Release Management Contracts in Manchester

Release Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 71 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Release Management 8 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% - 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 5
10th Percentile £550 - £568
25th Percentile £575 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 - £638
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.93%
75th Percentile £648 - £650
90th Percentile £723 - £654
North West median daily rate £588 £363 £558
% change year-on-year +62.07% -34.98% +6.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Manchester

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Manchester

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Manchester

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Manchester

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Stockport - 1 - - 4
Release Management
North West

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 3 (37.50%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Change and Release Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Change Manager
2 1 (12.50%) CRM Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Insight
2 3 (37.50%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (37.50%) Privileged Access Management
2 3 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (25.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
51 Release Management jobs in the North West