Release Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Release Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 262 339
Rank change year-on-year +32 +77 -124
Contract jobs citing Release Management 112 215 305
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.89% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.99% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 157 203
10th Percentile £412 £413 £315
25th Percentile £475 £488 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +12.38% -
75th Percentile £624 £725 £625
90th Percentile £650 £750 £728
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £56.50 £26.88
25th Percentile - £62.50 £29.69
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year - +122.22% +110.94%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £39.31
90th Percentile - £93.50 £47.08
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £59.69 £32.50
% change year-on-year -36.34% +83.65% +62.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,743 21,731 40,495
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.55% 89.66% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,582 15,423 29,469
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 503 524
10th Percentile £14.79 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.47
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

Release Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Release Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Management.

Release Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Release Management over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Release Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Release Management.

Release Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.36%) Confluence
3 2 (1.79%) IIS
4 1 (0.89%) CMS
4 1 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.89%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Endur
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.89%) Relativity
3 1 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.89%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 48 (42.86%) Azure
2 22 (19.64%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (18.75%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 20 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (17.86%) Azure Storage
5 19 (16.96%) AWS
6 14 (12.50%) SaaS
7 13 (11.61%) GitHub
8 11 (9.82%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (9.82%) IaaS
8 11 (9.82%) PaaS
9 5 (4.46%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.46%) Slack
10 4 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.68%) OCI
12 2 (1.79%) Asana
12 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (23.21%) DNS
2 25 (22.32%) DHCP
3 21 (18.75%) Firewall
4 2 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.89%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.46%) Power BI
3 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.68%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.79%) MySQL
6 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.89%) Big Data
6 1 (0.89%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.89%) Looker
6 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.89%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (8.93%) SonarQube
2 8 (7.14%) JIRA
3 7 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.46%) Git
5 3 (2.68%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.89%) Gatling
6 1 (0.89%) Mockito
6 1 (0.89%) ScalaTest
6 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.29%) Finance
3 10 (8.93%) Front Office
4 8 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Banking
7 4 (3.57%) Legal
7 4 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.68%) Marketing
8 3 (2.68%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Back Office
9 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (17.86%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (12.50%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (12.50%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (12.50%) Support Specialist
3 11 (9.82%) Developer
4 10 (8.93%) Release Manager
5 7 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 7 (6.25%) Unix Support
6 6 (5.36%) Active Directory Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 6 (5.36%) Analyst
7 5 (4.46%) Applications Support
7 5 (4.46%) Consultant
7 5 (4.46%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.57%) Change Analyst
8 4 (3.57%) Change and Release Analyst
8 4 (3.57%) Release Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (27.68%) ARM Templates
2 10 (8.93%) Azure Blueprints
3 6 (5.36%) .NET
4 5 (4.46%) RESTful
5 3 (2.68%) Blazor
5 3 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (1.79%) CSS
6 2 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (0.89%) Express.js
7 1 (0.89%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.89%) Hibernate
7 1 (0.89%) HTML
7 1 (0.89%) HTML5
7 1 (0.89%) Kafka
7 1 (0.89%) Node.js
7 1 (0.89%) Play Framework
7 1 (0.89%) REST
7 1 (0.89%) Spring
7 1 (0.89%) Web Services
7 1 (0.89%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 23 (20.54%) PKI
2 21 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (13.39%) Management Information System
4 10 (8.93%) Onboarding
5 8 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.79%) Clustering
7 2 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.89%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (34.82%) Windows
2 25 (22.32%) Linux
3 21 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 21 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
4 12 (10.71%) Unix
5 2 (1.79%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.79%) VMS
6 1 (0.89%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (43.75%) DevOps
2 45 (40.18%) Agile
3 33 (29.46%) ITIL
4 32 (28.57%) Analytics
5 29 (25.89%) Service Management
6 26 (23.21%) CI/CD
7 22 (19.64%) RBAC
8 21 (18.75%) Identity Management
8 21 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (18.75%) Log Analytics
8 21 (18.75%) Project Management
9 20 (17.86%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 20 (17.86%) Privileged Identity Management
10 19 (16.96%) Change Management
11 15 (13.39%) Software Engineering
11 15 (13.39%) Test Automation
12 14 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (11.61%) Containerisation
13 13 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (10.71%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 27 (24.11%) C#
3 25 (22.32%) SQL
4 21 (18.75%) Bicep
5 20 (17.86%) VB
5 20 (17.86%) VBScript
6 9 (8.04%) Python
7 5 (4.46%) VB.NET
8 4 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.57%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.68%) Java
9 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.68%) Scala
10 2 (1.79%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.79%) Bash
10 2 (1.79%) C++
10 2 (1.79%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.89%) PHP
11 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.89%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 41 (36.61%) Security Cleared
2 39 (34.82%) SC Cleared
3 28 (25.00%) Degree
4 23 (20.54%) DV Cleared
5 20 (17.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 10 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.89%) MCSA
9 1 (0.89%) MCSE
9 1 (0.89%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.93%) NCSC
2 5 (4.46%) QA
3 2 (1.79%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (1.79%) SLA
4 1 (0.89%) MiFID
System Software
1 28 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 22 (19.64%) Virtual Desktop
2 22 (19.64%) Virtual Machines
3 14 (12.50%) Docker
4 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.79%) vSphere
5 1 (0.89%) XenApp
5 1 (0.89%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (33.93%) Kubernetes
2 24 (21.43%) WSUS
3 22 (19.64%) SCCM
4 20 (17.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (17.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (17.86%) SCOM
5 13 (11.61%) Terraform
6 11 (9.82%) Ansible
7 2 (1.79%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.89%) Grafana
8 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.71%) Oracle
3 7 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.57%) Databricks
4 4 (3.57%) VMware
5 3 (2.68%) OpenLink
5 3 (2.68%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.79%) Google
6 2 (1.79%) Pardot
6 2 (1.79%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.89%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.89%) BMC
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco
7 1 (0.89%) Citrix
7 1 (0.89%) IronPort
7 1 (0.89%) Qualys
7 1 (0.89%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.89%) Remedy