Release Management Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Release Management
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Release Management 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £419 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £346 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 433 210 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 81.39% 84.00% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 153 95
10th Percentile £318 £215 £314
25th Percentile £400 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £590
90th Percentile £629 £625 £650
North East median daily rate £450 £465 £477
% change year-on-year -3.23% -2.52% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 5 36
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.50
25th Percentile £42.83 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +293.94% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - £50.70 £50.00
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £14.07 £16.48
% change year-on-year +361.98% -14.62% -59.56%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Release Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Release Management

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Release Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Release Management

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 £413 - 1
Release Management
North East

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) cloud-init
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Go
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Consul
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Packer
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
1 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk