Release Management Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Release Management
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 33 40
Rank change year-on-year -47 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing Release Management 10 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.33% 1.63% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.74% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile £40 £219 £560
25th Percentile £414 £266 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £363 £587
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% -38.29% +6.81%
75th Percentile £464 £441 -
90th Percentile £468 £476 £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate £444 £363 £587
% change year-on-year +22.41% -38.29% +6.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 714 230 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.95% 93.50% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 131 226
10th Percentile £330 £220 £379
25th Percentile £405 £411 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £617
90th Percentile £650 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -4.27% -4.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.44 £10.90
25th Percentile £19.50 £13.49 £11.33
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -23.81% +11.84%
75th Percentile - £18.58 £23.75
90th Percentile - £19.43 £24.50
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £20.00
% change year-on-year +55.34% -19.05% +104.08%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Sheffield over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Sheffield

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Banking
3 5 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (40.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Transformation Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (30.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) KYC
2 6 (60.00%) Project Management
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 3 (30.00%) Cutover Planning
4 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (30.00%) Dependency Management
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) ITIL
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Management
4 3 (30.00%) PRINCE2
4 3 (30.00%) Programme Governance
4 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Runbook
5 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Grafana
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Splunk