Release Management Jobs in England

Release Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Release Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Release Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 442 379
Rank change year-on-year -4 -63 +51
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 249 457 718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.51% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.61% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 152 312 417
10th Percentile £48,780 £36,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £53,688 £52,000 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -0.80% -
75th Percentile £77,813 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% +1.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,039 75,199 82,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.03% 84.05% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22,875 54,702 49,146
10th Percentile £29,500 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Release Management in England.

Salary trend for Release Management in England

Release Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Release Management in England

Release Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
London +116 121 £67,500 +3.85% 81
South East +5 34 £60,000 +1.69% 137
Midlands +27 32 £53,688 -15.78% 70
North of England +8 32 £55,000 - 88
West Midlands +19 30 £53,688 -28.42% 37
North West -28 25 £65,000 +18.18% 45
South West +83 20 £64,814 -3.98% 36
East of England +44 9 £70,000 +2.19% 52
Yorkshire +51 5 £35,000 +7.69% 37
East Midlands +26 2 - - 25
North East - 2 £55,000 - 6
Release Management
UK

Release Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (9.64%) Confluence
2 16 (6.43%) SharePoint
3 15 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.61%) IIS
5 5 (2.01%) Apache
6 4 (1.61%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
7 1 (0.40%) Moodle
7 1 (0.40%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.40%) SAS
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (8.03%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (6.43%) SAP ERP
1 16 (6.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.41%) Infor M3
2 6 (2.41%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.20%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) Magento
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 91 (36.55%) Azure
2 52 (20.88%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (19.68%) GitHub
4 37 (14.86%) SaaS
5 33 (13.25%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (11.65%) Power Platform
7 26 (10.44%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (9.64%) AWS
9 23 (9.24%) Power Automate
10 21 (8.43%) PowerApps
10 21 (8.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 17 (6.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (6.43%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 12 (4.82%) Datadog
15 11 (4.42%) PaaS
16 10 (4.02%) Azure Functions
16 10 (4.02%) Serverless
17 9 (3.61%) Dynamics 365
17 9 (3.61%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.61%) Firewall
1 4 (1.61%) Network Security
2 2 (0.80%) SAN
2 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.80%) VPN
3 1 (0.40%) BGP
3 1 (0.40%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.40%) FTP
3 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.40%) IPsec
3 1 (0.40%) OpenScape
3 1 (0.40%) OSPF
3 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.40%) SSH
3 1 (0.40%) WAN
3 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (18.07%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.02%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.22%) Oracle Reports
4 11 (4.42%) Power BI
5 9 (3.61%) Data Hub
5 9 (3.61%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.61%) SQL CLR
6 4 (1.61%) Big Data
6 4 (1.61%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.20%) MySQL
8 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.40%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.40%) Metadata
9 1 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 35 (14.06%) JIRA
2 28 (11.24%) Git
3 19 (7.63%) Selenium
3 19 (7.63%) SonarQube
4 15 (6.02%) Jenkins
5 10 (4.02%) Postman
6 9 (3.61%) Visual Studio
7 4 (1.61%) JMeter
7 4 (1.61%) Locust
7 4 (1.61%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.61%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.20%) SpecFlow
8 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.80%) Ant
9 2 (0.80%) Crucible
9 2 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) FitNesse
9 2 (0.80%) NUnit
9 2 (0.80%) Xcode
General
1 103 (41.37%) Finance
2 82 (32.93%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.44%) Law
4 25 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.04%) Marketing
5 22 (8.84%) Manufacturing
6 21 (8.43%) Banking
7 13 (5.22%) Police
7 13 (5.22%) Retail
8 12 (4.82%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.02%) Back Office
10 7 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.81%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Legal
13 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.40%) Automotive
