Release Management Job Trends in Bristol

Release Management
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Release Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 102 113
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +40
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 5 5 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.24% 0.36% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.41% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 16
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £102,500 £65,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £115,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -60.87% +62.95% +17.63%
75th Percentile £52,500 £127,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £72,000 - £82,375
South West median annual salary £62,500 £64,627 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.29% -8.43% +20.13%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

Release Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,330 1,232 1,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 64.07% 88.95% 93.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,013 662 1,341
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,200 £85,000 £90,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Release Management job vacancy trend in Bristol

Release Management
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Release Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Release Management

Release Management
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management in Bristol over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in Bristol

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) dbt
2 3 (60.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Power BI
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Change Advisory Board
2 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Information Management
2 3 (60.00%) Kimball Methodology
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft