Release Management Contracts in England

Release Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 305 278 297
Rank change year-on-year -27 +19 -18
Contract jobs citing Release Management 184 293 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.79% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.91% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 235 305
10th Percentile £339 £356 £374
25th Percentile £463 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.97% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £608 £645
90th Percentile £775 £680 £775
UK median daily rate £530 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -5.78% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £31.80
25th Percentile £84.83 £52.50 £35.25
Median hourly rate £91.69 £55.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.71% +27.91% +49.57%
75th Percentile £98.56 £57.50 £51.25
90th Percentile - - £55.00
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £38.00 £59.69
% change year-on-year +141.29% -36.34% +107.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in England

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +1 110 £569 -0.22% 95
North of England +32 23 £588 +95.02% 62
North West +37 21 £588 +62.07% 35
South East -14 18 £625 +8.70% 71
Midlands +17 14 £500 +11.11% 52
West Midlands +13 13 £500 +11.11% 31
South West +36 7 £725 +27.19% 31
East of England +24 7 £600 +62.71% 43
Yorkshire +1 2 - - 20
East Midlands +6 1 £420 -1.18% 18
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (7.07%) Confluence
2 6 (3.26%) SAS
3 4 (2.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.54%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) JBoss
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.72%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.72%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (2.17%) Endur
3 4 (2.17%) SAP QM
4 3 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.63%) Shopify
4 3 (1.63%) Workday HCM
5 2 (1.09%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.54%) BambooHR
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (26.09%) Azure
2 24 (13.04%) AWS
3 13 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (5.43%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (3.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (3.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.26%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.26%) OCI
8 5 (2.72%) Azure API Management
8 5 (2.72%) GCP
9 4 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.17%) SaaS
10 3 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.63%) Azure Functions
10 3 (1.63%) Datadog
10 3 (1.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.80%) DHCP
1 7 (3.80%) DNS
2 6 (3.26%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.72%) DOCSIS
3 5 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (1.63%) Network Security
4 3 (1.63%) VLAN
4 3 (1.63%) Wireless
5 2 (1.09%) Firewall
5 2 (1.09%) NetScaler
5 2 (1.09%) SSL
6 1 (0.54%) 802.11
6 1 (0.54%) Broadband
6 1 (0.54%) DSL
6 1 (0.54%) HTTP
6 1 (0.54%) IPv4
6 1 (0.54%) IPv6
6 1 (0.54%) PPP
6 1 (0.54%) SDH
6 1 (0.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.07%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.89%) Power BI
3 7 (3.80%) Oracle Database
4 6 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.26%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.72%) MySQL
5 5 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.17%) Crystal Reports
6 4 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.63%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.63%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 3 (1.63%) InfluxDB
7 3 (1.63%) Looker
7 3 (1.63%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (1.63%) SSDT
8 2 (1.09%) Big Data
8 2 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (11.96%) Jenkins
2 19 (10.33%) Git
2 19 (10.33%) JIRA
3 5 (2.72%) Maven
4 4 (2.17%) Selenium
4 4 (2.17%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.63%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.09%) Ant
6 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.09%) GitLab
6 2 (1.09%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.54%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.54%) JUnit
7 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.54%) MSI
7 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 56 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.02%) Finance
3 33 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.87%) Banking
5 17 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.72%) Front Office
8 5 (2.72%) Legal
8 5 (2.72%) Military
8 5 (2.72%) Retail
9 4 (2.17%) Automotive
9 4 (2.17%) Back Office
9 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.09%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.09%) Marketing
12 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (18.48%) Developer
2 28 (15.22%) Lead
3 27 (14.67%) Release Manager
4 19 (10.33%) Analyst
5 17 (9.24%) Senior
6 16 (8.70%) Architect
7 15 (8.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (7.07%) Change Manager
9 12 (6.52%) Change and Release Manager
10 11 (5.98%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (3.80%) Administrator
12 7 (3.80%) Lead Developer
12 7 (3.80%) Service Manager
13 6 (3.26%) Lead Software Developer
13 6 (3.26%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.26%) Senior Developer
13 6 (3.26%) Software Developer
14 5 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (2.72%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.98%) .NET
1 11 (5.98%) AngularJS
2 10 (5.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.80%) CSS
3 7 (3.80%) HTML
3 7 (3.80%) Kafka
4 6 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (3.26%) HTML5
4 6 (3.26%) Node.js
5 5 (2.72%) Middleware
5 5 (2.72%) OAuth
5 5 (2.72%) React
6 4 (2.17%) PySpark
6 4 (2.17%) RESTful
6 4 (2.17%) VML
6 4 (2.17%) YAML
7 3 (1.63%) ARM Templates
7 3 (1.63%) CSS3
8 2 (1.09%) REST
8 2 (1.09%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.43%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.26%) Derivative
3 6 (3.26%) N-Tier
4 5 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (1.63%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.63%) CMDB
6 3 (1.63%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.63%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (1.63%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.09%) Equities
7 2 (1.09%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 26 (14.13%) Linux
2 14 (7.61%) Windows
3 7 (3.80%) Unix
3 7 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.54%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (40.76%) Agile
2 53 (28.80%) DevOps
3 51 (27.72%) CI/CD
4 40 (21.74%) ITIL
4 40 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (17.93%) Change Management
5 33 (17.93%) Scrum
6 31 (16.85%) SDLC
7 26 (14.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (14.13%) Service Management
8 21 (11.41%) Test Automation
9 20 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (10.33%) Project Management
11 18 (9.78%) Roadmaps
11 18 (9.78%) Unit Testing
12 14 (7.61%) Microservices
13 13 (7.07%) Configuration Management
13 13 (7.07%) Validation
14 12 (6.52%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (6.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (20.11%) Python
2 33 (17.93%) SQL
3 24 (13.04%) Java
4 12 (6.52%) PowerShell
5 10 (5.43%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 8 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.80%) C#
8 6 (3.26%) Bash
9 5 (2.72%) C++
9 5 (2.72%) Go
9 5 (2.72%) Scala
9 5 (2.72%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.17%) C
11 2 (1.09%) Bicep
11 2 (1.09%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) Groovy
12 1 (0.54%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.54%) VB
12 1 (0.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (19.02%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) Degree
5 6 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.72%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (2.72%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.54%) HNC
8 1 (0.54%) HND
8 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (11.41%) QA
2 4 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.09%) SLA
4 1 (0.54%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) ITGC
4 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (4.89%) Docker
2 6 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.54%) Firmware
4 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (8.15%) Terraform
2 12 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.35%) Ansible
4 6 (3.26%) Grafana
5 3 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.09%) Puppet
6 2 (1.09%) SCCM
7 1 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.54%) Podman
7 1 (0.54%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.54%) Rancher
7 1 (0.54%) SCOM
7 1 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 34 (18.48%) Oracle
2 11 (5.98%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.43%) SAP
4 9 (4.89%) Databricks
4 9 (4.89%) Salesforce
4 9 (4.89%) Splunk
5 7 (3.80%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.17%) Adobe
6 4 (2.17%) OpenLink
6 4 (2.17%) Remedy
7 3 (1.63%) Avaloq
7 3 (1.63%) Sitecore
7 3 (1.63%) UiPath
7 3 (1.63%) VMware
7 3 (1.63%) Workday
7 3 (1.63%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.09%) HP
8 2 (1.09%) Snow
8 2 (1.09%) Sun