Release Management Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Release Management
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 59 65
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +40
Contract jobs citing Release Management 4 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.54% 0.85% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.97% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £625 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 649 514 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.23% 87.27% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 321 535
10th Percentile £302 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% -0.95%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £613
90th Percentile £648 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 4
10th Percentile - £15.54 £14.32
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.08 £17.01
Median hourly rate £15.25 £32.50 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% +63.71% -14.61%
75th Percentile £26.13 £41.50 £31.98
90th Percentile £33.88 £98.79 £49.99
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £18.32
% change year-on-year -34.46% +77.40% -14.79%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in Leeds

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Support Manager
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) CMDB
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) ITSM
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Go
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) OCP
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow