Release Management Contracts in the North of England

Release Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Release Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Release Management over the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 174 199
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 -46
Contract jobs citing Release Management 15 28 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.31% 0.51% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.57% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 37
10th Percentile £234 £463 £348
25th Percentile £321 £520 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.17% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £503 £640 £573
90th Percentile £580 £675 £588
England median daily rate £548 £598 £538
% change year-on-year -8.37% +11.16% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £26.25
25th Percentile - - £28.13
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £34.38
90th Percentile - - £34.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +57.14% +83.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,031 4,927 6,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.87% 89.99% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,401 3,348 4,748
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +0.05% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £575
90th Percentile £665 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 213 252
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.27
25th Percentile £12.55 £16.25 £14.19
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +26.58% +10.64%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £31.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £38.12 £37.34 £25.68
% change year-on-year +2.09% +45.40% +14.36%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the North of England

Release Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Release Management in the North of England

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Release Management in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Release Management in the North of England

Release Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
Yorkshire +15 11 £475 -13.64% 5
North West +5 4 £356 -38.04% 4
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) Cloudflare
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
2 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Release Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Coordinator
2 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Incident Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Support
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Release Coordinator
2 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Release Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) Akka
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) High Availability
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITSM
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) SDLC
4 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (13.33%) Sprint Review
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Storage Management
5 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Scala
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) AirWatch
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) New Relic
3 1 (6.67%) SAP