Release Management Contracts in Berkshire

Release Management
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Release Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 97 112
Rank change year-on-year +33 +15 -26
Contract jobs citing Release Management 56 18 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.84% 0.99% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 1.09% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 14 14
10th Percentile £501 - £465
25th Percentile - £413 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +1.33% +40.63%
75th Percentile £608 £618 £619
90th Percentile - £619 £710
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £573
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.30% +54.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Release Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,751 1,647 2,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.88% 90.69% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,060 1,377
10th Percentile £213 £345 £270
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.40%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £676 £707 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 43
10th Percentile £20.17 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.72 £17.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £57.82 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% +174.67% -2.09%
75th Percentile £72.18 £73.69 £33.75
90th Percentile £87.41 £79.51 £68.10
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -15.89%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Berkshire

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Berkshire

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Berkshire

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Berkshire

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +34 48 £575 -5.74% 4
Wokingham +2 5 £400 +21.21%
Bracknell - 2 - -
Newbury -3 1 £575 +35.29%
Release Management
South East

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.57%) Confluence
2 2 (3.57%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (44.64%) Azure
2 17 (30.36%) Azure Monitor
2 17 (30.36%) Entra ID
3 16 (28.57%) Azure Storage
4 15 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.93%) AWS
7 1 (1.79%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.14%) DNS
2 17 (30.36%) DHCP
2 17 (30.36%) Firewall
3 3 (5.36%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Robot Framework
1 3 (5.36%) Selenium
2 2 (3.57%) GitLab
2 2 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (1.79%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.79%) Git
3 1 (1.79%) MSI
General
1 44 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (37.50%) Build Engineer
1 21 (37.50%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (37.50%) Windows Engineer
2 15 (26.79%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (26.79%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (25.00%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (25.00%) Support Specialist
4 4 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Defect Manager
5 3 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Incident Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Release Manager
5 3 (5.36%) Solutions Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Telecoms Manager
6 2 (3.57%) Backup Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) Administrator
7 1 (1.79%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.79%) .NET
3 1 (1.79%) Middleware
3 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) PKI
1 16 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.36%) Client/Server
2 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 45 (80.36%) Windows
2 40 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 39 (69.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 39 (69.64%) Windows Server 2019
4 24 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 23 (41.07%) Linux
6 22 (39.29%) Windows 10
7 21 (37.50%) Windows NT
8 6 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.79%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (76.79%) ITIL
2 38 (67.86%) Service Management
3 26 (46.43%) DevOps
4 25 (44.64%) Agile
5 22 (39.29%) Deployment Automation
6 21 (37.50%) Customer Service
6 21 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (30.36%) Analytics
7 17 (30.36%) CI/CD
7 17 (30.36%) Identity Management
7 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (30.36%) Log Analytics
8 16 (28.57%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (28.57%) Privileged Identity Management
8 16 (28.57%) RBAC
9 9 (16.07%) Test Automation
10 5 (8.93%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (8.93%) Project Delivery
11 4 (7.14%) Incident Management
11 4 (7.14%) Release Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (39.29%) PowerShell
2 19 (33.93%) VBScript
3 16 (28.57%) Bicep
3 16 (28.57%) C#
3 16 (28.57%) VB
4 4 (7.14%) Python
5 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.57%) Go
7 1 (1.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (80.36%) Security Cleared
2 40 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 20 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 16 (28.57%) Degree
4 16 (28.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 40 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 21 (37.50%) Firmware
3 16 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 16 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.79%) XenApp
5 1 (1.79%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (67.86%) SCCM
1 38 (67.86%) WSUS
2 21 (37.50%) Sysprep
3 19 (33.93%) Kubernetes
4 17 (30.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (30.36%) SCOM
5 16 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (7.14%) Terraform
7 3 (5.36%) NetBackup
8 2 (3.57%) Ansible
8 2 (3.57%) Kibana
8 2 (3.57%) Rancher
Vendors
1 38 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) VMware
3 3 (5.36%) 3PAR
3 3 (5.36%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.36%) HP
3 3 (5.36%) NetApp
3 3 (5.36%) Nimble Storage
3 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.36%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.36%) Veritas
4 1 (1.79%) BMC
4 1 (1.79%) Citrix
4 1 (1.79%) Databricks
4 1 (1.79%) FireEye
4 1 (1.79%) Remedy
4 1 (1.79%) Tanium