Release Management Contracts in Birmingham

Release Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Release Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Release Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 62 70
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing Release Management 6 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.15% 0.65% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.78% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £451 £356 £323
25th Percentile £491 £463 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +11.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £444
90th Percentile £670 - £448
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Birmingham

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Birmingham

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Birmingham

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Birmingham

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
General
1 4 (66.67%) Legal
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 2 (33.33%) IT Services Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Product Operations Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 3 (50.00%) Change Management
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 2 (33.33%) PLM
2 2 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (33.33%) Product Management
2 2 (33.33%) Product Operations
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) BMC
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow