Release Management Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Release Management
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 38
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Release Management 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.09% - 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% - 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £573 - £370
25th Percentile £588 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £400
75th Percentile £681 - £463
90th Percentile £708 - £500
South East median daily rate £392 £605 £575
% change year-on-year -35.21% +5.22% +4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Sussex

Release Management 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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 219 125 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 79.93% 86.21% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 77 175
10th Percentile £275 £217 £213
25th Percentile £355 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +4.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £525
90th Percentile £675 £632 £595
South East median daily rate £513 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +2.40% +0.10% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 14
10th Percentile £13.13 £15.39 £13.85
25th Percentile £27.00 £16.95 £18.20
Median hourly rate £50.00 £18.82 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +165.67% -12.47% -2.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £36.25 £23.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £81.15 £28.98
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -5.26%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Release Management job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Release Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Release Management

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in West Sussex over the 6 months to 14 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in West Sussex

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Release Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Release Management

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 14 April 2026. 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
Worthing - 3 £625 -
Release Management
South East

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Nutanix Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Fit Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle