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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 228 227 266
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 +65
Contract jobs citing Release Management 72 120 219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.73% 0.79% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.90% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 90 156
10th Percentile £308 £360 £325
25th Percentile £431 £467 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £564
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.10% +7.38%
75th Percentile £648 £628 £675
90th Percentile £850 £650 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £564 £563
% change year-on-year -5.99% +0.18% +3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £56.50
25th Percentile £84.83 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £91.69 - £75.00
75th Percentile £98.56 - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £93.50
UK median hourly rate £91.69 £38.00 £64.38
% change year-on-year +141.29% -40.97% +123.91%

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 13,390 22,975
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.13% 87.90% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,194 8,954 16,256
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% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 577 528
10th Percentile £14.03 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £25.00 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.02 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.38 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

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 4 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 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.39%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Self-Service HR
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (5.56%) Endur
2 4 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (4.17%) Workday HCM
4 2 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (2.78%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.61%) Azure
2 10 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.50%) AWS
4 6 (8.33%) OCI
5 5 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (6.94%) GitHub
6 4 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (5.56%) Serverless
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.78%) Datadog
8 2 (2.78%) GCP
8 2 (2.78%) PaaS
8 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) DHCP
1 4 (5.56%) DNS
2 3 (4.17%) DOCSIS
2 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.17%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.78%) Firewall
3 2 (2.78%) Network Security
3 2 (2.78%) VLAN
3 2 (2.78%) Wireless
4 1 (1.39%) FlexRay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 3 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.17%) Parquet
2 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.78%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.78%) Looker
3 2 (2.78%) MariaDB
3 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.78%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.56%) Git
3 3 (4.17%) JIRA
4 2 (2.78%) GitLab
4 2 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.39%) GoCD
5 1 (1.39%) JMeter
5 1 (1.39%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.39%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Finance
3 8 (11.11%) Banking
4 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.56%) Back Office
6 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.78%) Automotive
7 2 (2.78%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.39%) Front Office
8 1 (1.39%) Legal
8 1 (1.39%) Marketing
8 1 (1.39%) Military
8 1 (1.39%) Police
8 1 (1.39%) Retail
8 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) Release Manager
2 13 (18.06%) Senior
3 10 (13.89%) Developer
4 9 (12.50%) Lead
5 7 (9.72%) Analyst
5 7 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Service Manager
7 4 (5.56%) Architect
7 4 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) ETRM Developer
7 4 (5.56%) IT Analyst
8 3 (4.17%) Change and Release Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Change Manager
8 3 (4.17%) Cloud Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (6.94%) Kafka
3 4 (5.56%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.17%) AWS CDK
4 3 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (4.17%) JSON
5 2 (2.78%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.78%) OAuth
5 2 (2.78%) RESTful
6 1 (1.39%) .NET
6 1 (1.39%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.39%) CSS
6 1 (1.39%) CSS3
6 1 (1.39%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.39%) gRPC
6 1 (1.39%) HTML5
6 1 (1.39%) Node.js
6 1 (1.39%) WebCenter
6 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.17%) CMDB
3 2 (2.78%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.78%) IoT
3 2 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.78%) PMI
3 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) Derivative
4 1 (1.39%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.39%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.39%) PKI
4 1 (1.39%) Replication
4 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Windows
3 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.11%) Agile
2 23 (31.94%) DevOps
3 20 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 18 (25.00%) ITIL
5 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.67%) Service Management
6 11 (15.28%) Change Management
6 11 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (15.28%) SDLC
7 10 (13.89%) Project Management
7 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (12.50%) Scrum
8 9 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.72%) Configuration Management
10 7 (9.72%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.72%) ERP
11 6 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (8.33%) Decision-Making
11 6 (8.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 11 (15.28%) SQL
2 10 (13.89%) Python
3 7 (9.72%) Java
3 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.56%) Bash
4 4 (5.56%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.17%) C++
5 3 (4.17%) Go
5 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.78%) Bicep
6 2 (2.78%) C
6 2 (2.78%) C#
7 1 (1.39%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.39%) ProC
7 1 (1.39%) Scala
7 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.39%) VB
7 1 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.94%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.56%) Degree
6 3 (4.17%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (2.78%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.39%) ISEB
8 1 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.39%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (9.72%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.39%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) Terraform
2 8 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.56%) Grafana
4 2 (2.78%) Ansible
5 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.39%) Rancher
5 1 (1.39%) SCCM
5 1 (1.39%) SCOM
5 1 (1.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Oracle
2 5 (6.94%) Splunk
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.56%) OpenLink
3 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.17%) Workday
5 2 (2.78%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (2.78%) Snow
5 2 (2.78%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) Adobe
6 1 (1.39%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.39%) Pega
6 1 (1.39%) Remedy