Release Engineer Contracts

Release Engineer
UK

The median Release Engineer daily rate in the UK is £635 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 649 800
Rank change year-on-year +75 +151 -144
Contract jobs requiring a Release Engineer 5 51 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.085% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.090% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 36 44
10th Percentile £544 £488 £466
25th Percentile £571 £550 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £625 £606
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +3.09% +3.85%
75th Percentile £739 £675 £720
90th Percentile £791 £764 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate - £625 £706
% change year-on-year - -11.50% +21.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Release Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Release Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Release Engineer in the UK

Release Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Release Engineer in the UK

Release Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Engineer in the UK

Release Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Engineer.

Hourly rate trend for Release Engineer in the UK

Release Engineer
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
England +82 4 £635 +1.60% 2
Work from Home +107 2 £635 +1.60% 1
London +82 2 £688 +10.00% 2
UK excluding London +45 1 - -
Scotland +21 1 - -

Release Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Release Engineer 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 featuring Release Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Release Train
2 3 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) Product Management
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Rainbow Teams
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) PgMP
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Maven
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering

Release Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Release Train
2 3 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Product Management
3 2 (40.00%) Rainbow Teams
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
4 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PgMP
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP