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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 104 104
Rank change year-on-year -14 0 +39
Contract jobs citing Release Management 15 15 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.65% 0.85% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.92% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 15
10th Percentile £450 £426 £425
25th Percentile £547 £559 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £816 £963 £680
90th Percentile £975 - £737
Central London median daily rate £613 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -5.77% +8.33% +9.09%

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 1,955 1,635 2,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.33% 93.00% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,330 1,034 1,413
10th Percentile £362 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% +4.32% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 13
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 30 April 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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Magento
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (6.67%) SAP ERP
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (6.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.67%) Collibra
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) LAN
2 1 (6.67%) NGFW
2 1 (6.67%) WAN
2 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) PHPUnit
3 1 (6.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) TestRail
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (46.67%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (6.67%) Legal
6 1 (6.67%) Marketing
6 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Head of Release Management
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
3 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) CSS
1 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (6.67%) HTML
1 1 (6.67%) jQuery
1 1 (6.67%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (6.67%) MicroProfile
1 1 (6.67%) Middleware
1 1 (6.67%) Quarkus
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) RESTEasy
1 1 (6.67%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Derivative
2 2 (13.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
1 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Change Control
4 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (20.00%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Observability
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Tech Ops
5 2 (13.33%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) Perl
2 2 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (6.67%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) ITRS Geneos
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.67%) HP ALM
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
2 2 (13.33%) Bloomberg
2 2 (13.33%) MarketAxess
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Tradeweb
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (6.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.67%) OutSystems
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Workday