Release Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Release Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 79 122
Rank change year-on-year -6 +43 +5
Contract jobs citing Release Management 17 67 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.13% 2.49% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 2.86% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 59 23
10th Percentile £474 £416 £419
25th Percentile £605 £507 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +9.45%
75th Percentile £675 £608 £603
90th Percentile £684 - £619
South East median daily rate £625 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -3.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire -11 14 £625 +8.70% 10
Buckinghamshire +7 2 £385 -17.20% 11
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 8
Release Management
South East

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) 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%) 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%) AWS
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
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) SSDT
3 2 (11.76%) MariaDB
3 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
2 1 (5.88%) MSI
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 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DBA
4 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.76%) React Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Administrator
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
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
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 7
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) Identity Management
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (35.29%) RBAC
4 5 (29.41%) B2B
4 5 (29.41%) B2C
4 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
4 5 (29.41%) ERP
4 5 (29.41%) ETL
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) Secure Coding
7 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 2 (11.76%) API Development
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bicep
3 1 (5.88%) C#
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 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (11.76%) SCCM
4 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) SCOM
4 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) UiPath
3 1 (5.88%) Liquidlogic
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Remedy