Change and Release Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Change and Release Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Change and Release Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 389 453
Rank change year-on-year +62 +64 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Change and Release Manager 9 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.048% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.052% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 6
10th Percentile - £553 £446
25th Percentile £511 £560 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £570 £518
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +10.14% +15.00%
75th Percentile £534 £580 £570
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £536 £570 £514
% change year-on-year -5.92% +10.95% +9.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Change and Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Change and Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Change and Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Change and Release Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change and Release Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Change and Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Change and Release Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Change and Release Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Change and Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Change and Release Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change and Release Manager within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +27 9 £523 - 2
North West - 9 £523 - 1
Change and Release Manager
UK

Change and Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Change and 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 UK excluding London region featuring Change and Release Manager in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) Release Management
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) DevOps
4 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
4 5 (55.56%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (44.44%) Service Management
5 4 (44.44%) Test Management
5 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
5 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
6 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
6 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (33.33%) Terraform
6 3 (33.33%) Grafana
6 3 (33.33%) Splunk
6 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
6 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
8 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (11.11%) Military
8 1 (11.11%) Change Management
8 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
8 1 (11.11%) Change Control
8 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
8 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management

Change and Release Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Presentation Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) ITIL
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (77.78%) Release Management
3 6 (66.67%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 4 (44.44%) Service Management
4 4 (44.44%) Test Management
5 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (11.11%) Business Change Management
7 1 (11.11%) Change Control
7 1 (11.11%) Change Management
7 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
7 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (77.78%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Grafana
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk