Release Manager Jobs in England

Release Manager
UK > England

The median Release Manager salary in England is £58,373 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 June 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 790 844
Rank change year-on-year +156 +54 +222
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Manager 40 57 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.081% 0.062% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.090% 0.066% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 18 48 50
10th Percentile £51,042 £38,000 £40,597
25th Percentile £54,452 £40,000 £49,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,373 £62,624 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.79% +6.59% -2.08%
75th Percentile £68,568 £74,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £78,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £62,314 £64,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -2.64% +8.94% +0.74%

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 44,614 86,442 76,959
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.83% 94.73% 91.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23,551 63,791 50,241
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £38,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -13.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £73,886 £71,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 3 June 2025.

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 3 June 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 +103 24 £74,813 +21.65% 21
South West +114 9 £56,745 -22.27% 14
North of England +45 3 - - 29
North West +23 3 - - 15
Midlands +56 2 £62,500 +56.25% 19
South East +86 1 - - 38
West Midlands +62 1 £60,000 -5.88% 12
East Midlands +33 1 £65,000 +62.50% 6
Release Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 2025, 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 26 (65.00%) Agile
2 20 (50.00%) DevOps
3 18 (45.00%) QA
4 16 (40.00%) Release Management
5 15 (37.50%) JIRA
5 15 (37.50%) Confluence
5 15 (37.50%) ITIL
6 13 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (30.00%) Design Patterns
8 11 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (27.50%) Service Management
9 10 (25.00%) Regression Testing
9 10 (25.00%) ITSM
9 10 (25.00%) Project Delivery
10 9 (22.50%) Observability
10 9 (22.50%) Data Structures
10 9 (22.50%) Algorithms
10 9 (22.50%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (22.50%) Fixed Income
10 9 (22.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (22.50%) Integration Testing
11 8 (20.00%) Product Management
11 8 (20.00%) Azure
11 8 (20.00%) Scrum
11 8 (20.00%) Retail
11 8 (20.00%) Service Delivery
11 8 (20.00%) Change Management
12 7 (17.50%) Migration
12 7 (17.50%) AWS

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 15 (37.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (2.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (2.50%) Metadata
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) JIRA
2 4 (10.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (7.50%) AppScan
3 3 (7.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.50%) Ant
4 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (20.00%) Retail
2 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) ADO
1 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (2.50%) Node.js
1 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Algorithms
1 9 (22.50%) Data Structures
1 9 (22.50%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Fixed Income
1 9 (22.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (17.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (65.00%) Agile
2 20 (50.00%) DevOps
3 16 (40.00%) Release Management
4 15 (37.50%) ITIL
5 13 (32.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (30.00%) Design Patterns
7 11 (27.50%) Service Management
7 11 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (25.00%) ITSM
8 10 (25.00%) Project Delivery
8 10 (25.00%) Regression Testing
9 9 (22.50%) Integration Testing
9 9 (22.50%) Observability
9 9 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (20.00%) Change Management
10 8 (20.00%) Product Management
10 8 (20.00%) Scrum
10 8 (20.00%) Service Delivery
11 7 (17.50%) Coaching
11 7 (17.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) Apex Code
1 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (45.00%) QA
2 6 (15.00%) ISO 20022
3 3 (7.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Ansible
2 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
2 3 (7.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle
3 1 (2.50%) Salesforce