Release Management Contracts

Release Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 276 300 306
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 -65
Contract jobs citing Release Management 351 479 787
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.85% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.95% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 342 528
10th Percentile £354 £413 £390
25th Percentile £450 £483 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.93% +2.43%
75th Percentile £608 £662 £650
90th Percentile £668 £759 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile - £40.28 £19.38
25th Percentile - £51.41 £25.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £59.69 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.34% +83.65% +62.38%
75th Percentile £47.75 £68.20 £35.00
90th Percentile £53.60 £83.13 £45.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £58.24 £28.75
% change year-on-year -34.75% +102.57% +43.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Release Management over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +11 301 £563 -4.66% 100
UK excluding London +33 169 £525 -4.55% 67
London +18 145 £563 -6.25% 36
Work from Home +26 113 £575 -2.34% 41
South East +22 82 £575 +4.55% 26
Scotland +36 19 £475 -13.64% 4
Midlands +20 19 £450 -21.74% 14
South West -7 19 £625 +108.33% 5
East of England +13 15 £356 -25.00% 7
North of England +10 13 £350 -39.13% 9
West Midlands +7 13 £450 -25.00% 11
Yorkshire +19 11 £240 -56.36% 4
East Midlands +16 6 £475 -13.64% 3
North West +12 2 £356 -38.04% 4
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 1

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 29 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (7.69%) Confluence
3 7 (1.99%) IIS
4 5 (1.42%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.57%) CMS
6 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.28%) Apache
7 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.28%) JBoss
7 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.28%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.28%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Endur
2 5 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.57%) Relativity
4 2 (0.57%) Remedy AR System
4 2 (0.57%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.28%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (25.36%) Azure
2 54 (15.38%) AWS
3 32 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (9.12%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (6.55%) Entra ID
5 22 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
6 21 (5.98%) SaaS
7 20 (5.70%) Azure Storage
8 17 (4.84%) Power Platform
9 16 (4.56%) PaaS
10 15 (4.27%) GitHub
11 14 (3.99%) Slack
12 11 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.13%) IaaS
13 10 (2.85%) GCP
14 9 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.71%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.42%) Amazon S3
16 5 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (1.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (9.69%) DNS
2 32 (9.12%) DHCP
3 27 (7.69%) Firewall
4 9 (2.56%) SSH
5 5 (1.42%) VPN
6 4 (1.14%) LAN
6 4 (1.14%) VSAN
6 4 (1.14%) WAN
6 4 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.28%) HTTP
8 1 (0.28%) MPLS
8 1 (0.28%) NetScaler
8 1 (0.28%) SAN
8 1 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (5.41%) NoSQL
1 19 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.56%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.42%) Power BI
4 8 (2.28%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.42%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (1.42%) Metadata
6 4 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (1.14%) MySQL
6 4 (1.14%) Redis
6 4 (1.14%) SAP HANA
6 4 (1.14%) Tableau
7 3 (0.85%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 3 (0.85%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.85%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.85%) Tableau Server
8 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 54 (15.38%) JIRA
2 21 (5.98%) Jenkins
3 17 (4.84%) Git
4 11 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 10 (2.85%) JUnit
5 10 (2.85%) SonarQube
6 5 (1.42%) Gatling
6 5 (1.42%) GitLab
6 5 (1.42%) Mockito
6 5 (1.42%) Robot Framework
6 5 (1.42%) Selenium
6 5 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.14%) Postman
7 4 (1.14%) ScalaTest
8 3 (0.85%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 97 (27.64%) Social Skills
2 71 (20.23%) Finance
3 41 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.54%) Banking
5 26 (7.41%) Front Office
6 16 (4.56%) Investment Banking
7 15 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (3.70%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.56%) Marketing
10 8 (2.28%) Legal
11 7 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.99%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.71%) Law
13 5 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.42%) Retail
14 4 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.57%) Electronics
16 2 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 59 (16.81%) Developer
2 44 (12.54%) Analyst
3 28 (7.98%) Release Manager
4 22 (6.27%) Windows Engineer
5 20 (5.70%) Active Directory Support
5 20 (5.70%) Java Developer
5 20 (5.70%) Senior
5 20 (5.70%) Support Engineer
6 17 (4.84%) Applications Support
6 17 (4.84%) Build Engineer
6 17 (4.84%) Windows Build Engineer
7 15 (4.27%) Support Specialist
