco UCCX
320 (0.854 %)Puppet
417 (0.726 %)ZABBIX
417 (0.726 %)OpenView
515 (0.640 %)BladeLogic
613 (0.555 %)Control-M
613 (0.555 %)Cisco UCCE
711 (0.470 %)SCOM
711 (0.470 %)Cisco CUCM
711 (0.470 %)Cisco IPCC
711 (0.470 %)NetBackup
88 (0.342 %)Nagios
88 (0.342 %)Splunk
96 (0.256 %)BMC PATROL
105 (0.213 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
105 (0.213 %)WMI
105 (0.213 %)Data Guard
114 (0.171 %)Tivoli
123 (0.128 %)Netcool
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1464 (19.81 %)Oracle
2387 (16.52 %)Microsoft
3155 (6.618 %)SAP
4120 (5.124 %)VMware
5119 (5.081 %)JBoss
6105 (4.483 %)Cisco
778 (3.330 %)HP
867 (2.861 %)Red Hat
959 (2.519 %)Zend
1058 (2.477 %)Remedy
1150 (2.135 %)Citrix
1249 (2.092 %)IBM
1338 (1.623 %)Salesforce.com
1433 (1.409 %)TIBCO
1530 (1.281 %)BMC
1629 (1.238 %)Sun
1728 (1.196 %)CA
1728 (1.196 %)Altiris
1823 (0.982 %)SolarWinds
1823 (0.982 %)Sybase