Release Management Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Release Management
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 74 72
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +20
Contract jobs citing Release Management 6 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.80% 0.34% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.41% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 7
10th Percentile £430 - £476
25th Percentile £459 - £568
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £645
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.33%
75th Percentile £588 - £660
90th Percentile - - £675
South West median daily rate £575 £875 £600
% change year-on-year -34.29% +45.83% +30.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 691 723 909
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.89% 82.82% 87.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 369 588
10th Percentile £249 £249 £305
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £650
90th Percentile £753 £725 £722
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 133 125
10th Percentile £12.82 £44.60 £28.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £62.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -0.41%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in Bristol

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Bristol over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Bristol

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Release Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Release Management

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) 2G
1 3 (50.00%) 5G
1 3 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (33.33%) 4G
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Police
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Migration Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) IoT
1 2 (33.33%) NB-IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Network Design
4 2 (33.33%) Server Migrations
4 2 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 1 (16.67%) Co-Creation
5 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Workstation
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) BMC
1 2 (33.33%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) VMware