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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 113 107
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +25
Contract jobs citing Release Management 10 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.42% 0.58% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.62% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 14
10th Percentile £442 £360 £425
25th Percentile £466 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £613 £588
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% +4.26% +9.81%
75th Percentile £709 £675 £680
90th Percentile £800 - £747
Central London median daily rate £500 £613 £588
% change year-on-year -18.37% +4.26% +12.98%

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 2,055 1,605 1,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.77% 93.70% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,385 1,021 1,375
10th Percentile £360 £355 £356
25th Percentile £450 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -2.30% -5.83%
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 27 16 13
10th Percentile £17.45 £19.25 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.75 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.38% +13.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.83 £76.25 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £28.79 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.33% +3.51% -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 13 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (10.00%) Magento
2 1 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Lead
1 3 (30.00%) Release Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Change and Release Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Magento Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) Release Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Release Train Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) CSS
1 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (10.00%) HTML
1 1 (10.00%) jQuery
1 1 (10.00%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (10.00%) MicroProfile
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) Quarkus
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) RESTEasy
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (20.00%) Observability
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) PHP
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (10.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) BMC
1 2 (20.00%) Remedy
1 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) OutSystems