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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 87 107
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 +29
Contract jobs citing Release Management 18 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.79% 0.16% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 0.19% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 4
10th Percentile £313 - £485
25th Percentile £373 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 - £606
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.36%
75th Percentile £623 - £652
90th Percentile £697 - £654
North West median daily rate £469 £350 £630
% change year-on-year +34.00% -44.44% +29.23%

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 884 1,063 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.05% 86.92% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 687 1,184
10th Percentile £308 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 54 59
10th Percentile £17.12 £15.94 £14.52
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.12 £16.15
Median hourly rate £22.63 £38.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.60% +98.72% +8.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.19 £38.13
90th Percentile £77.00 £80.45 £66.80
North West median hourly rate £27.90 £33.61 £33.00
% change year-on-year -16.97% +1.83% +43.48%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) CICS
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SSH
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Publishing
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Architect
1 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Change Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL Change Manager
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Change and Release Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) ISPF
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) IBM Mainframe
1 4 (22.22%) Mainframe
1 4 (22.22%) VSAM
2 2 (11.11%) Tandem
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) zOS
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) ITIL
3 6 (33.33%) Change Management
4 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
4 5 (27.78%) SDLC
4 5 (27.78%) Service Management
4 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Customer Experience
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
5 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
6 3 (16.67%) High Availability
6 3 (16.67%) ITSM
6 3 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) CLIST
1 4 (22.22%) JCL
1 4 (22.22%) REXX
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) CA Endevor
1 4 (22.22%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) IBM
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow