Release Management Contracts in London

Release Management
England > London

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 244 268
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -8
Contract jobs citing Release Management 110 149 244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.84% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.94% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 118 185
10th Percentile £313 £421 £438
25th Percentile £435 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £699 £650 £725
90th Percentile £813 £747 £775
England median daily rate £581 £570 £575
% change year-on-year +1.97% -0.87% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £91.69 £55.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.71% +27.91% +49.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in London

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in London

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in London

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in London

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -2 17 £650 +8.33% 14
South London -2 2 £650 +4.84%
West London +4 1 £520 +26.06% 6
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 10 (9.09%) Confluence
2 6 (5.45%) SAS
3 2 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.91%) Apache
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.91%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) JBoss
4 1 (0.91%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (3.64%) Endur
1 4 (3.64%) SAP QM
2 3 (2.73%) Shopify
2 3 (2.73%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.82%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.91%) BambooHR
4 1 (0.91%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.55%) Azure
2 15 (13.64%) AWS
3 7 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.45%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.73%) BigCommerce
7 3 (2.73%) Datadog
7 3 (2.73%) GCP
7 3 (2.73%) SaaS
8 2 (1.82%) GitHub
8 2 (1.82%) Miro
8 2 (1.82%) PaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.91%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.91%) Boomi
9 1 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) DHCP
1 5 (4.55%) DNS
1 5 (4.55%) DOCSIS
1 5 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 5 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.73%) Network Security
2 3 (2.73%) VLAN
2 3 (2.73%) Wireless
3 1 (0.91%) 802.11
3 1 (0.91%) Broadband
3 1 (0.91%) DSL
3 1 (0.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.91%) GPON
3 1 (0.91%) IPv4
3 1 (0.91%) IPv6
3 1 (0.91%) MPLS
3 1 (0.91%) PPP
3 1 (0.91%) SDH
3 1 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.36%) Oracle Database
2 6 (5.45%) Power BI
3 4 (3.64%) Crystal Reports
3 4 (3.64%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.73%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.73%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
4 3 (2.73%) InfluxDB
4 3 (2.73%) Looker
4 3 (2.73%) MySQL
4 3 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
4 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.82%) Big Data
5 2 (1.82%) Tableau
5 2 (1.82%) Tableau Server
6 1 (0.91%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.91%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (14.55%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.64%) Git
2 15 (13.64%) JIRA
3 5 (4.55%) Maven
4 4 (3.64%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.73%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (1.82%) Ant
6 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.82%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.82%) JMeter
6 2 (1.82%) Selenium
7 1 (0.91%) Apache Ivy
7 1 (0.91%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.91%) Gradle
7 1 (0.91%) JUnit
7 1 (0.91%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.91%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.91%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.91%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 27 (24.55%) Finance
3 18 (16.36%) Banking
4 15 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.27%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.55%) Front Office
7 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Back Office
8 4 (3.64%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.64%) Retail
9 3 (2.73%) Military
10 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.91%) Automotive
11 1 (0.91%) Billing
11 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (27.27%) Developer
2 17 (15.45%) Analyst
3 14 (12.73%) Release Manager
3 14 (12.73%) Senior
4 12 (10.91%) Lead
5 7 (6.36%) Architect
5 7 (6.36%) Lead Developer
6 6 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.45%) Lead Software Developer
6 6 (5.45%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.45%) Software Developer
6 6 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.55%) Applications Support
7 5 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Change Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.55%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.64%) Applications Support Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Incident Manager
8 4 (3.64%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.18%) AngularJS
2 6 (5.45%) .NET
2 6 (5.45%) HTML
2 6 (5.45%) HTML5
2 6 (5.45%) Kafka
3 5 (4.55%) CSS
3 5 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.55%) Node.js
4 4 (3.64%) PySpark
4 4 (3.64%) VML
5 3 (2.73%) CSS3
5 3 (2.73%) Middleware
5 3 (2.73%) RESTful
6 2 (1.82%) Bootstrap
6 2 (1.82%) J2EE
6 2 (1.82%) jQuery
6 2 (1.82%) REST
6 2 (1.82%) Sass
6 2 (1.82%) Spring MVC
6 2 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.45%) Derivative
2 6 (5.45%) N-Tier
3 4 (3.64%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.73%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.73%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.82%) CMDB
5 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.82%) Equities
5 2 (1.82%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.82%) IoT
5 2 (1.82%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.27%) Linux
2 7 (6.36%) Unix
2 7 (6.36%) Windows
3 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.91%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.36%) Agile
2 36 (32.73%) CI/CD
3 28 (25.45%) DevOps
4 25 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (20.00%) Scrum
6 20 (18.18%) Change Management
7 17 (15.45%) SDLC
8 16 (14.55%) Test Automation
8 16 (14.55%) Unit Testing
9 15 (13.64%) ITIL
10 12 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (9.09%) Project Management
12 10 (9.09%) Service Management
12 10 (9.09%) Software Engineering
13 9 (8.18%) Microservices
13 9 (8.18%) Validation
14 8 (7.27%) Analytics
14 8 (7.27%) Continuous Delivery
14 8 (7.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.45%) SQL
2 26 (23.64%) Python
3 20 (18.18%) Java
4 9 (8.18%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.27%) PL/SQL
5 8 (7.27%) Shell Script
6 5 (4.55%) C#
6 5 (4.55%) Scala
6 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.64%) Bash
7 4 (3.64%) C
7 4 (3.64%) C++
7 4 (3.64%) Go
8 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.91%) Groovy
9 1 (0.91%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (14.55%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.73%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.73%) Degree
5 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.91%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.91%) HNC
6 1 (0.91%) HND
6 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.45%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) SLA
4 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (2.73%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Firmware
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (5.45%) Ansible
2 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.73%) Grafana
3 3 (2.73%) Terraform
4 1 (0.91%) Podman
4 1 (0.91%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (17.27%) Oracle
2 10 (9.09%) SAP
3 9 (8.18%) Databricks
4 7 (6.36%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.45%) Splunk
6 4 (3.64%) OpenLink
7 3 (2.73%) Adobe
7 3 (2.73%) Avaloq
7 3 (2.73%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.73%) Sitecore
7 3 (2.73%) Workday
7 3 (2.73%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.82%) Sun
9 1 (0.91%) BT
9 1 (0.91%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.91%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.91%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.91%) Nokia
9 1 (0.91%) Remedy