Release Management Contracts in Cheshire

Release Management
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Release Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 55 53
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -14
Contract jobs citing Release Management 2 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.40% 1.12% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 1.22% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 3
10th Percentile £351 - £340
25th Percentile £352 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £200 £500
Median % change year-on-year +78.13% -60.00% +31.75%
75th Percentile £364 - £544
90th Percentile £367 £464 £570
North West median daily rate £356 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -38.04% +15.00% +15.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Release Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 416 493 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 83.70% 91.81% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 334 257
10th Percentile £278 £288 £216
25th Percentile £400 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 25 27
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.29 £10.36
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.78
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +32.78% -0.54%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.03 £31.89
90th Percentile £44.13 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £23.48 £36.00 £20.13
% change year-on-year -34.79% +78.84% +9.28%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Cheshire

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Cheshire

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 7 May 2024. 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 - 2 £356 -
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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker