Release Management Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Release Management
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Release Management 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 1.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £535 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 - £550

All Process & Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 148 207 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 85.06% 90.39% 80.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 98 58
10th Percentile £263 £263 £144
25th Percentile £366 £325 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £656 £575 £538
90th Percentile £694 £629 £616
Northern Ireland median daily rate £450 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 49 16
10th Percentile - £12.66 £21.19
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.78 £23.89
Median hourly rate £43.28 £17.30 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +150.19% -28.45% +76.69%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 -
90th Percentile £44.85 - £40.25
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £24.18
% change year-on-year +154.10% -28.45% +76.69%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Release Management job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Release Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Release Management

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Belfast - 3 £450 - 14
Release Management
Northern Ireland

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Heroku
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Release Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Environment And Release Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) ISMS
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) MuleSoft
1 2 (66.67%) Salesforce