Release Management Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Release Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 71 92
Rank change year-on-year -32 +21 -13
Contract jobs citing Release Management 3 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.16% 0.66% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.77% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £373 £533 £505
25th Percentile £406 £544 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -0.86% -3.33%
75th Percentile £568 £622 £595
90th Percentile £616 £661 -
South East median daily rate £392 £615 £575
% change year-on-year -36.26% +6.96% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,478 776 1,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.94% 84.99% 81.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 535 819
10th Percentile £363 £325 £372
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.70% +12.29%
75th Percentile £644 £613 £675
90th Percentile £728 £661 £738
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 56 159
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £13.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £25.15 £25.81
Median hourly rate £38.25 £46.25 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.30% -19.35% +9.24%
75th Percentile £56.86 £60.03 £70.43
90th Percentile £67.17 £75.00 £77.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Hampshire

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
Havant -8 1 £648 +1.65%
Portsmouth -8 1 £350 -36.36%
Release Management
South East

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (33.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Contingency Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Management
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Apex Code
1 1 (33.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (33.33%) PMO
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP