Release Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Release Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 263 259
Rank change year-on-year +33 -4 -26
Contract jobs citing Release Management 165 186 278
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.81% 0.80% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.89% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 128 188
10th Percentile £350 £275 £363
25th Percentile £400 £412 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £523
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -0.48% +16.11%
75th Percentile £580 £612 £575
90th Percentile £608 £647 £688
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.48% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
10th Percentile - £36.04 £16.43
25th Percentile - £45.84 £17.64
Median hourly rate £38.00 £64.38 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.97% +157.50% +24.91%
75th Percentile - £67.66 £33.75
90th Percentile - £68.31 £34.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £64.38 £28.75
% change year-on-year -40.97% +123.91% +43.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 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
South East +38 79 £575 +4.55% 16
South West -1 25 £570 +57.24% 4
Scotland +39 18 £463 +9.47% 5
Midlands +24 18 £450 -20.00% 16
East of England +18 13 £369 -22.37% 6
North of England +13 13 £350 -39.13% 5
West Midlands +7 13 £450 -20.00% 10
Yorkshire +18 11 £240 -56.36% 2
East Midlands +24 5 £425 - 6
North West +1 2 £356 -36.10% 3
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 20 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.45%) Confluence
3 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.21%) IIS
3 2 (1.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (1.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.03%) Azure
2 18 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (10.30%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (10.30%) Entra ID
4 16 (9.70%) Azure Storage
5 13 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.27%) AWS
7 5 (3.03%) GCP
7 5 (3.03%) OpenShift
8 4 (2.42%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.21%) Boomi
9 2 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.61%) Azure API Management
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.61%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.15%) DNS
2 24 (14.55%) DHCP
3 19 (11.52%) Firewall
4 5 (3.03%) VPN
5 4 (2.42%) LAN
5 4 (2.42%) VSAN
5 4 (2.42%) WAN
6 3 (1.82%) SAN
6 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.61%) HTTP
7 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 3 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.21%) MySQL
3 2 (1.21%) Power BI
3 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.61%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.61%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 19 (11.52%) JIRA
2 7 (4.24%) Git
3 6 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.03%) Robot Framework
4 5 (3.03%) Selenium
5 3 (1.82%) GitLab
6 2 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.61%) MSI
General
1 59 (35.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (7.88%) Finance
4 12 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.85%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.24%) Banking
6 7 (4.24%) Electronics
6 7 (4.24%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.24%) Marketing
7 6 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.42%) Law
9 3 (1.82%) Front Office
9 3 (1.82%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (15.15%) Windows Engineer
2 20 (12.12%) Build Engineer
2 20 (12.12%) Windows Build Engineer
3 17 (10.30%) Developer
4 16 (9.70%) Active Directory Support
4 16 (9.70%) Release Manager
5 14 (8.48%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (8.48%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (8.48%) Support Specialist
6 13 (7.88%) Analyst
7 12 (7.27%) IT Manager
8 10 (6.06%) IT Services Manager
8 10 (6.06%) Service Manager
8 10 (6.06%) Support Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Change and Release Manager
9 9 (5.45%) Change Manager
9 9 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.85%) ITIL Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.30%) ARM Templates
2 10 (6.06%) Spring
2 10 (6.06%) Spring Boot
3 9 (5.45%) RESTful
4 8 (4.85%) HTML
5 7 (4.24%) Kafka
5 7 (4.24%) React
6 6 (3.64%) .NET
6 6 (3.64%) Angular 2
6 6 (3.64%) AngularJS
6 6 (3.64%) CSS
6 6 (3.64%) HTML5
6 6 (3.64%) Java Concurrency
6 6 (3.64%) Middleware
6 6 (3.64%) REST
6 6 (3.64%) Spring MVC
7 4 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.42%) Web Services
8 2 (1.21%) OAuth
8 2 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.12%) PKI
2 17 (10.30%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.85%) Client/Server
4 6 (3.64%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.03%) Clustering
5 5 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.03%) SCADA
6 4 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.21%) Replication
9 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 65 (39.39%) Windows
2 52 (31.52%) Windows Server
3 40 (24.24%) Linux
4 39 (23.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 39 (23.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 23 (13.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 22 (13.33%) Windows 10
7 20 (12.12%) Windows NT
8 13 (7.88%) Unix
9 11 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (3.03%) VMS
11 3 (1.82%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (54.55%) ITIL
2 57 (34.55%) Service Management
3 49 (29.70%) Agile
4 45 (27.27%) DevOps
5 30 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 28 (16.97%) CI/CD
7 25 (15.15%) Deployment Automation
8 21 (12.73%) Customer Service
9 20 (12.12%) Change Management
10 19 (11.52%) RBAC
11 18 (10.91%) Analytics
11 18 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (10.30%) Identity Management
12 17 (10.30%) Log Analytics
12 17 (10.30%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (10.30%) Scrum
13 16 (9.70%) ITSM
13 16 (9.70%) Multi-Factor Authentication
13 16 (9.70%) Privileged Identity Management
14 14 (8.48%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.61%) PowerShell
2 24 (14.55%) VBScript
3 17 (10.30%) Bicep
4 16 (9.70%) C#
4 16 (9.70%) VB
5 14 (8.48%) Java
6 13 (7.88%) Python
7 10 (6.06%) SQL
8 8 (4.85%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.64%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.42%) Scala
11 3 (1.82%) Go
11 3 (1.82%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.82%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.21%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.21%) C++
12 2 (1.21%) SOQL
13 1 (0.61%) Perl
13 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (46.06%) Security Cleared
2 51 (30.91%) DV Cleared
3 45 (27.27%) SC Cleared
4 32 (19.39%) Degree
5 16 (9.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.42%) VCAP
7 4 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.61%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.94%) QA
2 5 (3.03%) SLA
3 3 (1.82%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) GxP
5 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 57 (34.55%) Active Directory
2 30 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (12.73%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (12.12%) Firmware
5 16 (9.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (6.67%) Docker
7 7 (4.24%) vSphere
8 5 (3.03%) Hyper-V
8 5 (3.03%) VMware NSX
8 5 (3.03%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.61%) XenApp
9 1 (0.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (24.24%) WSUS
2 38 (23.03%) SCCM
3 26 (15.76%) Kubernetes
4 21 (12.73%) SCOM
5 20 (12.12%) Sysprep
6 17 (10.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 16 (9.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (3.64%) Terraform
9 5 (3.03%) Ansible
10 4 (2.42%) Grafana
11 3 (1.82%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.82%) Rancher
12 2 (1.21%) AirWatch
12 2 (1.21%) CEMLI
12 2 (1.21%) PowerCLI
12 2 (1.21%) Prometheus
12 2 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.61%) Puppet
13 1 (0.61%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 51 (30.91%) Microsoft
2 31 (18.79%) VMware
3 11 (6.67%) SAP
4 8 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.64%) BMC
6 4 (2.42%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.42%) HP
6 4 (2.42%) Oracle
6 4 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.82%) 3PAR
7 3 (1.82%) NetApp
7 3 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
7 3 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.82%) Splunk
7 3 (1.82%) Veritas
8 1 (0.61%) Citrix
8 1 (0.61%) Dell
8 1 (0.61%) FireEye
8 1 (0.61%) IBM
8 1 (0.61%) Remedy