Release Management Contracts in the South West

Release Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 129 140
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 +11
Contract jobs citing Release Management 5 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.26% 0.53% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.63% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 10
10th Percentile - £729 £481
25th Percentile £563 £734 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £763 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +27.08% +30.43%
75th Percentile £595 £784 £640
90th Percentile £609 £786 £663
England median daily rate £560 £533 £600
% change year-on-year +5.07% -11.17% +11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,710 2,369 2,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 89.72% 83.59% 87.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,514 2,076
10th Percentile £220 £263 £313
25th Percentile £363 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +3.37%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 298 249
10th Percentile £15.17 £15.58 £19.20
25th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 £47.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% - +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Bristol +10 3 £575 - 5
Wiltshire +21 1 £575 -24.59%
Gloucestershire +16 1 £613 - 3
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (20.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Police
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Migration Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Workday Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Server Migrations
2 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Biotechnology
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Server Building
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Workday