Release Train Contracts in the UK excluding London

Release Train
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Release Train skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Release Train over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 380 417
Rank change year-on-year +47 +37 +18
Contract jobs citing Release Train 6 19 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.092% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 24
10th Percentile £401 £451 £487
25th Percentile £461 £470 £546
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £487 £625
Median % change year-on-year +18.07% -22.08% +1.63%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £628 £688 £648
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £625
% change year-on-year -5.50% -17.04% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £74.00
25th Percentile - - £80.00
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £90.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Release Train 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Release Train
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Train in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Release Train in the UK excluding London

Release Train
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Train in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Train in the UK excluding London

Release Train
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Train in the UK excluding London

Release Train
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 Train within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +5 3 £370 -21.28%
South East - 2 £625 - 1
South West +43 1 £575 -
Release Train
UK

Release Train
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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Release Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Release Train Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Release Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Release Train Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
4 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian