Release Manager Jobs in England

Release Manager
UK > England

The median Release Manager salary in England is £63,749 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 June 2024.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 805 820 1077
Rank change year-on-year +15 +257 -276
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Manager 58 74 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.061% 0.090% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.064% 0.099% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 49 52 84
10th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £49,938 £45,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,749 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.51% -2.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £74,500 £68,847 £66,563
90th Percentile £78,000 £78,750 £76,750
UK median annual salary £64,500 £60,000 £58,135
% change year-on-year +7.50% +3.21% -6.98%

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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +97 22 £61,500 -4.17% 2
South West -37 13 £73,000 +98.56% 1
South East -34 8 £38,000 -28.97% 1
North of England -4 7 £62,500 -7.41% 1
Midlands -34 7 £40,000 -5.88%
North West -21 5 £65,000 -
East Midlands -27 4 £40,000 -5.88%
West Midlands -9 3 £63,749 +21.43%
Yorkshire +48 1 - - 1
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 21 June 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 31 (53.45%) Release Management
2 21 (36.21%) ITIL
3 18 (31.03%) Social Skills
4 14 (24.14%) DevOps
5 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
5 13 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (18.97%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (17.24%) Azure
7 10 (17.24%) Agile
8 9 (15.52%) Oracle
8 9 (15.52%) Salesforce
8 9 (15.52%) AWS
8 9 (15.52%) Trend Analysis
8 9 (15.52%) Customer Service
9 8 (13.79%) System Integration Testing
9 8 (13.79%) Change Management
10 7 (12.07%) Configuration Management
10 7 (12.07%) Software Engineering
11 6 (10.34%) Service Delivery
12 5 (8.62%) Law
12 5 (8.62%) Retail
12 5 (8.62%) Degree
12 5 (8.62%) Police
13 4 (6.90%) Decision-Making
13 4 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
13 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (6.90%) Telematics
13 4 (6.90%) Analytics
13 4 (6.90%) Logistics
13 4 (6.90%) QA

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 (6.90%) CMS
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.72%) SAP HCM
1 1 (1.72%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Azure
2 9 (15.52%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.45%) PaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.72%) GCP
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) Gradle
2 1 (1.72%) Maven
2 1 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Law
2 5 (8.62%) Police
2 5 (8.62%) Retail
3 4 (6.90%) Finance
4 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) .NET
1 1 (1.72%) ADO
1 1 (1.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) CMDB
2 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Robotics
3 1 (1.72%) BYOD
3 1 (1.72%) IoT
3 1 (1.72%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) Release Management
2 21 (36.21%) ITIL
3 14 (24.14%) DevOps
4 13 (22.41%) CI/CD
4 13 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (18.97%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (17.24%) Agile
7 9 (15.52%) Customer Service
7 9 (15.52%) Trend Analysis
8 8 (13.79%) Change Management
8 8 (13.79%) System Integration Testing
9 7 (12.07%) Configuration Management
9 7 (12.07%) Software Engineering
10 6 (10.34%) Service Delivery
11 4 (6.90%) Analytics
11 4 (6.90%) ERP
11 4 (6.90%) Logistics
11 4 (6.90%) Service Management
11 4 (6.90%) Telematics
11 4 (6.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) SQL
2 2 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (1.72%) C#
3 1 (1.72%) Go
3 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) APMP
2 3 (5.17%) ISEB
2 3 (5.17%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (5.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) QA
1 4 (6.90%) SLA
2 2 (3.45%) ISO 9001
2 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Ansible
1 1 (1.72%) Packer
1 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.72%) Puppet
1 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Oracle
1 9 (15.52%) Salesforce
2 4 (6.90%) Apple
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) Workday