Hybrid/Remote Release Manager Contract Job Trends

Release Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Release Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £473, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 317 376
Rank change year-on-year +23 +59 +141
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 10 18 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.15% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 29
10th Percentile - £451 £405
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -2.91% -4.63%
75th Percentile £518 £594 £575
90th Percentile £533 £633 £638
UK median daily rate £515 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% +3.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,190 11,881 19,277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.45% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,054 7,606 13,618
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 295 443
10th Percentile £13.25 £19.59 £16.98
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.25 £25.71
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.26 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Release Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Release Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Release Manager job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Release Manager job vacancies

Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Release Management
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (40.00%) SDLC
4 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (40.00%) Degree
4 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (40.00%) QA
4 4 (40.00%) Change Management
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (30.00%) Contingency Planning
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) Change Control
6 2 (20.00%) Dependency Management
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
6 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) Release Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (20.00%) Management Information System

Release Manager Skill Set
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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle CX
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (10.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
1 1 (10.00%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Release Management
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Change Management
4 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (40.00%) SDLC
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (30.00%) Contingency Planning
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Change Control
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (20.00%) Cutover Planning
6 2 (20.00%) Dependency Management
6 2 (20.00%) Release Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) PMP
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) StreamSets