Release Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Release Engineer
England > North of England

The median Release Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Release Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.017% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 - -
England median daily rate £825 £420 £700
% change year-on-year +96.43% -40.00% +12.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 5,386 3,020 4,507
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 93.59% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,004 2,862
10th Percentile £263 £230 £256
25th Percentile £380 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £463 £476
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -2.89% -4.75%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £575
90th Percentile £644 £650 £672
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 157 398
10th Percentile £17.24 £12.90 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £17.08 £12.71
Median hourly rate £45.46 £24.76 £20.76
Median % change year-on-year +83.60% +19.30% -30.82%
75th Percentile £69.39 £44.64 £45.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.49 £57.50
England median hourly rate £41.26 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.58% +6.15% -23.53%

Release Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Release Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Release Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Release Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Release Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Release Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Release Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 March 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
North West - 1 £447 -
Release Engineer
England

Release Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 30 March 2026, Release Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Release Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Objectives and Key Results
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) QA

Release Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Release Train
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Weighted Shortest Job First
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GRC
1 1 (100.00%) QA