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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 105 97
Rank change year-on-year -14 -8 +31
Contract jobs citing Release Management 18 18 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.77% 0.99% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.05% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 18
10th Percentile £458 £428 £425
25th Percentile £481 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% -4.17% +15.94%
75th Percentile £711 £675 £725
90th Percentile £743 £688 £741
Central London median daily rate £565 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.74% -4.17% +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 2,056 1,721 1,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.79% 94.20% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,130 1,260
10th Percentile £380 £325 £375
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% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% +5.73% +6.50%
75th Percentile £33.10 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £28.79 £26.78
% change year-on-year -19.54% +7.49% -14.30%

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 22 August 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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (5.56%) Magento
2 1 (5.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
1 4 (22.22%) GCP
1 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 2 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.11%) dbt
3 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (11.11%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.56%) Google Play
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (11.11%) BigQuery
1 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) PHPUnit
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Lead
1 4 (22.22%) Release Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Architect
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Change and Release Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Change Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Product Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Magento Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
3 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Technical Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (16.67%) Middleware
1 3 (16.67%) REST
1 3 (16.67%) SOAP
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) .NET
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) jQuery
3 1 (5.56%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (5.56%) MACH
3 1 (5.56%) MicroProfile
3 1 (5.56%) Quarkus
3 1 (5.56%) React Native
3 1 (5.56%) RESTEasy
3 1 (5.56%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) AI Agents
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.56%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Android
1 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (38.89%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 4 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (22.22%) Observability
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
4 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Backlog Management
5 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) Apex Code
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) PHP
3 1 (5.56%) SOQL
3 1 (5.56%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (5.56%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 2 (11.11%) BMC
2 2 (11.11%) Google
2 2 (11.11%) MuleSoft
2 2 (11.11%) Remedy
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Adobe
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Nexthink
3 1 (5.56%) OutSystems