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

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 68 61
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Release Management 9 23 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.53% 2.09% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.44% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 27
10th Percentile £431 £500 £525
25th Percentile £461 £525 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% -0.82% +25.45%
75th Percentile £616 £608 £675
90th Percentile £638 - £680
Berkshire median daily rate £518 £605 £610
% change year-on-year -14.38% -0.82% +22.00%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 540 943 982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.84% 85.73% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 512 649
10th Percentile £351 £350 £320
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +6.59% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 22
10th Percentile - £14.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.52 £54.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £65.56
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -6.04% +152.16%
75th Percentile £38.42 £74.87 £73.00
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £75.23
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +130.77%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Release Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Release Management

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Reading over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Reading

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Release Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Release Management

Release Management
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 3 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) OCI
4 2 (22.22%) Oracle CX
5 1 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Release Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Security Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Security Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Field Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Field Service Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 3 (33.33%) ERP
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Journey Map
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Go
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce