Release Management Contracts in Merseyside

Release Management
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 21 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Release Management 8 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.76% - 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% - 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £377 - £516
25th Percentile £400 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.86%
75th Percentile £497 - £583
90th Percentile £519 - £608
North West median daily rate £588 £363 £558
% change year-on-year +62.07% -34.98% +6.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 179 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 79.17% 78.51% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 229
10th Percentile £143 £145 £313
25th Percentile £203 £242 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £545 £494 £550
90th Percentile £649 £603 £689
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 8
10th Percentile £13.28 - £16.23
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £20.31 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.11% +12.81% +48.42%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £25.63
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Merseyside

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Merseyside

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Merseyside

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside 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
Southport - 6 £523 -
Liverpool - 1 - - 4
Release Management
North West

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) FlexRay
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Automotive
4 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Release Manager
2 6 (75.00%) Change and Release Manager
2 6 (75.00%) Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Manager
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Release Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Change Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Service Management
4 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
4 3 (37.50%) Test Management
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (12.50%) Change Control
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (12.50%) ERP
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 1 (12.50%) Project Management
6 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) AUTOSAR
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle