Release Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Release Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Release Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 50 48
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Release Management 14 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.16% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 0.22% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £317 - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £492 - -
North West median daily rate £486 £638 £631
% change year-on-year -23.76% +0.99% +33.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 584 455 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.98% 86.01% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 282 202
10th Percentile £300 £323 £265
25th Percentile £358 £390 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -4.52% +10.56%
75th Percentile £520 £575 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £628
North West median daily rate £454 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.01% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 29
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.71
25th Percentile £12.82 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +46.19%
75th Percentile £35.38 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £36.60
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% +21.43% +57.30%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Cheshire

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Cheshire

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Knutsford -7 10 £462 +31.93% 3
Crewe - 1 - -
Release Management
North West

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) GitHub
2 4 (28.57%) SaaS
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SSH
2 1 (7.14%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (35.71%) Cucumber
2 5 (35.71%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) GitLab
2 5 (35.71%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Finance
4 4 (28.57%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (28.57%) Publishing
5 2 (14.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
1 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Service Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Service Transition Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Transition Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 5 (35.71%) Kafka
2 5 (35.71%) React
2 5 (35.71%) REST
2 5 (35.71%) RESTful
2 5 (35.71%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Tandem
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Acceptance Criteria
2 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (50.00%) Change Management
4 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 6 (42.86%) ITIL
4 6 (42.86%) Microservices
4 6 (42.86%) Project Delivery
4 6 (42.86%) Service Management
5 5 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Migration
5 5 (35.71%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Scrum
5 5 (35.71%) Sprint Planning
5 5 (35.71%) Sprint Retrospective
5 5 (35.71%) TDD
6 4 (28.57%) ITSM
6 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
1 5 (35.71%) Python
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kibana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (14.29%) IBM
4 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
4 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Splunk