Release Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Release Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 108 104
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 +30
Contract jobs citing Release Management 11 12 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.45% 0.69% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.73% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £444 £360 £425
25th Percentile £474 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £613 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +11.36% -
75th Percentile £731 £675 £639
90th Percentile £788 - £680
Central London median daily rate £500 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -18.37% +16.67% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,084 1,640 1,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.80% 93.77% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,047 1,355
10th Percentile £367 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £453 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.90 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.18 £23.98 £20.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.83 £54.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £71.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.39 £30.04 £27.41
% change year-on-year -12.15% +9.60% -21.70%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Release Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Release Management

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the City of London

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Release Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Release Management

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (9.09%) Magento
2 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) dbt
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
1 1 (9.09%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) PHPUnit
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Legal
5 1 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Marketing
5 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Lead
1 3 (27.27%) Release Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Change and Release Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Change Manager
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Magento Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
3 1 (9.09%) Release Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Release Train Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) jQuery
1 1 (9.09%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (9.09%) MicroProfile
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) Quarkus
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) RESTEasy
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) NHS
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL
5 2 (18.18%) ITSM
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
5 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
2 1 (9.09%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) PHP
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (9.09%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) BMC
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Remedy
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
1 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
2 1 (9.09%) OutSystems