Release Management Contracts in England

Release Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Release Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Release Management over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 290 267
Rank change year-on-year +22 -23 -37
Contract jobs citing Release Management 298 414 712
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.82% 0.86% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.95% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 300 492
10th Percentile £356 £413 £400
25th Percentile £472 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £645 £650
90th Percentile £680 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £563 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -2.17% +6.48% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - £34.10 £16.63
25th Percentile £52.50 £41.00 £19.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - +91.30% +43.64%
75th Percentile £57.50 £77.50 £34.69
90th Percentile - £89.50 £43.63
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £64.38 £28.75
% change year-on-year -40.97% +123.91% +43.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Release Management 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in England

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
London +20 147 £575 -4.17% 57
South East +51 77 £575 +4.55% 30
South West -5 22 £570 +90.00% 7
Midlands +19 18 £450 -25.00% 14
West Midlands +15 13 £450 -25.00% 11
North of England +13 13 £350 -39.13% 4
East of England +9 13 £369 -22.37% 9
Yorkshire +15 11 £240 -56.36% 2
East Midlands +18 5 £425 - 3
North West +7 2 £356 -38.04% 2
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 26 (8.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (8.05%) Confluence
3 5 (1.68%) IIS
4 4 (1.34%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.01%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.67%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.34%) JBoss
7 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (2.68%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (2.68%) Endur
2 5 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.67%) Relativity
4 2 (0.67%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.67%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (22.82%) Azure
2 33 (11.07%) AWS
3 29 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (6.71%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (6.71%) Entra ID
5 18 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (5.70%) Azure Storage
7 14 (4.70%) Power Platform
8 13 (4.36%) Slack
9 9 (3.02%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (2.35%) SaaS
11 5 (1.68%) Collibra
11 5 (1.68%) GCP
11 5 (1.68%) PaaS
12 4 (1.34%) Serverless
13 3 (1.01%) GitHub
13 3 (1.01%) PowerApps
13 3 (1.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 2 (0.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (10.40%) DNS
2 29 (9.73%) DHCP
3 24 (8.05%) Firewall
4 7 (2.35%) SSH
5 5 (1.68%) VPN
6 4 (1.34%) LAN
6 4 (1.34%) VSAN
6 4 (1.34%) WAN
6 4 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.01%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.34%) HTTP
8 1 (0.34%) MPLS
8 1 (0.34%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.34%) SAN
8 1 (0.34%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.03%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.03%) NoSQL
2 12 (4.03%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.02%) Data Lake
3 9 (3.02%) Power BI
4 5 (1.68%) Crystal Reports
4 5 (1.68%) Metadata
5 4 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.34%) Redis
5 4 (1.34%) SAP HANA
6 3 (1.01%) MySQL
6 3 (1.01%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.34%) Big Data
8 1 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (12.75%) JIRA
2 16 (5.37%) Jenkins
3 10 (3.36%) Git
4 9 (3.02%) Cucumber
5 8 (2.68%) JUnit
6 5 (1.68%) Gatling
6 5 (1.68%) Mockito
6 5 (1.68%) Robot Framework
6 5 (1.68%) Selenium
6 5 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.34%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.34%) ScalaTest
8 3 (1.01%) GitLab
8 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.67%) webpack
10 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 87 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 74 (24.83%) Finance
3 38 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.40%) Banking
5 27 (9.06%) Front Office
6 15 (5.03%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (5.03%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.36%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.36%) Marketing
8 10 (3.36%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.01%) Law
9 6 (2.01%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.68%) Electronics
10 5 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.68%) Legal
10 5 (1.68%) Retail
11 4 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.01%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 42 (14.09%) Analyst
1 42 (14.09%) Developer
2 28 (9.40%) Release Manager
3 24 (8.05%) Windows Engineer
4 19 (6.38%) Build Engineer
4 19 (6.38%) Windows Build Engineer
5 17 (5.70%) Active Directory Support
6 16 (5.37%) Applications Support
6 16 (5.37%) Senior
6 16 (5.37%) Support Engineer
7 15 (5.03%) Support Specialist
8 14 (4.70%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (4.70%) Architect
8 14 (4.70%) Azure Specialist
9 13 (4.36%) IT Manager
