Release Manager Contracts in the Thames Valley

Release Manager
South East > Thames Valley

The median Release Manager daily rate in the Thames Valley is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 126 132
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 12 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.72% 0.31% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 12
10th Percentile £406 £443 £458
25th Percentile £411 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -14.89% +25.00%
75th Percentile £549 £638 £688
90th Percentile £610 £643 £699
South East median daily rate £495 £604 £575
% change year-on-year -17.98% +4.96% +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.05
Median hourly rate - - £52.10
75th Percentile - - £53.15
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £52.10

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,537 2,396 2,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 92.26% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 1,318 1,916
10th Percentile £284 £235 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 177 92
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.85 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.13 £19.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.30 £48.40 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -47.73% +10.63% +150.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £69.69 £66.21
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.48 £75.23
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £54.94 £50.00
% change year-on-year -49.25% +9.88% +138.10%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings that featured Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in the Thames Valley

Release Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Release Manager in the Thames Valley

Release Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Manager in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Manager in the Thames Valley

Release Manager
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 Manager within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 July 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 +26 6 £548 -2.67% 4
Buckinghamshire +11 6 £425 +17.24% 8
Release Manager
South East

Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, Release Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Thames Valley region featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Release Management
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Salesforce
4 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) GDPR
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) Finance
5 3 (25.00%) JIRA
5 3 (25.00%) Confluence
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (16.67%) Metadata
6 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) QA
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) ITSM
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management

Release Manager Skill Set
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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle CX
3 1 (8.33%) dbt
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Release Management
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (41.67%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) ITSM
6 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Process Management
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (16.67%) Release Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 2 (16.67%) Runbook
6 2 (16.67%) Service Management
6 2 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (16.67%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) PMP
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (8.33%) ISO 9001
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) BMC
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy
3 1 (8.33%) SAP