Release Train Contracts in England

Release Train
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Release Train skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Release Train 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 478 527 610
Rank change year-on-year +49 +83 +69
Contract jobs citing Release Train 7 15 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.040% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.047% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 30
10th Percentile £404 £475 £518
25th Percentile £485 £519 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £635 £625
Median % change year-on-year -22.83% +1.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £688 £655
90th Percentile £618 £825 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £625
% change year-on-year -5.50% -17.04% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £74.00
25th Percentile - - £80.00
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £90.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Release Train 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 Train
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Train in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Release Train in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Train in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Train in England

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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 Train 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 +37 4 £490 -28.73% 4
South East - 2 £625 -
South West +46 1 £575 -
Release Train
UK

Release Train
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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Apigee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Hub
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Release Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Release Train Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
1 6 (85.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Coaching
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Microservices
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
3 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian