Release Manager Contracts in Milton Keynes

Release Manager
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Release Manager daily rate in Milton Keynes is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 43 69
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 2.64% 0.29% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 0.31% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £410 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -14.71% +13.33%
75th Percentile £438 £369 £438
90th Percentile £550 - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £363 £425
% change year-on-year +17.24% -14.71% +13.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 215 323 696
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 93.62% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 232 567
10th Percentile £286 £255 £256
25th Percentile £361 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -1.04% -1.54%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £436 £467 £488
% change year-on-year -6.48% -4.31% -0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 6
10th Percentile £14.54 £15.85 £13.16
25th Percentile £15.12 £18.00 £13.16
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +68.29% +15.06%
75th Percentile £19.25 £30.00 £13.57
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £16.16
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.25 £22.50 £16.40
% change year-on-year -32.22% +37.20% +26.15%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings that featured Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in Milton Keynes

Release Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Manager in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for Release Manager in Milton Keynes

Release Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Manager in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Manager in Milton Keynes

Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Release Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Milton Keynes region featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Release Management
2 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (66.67%) Salesforce
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) GDPR
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) Confluence
3 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) Change Control
4 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) ITSM
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) Metadata
4 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) DataOps
5 1 (16.67%) dbt
5 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project

Release Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) Release Management
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Change Management
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Change Control
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) ITSM
4 2 (33.33%) Service Management
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
5 1 (16.67%) DataOps
5 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) ISO 9001
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Salesforce
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) BMC
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy