Release Management Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Release Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 109 128
Rank change year-on-year +8 +19 0
Contract jobs citing Release Management 12 7 16
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.78% 0.42% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.46% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 11
10th Percentile £423 £385 £495
25th Percentile £425 £438 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £555
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% -9.91% +30.59%
75th Percentile £576 £525 £605
90th Percentile £875 - £685
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,342 1,511 2,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.48% 89.67% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 894 1,334
10th Percentile £238 £230 £250
25th Percentile £398 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 44 55
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £54.38 £32.66 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Release Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Scotland

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Edinburgh +5 5 £850 +70.00% 2
Glasgow +1 5 £450 - 1
Aberdeen - 1 £425 -
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MS Access
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Release Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Software Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Software Release Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Report Writer
3 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Product Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) CMDB
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Change Management
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Java
1 2 (16.67%) VBA
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (16.67%) PMI Certification
2 2 (16.67%) PMP
2 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) IBM