Release Management Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Release Management
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 77 73
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Release Management 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.70% 0.53% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.58% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile - £374 £472
25th Percentile £425 £391 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -21.74% +39.39%
75th Percentile £481 £500 £698
90th Percentile £538 £501 £722
Scotland median daily rate £471 £500 £555
% change year-on-year -5.90% -9.91% +30.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 626 686 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.19% 90.74% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 435 541
10th Percentile £300 £303 £350
25th Percentile £400 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £659 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 18
10th Percentile £14.83 £16.75 £12.09
25th Percentile £16.45 £17.32 £12.95
Median hourly rate £24.98 £19.59 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.51% +22.44% -46.16%
75th Percentile £49.15 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.93 £40.10 £32.40
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Release Management

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Release Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Release Management

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Release Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Software Manager
2 3 (60.00%) Software Release Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CMDB
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Contingency Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (20.00%) PMP
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) IBM