10 10 (3.36%) Change Manager
10 10 (3.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (3.36%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.36%) Service Manager
10 10 (3.36%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.38%) Spring
2 18 (6.04%) ARM Templates
3 16 (5.37%) Web Services
4 15 (5.03%) REST
5 14 (4.70%) .NET
5 14 (4.70%) React
6 13 (4.36%) JPA
7 11 (3.69%) AngularJS
7 11 (3.69%) Hibernate
7 11 (3.69%) Spring MVC
7 11 (3.69%) XML
8 10 (3.36%) HTML
9 9 (3.02%) CSS
9 9 (3.02%) RESTful
10 8 (2.68%) HTML5
10 8 (2.68%) JSON
10 8 (2.68%) Middleware
11 7 (2.35%) Java Concurrency
11 7 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.05%) PKI
2 19 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (6.04%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.03%) Client/Server
4 12 (4.03%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.36%) Clustering
5 10 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.02%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.02%) Derivative
7 7 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.01%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.68%) OTC Derivatives
9 5 (1.68%) SCADA
10 3 (1.01%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.67%) CMDB
11 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.67%) Replication
11 2 (0.67%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 103 (34.56%) Windows
2 64 (21.48%) Linux
3 56 (18.79%) Windows Server
4 38 (12.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 38 (12.75%) Windows Server 2019
5 31 (10.40%) Unix
6 23 (7.72%) Windows 10
7 22 (7.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 19 (6.38%) Windows NT
9 10 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (1.01%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.34%) CentOS
11 1 (0.34%) VMS
11 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (33.56%) ITIL
2 91 (30.54%) Agile
3 77 (25.84%) DevOps
4 66 (22.15%) Service Management
5 50 (16.78%) Change Management
6 43 (14.43%) SDLC
7 40 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (12.75%) CI/CD
9 37 (12.42%) Configuration Management
10 36 (12.08%) User Acceptance Testing
11 35 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (10.40%) Proactive Monitoring
12 31 (10.40%) Risk Management
12 31 (10.40%) Scrum
13 29 (9.73%) Analytics
14 24 (8.05%) Deployment Automation
15 23 (7.72%) ITSM
16 22 (7.38%) Customer Service
16 22 (7.38%) Incident Management
16 22 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 72 (24.16%) SQL
2 64 (21.48%) PowerShell
3 51 (17.11%) Python
4 28 (9.40%) C#
5 26 (8.72%) VBScript
6 21 (7.05%) Java
7 20 (6.71%) JavaScript
8 18 (6.04%) Bicep
8 18 (6.04%) VB
9 10 (3.36%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.68%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.68%) VB.NET
11 7 (2.35%) Go
11 7 (2.35%) Scala
12 6 (2.01%) Perl
12 6 (2.01%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.68%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.34%) C
14 4 (1.34%) SOQL
15 3 (1.01%) Bash
Qualifications
1 92 (30.87%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.13%) SC Cleared
3 51 (17.11%) DV Cleared
4 45 (15.10%) Degree
5 17 (5.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.34%) VCAP
8 4 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.34%) MCSA
10 1 (0.34%) MCSE
10 1 (0.34%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (13.09%) QA
2 7 (2.35%) SLA
3 6 (2.01%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.01%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.67%) GDPR
5 2 (0.67%) GxP
5 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.34%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 60 (20.13%) Active Directory
2 30 (10.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (8.05%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (6.38%) Firmware
4 19 (6.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (5.03%) Docker
6 7 (2.35%) vSphere
7 5 (1.68%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.68%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.68%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.67%) XenApp
8 2 (0.67%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.34%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 49 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 44 (14.77%) SCCM
3 42 (14.09%) WSUS
4 22 (7.38%) SCOM
5 19 (6.38%) Sysprep
6 18 (6.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (5.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (4.70%) Grafana
9 9 (3.02%) Terraform
10 8 (2.68%) ITRS Geneos
11 6 (2.01%) Ansible
11 6 (2.01%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.01%) Rancher
13 2 (0.67%) AirWatch
13 2 (0.67%) CEMLI
13 2 (0.67%) Podman
13 2 (0.67%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.67%) Puppet
13 2 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 90 (30.20%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.41%) VMware
3 24 (8.05%) Oracle
4 18 (6.04%) SAP
5 13 (4.36%) ServiceNow
6 10 (3.36%) IBM
7 9 (3.02%) Dynatrace
7 9 (3.02%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.68%) BMC
9 6 (2.01%) Databricks
10 5 (1.68%) OpenLink
11 4 (1.34%) Google
12 3 (1.01%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.01%) Citrix
12 3 (1.01%) Remedy
13 2 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
13 2 (0.67%) HP
13 2 (0.67%) Pardot
13 2 (0.67%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.67%) SolarWinds