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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 103 104
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +25
Contract jobs citing Release Management 19 17 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.83% 0.96% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 1.02% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 15
10th Percentile £477 £496 £425
25th Percentile £485 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £568 £643
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% -11.67% +19.53%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £731
90th Percentile £725 £694 £745
Central London median daily rate £600 £568 £621
% change year-on-year +5.73% -8.65% +10.94%

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 2,011 1,670 1,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.28% 94.03% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,387 1,101 1,227
10th Percentile £375 £325 £380
25th Percentile £456 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 5 September 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 5 (26.32%) Confluence
2 3 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.26%) Apache
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.26%) nginx
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (5.26%) Magento
2 1 (5.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) GCP
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) GitHub
3 3 (15.79%) dbt
4 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.26%) Google Play
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
5 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (10.53%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Redis
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.26%) PHPUnit
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Legal
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Law
6 1 (5.26%) Marketing
6 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Release Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Change Manager
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Change and Release Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Lead
3 2 (10.53%) Product Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Magento Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) Release Train Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) REST
2 3 (15.79%) Middleware
2 3 (15.79%) SOAP
3 2 (10.53%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (10.53%) Terraform
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) jQuery
4 1 (5.26%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (5.26%) MACH
4 1 (5.26%) MicroProfile
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) Quarkus
4 1 (5.26%) React Native
4 1 (5.26%) RESTEasy
4 1 (5.26%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) AI Agents
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
1 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (47.37%) Agile
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
3 6 (31.58%) Roadmaps
4 5 (26.32%) ITSM
4 5 (26.32%) Observability
4 5 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
5 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
5 4 (21.05%) ITIL
5 4 (21.05%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
5 4 (21.05%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Apex Code
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
4 1 (5.26%) Java
4 1 (5.26%) PHP
4 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) SOQL
4 1 (5.26%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.53%) PMP
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.79%) QA
3 2 (10.53%) SLA
4 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.26%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (5.26%) Varnish
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) PowerCLI
1 1 (5.26%) SCOM
1 1 (5.26%) SCOrch
1 1 (5.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.79%) BMC
3 3 (15.79%) Remedy
4 2 (10.53%) Google
4 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.26%) Adobe
5 1 (5.26%) IBM
5 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.26%) Nexthink
5 1 (5.26%) OutSystems
5 1 (5.26%) VMware