Release Train Contracts in the North of England

Release Train
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Release Train skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Release Train over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 - 210
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing Release Train 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.030% - 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% - 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £615
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.82%
75th Percentile - - £633
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £490 £655 £625
% change year-on-year -25.19% +4.80% -3.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Release Train 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 2,980 3,974 5,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.62% 85.50% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,916 2,420 3,486
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 365 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.36
Median hourly rate £25.43 £17.72 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +43.51% -36.67% +47.71%
75th Percentile £56.76 £45.00 £44.13
90th Percentile £81.55 £59.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Release Train
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Train 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 Train in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Release Train 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 Train within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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 - 1 £475 - 1
Release Train
England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) StreamSets