Release Management Contracts in the North West

Release Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 133 134
Rank change year-on-year +28 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing Release Management 20 2 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.073% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.085% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 14
10th Percentile £484 £351 -
25th Percentile £527 £352 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £356 £558
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -36.10% +6.19%
75th Percentile £645 £364 £639
90th Percentile £670 £367 £648
England median daily rate £600 £570 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.87% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 2,349 2,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.14% 86.30% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,497 2,042
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £662 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 246 140
10th Percentile £16.02 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.36 £21.91
Median hourly rate £32.25 £21.56 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.62% -39.28% +71.13%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.66 £49.43
90th Percentile £84.70 £57.50 £65.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -19.25% -3.59% +53.69%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the North West over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Merseyside - 8 £449 -
Manchester - 7 £613 - 15
Cheshire +3 5 £588 +64.91% 5
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Automotive
3 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Release Manager
2 7 (35.00%) Change and Release Manager
2 7 (35.00%) Change Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) Finance Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Finance Systems Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Integration Manager
6 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL Change Manager
6 1 (5.00%) ITIL Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Finance Project Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) ITIL
4 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (20.00%) Service Management
6 4 (20.00%) Test Management
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 3 (15.00%) High Availability
8 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
8 2 (10.00%) Customer Insight
8 2 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (10.00%) Defect Management
8 2 (10.00%) Information Architecture
8 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
8 2 (10.00%) Service Design
8 2 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Bicep
1 1 (5.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Splunk
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Adobe
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce