Release Manager Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Release Manager
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Release Manager daily rate in Northern Ireland is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 1.98% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £454 £600
% change year-on-year +12.89% -24.33% +10.50%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 174 170 158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.14% 90.91% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 108 81
10th Percentile £252 £177 £167
25th Percentile £389 £298 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -12.82% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £566 £625
90th Percentile £668 £621 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 29
10th Percentile £17.72 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £22.16 £14.78 £12.25
Median hourly rate £33.50 £15.50 £15.63
Median % change year-on-year +116.13% -0.83% +0.84%
75th Percentile £53.75 £24.50 £23.94
90th Percentile - £41.14 £31.88
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £28.30 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.04% -24.55% -16.67%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Release Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Release Manager job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Release Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Release Manager job vacancies in Northern Ireland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Release Manager job vacancies in Northern Ireland

Release Manager
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Manager within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
County Antrim - 4 £450 - 2
Release Manager
UK

Release Manager Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 7 June 2026, Release Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northern Ireland region featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Heroku
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (50.00%) QA
3 2 (50.00%) Release Management
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management

Release Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Heroku
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (50.00%) MuleSoft