Release Management Contracts in Central London

Release Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 108 137
Rank change year-on-year -6 +29 +7
Contract jobs citing Release Management 16 23 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.80% 0.94% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.04% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 25
10th Percentile £425 £425 £425
25th Percentile £556 £472 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £963 £680 £638
90th Percentile - £763 £698
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,849 2,207 3,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.01% 90.64% 91.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,572 2,371
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 30
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.01 £15.23
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.11 £57.50
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.29 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.75 £39.00
% change year-on-year +18.26% -26.28% +6.12%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Central London

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Central London

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Central London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Central London

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Central London

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2025. 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
City of London 0 15 £650 +8.33% 8
City of Westminster +1 1 £550 -21.43% 1
West End of London - 1 £550 - 3
Release Management
London

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Endur
2 3 (18.75%) Workday HCM
3 1 (6.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) SaaS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (6.25%) Boomi
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Data Mart
2 1 (6.25%) Data Vault
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (25.00%) Back Office
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Military
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Automotive
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Billing
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) ETRM Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Change and Release Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Change Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Release Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Workday Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (12.50%) IT Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Network Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) IT Change Manager
6 1 (6.25%) NetSuite Consultant
6 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
6 1 (6.25%) Service Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Service Transition Manager
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) CSS3
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) HTML5
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) N-Tier
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) SDLC
2 4 (25.00%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (25.00%) ETRM
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 4 (25.00%) Service Management
3 3 (18.75%) Data Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (12.50%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) User Experience
5 1 (6.25%) Change Control
5 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
5 1 (6.25%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (6.25%) Revenue Management
5 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Java
3 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Python
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) OpenLink
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Workday
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce