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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 137 147
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 -20
Contract jobs citing Release Management 21 21 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.71% 0.65% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.75% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 39
10th Percentile £309 £443 £298
25th Percentile £322 £513 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £500 - £550
90th Percentile £576 £718 £575
England median daily rate £550 £590 £540
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% +2.86%

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 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 2024. 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 +14 15 £450 -25.00% 9
East Midlands +11 6 £475 -13.64% 4
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) NetSuite
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Boomi
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) LAN
1 2 (9.52%) WAN
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Law
4 3 (14.29%) Billing
5 2 (9.52%) Legal
5 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Banking
6 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) Release Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Administrator
2 2 (9.52%) Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Configuration and Release Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Configuration Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Environment Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Functional Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Financials Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Administrator
2 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Systems Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Test Environment Manager
2 2 (9.52%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Middleware
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) OAuth
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (9.52%) SAML
2 2 (9.52%) Visualforce
2 2 (9.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
1 5 (23.81%) SCADA
2 3 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) ITIL
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (28.57%) Service Management
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Thinking
2 5 (23.81%) Computer Science
2 5 (23.81%) Data Centre Operations
2 5 (23.81%) Decision-Making
2 5 (23.81%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
3 4 (19.05%) Project Management
3 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 3 (14.29%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Cash Management
5 2 (9.52%) Change Control
5 2 (9.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (9.52%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.52%) Record to Report
5 2 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Apex Code
1 5 (23.81%) SOQL
2 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) CEMLI
1 2 (9.52%) SCOM
1 2 (9.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 5 (23.81%) BMC
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) VMware