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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 101 106
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Release Management 20 19 21
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.91% 1.09% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.16% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 13
10th Percentile £460 £443 £485
25th Percentile £481 £485 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -25.00% +20.95%
75th Percentile £658 £630 £738
90th Percentile £725 £700 £748
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £611
% change year-on-year +14.29% -14.11% -8.08%

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 1,987 1,642 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.11% 94.37% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,103 1,211
10th Percentile £368 £325 £363
25th Percentile £455 £420 £466
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 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.02 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.83 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -27.73% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £47.00 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £66.25 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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 3 October 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 6 (30.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) GCP
1 5 (25.00%) GitHub
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) dbt
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) Google Play
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.00%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (20.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Front Office
6 1 (5.00%) Law
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
6 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Release Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Change Manager
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Change and Release Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) GCP Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Analytics Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Middleware
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (10.00%) SOAP
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) MACH
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) React Native
3 1 (5.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) ITSM
5 5 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (20.00%) ITIL
6 4 (20.00%) Observability
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Apex Code
3 2 (10.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.00%) Korn
4 1 (5.00%) SOQL
4 1 (5.00%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) PMI Certification
1 3 (15.00%) PMP
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) SAFe Agilist
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (15.00%) QA
3 2 (10.00%) SLA
4 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) PowerCLI
1 1 (5.00%) SCOM
1 1 (5.00%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.00%) BMC
3 3 (15.00%) Remedy
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.00%) Nexthink
5 1 (5.00%) VMware