Release Management Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Release Management
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Release Management 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 2.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Belfast

Release Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 122 180 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 85.92% 89.55% 82.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 97 58
10th Percentile £263 £270 £144
25th Percentile £384 £325 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £656 £575 £538
90th Percentile £694 £630 £616
County Antrim median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 27 14
10th Percentile £31.21 £12.31 £21.19
25th Percentile - £14.19 £23.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £16.00 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +174.75% -33.83% +79.64%
75th Percentile - £17.30 -
90th Percentile £44.83 £24.50 -
County Antrim median hourly rate £43.28 £17.30 £24.18
% change year-on-year +150.19% -28.45% +76.69%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Release Management job vacancy trend in Belfast

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Release Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Release Management

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Heroku
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Release Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Environment And Release Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) ISMS
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) MuleSoft
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce