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 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 145 169
Rank change year-on-year +28 +24 -5
Contract jobs citing Release Management 83 70 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.44% 1.24% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.39% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 53 57
10th Percentile £465 £416 £396
25th Percentile £501 £481 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +37.50%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £688
90th Percentile - £686 £756
England median daily rate £550 £590 £540
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.66 -
25th Percentile - £34.89 £15.63
Median hourly rate - £41.55 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year - +155.69% -36.27%
75th Percentile - £47.99 £16.88
90th Percentile - £51.09 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year - +62.96% +60.71%

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 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 20 June 2024.

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 20 June 2024. 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 +34 66 £575 +4.55% 14
Berkshire +16 52 £575 -2.54% 9
Buckinghamshire +28 14 £431 -16.88% 4
Hampshire -20 10 £580 -4.29% 2
Surrey +12 4 £513 -33.87% 4
West Sussex +10 3 £500 - 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 25 (30.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (6.02%) Confluence
3 2 (2.41%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Relativity
1 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.20%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 37 (44.58%) Azure
2 24 (28.92%) Azure Monitor
3 22 (26.51%) Entra ID
3 22 (26.51%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (25.30%) Azure Storage
5 14 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.82%) AWS
7 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.41%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.41%) SaaS
8 1 (1.20%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.20%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 31 (37.35%) DNS
2 30 (36.14%) DHCP
3 22 (26.51%) Firewall
4 4 (4.82%) VSAN
5 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.41%) LAN
6 2 (2.41%) WAN
7 1 (1.20%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.41%) Power BI
1 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) JIRA
1 5 (6.02%) Robot Framework
1 5 (6.02%) Selenium
2 4 (4.82%) GitLab
3 2 (2.41%) MSI
4 1 (1.20%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (53.01%) Social Skills
2 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.61%) Front Office
5 2 (2.41%) Banking
5 2 (2.41%) Legal
6 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Active Directory Support
2 15 (18.07%) Build Engineer
2 15 (18.07%) Windows Build Engineer
2 15 (18.07%) Windows Engineer
3 14 (16.87%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (16.87%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (16.87%) Support Specialist
4 11 (13.25%) Analyst
5 9 (10.84%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Active Directory Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Support Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Change Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) Change and Release Analyst
8 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Release Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Applications Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (4.82%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.51%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.82%) .NET
2 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.20%) Middleware
3 1 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.12%) PKI
2 21 (25.30%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (12.05%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 57 (68.67%) Windows
2 47 (56.63%) Windows Server
3 39 (46.99%) Linux
4 37 (44.58%) Windows Server 2016
4 37 (44.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (19.28%) Windows 10
5 16 (19.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (18.07%) Windows NT
7 11 (13.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.61%) Unix
9 1 (1.20%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.08%) ITIL
2 43 (51.81%) Agile
2 43 (51.81%) Service Management
3 39 (46.99%) DevOps
4 27 (32.53%) CI/CD
5 25 (30.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (28.92%) Analytics
6 24 (28.92%) RBAC
7 22 (26.51%) Identity Management
7 22 (26.51%) Log Analytics
8 21 (25.30%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 21 (25.30%) Privileged Identity Management
9 16 (19.28%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (18.07%) Customer Service
10 15 (18.07%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (14.46%) Application Packaging
12 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (12.05%) Application Virtualisation
13 10 (12.05%) Incident Management
13 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (49.40%) PowerShell
2 31 (37.35%) VBScript
3 24 (28.92%) Bicep
4 21 (25.30%) C#
4 21 (25.30%) VB
5 11 (13.25%) Python
6 4 (4.82%) Go
7 3 (3.61%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.41%) C++
8 2 (2.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.41%) SQL
9 1 (1.20%) Perl
9 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (80.72%) Security Cleared
2 51 (61.45%) DV Cleared
3 38 (45.78%) SC Cleared
4 29 (34.94%) Degree
5 21 (25.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (4.82%) VCAP
6 4 (4.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.61%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.20%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.07%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 3 (3.61%) SLA
3 2 (2.41%) GxP
3 2 (2.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (59.04%) Active Directory
2 25 (30.12%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (27.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (25.30%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (18.07%) Firmware
6 8 (9.64%) vSphere
7 4 (4.82%) VMware NSX
8 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
9 2 (2.41%) XenApp
9 2 (2.41%) XenDesktop
10 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (48.19%) WSUS
2 38 (45.78%) SCCM
3 26 (31.33%) Kubernetes
4 24 (28.92%) SCOM
5 22 (26.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (25.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (18.07%) Sysprep
8 8 (9.64%) Terraform
9 5 (6.02%) Ansible
10 4 (4.82%) Rancher
11 1 (1.20%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 49 (59.04%) Microsoft
2 24 (28.92%) VMware
3 7 (8.43%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.41%) Citrix
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle
4 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.20%) 3PAR
5 1 (1.20%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.20%) BMC
5 1 (1.20%) Databricks
5 1 (1.20%) FireEye
5 1 (1.20%) HP
5 1 (1.20%) NetApp
5 1 (1.20%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (1.20%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.20%) Qualys
5 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.20%) Remedy
5 1 (1.20%) Tanium
5 1 (1.20%) Veritas