Release Manager Contracts

Release Manager
UK

The median Release Manager daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 623 663
Rank change year-on-year +86 +40 -76
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 49 84 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 42 136
10th Percentile £356 £422 £400
25th Percentile £363 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +7.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £630 £575 £575
90th Percentile £632 £594 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £538 £488
% change year-on-year -32.56% +10.26% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £59.19 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £64.38 -

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 39,655 53,675 84,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.62% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,814 37,483 59,176
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,482 2,013
10th Percentile £12.80 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.54 £75.98 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in the UK

Release Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Release Manager in the UK

Release Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Manager over the 6 months to 27 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Manager in the UK

Release Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Manager in the UK

Release Manager
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +82 42 £570 +6.05% 23
London +91 25 £614 +17.42% 11
UK excluding London +22 16 £363 -32.56% 12
Work from Home +97 15 £627 +19.43% 10
Midlands - 6 £363 - 3
North of England +27 4 £363 -34.09%
North West +30 3 £363 -34.83%
East Midlands - 3 £363 - 2
Scotland +32 2 - -
South East +6 2 £481 +3.49% 7
West Midlands - 2 £363 -
East of England +11 1 £363 -23.68%
Yorkshire +11 1 - -
South West +6 1 £570 -34.10% 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 28 (57.14%) Release Management
2 22 (44.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (38.78%) Configuration Management
3 19 (38.78%) Change Management
4 18 (36.73%) JIRA
4 18 (36.73%) Security Cleared
4 18 (36.73%) Confluence
5 17 (34.69%) SDLC
6 16 (32.65%) SC Cleared
7 15 (30.61%) AWS
7 15 (30.61%) Performance Testing
7 15 (30.61%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 14 (28.57%) Kubernetes
8 14 (28.57%) Slack
8 14 (28.57%) Jenkins
9 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
10 6 (12.24%) DevOps
10 6 (12.24%) SAP
10 6 (12.24%) Programme Management
11 5 (10.20%) Finance
12 4 (8.16%) Process Improvement
12 4 (8.16%) System Integration Testing
13 3 (6.12%) CI/CD
13 3 (6.12%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 3 (6.12%) Decision-Making
13 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
13 3 (6.12%) Integration Testing
13 3 (6.12%) QA
13 3 (6.12%) Retail
13 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing

Release Manager 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (36.73%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) AWS
2 14 (28.57%) Slack
3 1 (2.04%) Azure
3 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.04%) Metadata
1 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (36.73%) JIRA
2 14 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.08%) GitLab
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.20%) Finance
3 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
3 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.12%) Retail
4 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Electronics
5 1 (2.04%) French Language
5 1 (2.04%) Marketing
5 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (57.14%) Release Management
2 22 (44.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (38.78%) Change Management
3 19 (38.78%) Configuration Management
4 17 (34.69%) SDLC
5 15 (30.61%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 15 (30.61%) Performance Testing
6 6 (12.24%) DevOps
6 6 (12.24%) Programme Management
7 4 (8.16%) Process Improvement
7 4 (8.16%) System Integration Testing
8 3 (6.12%) Agile
8 3 (6.12%) CI/CD
8 3 (6.12%) Decision-Making
8 3 (6.12%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (6.12%) Integration Testing
9 2 (4.08%) E-Commerce
9 2 (4.08%) ITIL
9 2 (4.08%) Project Management
9 2 (4.08%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.04%) C
1 1 (2.04%) C++
1 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.65%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) SAP
2 2 (4.08%) Ariba
2 2 (4.08%) Cadence
2 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.04%) Blue Prism
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow