Release Management Contracts in Gloucestershire

Release Management
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 51 49
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing Release Management 1 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.37% 0.70% 3.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.82% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.46%
75th Percentile £619 - £275
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £725 £570 £300
% change year-on-year +27.19% +90.00% -36.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 237 365 440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 86.81% 85.68% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 229 308
10th Percentile £234 £363 £296
25th Percentile £415 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +1.38% +5.85%
75th Percentile £633 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 37
10th Percentile £25.56 £14.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £34.88 £19.57 £50.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% -50.00% +116.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £78.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Gloucestershire

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Gloucestershire

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cheltenham +11 1 £613 -
Release Management
South West

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware