Release Manager Contracts in England

Release Manager
UK > England

The median Release Manager daily rate in England is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 490 602
Rank change year-on-year +44 +112 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 39 52 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 44 27
10th Percentile £319 £356 £413
25th Percentile £400 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £570 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +14.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £569 £628 £575
90th Percentile £638 £630 £601
UK median daily rate £465 £570 £530
% change year-on-year -18.42% +7.55% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £61.13
90th Percentile - - £73.95
UK median hourly rate - - £59.19

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
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 Manager 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 +30 16 £515 -16.06% 21
North of England +28 14 £388 +6.90% 12
North West +27 14 £388 +6.90% 9
South West +40 3 £725 +27.19% 3
East of England +30 1 £538 +48.28% 5
Midlands +17 1 £625 +72.41% 8
West Midlands +13 1 £625 +72.41% 6
Release Manager
UK

Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Release Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 27 (69.23%) Release Management
2 19 (48.72%) Agile
2 19 (48.72%) ITIL
3 17 (43.59%) Service Management
3 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
4 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
5 14 (35.90%) DevOps
6 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
7 11 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (25.64%) Change Management
9 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
9 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
10 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (20.51%) Project Management
11 6 (15.38%) Configuration Management
11 6 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
11 6 (15.38%) SDLC
11 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (12.82%) Oracle
12 5 (12.82%) Military
12 5 (12.82%) JIRA
12 5 (12.82%) QA
13 4 (10.26%) Test Management
13 4 (10.26%) Scrum
13 4 (10.26%) ERP
13 4 (10.26%) ITSM
13 4 (10.26%) Finance

Release Manager Skill Set
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 2 (5.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Shopify
2 1 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.13%) BigCommerce
2 2 (5.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.82%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) Bitbucket
3 2 (5.13%) Git
4 1 (2.56%) Selenium
4 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Public Sector
4 6 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Military
5 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (10.26%) Finance
7 3 (7.69%) Retail
8 2 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.56%) Banking
9 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.56%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.13%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.56%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) Release Management
2 19 (48.72%) Agile
2 19 (48.72%) ITIL
3 17 (43.59%) Service Management
4 14 (35.90%) DevOps
5 10 (25.64%) Change Management
6 9 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (20.51%) Project Management
8 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 6 (15.38%) Configuration Management
8 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (15.38%) SDLC
9 4 (10.26%) Change Control
9 4 (10.26%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (10.26%) ERP
9 4 (10.26%) ITSM
9 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
9 4 (10.26%) Scrum
9 4 (10.26%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.13%) Java
1 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.13%) SQL
2 1 (2.56%) PL/SQL
2 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 13 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) Degree
3 1 (2.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Grafana
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Oracle
2 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.69%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) Adobe
3 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 2 (5.13%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.56%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.56%) Ceridian
4 1 (2.56%) Remedy
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow