Release Train Contracts with Work from Home Options

Release Train
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Release Train skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Train over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 439 529
Rank change year-on-year +103 +90 -58
Contract jobs citing Release Train 11 29 93
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.074% 0.12% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.13% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 61
10th Percentile £463 £320 £465
25th Percentile - £519 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £625 £585
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +6.84% +11.96%
75th Percentile £688 £638 £688
90th Percentile - £650 £725
UK median daily rate £487 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -22.08% +4.17% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Release Train is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,021 22,109 40,018
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.70% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,736 15,644 29,065
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 507 537
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.63 £14.15
25th Percentile £25.00 £27.86 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +35.06% +61.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.00 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Release Train
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Train as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Release Train trend for jobs with a WFH option

Release Train
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Train.

Release Train daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Train
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Release Train over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Release Train daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Release Train
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 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Miro
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Lead
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Release Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Release Train Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Public Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Roadmaps
3 7 (63.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 6 (54.55%) Scrum
5 4 (36.36%) Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 1 (9.09%) Conflict Resolution
7 1 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 1 (9.09%) Iteration Planning
7 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 1 (9.09%) Product Backlog
7 1 (9.09%) Rainbow Teams
7 1 (9.09%) SDLC
7 1 (9.09%) Servant Leadership
7 1 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
7 1 (9.09%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft