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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 119 126
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +36
Contract jobs citing Release Management 47 66 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.32% 1.36% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.65% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 49 60
10th Percentile £406 £435 £463
25th Percentile £419 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £589
Median % change year-on-year - -6.58% +16.01%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £626
90th Percentile - - £676
England median daily rate £564 £543 £600
% change year-on-year +3.92% -9.58% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.66
25th Percentile - - £34.89
Median hourly rate - - £41.55
75th Percentile - - £47.99
90th Percentile - - £51.09
England median hourly rate £90.85 £77.50 £68.91
% change year-on-year +17.22% +12.47% +6.31%

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 3,203 3,997 4,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.90% 82.60% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,999 2,446 3,364
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £666 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 316 235
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.35
25th Percentile £15.16 £26.25 £21.05
Median hourly rate £21.74 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.10% +14.70% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.05 £63.38
90th Percentile £70.49 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -8 35 £509 -9.51% 11
Berkshire -3 22 £525 -13.22% 8
Buckinghamshire -5 8 £425 -3.41% 2
Hampshire +12 5 £550 -5.17% 5
Oxfordshire - 5 - - 2
West Sussex 0 3 £550 +15.79%
Kent - 3 £625 - 1
Surrey +14 2 £413 -23.26% 5
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 3 (6.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.66%) Azure
2 11 (23.40%) AWS
3 8 (17.02%) GCP
4 5 (10.64%) OCI
5 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.38%) Nutanix
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle CX
7 2 (4.26%) Serverless
8 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.13%) IaaS
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.13%) PaaS
8 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Broadband
1 3 (6.38%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) Network Security
3 1 (2.13%) DHCP
3 1 (2.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.26%) Metadata
1 2 (4.26%) MySQL
1 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.13%) GitLab
General
1 26 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Retail
3 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Finance
4 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.26%) Marketing
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Release Manager
2 7 (14.89%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Business IT Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Business Support Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Business Systems Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Change and Release Manager
3 5 (10.64%) Change Manager
3 5 (10.64%) IT Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) IT Support
3 5 (10.64%) IT Support Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Lead
3 5 (10.64%) Support Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Systems Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Systems Support
3 5 (10.64%) Systems Support Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Site Engineer
4 4 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Architect
5 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.26%) JSON
2 2 (4.26%) Node.js
2 2 (4.26%) React
2 2 (4.26%) REST
2 2 (4.26%) RESTful
2 2 (4.26%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (4.26%) Vue
3 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.02%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) PKI
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (34.04%) Agile
3 14 (29.79%) CI/CD
3 14 (29.79%) ITIL
4 13 (27.66%) DevOps
5 12 (25.53%) Business Continuity
5 12 (25.53%) Process Improvement
6 10 (21.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (17.02%) High Availability
7 8 (17.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 7 (14.89%) Change Control
8 7 (14.89%) Change Management
8 7 (14.89%) Customer-Centricity
8 7 (14.89%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (14.89%) Information Management
8 7 (14.89%) Task Automation
9 6 (12.77%) Analytics
9 6 (12.77%) Service Delivery
10 5 (10.64%) Performance Metrics
10 5 (10.64%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.15%) Go
2 8 (17.02%) Java
2 8 (17.02%) Python
3 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.26%) Ruby
5 1 (2.13%) Bicep
5 1 (2.13%) C#
5 1 (2.13%) VB
5 1 (2.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (4.26%) PMP
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) QA
2 5 (10.64%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.38%) GDPR
4 2 (4.26%) GRC
5 1 (2.13%) ISO 9001
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.13%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.13%) Rancher
2 1 (2.13%) SCCM
2 1 (2.13%) SCOM
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (14.89%) Oracle
2 6 (12.77%) Salesforce
2 6 (12.77%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.64%) Liquidlogic
4 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.26%) Citrix
6 1 (2.13%) BMC
6 1 (2.13%) HP
6 1 (2.13%) Remedy
6 1 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) VMware