Release Management Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Release Management
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Release Management 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £413 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 408 194 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 83.10% 85.46% 83.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 139 87
10th Percentile £336 £225 £344
25th Percentile £400 £358 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -11.50%
75th Percentile £565 £573 £600
90th Percentile £638 £628 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -11.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 3 18
10th Percentile £17.00 £21.05 £18.25
25th Percentile £52.19 £30.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile - £51.35 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +293.94% -5.71% -

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Release Management job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Release Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Release Management

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Release Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Release Management

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) cloud-init
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Consul
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Packer
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk