Release Management Contracts in the Midlands

Release Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 97 114 143
Rank change year-on-year +17 +29 +8
Contract jobs citing Release Management 14 19 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.69% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.84% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 11
10th Percentile £390 £282 £413
25th Percentile £424 £356 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £553 £488 £650
90th Percentile £630 £598 £788
England median daily rate £581 £570 £575
% change year-on-year +1.97% -0.87% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +13 13 £500 +11.11% 50
East Midlands +6 1 £420 -1.18% 30
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) NetScaler
1 2 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Legal
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Administrator
3 2 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 2 (14.29%) IT Services Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.14%) DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Product Operations Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SQL DBA
4 1 (7.14%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (7.14%) Django
3 1 (7.14%) Entity Framework
3 1 (7.14%) Flask
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Management Information System
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Service Management
3 5 (35.71%) Change Management
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) Change Advisory Board
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) SDLC
5 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
5 3 (21.43%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (14.29%) PLM
6 2 (14.29%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) BMC
1 2 (14.29%) Dell
1 2 (14.29%) HP
1 2 (14.29%) IBM
1 2 (14.29%) Remedy
1 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Siemens