14 1 (0.40%) Cantonese Language
14 1 (0.40%) Fire and Rescue
14 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 32 (12.85%) Analyst
3 30 (12.05%) Developer
4 27 (10.84%) Senior
5 26 (10.44%) Architect
6 21 (8.43%) Enterprise Architect
6 21 (8.43%) Salesforce Architect
7 16 (6.43%) Lead
7 16 (6.43%) Release Manager
7 16 (6.43%) SAP Manager
7 16 (6.43%) Support Analyst
8 15 (6.02%) Change Manager
9 14 (5.62%) Change and Release Manager
10 13 (5.22%) IT Manager
11 11 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.42%) IT Change Manager
12 9 (3.61%) Head of Development
12 9 (3.61%) Unix Support
13 8 (3.21%) Applications Support
13 8 (3.21%) Microsoft 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (16.87%) .NET
2 29 (11.65%) REST
3 28 (11.24%) Middleware
4 23 (9.24%) SOAP
5 21 (8.43%) Lightning Web Components
6 16 (6.43%) .NET Framework
6 16 (6.43%) React
6 16 (6.43%) SAP Fiori
7 13 (5.22%) HTML
8 12 (4.82%) CSS
9 10 (4.02%) Entity Framework
9 10 (4.02%) XML
10 9 (3.61%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.61%) Dapper ORM
11 8 (3.21%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (3.21%) Web Services
12 7 (2.81%) AngularJS
12 7 (2.81%) ARM Templates
13 6 (2.41%) Azure Blueprints
13 6 (2.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.04%) Management Information System
2 23 (9.24%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (7.63%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.82%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 8 (3.21%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.41%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.01%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.80%) Clustering
10 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.40%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.40%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.40%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.44%) Linux
2 25 (10.04%) Windows
3 22 (8.84%) Unix
4 12 (4.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.20%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.80%) Android
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (47.79%) Agile
2 113 (45.38%) DevOps
3 93 (37.35%) CI/CD
4 63 (25.30%) Change Management
5 61 (24.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (22.49%) ITIL
7 50 (20.08%) Computer Science
8 39 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (14.06%) ERP
10 34 (13.65%) Software Delivery
10 34 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (12.45%) Data Management
11 31 (12.45%) Data Privacy
12 30 (12.05%) Data Modelling
12 30 (12.05%) Test Automation
13 29 (11.65%) Incident Management
13 29 (11.65%) Microservices
14 28 (11.24%) E-Commerce
15 27 (10.84%) Logistics
16 26 (10.44%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 65 (26.10%) SQL
2 35 (14.06%) C#
3 30 (12.05%) Java
4 26 (10.44%) Python
5 25 (10.04%) T-SQL
6 22 (8.84%) Apex Code
7 20 (8.03%) PowerShell
8 16 (6.43%) ABAP
9 13 (5.22%) JavaScript
9 13 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 10 (4.02%) Bash
11 3 (1.20%) R
11 3 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.80%) C++
12 2 (0.80%) Objective-C
12 2 (0.80%) PHP
12 2 (0.80%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.80%) Swift
13 1 (0.40%) C
13 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 40 (16.06%) Degree
2 29 (11.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (8.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (8.43%) Master's Degree
5 14 (5.62%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 8 (3.21%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.41%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.01%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.20%) CCSK
11 3 (1.20%) CCSP
11 3 (1.20%) CISA
12 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.40%) CCNP
12 1 (0.40%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.06%) QA
2 22 (8.84%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.41%) GxP
3 6 (2.41%) NCSC
4 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (9.64%) Docker
2 15 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.61%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.80%) Firmware
5 2 (0.80%) KVM
5 2 (0.80%) Xen
Systems Management
1 26 (10.44%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.43%) Terraform
3 12 (4.82%) Ansible
4 6 (2.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.20%) Puppet
6 2 (0.80%) CFEngine
6 2 (0.80%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.40%) Control-M
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.40%) Podman
7 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (26.10%) Microsoft
2 37 (14.86%) Oracle
3 26 (10.44%) Salesforce
4 22 (8.84%) SAP
5 21 (8.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 19 (7.63%) VMware
7 14 (5.62%) Databricks
8 9 (3.61%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.41%) Infor
10 4 (1.61%) Dell
10 4 (1.61%) Google
11 3 (1.20%) Citrix
11 3 (1.20%) Isilon
11 3 (1.20%) Trayport
11 3 (1.20%) Workday
12 2 (0.80%) Apple
12 2 (0.80%) Cisco
12 2 (0.80%) IBM
13 1 (0.40%) Avaya
13 1 (0.40%) Juniper