Release Train Contract Job Trends in the North West

Release Train
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Release Train skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Release Train 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.076% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £480 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 - -
75th Percentile £520 - -
90th Percentile £531 - -
England median daily rate £610 £490 £675
% change year-on-year +24.49% -27.41% +10.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,285 1,864 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.11% 88.34% 87.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,508 1,087 1,674
10th Percentile £213 £275 £306
25th Percentile £358 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £551 £570 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 101 204
10th Percentile £16.28 £16.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.85 £22.72 £16.19
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.40 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +37.96% -5.34% -14.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.85 £74.75 £55.11
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

Release Train
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Release Train relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Release Train job vacancy trend in the North West

Release Train
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Release Train
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 Train within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 February 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
Manchester - 2 £497 - 1
Release Train
England

Release Train
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Lean Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central