8 14 (3.99%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (3.99%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (3.99%) IT Manager
8 14 (3.99%) Project Manager
9 13 (3.70%) Architect
9 13 (3.70%) Lead
10 12 (3.42%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.83%) ARM Templates
2 26 (7.41%) Spring
3 21 (5.98%) Web Services
4 17 (4.84%) REST
5 16 (4.56%) RESTful
6 15 (4.27%) JPA
6 15 (4.27%) React
7 14 (3.99%) .NET
7 14 (3.99%) XML
8 13 (3.70%) Hibernate
9 11 (3.13%) AngularJS
9 11 (3.13%) JSON
9 11 (3.13%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.13%) Spring MVC
10 10 (2.85%) Azure Blueprints
10 10 (2.85%) HTML
11 9 (2.56%) CSS
11 9 (2.56%) J2EE
11 9 (2.56%) Kafka
11 9 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.12%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (6.84%) Management Information System
2 24 (6.84%) PKI
3 16 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (4.56%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.99%) Client/Server
5 13 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 11 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.85%) Clustering
8 9 (2.56%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.56%) Derivative
8 9 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.99%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.42%) OTC Derivatives
10 5 (1.42%) SCADA
11 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.85%) CMDB
12 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.57%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 106 (30.20%) Windows
2 72 (20.51%) Linux
3 61 (17.38%) Windows Server
4 39 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 39 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 37 (10.54%) Unix
6 22 (6.27%) Windows 10
7 20 (5.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 17 (4.84%) Windows NT
9 12 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (1.42%) VMS
11 3 (0.85%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.28%) CentOS
12 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (33.33%) Agile
2 107 (30.48%) ITIL
3 99 (28.21%) DevOps
4 73 (20.80%) Service Management
5 58 (16.52%) Change Management
6 56 (15.95%) CI/CD
6 56 (15.95%) SDLC
7 52 (14.81%) Scrum
8 46 (13.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 42 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (11.68%) Configuration Management
11 39 (11.11%) Analytics
12 37 (10.54%) Project Management
13 34 (9.69%) Test Automation
14 33 (9.40%) Deployment Automation
14 33 (9.40%) Risk Management
14 33 (9.40%) Software Engineering
15 28 (7.98%) Infrastructure as Code
15 28 (7.98%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 81 (23.08%) SQL
2 67 (19.09%) PowerShell
3 58 (16.52%) Python
4 34 (9.69%) Java
5 31 (8.83%) C#
5 31 (8.83%) VBScript
6 22 (6.27%) Bicep
7 21 (5.98%) JavaScript
7 21 (5.98%) VB
8 11 (3.13%) Scala
9 10 (2.85%) TypeScript
10 8 (2.28%) Go
10 8 (2.28%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.28%) VB.NET
11 7 (1.99%) Perl
12 6 (1.71%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.71%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.42%) SOQL
14 4 (1.14%) Bash
14 4 (1.14%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 108 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 74 (21.08%) SC Cleared
3 56 (15.95%) DV Cleared
4 52 (14.81%) Degree
5 20 (5.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.14%) VCAP
9 4 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.28%) MCSA
11 1 (0.28%) MCSE
11 1 (0.28%) NVQ Level 3
11 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.11%) QA
2 12 (3.42%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.85%) NCSC
3 10 (2.85%) SLA
4 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.57%) GDPR
5 2 (0.57%) GxP
5 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.28%) MiFID
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 37 (10.54%) Docker
3 33 (9.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (7.98%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (6.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (4.84%) Firmware
7 7 (1.99%) vSphere
8 5 (1.42%) Hyper-V
8 5 (1.42%) VMware NSX
8 5 (1.42%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (0.57%) XenApp
9 2 (0.57%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.28%) Cronacle
10 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (19.66%) Kubernetes
2 45 (12.82%) SCCM
3 43 (12.25%) WSUS
4 25 (7.12%) SCOM
5 24 (6.84%) Terraform
6 21 (5.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 20 (5.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (4.84%) Ansible
8 17 (4.84%) Sysprep
9 16 (4.56%) Grafana
10 7 (1.99%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (1.99%) Prometheus
11 5 (1.42%) Podman
12 4 (1.14%) Rancher
13 2 (0.57%) AirWatch
13 2 (0.57%) CEMLI
13 2 (0.57%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.57%) Puppet
13 2 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
14 1 (0.28%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 96 (27.35%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.54%) VMware
3 27 (7.69%) Oracle
4 18 (5.13%) SAP
5 17 (4.84%) ServiceNow
6 10 (2.85%) BMC
6 10 (2.85%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.56%) IBM
8 8 (2.28%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.71%) Databricks
10 5 (1.42%) Google
10 5 (1.42%) OpenLink
10 5 (1.42%) Remedy
11 3 (0.85%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.85%) Citrix
11 3 (0.85%) Pardot
11 3 (0.85%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.85%) Splunk
12 2 (0.57%) BiZZdesign
12 2 (0.57%) UiPath