Release Train Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Release Train
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Release Train skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Release Train 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
North West median daily rate £469 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Release Train 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 611 405 460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 87.66% 94.85% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 258 308
10th Percentile £313 £300 £304
25th Percentile £366 £356 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £579 £564 £551
90th Percentile £692 £638 £614
North West median daily rate £455 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 35
10th Percentile £14.89 £19.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £24.18 £16.67
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.95 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +39.56% +9.43%
75th Percentile £40.75 £83.31 £39.00
90th Percentile £80.58 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.45
% change year-on-year +40.63% +36.46% -37.47%

Release Train
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Release Train job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Release Train
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Release Train
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 Train within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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 - 1 £447 -
Release Train
North West

Release Train
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Release Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Release Train Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Weighted Shortest Job First
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) QA