Release Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Release Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Release Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Release Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 227 272
Rank change year-on-year -4 +45 +75
Contract jobs citing Release Management 73 118 215
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 0.77% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.88% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 87 154
10th Percentile £308 £425 £315
25th Percentile £444 £475 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +3.14% +6.19%
75th Percentile £641 £627 £684
90th Percentile £833 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -5.78% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £91.69 - £55.00
75th Percentile £98.56 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £38.00 £59.69
% change year-on-year +141.29% -36.34% +107.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Release Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Release Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Release Management.

Release Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Release Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Release Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Release Management.

Release Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.74%) Confluence
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (5.48%) Endur
2 4 (5.48%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (4.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (4.11%) Workday HCM
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.37%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.29%) Azure
2 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.33%) AWS
4 6 (8.22%) OCI
5 5 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (6.85%) GitHub
5 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.48%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.48%) Serverless
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.11%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.11%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.74%) Datadog
8 2 (2.74%) GCP
8 2 (2.74%) PaaS
8 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) DHCP
1 4 (5.48%) DNS
2 3 (4.11%) DOCSIS
2 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.74%) Firewall
3 2 (2.74%) Network Security
3 2 (2.74%) VLAN
3 2 (2.74%) Wireless
4 1 (1.37%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.48%) Crystal Reports
1 4 (5.48%) Power BI
2 3 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.11%) Parquet
2 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
2 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.74%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.74%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.74%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.74%) Looker
3 2 (2.74%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.74%) Tableau
3 2 (2.74%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.22%) Git
3 4 (5.48%) JIRA
4 2 (2.74%) GitLab
4 2 (2.74%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.37%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.37%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.37%) GoCD
5 1 (1.37%) JMeter
5 1 (1.37%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.37%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Finance
3 8 (10.96%) Banking
4 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.48%) Back Office
6 3 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Automotive
7 2 (2.74%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.74%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.37%) Front Office
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (20.55%) Release Manager
2 13 (17.81%) Senior
3 11 (15.07%) Developer
4 9 (12.33%) Lead
5 8 (10.96%) Analyst
6 7 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Service Manager
8 4 (5.48%) Architect
8 4 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) ETRM Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Analyst Developer
9 3 (4.11%) AWS Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Change and Release Manager
9 3 (4.11%) Change Manager
9 3 (4.11%) Cloud Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (6.85%) Kafka
3 4 (5.48%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.11%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.11%) JSON
5 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.74%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.74%) OAuth
5 2 (2.74%) RESTful
6 1 (1.37%) .NET
6 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.37%) CSS
6 1 (1.37%) CSS3
6 1 (1.37%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.37%) gRPC
6 1 (1.37%) HTML5
6 1 (1.37%) Node.js
6 1 (1.37%) WebCenter
6 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.11%) CMDB
3 2 (2.74%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.74%) IoT
3 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.74%) PMI
3 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.74%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.37%) Derivative
4 1 (1.37%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.37%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.37%) PKI
4 1 (1.37%) Replication
4 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Windows
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.73%) Agile
2 23 (31.51%) DevOps
3 22 (30.14%) CI/CD
4 20 (27.40%) ITIL
5 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.81%) SDLC
6 12 (16.44%) Change Management
6 12 (16.44%) Service Management
7 11 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (15.07%) Scrum
8 9 (12.33%) Project Management
8 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (12.33%) Test Automation
9 8 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (9.59%) Configuration Management
10 7 (9.59%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.59%) ERP
11 6 (8.22%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (8.22%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.44%) SQL
2 10 (13.70%) Python
3 7 (9.59%) Java
3 7 (9.59%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.48%) Bash
4 4 (5.48%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.11%) C++
5 3 (4.11%) Go
5 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.74%) Bicep
6 2 (2.74%) C
6 2 (2.74%) C#
7 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.37%) ProC
7 1 (1.37%) Scala
7 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.37%) VB
7 1 (1.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) AWS Certification
3 6 (8.22%) Degree
4 5 (6.85%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.48%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.37%) ISEB
7 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.22%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.33%) Terraform
2 8 (10.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.48%) Grafana
4 2 (2.74%) Ansible
5 1 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.37%) Rancher
5 1 (1.37%) SCCM
5 1 (1.37%) SCOM
5 1 (1.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) Oracle
2 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.85%) Splunk
3 4 (5.48%) OpenLink
3 4 (5.48%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.11%) Workday
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Snow
6 1 (1.37%) Adobe
6 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.37%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.37%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (1.37%) Pega
6 1 (1.37%) Remedy
6 1 (1.37%) VMware