Release Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Release Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 234 274
Rank change year-on-year -9 +40 -17
Contract jobs citing Release Management 92 161 183
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.78% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.93% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 129 123
10th Percentile £314 £346 £275
25th Percentile £458 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -0.95%
75th Percentile £619 £580 £613
90th Percentile £675 £608 £649
UK median daily rate £530 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -5.78% -2.17% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £36.04
25th Percentile £84.83 - £45.84
Median hourly rate £91.69 £38.00 £64.38
Median % change year-on-year +141.29% -40.97% +157.50%
75th Percentile £98.56 - £67.66
90th Percentile - - £68.31
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £38.00 £64.38
% change year-on-year +141.29% -40.97% +123.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,533 17,354 21,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.54% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,213 10,334 14,740
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 833 2,042 1,299
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.30 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.18 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.86 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.68 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -21.44% +1.39% +44.00%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
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 Release Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Scotland +31 29 £465 +16.25% 9
North of England +31 22 £594 +69.64% 30
North West +31 20 £594 +66.67% 18
South East -18 16 £625 +8.70% 41
Midlands +12 12 £513 +13.89% 16
West Midlands +11 12 £513 +13.89% 11
East of England +27 7 £600 +62.71% 13
South West +21 6 £669 +17.32% 10
Yorkshire -2 2 - - 9
Release Management
UK

Release Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (2.17%) Confluence
3 2 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (5.43%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (4.35%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (3.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.83%) Azure
2 13 (14.13%) AWS
3 12 (13.04%) OCI
4 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.61%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (6.52%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.43%) Azure API Management
7 4 (4.35%) Serverless
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.26%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (3.26%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.26%) GitHub
8 3 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.17%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.17%) SaaS
10 1 (1.09%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) DHCP
1 2 (2.17%) DNS
1 2 (2.17%) NetScaler
1 2 (2.17%) SSL
2 1 (1.09%) Firewall
2 1 (1.09%) FlexRay
2 1 (1.09%) HTTP
2 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (6.52%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.26%) Parquet
4 3 (3.26%) SSDT
5 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.17%) Power BI
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.09%) MySQL
6 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.26%) JIRA
3 2 (2.17%) Git
4 1 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (1.09%) GoCD
4 1 (1.09%) Selenium
General
1 37 (40.22%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.65%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (19.57%) Finance
4 10 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.61%) Banking
5 7 (7.61%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.52%) Legal
7 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Automotive
9 2 (2.17%) General Ledger
9 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.17%) Military
9 2 (2.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (1.09%) Marketing
10 1 (1.09%) Police
10 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) Release Manager
2 16 (17.39%) Lead
3 10 (10.87%) Architect
4 9 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Analyst
5 8 (8.70%) Senior
6 7 (7.61%) Change and Release Manager
6 7 (7.61%) Change Manager
7 6 (6.52%) Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Service Manager
8 5 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Administrator
9 4 (4.35%) Functional Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Oracle Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Support Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Cloud Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.26%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (5.43%) OAuth
3 3 (3.26%) .NET
3 3 (3.26%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.26%) JSON
3 3 (3.26%) Middleware
3 3 (3.26%) WebCenter
3 3 (3.26%) YAML
4 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.17%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.17%) CSS
4 2 (2.17%) React
5 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.09%) Django
5 1 (1.09%) Entity Framework
5 1 (1.09%) Flask
5 1 (1.09%) Kafka
5 1 (1.09%) Node.js
5 1 (1.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.26%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.17%) CMDB
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.09%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.09%) PKI
5 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.09%) Replication
5 1 (1.09%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.35%) Linux
4 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.96%) Agile
2 28 (30.43%) DevOps
3 26 (28.26%) ITIL
4 24 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 18 (19.57%) SDLC
6 18 (19.57%) Service Management
7 17 (18.48%) Change Management
8 16 (17.39%) Project Management
9 13 (14.13%) ERP
10 12 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (13.04%) Scrum
10 12 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (11.96%) Roadmaps
12 10 (10.87%) ITSM
13 9 (9.78%) Knowledge Management
13 9 (9.78%) RBAC
13 9 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (8.70%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.04%) Python
2 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.78%) SQL
3 3 (3.26%) Java
4 2 (2.17%) Bicep
4 2 (2.17%) C#
4 2 (2.17%) Perl
4 2 (2.17%) ProC
5 1 (1.09%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.09%) Bash
5 1 (1.09%) C++
5 1 (1.09%) Go
5 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.09%) VB
5 1 (1.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) Degree
4 6 (6.52%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (5.43%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.43%) Oracle Certification
6 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.26%) PMI Certification
7 3 (3.26%) PMP
8 2 (2.17%) ISEB
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) QA
2 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.17%) PMO
3 1 (1.09%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
3 1 (1.09%) ITGC
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.09%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 12 (13.04%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.26%) Grafana
3 3 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.09%) Puppet
5 1 (1.09%) Rancher
5 1 (1.09%) SCCM
5 1 (1.09%) SCOM
5 1 (1.09%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (23.91%) Oracle
2 8 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.52%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.26%) Remedy
4 3 (3.26%) Splunk
4 3 (3.26%) UiPath
4 3 (3.26%) VMware
5 2 (2.17%) BMC
5 2 (2.17%) Dell
5 2 (2.17%) HP
5 2 (2.17%) IBM
5 2 (2.17%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (2.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) Adobe
6 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.09%) Pega
6 1 (1.09%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.09%) Siemens
6 1 (1.09%) Snow