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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 369 405
Rank change year-on-year +10 +36 +36
Contract jobs citing Release Train 9 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.049% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.059% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 18
10th Percentile £513 £384 £556
25th Percentile £569 £424 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £494 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.42% -20.92% +0.81%
75th Percentile £632 £609 £638
90th Percentile £635 £782 £650
UK median daily rate £600 £556 £625
% change year-on-year +7.87% -11.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £82.50
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £89.00
UK median hourly rate - - £82.50

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 13,598 15,352 19,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.24% 83.12% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,181 9,199 13,285
10th Percentile £240 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,316 1,591 1,213
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.70
Median hourly rate £22.92 £40.94 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -44.02% +3.38% +84.19%
75th Percentile £45.89 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.02%

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

Release Train
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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -4 5 £538 +8.75% 1
West Midlands -2 2 £620 -7.64% 8
Midlands -11 2 £620 +24.00% 8
South East - 2 £625 - 1
North West - 1 £475 - 1
North of England - 1 £475 - 1
Release Train
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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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Release Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Release Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Release Train Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Release Train Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) PMO Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior PMO
3 1 (11.11%) Senior PMO Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
4 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
4 2 (22.22%) Work Breakdown Structure
5 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C++
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) IBM
1 2 (22.22%) StreamSets
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian
2 1 (11.11%) VMware