Release Management Contracts in Kent

Release Management
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - 33
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Release Management 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 0.87% - 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% - 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.95%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £625 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +8.70% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 104 134 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 90.43% 59.82% 71.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 80 116
10th Percentile £190 £160 £201
25th Percentile £220 £205 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% +13.33% -21.05%
75th Percentile £529 £550 £530
90th Percentile £630 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 7
10th Percentile £17.37 £11.80 £50.48
25th Percentile £18.90 - £55.42
Median hourly rate £21.43 £15.00 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year +42.87% -74.03% +102.67%
75th Percentile - £26.94 £72.97
90th Percentile - £57.02 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.47% -5.00% +122.22%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Kent

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Kent

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in Kent.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Kent

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
West Malling - 1 £625 - 5
Release Management
South East

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Broadband
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Change and Release Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Change Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Release Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce