Release Management Contracts in Reading

Release Management
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Release Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 78 88
Rank change year-on-year +31 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing Release Management 48 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.00% 1.03% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 1.12% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 11 7
10th Percentile £563 £525 £402
25th Percentile - £558 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +1.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £622
90th Percentile - £620 £698
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £590 £588
% change year-on-year -2.54% +0.43% +46.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Release Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,090 979 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.76% 91.24% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 649 821
10th Percentile £213 £365 £256
25th Percentile £404 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £653 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 10
10th Percentile £26.10 £45.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.50 £22.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +116.67% -31.03%
75th Percentile £84.40 £74.00 £48.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £60.89
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +7.23% +170.24% -2.37%

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

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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

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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (29.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) Azure
2 16 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 15 (31.25%) Azure Storage
4 14 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.33%) AWS
7 1 (2.08%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 16 (33.33%) DNS
1 16 (33.33%) Firewall
2 15 (31.25%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Robot Framework
1 3 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (2.08%) Axure RP
2 1 (2.08%) Git
General
1 44 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (43.75%) Build Engineer
1 21 (43.75%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (43.75%) Windows Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (29.17%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (29.17%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (29.17%) Support Specialist
4 4 (8.33%) Release Manager
4 4 (8.33%) Telecoms Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Defect Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Incident Manager
5 3 (6.25%) Solutions Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Consultant
7 1 (2.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.25%) PKI
1 15 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.25%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 39 (81.25%) Windows
2 38 (79.17%) Windows Server
3 35 (72.92%) Windows Server 2016
3 35 (72.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (43.75%) Windows 10
4 21 (43.75%) Windows NT
4 21 (43.75%) Windows Server 2012
5 17 (35.42%) Linux
6 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (77.08%) Service Management
2 36 (75.00%) ITIL
3 22 (45.83%) Agile
3 22 (45.83%) Deployment Automation
3 22 (45.83%) DevOps
4 21 (43.75%) Customer Service
4 21 (43.75%) User Acceptance Testing
5 16 (33.33%) Analytics
5 16 (33.33%) Identity Management
5 16 (33.33%) Log Analytics
6 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (31.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 15 (31.25%) Privileged Identity Management
6 15 (31.25%) RBAC
7 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
8 8 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 5 (10.42%) Release Automation
10 4 (8.33%) Roadmaps
10 4 (8.33%) Runbook
10 4 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) PowerShell
2 18 (37.50%) VBScript
3 15 (31.25%) Bicep
3 15 (31.25%) C#
3 15 (31.25%) VB
4 3 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 39 (81.25%) DV Cleared
1 39 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 15 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 14 (29.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (52.08%) QA
System Software
1 37 (77.08%) Active Directory
2 21 (43.75%) Firmware
3 15 (31.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (31.25%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (75.00%) SCCM
1 36 (75.00%) WSUS
2 21 (43.75%) Sysprep
3 16 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 15 (31.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (31.25%) SCOM
5 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.25%) VMware
4 1 (2.08%) BMC
4 1 (2.08%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) Remedy
4 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow