Release Management Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Release Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Release Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 77 91
Rank change year-on-year -39 +14 +28
Contract jobs citing Release Management 12 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.63% 0.90% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.04% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 15
10th Percentile £40 £250 £572
25th Percentile £411 £344 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £500 £587
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -14.89% +6.81%
75th Percentile £465 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £560 -
England median daily rate £525 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -9.44% +0.87% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,679 962 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.60% 86.12% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,129 573 1,005
10th Percentile £264 £236 £300
25th Percentile £385 £369 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £549 £573 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 28 30
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.84 £12.62
25th Percentile £17.22 £16.13 £15.55
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +6.87% +7.12%
75th Percentile £39.68 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £58.04 £44.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Release Management

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in Yorkshire

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Release Management

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 2025. 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
South Yorkshire -46 8 £443 +22.07% 6
West Yorkshire -23 4 £625 +13.64% 9
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DNS
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (50.00%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Support Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Salesforce Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (25.00%) CMDB
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) KYC
2 6 (50.00%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (25.00%) ITSM
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Major Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) Observability
5 2 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) OCP
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) SCOM
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce