Release Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Release Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £363 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 393 448
Rank change year-on-year +13 +55 -64
Contract jobs requiring a Release Manager 20 45 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.20% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 53
10th Percentile - £422 £367
25th Percentile £356 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £540 £488
Median % change year-on-year -32.90% +10.82% +8.33%
75th Percentile £609 £575 £555
90th Percentile £638 £699 £619
UK median daily rate £600 £543 £500
% change year-on-year +10.50% +8.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £64.38 -
UK median hourly rate - £54.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Release Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Release Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Release Manager within the UK excluding London 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
South East +1 6 £625 +9.65% 2
Midlands - 6 £363 - 2
North of England +14 4 £363 -34.09%
North West +18 3 £363 -34.83%
East Midlands - 3 £363 - 2
Scotland +29 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 £363 -
Yorkshire +12 1 - -
South West +4 1 £570 -34.10% 3
East of England +3 1 £363 -23.68% 1
Release Manager
UK

Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Release Management
3 6 (30.00%) Programme Management
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (20.00%) ETL
5 4 (20.00%) YAML
5 4 (20.00%) Azure
5 4 (20.00%) Terraform
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
5 4 (20.00%) SSDT
5 4 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) Azure API Management
6 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.00%) Change Management
7 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 2 (10.00%) SAP
7 2 (10.00%) ITIL
7 2 (10.00%) Integration Testing
7 2 (10.00%) QA
7 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
7 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (10.00%) SDLC
7 2 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement

Release Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (5.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
1 4 (20.00%) Azure API Management
1 4 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (20.00%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Electronics
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Release Management
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
2 6 (30.00%) Programme Management
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (20.00%) ETL
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Change Management
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) Integration Testing
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.00%) SDLC
6 2 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (5.00%) Release Train
7 1 (5.00%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) C
1 1 (5.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce