Release Management Contracts in the City of London

Release Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 102 130
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 +11
Contract jobs citing Release Management 14 22 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 1.02% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.12% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 23
10th Percentile £402 £425 £425
25th Percentile £563 £481 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £891 £680 £638
90th Percentile £963 £747 £702
Central London median daily rate £650 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -

All Process and 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 1,635 1,957 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.59% 90.48% 91.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 1,378 2,168
10th Percentile £353 £350 £354
25th Percentile £463 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £564 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £14.75
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the City of London

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 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Endur
1 3 (21.43%) Workday HCM
2 1 (7.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) Boomi
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Data Mart
2 1 (7.14%) Data Vault
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (21.43%) Back Office
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Military
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Billing
3 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) ETRM Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Workday Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Change and Release Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Change Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Network Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Release Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Angular Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Endur Developer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) OpenLink Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Service Transition Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS3
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) N-Tier
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SDLC
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
2 3 (21.43%) ETRM
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
2 3 (21.43%) Service Management
3 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 2 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (7.14%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (7.14%) Data Modelling
4 1 (7.14%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (7.14%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (7.14%) Project Management
4 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
4 1 (7.14%) Software Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Java
3 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
4 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) OpenLink
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
1 3 (21.43%) Workday
2 1 (7.14%) Databricks
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce