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 £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 365 427 440
Rank change year-on-year +62 +13 -59
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 26 30 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.13% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.13% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 62
10th Percentile - £413 £373
25th Percentile £356 £446 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +1.01% +4.21%
75th Percentile £580 £570 £540
90th Percentile - £665 £649
UK median daily rate £570 £528 £510
% change year-on-year +8.06% +3.43% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £66.56 -
UK median hourly rate - £59.19 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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 West +29 9 £570 -34.10% 2
Midlands - 6 £363 - 1
North of England +23 5 £363 -36.96% 1
North West +20 4 £363 -36.96%
South East +15 3 £363 -20.77% 1
East Midlands - 3 £363 - 1
Scotland +36 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 £363 -
Yorkshire +17 1 - - 1
East of England +8 1 £363 -23.68%
Release Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 (69.23%) Release Management
2 13 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 11 (42.31%) ITIL
3 11 (42.31%) Change Management
3 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
4 10 (38.46%) SAP
4 10 (38.46%) Telecoms
5 9 (34.62%) Finance
5 9 (34.62%) Security Patching
6 8 (30.77%) Electronics
6 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
6 8 (30.77%) Marketing
6 8 (30.77%) Digital Marketing
6 8 (30.77%) Manufacturing
6 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
8 4 (15.38%) QA
8 4 (15.38%) Agile
9 3 (11.54%) DevOps
9 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
10 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (7.69%) Release Automation
10 2 (7.69%) Roadmaps
10 2 (7.69%) SDLC
10 2 (7.69%) Runbook
10 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
10 2 (7.69%) AWS
10 2 (7.69%) System Integration Testing
10 2 (7.69%) Waterfall

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP Retail
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Telecoms
3 9 (34.62%) Finance
4 8 (30.77%) Electronics
4 8 (30.77%) Manufacturing
4 8 (30.77%) Marketing
4 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Release Management
2 13 (50.00%) Programme Management
3 11 (42.31%) Change Management
3 11 (42.31%) ITIL
4 9 (34.62%) Security Patching
5 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (30.77%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (15.38%) Agile
7 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
8 3 (11.54%) DevOps
8 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
9 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
9 2 (7.69%) Release Automation
9 2 (7.69%) Roadmaps
9 2 (7.69%) Runbook
9 2 (7.69%) SDLC
9 2 (7.69%) System Integration Testing
9 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
9 2 (7.69%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce