Release Management Contracts in London

Release Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Release Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 272 261
Rank change year-on-year +26 -11 -52
Contract jobs citing Release Management 151 239 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 0.88% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.97% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 180 290
10th Percentile £424 £450 £450
25th Percentile £506 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £752
England median daily rate £570 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £43.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year +27.91% +49.57% +33.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Release Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +25 23 £600 +9.09% 3
South London +22 11 £620 +5.98% 1
West London +20 9 £413 -19.51% 1
East London -1 4 £560 +12.00% 1
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 14 (9.27%) Confluence
2 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.65%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.99%) IIS
4 3 (1.99%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.66%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (5.30%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.31%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (5.30%) Endur
2 2 (1.32%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (1.32%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.32%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.53%) Azure
2 26 (17.22%) AWS
3 13 (8.61%) Slack
4 7 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
4 7 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.31%) Collibra
6 4 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.65%) GCP
6 4 (2.65%) PaaS
6 4 (2.65%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.65%) SaaS
7 3 (1.99%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.99%) OCI
7 3 (1.99%) Serverless
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.32%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (1.32%) GitHub
8 2 (1.32%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.32%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.31%) DNS
1 5 (3.31%) SSH
2 4 (2.65%) DHCP
2 4 (2.65%) Firewall
2 4 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.66%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.66%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.28%) Relational Database
2 10 (6.62%) NoSQL
2 10 (6.62%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.96%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.31%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (3.31%) Metadata
5 4 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.65%) Power BI
5 4 (2.65%) Redis
6 3 (1.99%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.66%) Big Data
8 1 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.66%) MS Access
8 1 (0.66%) MySQL
8 1 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (14.57%) JIRA
2 13 (8.61%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.31%) Cucumber
3 5 (3.31%) Gatling
3 5 (3.31%) Git
3 5 (3.31%) JUnit
3 5 (3.31%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.65%) Mockito
4 4 (2.65%) ScalaTest
5 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.32%) webpack
6 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.66%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 61 (40.40%) Finance
2 28 (18.54%) Banking
3 25 (16.56%) Front Office
3 25 (16.56%) Social Skills
4 21 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.28%) Investment Banking
6 9 (5.96%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.97%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.97%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.31%) Marketing
9 4 (2.65%) Retail
10 3 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.99%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.32%) Back Office
11 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.32%) Law
11 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.66%) Electronics
12 1 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (19.21%) Analyst
1 29 (19.21%) Developer
2 16 (10.60%) Release Manager
3 15 (9.93%) Applications Support
4 11 (7.28%) Support Analyst
5 10 (6.62%) Lead
5 10 (6.62%) Project Manager
5 10 (6.62%) Senior
5 10 (6.62%) Unix Support
6 9 (5.96%) Applications Support Analyst
6 9 (5.96%) Data Analyst
6 9 (5.96%) SQL Analyst
6 9 (5.96%) SQL Support Analyst
7 8 (5.30%) Business Analyst
8 6 (3.97%) Data Business Analyst
8 6 (3.97%) Delivery Manager
8 6 (3.97%) Java Developer
8 6 (3.97%) Scala Developer
8 6 (3.97%) Support Engineer
9 5 (3.31%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.60%) Web Services
2 13 (8.61%) XML
3 10 (6.62%) Spring
4 9 (5.96%) .NET
4 9 (5.96%) Hibernate
4 9 (5.96%) JPA
5 6 (3.97%) JSON
5 6 (3.97%) Middleware
5 6 (3.97%) Node.js
5 6 (3.97%) REST
5 6 (3.97%) RESTful
5 6 (3.97%) SOAP
5 6 (3.97%) XSLT
6 5 (3.31%) Blazor
6 5 (3.31%) J2EE
6 5 (3.31%) LDAP
6 5 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.31%) React
7 4 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (2.65%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.93%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.62%) Derivative
3 8 (5.30%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.97%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.97%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.31%) Clustering
6 5 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.31%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.31%) OTC Derivatives
7 4 (2.65%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.32%) CMDB
8 2 (1.32%) Web 2.0
9 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.66%) PKI
9 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 42 (27.81%) Windows
2 23 (15.23%) Linux
3 20 (13.25%) Unix
4 5 (3.31%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.66%) CentOS
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (29.14%) Agile
2 37 (24.50%) Change Management
3 32 (21.19%) SDLC
4 29 (19.21%) DevOps
4 29 (19.21%) Proactive Monitoring
4 29 (19.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (17.88%) Risk Management
6 20 (13.25%) Configuration Management
6 20 (13.25%) Incident Management
7 19 (12.58%) Scrum
8 17 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (10.60%) Data Modelling
10 15 (9.93%) Data Management
11 14 (9.27%) Data Sharing
11 14 (9.27%) Migration
12 13 (8.61%) CI/CD
12 13 (8.61%) Operational Acceptance Testing
12 13 (8.61%) Performance Testing
13 12 (7.95%) ITIL
13 12 (7.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 63 (41.72%) SQL
2 41 (27.15%) Python
3 31 (20.53%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.95%) C#
5 11 (7.28%) Java
6 9 (5.96%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.97%) PL/SQL
7 6 (3.97%) Scala
7 6 (3.97%) T-SQL
7 6 (3.97%) VB.NET
7 6 (3.97%) XPath
8 5 (3.31%) Perl
9 4 (2.65%) C
9 4 (2.65%) Go
10 2 (1.32%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.32%) VBA
11 1 (0.66%) PHP
11 1 (0.66%) VB
11 1 (0.66%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.62%) Degree
4 2 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.66%) MCSA
5 1 (0.66%) MCSE
5 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.66%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.60%) QA
2 5 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.32%) MiFID
3 2 (1.32%) SLA
4 1 (0.66%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.66%) EMIR
4 1 (0.66%) NIST
4 1 (0.66%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (7.28%) Docker
2 4 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.66%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.66%) XenApp
4 1 (0.66%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (16.56%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.27%) Grafana
3 9 (5.96%) ITRS Geneos
4 7 (4.64%) SCCM
5 5 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.32%) WSUS
7 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.66%) Control-M
7 1 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.66%) Nessus
Vendors
1 32 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.26%) Oracle
3 10 (6.62%) Dynatrace
4 9 (5.96%) IBM
5 8 (5.30%) SAP
6 5 (3.31%) Databricks
6 5 (3.31%) OpenLink
6 5 (3.31%) Workday
7 4 (2.65%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.99%) Google
8 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.99%) VMware
9 2 (1.32%) BiZZdesign
9 2 (1.32%) BMC
9 2 (1.32%) Pardot
9 2 (1.32%) Remedy
9 2 (1.32%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.66%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.66%) Refinitiv
10 1 (0.66%) UiPath