Release Management Contracts in Reading

Release Management
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 44 78
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 +5
Contract jobs citing Release Management 12 48 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.01% 4.03% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 4.47% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 45 9
10th Percentile - £563 £525
25th Percentile £613 - £590
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £610
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -5.74% +23.23%
75th Percentile £675 £608 £619
90th Percentile £688 - £619
Berkshire median daily rate £625 £575 £610
% change year-on-year +8.70% -5.74% +7.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in Reading

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in Reading

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (41.67%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
1 7 (58.33%) Azure Monitor
2 5 (41.67%) Azure API Management
2 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (41.67%) OCI
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) SSDT
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Lead
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Python Developer
3 2 (16.67%) React Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) OAuth
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (25.00%) YAML
3 2 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (58.33%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) B2B
3 5 (41.67%) B2C
3 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (41.67%) ERP
3 5 (41.67%) ETL
3 5 (41.67%) Identity Management
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (41.67%) RBAC
4 3 (25.00%) Secure Coding
5 2 (16.67%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) API Development
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
5 2 (16.67%) SDLC
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) UiPath