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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 243 260
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 +12
Contract jobs citing Release Management 88 149 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.71% 0.85% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.96% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 114 189
10th Percentile £309 £425 £438
25th Percentile £413 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £713 £650 £729
90th Percentile £805 £749 £775
England median daily rate £600 £563 £575
% change year-on-year +6.67% -2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £92.50
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £95.00
Median % change year-on-year - -42.11% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £91.69 £55.00 £53.55
% change year-on-year +66.71% +2.71% +86.26%

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 11,393 15,485 23,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.20% 88.60% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,687 11,108 17,072
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 308 267
10th Percentile £16.04 £15.81 £18.30
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.00 £22.45
Median hourly rate £33.00 £27.92 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +18.19% -25.23% +2.55%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £63.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.83 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
% change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%

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 21 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 21 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 -1 13 £650 +8.33% 14
West London +6 1 £520 +26.06% 3
South London -5 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 5 (5.68%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) SAS
3 2 (2.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.14%) Apache
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (1.14%) JBoss
4 1 (1.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (4.55%) SAP QM
1 4 (4.55%) Shopify
2 3 (3.41%) Workday HCM
3 2 (2.27%) Endur
3 2 (2.27%) NetSuite
4 1 (1.14%) BambooHR
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.41%) Azure
2 9 (10.23%) AWS
2 9 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (5.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (4.55%) BigCommerce
4 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.41%) Azure AKS
5 3 (3.41%) SaaS
6 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.27%) GitHub
6 2 (2.27%) IaaS
6 2 (2.27%) Miro
6 2 (2.27%) PaaS
6 2 (2.27%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.14%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.27%) HTTPS
2 2 (2.27%) SSL
3 1 (1.14%) MPLS
3 1 (1.14%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) Data Lake
1 4 (4.55%) Oracle Database
1 4 (4.55%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) MySQL
3 2 (2.27%) Big Data
3 2 (2.27%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.14%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.14%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Jenkins
1 9 (10.23%) JIRA
2 8 (9.09%) Git
3 4 (4.55%) Maven
4 3 (3.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.27%) JMeter
5 2 (2.27%) Selenium
6 1 (1.14%) Ant
6 1 (1.14%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.14%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.14%) JUnit
6 1 (1.14%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.14%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.14%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.14%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 25 (28.41%) Finance
3 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (14.77%) Banking
4 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Retail
6 4 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.41%) Front Office
7 3 (3.41%) Military
8 2 (2.27%) Back Office
9 1 (1.14%) Automotive
9 1 (1.14%) Billing
9 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Marketing
9 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) Developer
2 14 (15.91%) Release Manager
3 12 (13.64%) Senior
4 9 (10.23%) Architect
5 8 (9.09%) Analyst
6 7 (7.95%) Lead
7 6 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Change Manager
8 5 (5.68%) Scrum Master
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Change and Release Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Incident Manager
9 4 (4.55%) Lead Developer
9 4 (4.55%) SAP Architect
9 4 (4.55%) SAP Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Technical Manager
10 3 (3.41%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) .NET
2 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
2 5 (5.68%) VML
3 4 (4.55%) Kafka
3 4 (4.55%) PySpark
3 4 (4.55%) REST
4 3 (3.41%) Middleware
4 3 (3.41%) RESTful
5 2 (2.27%) Bootstrap
5 2 (2.27%) CSS
5 2 (2.27%) HTML
5 2 (2.27%) HTML5
5 2 (2.27%) J2EE
5 2 (2.27%) jQuery
5 2 (2.27%) Sass
5 2 (2.27%) Spring
5 2 (2.27%) Spring MVC
5 2 (2.27%) Web Services
6 1 (1.14%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.68%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.27%) CMDB
3 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.27%) Derivative
3 2 (2.27%) Equities
3 2 (2.27%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (2.27%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.27%) N-Tier
3 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.14%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.14%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.91%) Linux
2 7 (7.95%) Windows
3 5 (5.68%) Unix
4 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.68%) Agile
2 26 (29.55%) DevOps
3 24 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 20 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (19.32%) Scrum
6 14 (15.91%) Change Management
7 12 (13.64%) ITIL
7 12 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (13.64%) Test Automation
8 11 (12.50%) Project Management
8 11 (12.50%) SDLC
9 10 (11.36%) Service Management
10 9 (10.23%) Analytics
11 8 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (9.09%) Project Delivery
11 8 (9.09%) Unit Testing
12 7 (7.95%) Microservices
12 7 (7.95%) Validation
13 6 (6.82%) Migration
13 6 (6.82%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (26.14%) SQL
2 20 (22.73%) Python
3 12 (13.64%) Java
4 6 (6.82%) PL/SQL
5 5 (5.68%) C#
5 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.55%) Bash
6 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.14%) Groovy
7 1 (1.14%) Scala
7 1 (1.14%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 16 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.27%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.14%) HNC
6 1 (1.14%) HND
6 1 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.27%) SLA
4 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) Firmware
3 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Ansible
2 7 (7.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.68%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) Podman
4 1 (1.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Oracle
2 9 (10.23%) Databricks
3 8 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 8 (9.09%) SAP
4 4 (4.55%) Adobe
4 4 (4.55%) Sitecore
5 3 (3.41%) Avaloq
5 3 (3.41%) Workday
5 3 (3.41%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.27%) OpenLink
6 2 (2.27%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.27%) Sun
7 1 (1.14%) Ceridian
7 1 (1.14%) Concur
7 1 (1.14%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.14%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.14%) Nokia
7 1 (1.14%) Remedy
7 1 (1.14%) Snow