Release Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Release Management
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Release Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Management over the 6 months to 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 114 130
Rank change year-on-year +36 +16 -17
Contract jobs citing Release Management 67 40 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.45% 1.35% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 1.46% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 34 25
10th Percentile £416 £413 £367
25th Percentile £504 £444 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £519 £560
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -7.37% +43.59%
75th Percentile £608 £586 £619
90th Percentile - £619 £662
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +9.52% -10.64% +58.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Release Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,403 2,733 3,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.80% 91.99% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,345 1,891 2,103
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £502 £499
% change year-on-year -0.40% +0.70% +10.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 61 88
10th Percentile £15.59 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £20.04 £24.50 £11.91
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +185.71% -16.86%
75th Percentile £64.57 £66.21 £25.92
90th Percentile £85.53 £79.19 £67.72
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £49.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -8.16% +117.78% -18.18%

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 20 April 2024.

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 20 April 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
Berkshire +27 56 £575 -2.54% 5
Buckinghamshire +24 11 £465 -2.11% 1
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 18 (26.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.82%) Azure
2 16 (23.88%) Azure Monitor
2 16 (23.88%) Entra ID
3 15 (22.39%) Azure Storage
4 14 (20.90%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (8.96%) AWS
7 1 (1.49%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.49%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 21 (31.34%) DNS
2 20 (29.85%) DHCP
3 16 (23.88%) Firewall
4 4 (5.97%) VSAN
5 3 (4.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Robot Framework
1 3 (4.48%) Selenium
2 2 (2.99%) GitLab
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) Axure RP
3 1 (1.49%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) MSI
General
1 45 (67.16%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Build Engineer
1 21 (31.34%) Windows Build Engineer
1 21 (31.34%) Windows Engineer
2 15 (22.39%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (20.90%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (20.90%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (20.90%) Support Specialist
4 5 (7.46%) Analyst
4 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.46%) Release Manager
5 4 (5.97%) Telecoms Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Defect Manager
6 3 (4.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Incident Manager
6 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Solutions Analyst
6 3 (4.48%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.39%) ARM Templates
2 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.49%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) Middleware
3 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.36%) PKI
2 15 (22.39%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.48%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 45 (67.16%) Windows
2 39 (58.21%) Windows Server
3 38 (56.72%) Windows Server 2016
3 38 (56.72%) Windows Server 2019
4 24 (35.82%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (32.84%) Linux
5 22 (32.84%) Windows 10
6 21 (31.34%) Windows NT
7 6 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.49%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (76.12%) ITIL
2 38 (56.72%) Service Management
3 33 (49.25%) Agile
4 25 (37.31%) DevOps
5 22 (32.84%) Deployment Automation
6 21 (31.34%) Customer Service
6 21 (31.34%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (23.88%) Analytics
7 16 (23.88%) CI/CD
7 16 (23.88%) Identity Management
7 16 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (23.88%) Log Analytics
8 15 (22.39%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 15 (22.39%) Privileged Identity Management
8 15 (22.39%) RBAC
9 10 (14.93%) Test Automation
10 9 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.94%) Incident Management
12 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (10.45%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (34.33%) PowerShell
2 18 (26.87%) VBScript
3 15 (22.39%) Bicep
3 15 (22.39%) C#
3 15 (22.39%) VB
4 4 (5.97%) Python
5 3 (4.48%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.99%) Go
7 1 (1.49%) Perl
7 1 (1.49%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (79.10%) Security Cleared
2 44 (65.67%) DV Cleared
3 27 (40.30%) SC Cleared
4 19 (28.36%) Degree
5 15 (22.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (5.97%) VCAP
6 4 (5.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (37.31%) QA
System Software
1 43 (64.18%) Active Directory
2 21 (31.34%) Firmware
3 15 (22.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (22.39%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (11.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (5.97%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.97%) vSphere
6 1 (1.49%) XenApp
6 1 (1.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (55.22%) SCCM
1 37 (55.22%) WSUS
2 21 (31.34%) Sysprep
3 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
4 16 (23.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (23.88%) SCOM
5 15 (22.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (5.97%) Terraform
7 3 (4.48%) Ansible
7 3 (4.48%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.99%) Kibana
8 2 (2.99%) Rancher
Vendors
1 43 (64.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) VMware
3 4 (5.97%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.48%) 3PAR
4 3 (4.48%) HP
4 3 (4.48%) NetApp
4 3 (4.48%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (4.48%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.48%) Veritas
5 1 (1.49%) BMC
5 1 (1.49%) Citrix
5 1 (1.49%) Databricks
5 1 (1.49%) FireEye
5 1 (1.49%) Remedy
5 1 (1.49%) Tanium