Release Management Contract Job Trends in the North East

Release Management
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Release Management 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.59% - 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £431 - £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £618
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.92%
75th Percentile £485 - £626
90th Percentile £494 - -
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £38.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £92.50 £40.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +131.25% -20.00% -42.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 728 258 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 85.45% 84.04% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 154 97
10th Percentile £313 £191 £320
25th Percentile £363 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £634 £693
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 14 35
10th Percentile £13.19 £13.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.08 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £19.25 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +128.36% -35.34% +48.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £46.18
90th Percentile - £46.85 £70.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in the North East

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Release Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Release Management

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Release Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Release Management

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 3 £463 - 4
Durham - 2 - -
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Documentum
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (20.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (20.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) EDMS
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) cloud-init
1 2 (40.00%) OpenID
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) FMCG
1 1 (20.00%) Life Science
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Release Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Order Management
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Software Assurance
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Go
1 2 (40.00%) Groovy
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) GAMP
1 1 (20.00%) GMP
1 1 (20.00%) GxP
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Consul
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Packer
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (40.00%) ZABBIX
2 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) OpenText
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow