Release Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Release Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 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
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 362 396
Rank change year-on-year +55 +34 +30
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 31 16 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.079% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.085% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 27
10th Percentile £308 - £418
25th Percentile £327 £356 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £363 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -32.56% +10.26%
75th Percentile £473 £438 £573
90th Percentile £536 £596 £590
UK median daily rate £454 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -21.04% +6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £53.28
25th Percentile - - £56.62
Median hourly rate - - £64.38
75th Percentile - - £67.66
90th Percentile - - £68.31
UK median hourly rate - - £59.19

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 11,768 18,835 21,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.77% 92.47% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,510 11,498 15,031
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 819 2,316 1,097
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -33.75% -5.11% +110.78%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.64 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.99 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.32% -18.89% +88.21%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

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 Release Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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 +14 15 £385 - 11
North of England +23 14 £388 +6.90% 48
North West +21 14 £388 +6.90% 24
South East +44 1 £488 +1.40% 58
East of England +25 1 £538 +48.28% 25
Release Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 18 (58.06%) Agile
1 18 (58.06%) Release Management
2 12 (38.71%) Change Management
2 12 (38.71%) ITIL
2 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
3 10 (32.26%) DevOps
3 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
4 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.81%) Project Management
5 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
6 7 (22.58%) Service Management
7 6 (19.35%) Finance
7 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
7 6 (19.35%) Azure
7 6 (19.35%) QA
7 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
7 6 (19.35%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (19.35%) SDLC
8 5 (16.13%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
9 4 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (12.90%) Release Train
9 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
9 4 (12.90%) Test Management
9 4 (12.90%) AWS
9 4 (12.90%) Windows
10 3 (9.68%) PMP
10 3 (9.68%) PMI Certification

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) GoCD
3 1 (3.23%) MSI
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Finance
4 5 (16.13%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (9.68%) Banking
7 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.23%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Agile
1 18 (58.06%) Release Management
2 12 (38.71%) Change Management
2 12 (38.71%) ITIL
3 10 (32.26%) DevOps
4 9 (29.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.81%) Project Management
6 7 (22.58%) Service Management
7 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
7 6 (19.35%) Continuous Delivery
7 6 (19.35%) SDLC
8 4 (12.90%) Release Train
8 4 (12.90%) Roadmaps
8 4 (12.90%) Test Management
9 3 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (9.68%) Configuration Management
9 3 (9.68%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (9.68%) Incident Management
9 3 (9.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) C#
1 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) PMI Certification
3 3 (9.68%) PMP
4 2 (6.45%) ISEB
5 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Grafana
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.68%) Splunk
2 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.23%) IBM
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Pega
3 1 (3.23%) StreamSets