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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 120 119
Rank change year-on-year +23 -1 +36
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Release Management 38 4 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.72% 0.16% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 0.20% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 1 22
10th Percentile £313 - £538
25th Percentile £416 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £350 £631
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -44.55% +32.89%
75th Percentile £613 - £645
90th Percentile £625 - £650
England median daily rate £555 £543 £600
% change year-on-year +2.30% -9.58% +13.21%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,959 2,049 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.72% 84.08% 88.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 1,229 1,719
10th Percentile £297 £311 £288
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £590
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 147 161
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.16 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +16 21 £600 - 6
Cheshire -5 14 £466 +33.07% 3
Merseyside - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) CICS
1 4 (10.53%) Confluence
1 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.16%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) SaaS
5 3 (7.89%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) SSH
2 1 (2.63%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (36.84%) JIRA
2 10 (26.32%) Jenkins
3 8 (21.05%) GitLab
4 5 (13.16%) Cucumber
4 5 (13.16%) Git
4 5 (13.16%) JUnit
5 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Finance
4 5 (13.16%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Publishing
6 3 (7.89%) Automotive
7 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 2 (5.26%) Retail
8 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (15.79%) Change Manager
1 6 (15.79%) Developer
1 6 (15.79%) Java Developer
2 5 (13.16%) Architect
2 5 (13.16%) ITIL Change Manager
2 5 (13.16%) ITIL Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Service Manager
3 4 (10.53%) Service Transition Manager
3 4 (10.53%) Transition Manager
4 2 (5.26%) AWS Developer
4 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (2.63%) Change and Release Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Integration Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (2.63%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) Spring Boot
2 5 (13.16%) Kafka
2 5 (13.16%) React
2 5 (13.16%) REST
2 5 (13.16%) RESTful
2 5 (13.16%) Spring
3 4 (10.53%) ISPF
4 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.53%) IBM Mainframe
2 4 (10.53%) Mainframe
2 4 (10.53%) Tandem
2 4 (10.53%) VSAM
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Unix
2 4 (10.53%) zOS
3 1 (2.63%) Linux
3 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) DevOps
2 19 (50.00%) ITIL
3 15 (39.47%) Change Management
4 14 (36.84%) Agile
4 14 (36.84%) Service Management
4 14 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
5 11 (28.95%) Computer Science
6 10 (26.32%) SDLC
7 9 (23.68%) ITSM
7 9 (23.68%) Process Improvement
7 9 (23.68%) Project Delivery
8 8 (21.05%) Acceptance Criteria
8 8 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (18.42%) Change Control
9 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (18.42%) Customer Experience
9 7 (18.42%) Project Management
9 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
9 7 (18.42%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) Java
2 5 (13.16%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) CLIST
3 4 (10.53%) JCL
3 4 (10.53%) REXX
4 1 (2.63%) Bicep
4 1 (2.63%) C++
4 1 (2.63%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Degree
2 7 (18.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (13.16%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (5.26%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) CA Endevor
1 4 (10.53%) OMEGAMON
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Kibana
4 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) ServiceNow
2 8 (21.05%) IBM
3 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.63%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk