Release Manager Jobs in England

Release Manager
UK > England

The median Release Manager salary in England is £64,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 767 867 1041
Rank change year-on-year +100 +174 -316
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Manager 55 74 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.065% 0.079% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.087% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 49 52 79
10th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.94% -2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £74,500 £67,996 £66,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,750
UK median annual salary £64,000 £58,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.94% -2.08% -4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,251 85,470 125,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,137 54,051 75,614
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,626 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Release Manager in England

Release Manager
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Manager in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Release Manager in England

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 Release Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +141 18 £61,500 -4.17% 3
South West -20 14 £73,000 +98.56% 3
North of England +33 8 £65,000 -3.70% 1
South East +24 8 £38,000 -28.97%
Midlands +7 7 £40,000 -23.81% 1
North West +8 4 £65,000 -
East Midlands -15 4 £40,000 -5.88% 1
Yorkshire +83 3 £65,000 -3.70% 1
West Midlands +25 3 £63,749 +21.43%
North East - 1 £60,000 -
Release Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Release Manager in the job title.

1 28 (50.91%) Release Management
2 20 (36.36%) ITIL
3 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
4 14 (25.45%) DevOps
4 14 (25.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (23.64%) User Acceptance Testing
6 11 (20.00%) Azure
6 11 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 10 (18.18%) AWS
7 10 (18.18%) Oracle
7 10 (18.18%) Salesforce
8 9 (16.36%) Change Management
8 9 (16.36%) Trend Analysis
8 9 (16.36%) System Integration Testing
9 7 (12.73%) Agile
9 7 (12.73%) Configuration Management
10 6 (10.91%) Finance
10 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
10 6 (10.91%) CMDB
11 5 (9.09%) Police
11 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
11 5 (9.09%) Retail
11 5 (9.09%) Service Management
12 4 (7.27%) Validation
12 4 (7.27%) CMS
12 4 (7.27%) Law
12 4 (7.27%) SQL
12 4 (7.27%) Apple
12 4 (7.27%) ERP

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.27%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.82%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.82%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.00%) Azure
2 10 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.45%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Finance
3 5 (9.09%) Police
3 5 (9.09%) Retail
4 4 (7.27%) Law
5 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) CMDB
2 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.91%) Release Management
2 20 (36.36%) ITIL
3 14 (25.45%) DevOps
3 14 (25.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (23.64%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 9 (16.36%) Change Management
7 9 (16.36%) System Integration Testing
7 9 (16.36%) Trend Analysis
8 7 (12.73%) Agile
8 7 (12.73%) Configuration Management
9 6 (10.91%) Service Delivery
10 5 (9.09%) Service Management
10 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
11 4 (7.27%) Analytics
11 4 (7.27%) ERP
11 4 (7.27%) Logistics
11 4 (7.27%) Telematics
11 4 (7.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.27%) Degree
2 3 (5.45%) APMP
2 3 (5.45%) ISEB
2 3 (5.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (3.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) SLA
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Oracle
1 10 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 4 (7.27%) Apple
3 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Workday