Release Management Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Release Management
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 82 36 45
Rank change year-on-year -46 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing Release Management 11 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.37% 1.47% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.57% 2.63%
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
Yorkshire median daily rate £446 £500 £587
% change year-on-year -10.80% -14.89% +6.81%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 762 254 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.78% 93.38% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 148 251
10th Percentile £325 £209 £375
25th Percentile £404 £312 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -4.10% -
75th Percentile £538 £598 £610
90th Percentile £675 £668 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 15
10th Percentile £16.11 £12.44 £10.90
25th Percentile £19.50 £13.49 £12.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.19 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.34% -19.05% +104.08%
75th Percentile - £18.58 £23.75
90th Percentile - £19.43 £42.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £19.32 £17.64
% change year-on-year +30.19% +9.51% +1.67%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Release Management

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in South Yorkshire

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Release Management

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Sheffield -47 10 £444 +22.41% 1
Release Management
Yorkshire

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) GitLab
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
3 6 (54.55%) Banking
4 5 (45.45%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
6 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Change Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Change Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Salesforce Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Onboarding
2 3 (27.27%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) KYC
2 6 (54.55%) Project Management
3 4 (36.36%) Service Management
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Budgeting and Forecasting
4 3 (27.27%) Cutover Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
4 3 (27.27%) Dependency Management
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) High Availability
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Management
4 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
4 3 (27.27%) Programme Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Major Incident Management
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Runbook
5 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) AppDynamics
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce