Release Management Contracts in the North of England

Release Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 178 185
Rank change year-on-year +34 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing Release Management 22 11 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.67% 0.23% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.27% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 25
10th Percentile £484 £234 £200
25th Percentile £527 £235 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £350 £575
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -39.13% +15.00%
75th Percentile £645 £369 £640
90th Percentile £670 £478 £668
England median daily rate £600 £570 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.87% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 - -
75th Percentile £98.56 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £91.69 £55.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.71% +27.91% +49.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 4,081 5,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 85.83% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,497 3,663
10th Percentile £263 £300 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 357 205
10th Percentile £13.70 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.31 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -36.03% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.59 £44.74 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.41 £55.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the North of England

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the North of England

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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 Management within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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 +32 20 £594 +66.67% 21
Yorkshire 0 2 - - 5
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Automotive
5 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Military
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Release Manager
2 7 (31.82%) Change and Release Manager
2 7 (31.82%) Change Manager
3 5 (22.73%) Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Manager
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Finance Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Finance Systems Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Integration Manager
6 1 (4.55%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.55%) ITIL Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Finance Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.55%) Kafka
1 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
1 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) ITIL
4 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
4 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
5 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 4 (18.18%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (18.18%) Service Management
6 4 (18.18%) Test Management
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) CRM
7 3 (13.64%) High Availability
8 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (9.09%) Data Migration
8 2 (9.09%) Incident Management
8 2 (9.09%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
1 1 (4.55%) Bicep
1 1 (4.55%) C++
1 1 (4.55%) Java
1 1 (4.55%) Python
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) AUTOSAR
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) Adobe
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle