Release Management Contracts in the South East

Release Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 115 156
Rank change year-on-year -22 +41 +28
Contract jobs citing Release Management 17 80 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.57% 1.44% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 1.70% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 71 41
10th Percentile £565 £416 £410
25th Percentile £605 £501 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -3.93%
75th Percentile £675 £604 £615
90th Percentile £684 £608 £620
England median daily rate £600 £570 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -0.87% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £91.69 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +66.71% - +91.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,747 4,698 5,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.51% 84.71% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 2,749 3,576
10th Percentile £254 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 435 220
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.20
25th Percentile £15.25 £18.20 £22.21
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.27%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.50 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.33 £36.77
% change year-on-year -19.99% -1.19% +51.01%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Thames Valley -19 16 £625 +8.70% 7
Berkshire -16 13 £625 +8.70% 2
Hampshire +23 3 £600 +6.19% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +1 1 £350 -21.89% 2
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 8 (47.06%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (35.29%) Entra ID
4 5 (29.41%) Azure API Management
4 5 (29.41%) OCI
5 2 (11.76%) AWS
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) SSDT
4 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.88%) MariaDB
5 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Lead
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Business IT Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Business Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) React Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Support
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) OAuth
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (17.65%) YAML
3 2 (11.76%) React
4 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
4 6 (35.29%) Identity Management
4 6 (35.29%) RBAC
5 5 (29.41%) B2B
5 5 (29.41%) B2C
5 5 (29.41%) ERP
5 5 (29.41%) ETL
6 4 (23.53%) Agile
7 3 (17.65%) Analytics
7 3 (17.65%) ITIL
7 3 (17.65%) Secure Coding
8 2 (11.76%) API Development
8 2 (11.76%) Microservices
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
8 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
8 2 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Go
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) VB
3 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Azure Certification
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.88%) Ansible
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) Rancher
4 1 (5.88%) SCCM
4 1 (5.88%) SCOM
4 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) UiPath
3 2 (11.76%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Remedy
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) VMware