Change and Release Manager Jobs in England

Change and Release Manager
UK > England

The median Change and Release Manager salary in England is £58,373 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 633 826 931
Rank change year-on-year +193 +105 +195
Permanent jobs requiring a Change and Release Manager 10 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.007% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.007% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 13
10th Percentile £56,371 - -
25th Percentile £56,745 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,373 £40,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.93% -38.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £68,568 £59,603 £91,250
90th Percentile - £75,568 -
UK median annual salary £58,373 £40,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +45.93% -31.03% -3.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,579 80,366 84,743
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.05% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,536 60,207 53,679
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -11.67% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.00% -12.08% -

Change and Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Change and Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Change and Release Manager in England

Change and Release Manager
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Change and Release Manager in England.

Salary trend for Change and Release Manager in England

Change and Release Manager
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Change and Release Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West - 8 £60,686 - 1
London +104 1 £54,000 -36.47% 3
Midlands +57 1 £60,000 +50.00% 3
West Midlands +51 1 £60,000 -5.88% 2
Change and Release Manager
UK

Change and Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Change and Release Manager 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 permanent job ads across the England region featuring Change and Release Manager in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) ITIL
1 10 (100.00%) ITSM
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Service Management
2 9 (90.00%) Release Management
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
3 8 (80.00%) Product Management
3 8 (80.00%) Project Delivery
3 8 (80.00%) Service Delivery
3 8 (80.00%) Retail
3 8 (80.00%) QA
4 5 (50.00%) Azure
5 4 (40.00%) AWS
5 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
5 4 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (40.00%) Degree
5 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (40.00%) Change Management
5 4 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (10.00%) Scrum
7 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (10.00%) ADO
7 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
7 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills

Change and Release Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (80.00%) Retail
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) ITIL
1 10 (100.00%) ITSM
2 9 (90.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Release Management
2 9 (90.00%) Service Management
3 8 (80.00%) Product Management
3 8 (80.00%) Project Delivery
3 8 (80.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (40.00%) Change Management
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 1 (10.00%) Workload Management
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow