Release Management Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Release Management
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Release Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Release Management 10 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 3.55% 0.61% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 0.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £312 - -
25th Percentile £340 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% - -
75th Percentile £483 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
Cheshire median daily rate £469 £350 -
% change year-on-year +34.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 155 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 96.45% 93.94% 96.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 129 39
10th Percentile £308 £347 £494
25th Percentile £358 £382 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £445 £586
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% -24.06% +18.38%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £595
90th Percentile £537 £651 £607
Cheshire median daily rate £446 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.11% -5.00% +11.11%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Knutsford

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

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

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Knutsford over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Knutsford

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) JBoss
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (50.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) GitLab
2 5 (50.00%) JIRA
2 5 (50.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 3 (30.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Developer
1 5 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Service Transition Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Transition Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) Kafka
2 5 (50.00%) React
2 5 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 5 (50.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (60.00%) Microservices
4 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) Change Management
4 5 (50.00%) Migration
4 5 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 5 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (50.00%) TDD
5 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (40.00%) ITIL
5 4 (40.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (40.00%) SDLC
5 4 (40.00%) Service Management
5 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk