Release Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Release Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Release Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Release Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 67 100
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 +14
Contract jobs citing Release Management 11 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.76% 0.61% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.69% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £415 - £395
25th Percentile £475 £511 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £523 £423
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +23.67% -6.89%
75th Percentile £525 £534 £550
90th Percentile £578 - £554
Scotland median daily rate £465 £400 £410
% change year-on-year +16.25% -2.44% -8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £38.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £38.00 £66.56
% change year-on-year - -42.91% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Edinburgh

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Edinburgh

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) OCI
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) IaaS
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Support
2 2 (18.18%) Applications Support Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Release Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (18.18%) WebCenter
3 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (27.27%) ITSM
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) RBAC
3 2 (18.18%) Accounts Payable
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
3 2 (18.18%) Design Patterns
3 2 (18.18%) ERP
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) User Stories
3 2 (18.18%) Workflow
4 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Fintech
4 1 (9.09%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Software Architecture
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
2 1 (9.09%) ProC
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft