Release Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Release Management
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 110 120
Rank change year-on-year +44 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Release Management 66 40 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.50% 1.40% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.54% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 33 31
10th Percentile £416 £413 £403
25th Percentile £507 £460 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +12.24% +22.50%
75th Percentile £608 £615 £578
90th Percentile - £664 £700
South East median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +37.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.10 -
South East median hourly rate - £41.55 £16.25
% change year-on-year - +155.69% -36.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,268 2,599 3,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.88% 90.75% 89.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 1,764 2,187
10th Percentile £213 £317 £235
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +4.12% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £585
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 89
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +200.23% -17.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.27
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the Thames Valley

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the Thames Valley

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the Thames Valley

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the Thames Valley

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Berkshire +20 52 £575 -4.17% 12
Buckinghamshire +31 14 £431 -9.22% 3
Release Management
South East

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 24 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (45.45%) Azure
2 21 (31.82%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (31.82%) Entra ID
3 20 (30.30%) Azure Storage
3 20 (30.30%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.03%) AWS
6 1 (1.52%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 26 (39.39%) DNS
2 25 (37.88%) DHCP
3 21 (31.82%) Firewall
4 4 (6.06%) VSAN
5 1 (1.52%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Robot Framework
1 3 (4.55%) Selenium
2 2 (3.03%) GitLab
2 2 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.52%) Git
3 1 (1.52%) MSI
General
1 42 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (30.30%) Active Directory Support
2 17 (25.76%) Build Engineer
2 17 (25.76%) Windows Build Engineer
2 17 (25.76%) Windows Engineer
3 14 (21.21%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (21.21%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (21.21%) Support Specialist
4 9 (13.64%) Analyst
5 8 (12.12%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (10.61%) Active Directory Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Support Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Change Analyst
8 5 (7.58%) Change and Release Analyst
8 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Release Analyst
9 3 (4.55%) Defect Manager
9 3 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (31.82%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.52%) .NET
3 1 (1.52%) Middleware
3 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.36%) PKI
2 20 (30.30%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.06%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 45 (68.18%) Windows
2 42 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 38 (57.58%) Windows Server 2016
3 38 (57.58%) Windows Server 2019
4 27 (40.91%) Linux
5 18 (27.27%) Windows 10
5 18 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 17 (25.76%) Windows NT
7 5 (7.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.52%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (80.30%) ITIL
2 42 (63.64%) Service Management
3 35 (53.03%) Agile
4 32 (48.48%) DevOps
5 22 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 21 (31.82%) Analytics
6 21 (31.82%) Identity Management
6 21 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (31.82%) Log Analytics
7 20 (30.30%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 20 (30.30%) Privileged Identity Management
7 20 (30.30%) RBAC
8 18 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
9 17 (25.76%) Customer Service
9 17 (25.76%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (12.12%) Incident Management
11 7 (10.61%) Configuration Management
11 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (9.09%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 29 (43.94%) PowerShell
2 24 (36.36%) VBScript
3 21 (31.82%) Bicep
4 20 (30.30%) C#
4 20 (30.30%) VB
5 5 (7.58%) Python
6 2 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (1.52%) Perl
7 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (86.36%) Security Cleared
2 46 (69.70%) DV Cleared
3 33 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 25 (37.88%) Degree
5 20 (30.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (6.06%) VCAP
6 4 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.52%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (25.76%) QA
System Software
1 44 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 20 (30.30%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (30.30%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (25.76%) Firmware
4 10 (15.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (6.06%) VMware NSX
5 4 (6.06%) vSphere
6 1 (1.52%) XenApp
6 1 (1.52%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (57.58%) SCCM
1 38 (57.58%) WSUS
2 23 (34.85%) Kubernetes
3 21 (31.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 21 (31.82%) SCOM
4 20 (30.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (25.76%) Sysprep
6 4 (6.06%) Terraform
7 3 (4.55%) Ansible
8 2 (3.03%) Rancher
9 1 (1.52%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 45 (68.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) VMware
3 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.52%) 3PAR
4 1 (1.52%) ArcSight
4 1 (1.52%) BMC
4 1 (1.52%) Citrix
4 1 (1.52%) Databricks
4 1 (1.52%) FireEye
4 1 (1.52%) HP
4 1 (1.52%) NetApp
4 1 (1.52%) Nimble Storage
4 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.52%) Remedy
4 1 (1.52%) Tanium
4 1 (1.52%) Veritas