Release Engineer Jobs in London

Release Engineer
England > London

The median Release Engineer salary in London is £42,150 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 510 608
Rank change year-on-year +188 +98 +300
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Engineer 70 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.008% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.009% 0.010%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £73,750
25th Percentile £38,825 - £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,150 - £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +75.00%
75th Percentile £45,475 - £96,875
90th Percentile - - £97,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £68,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -16.06% +30.48%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,289 22,453 31,519
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.39% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,829 16,734 23,288
10th Percentile £41,200 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,143 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

Release Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Engineer in London

Release Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Release Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Release Engineer in London

Release Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South London - 20 - -
West London - 16 - -
East London - 10 - -
North London - 7 - -
Central London - 7 - -
Release Engineer
England

Release Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Release Engineer 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 London region featuring Release Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 69 (98.57%) Release Automation
3 68 (97.14%) Software Delivery
3 68 (97.14%) Agile
4 67 (95.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 67 (95.71%) Broadband
4 67 (95.71%) Middleware
4 67 (95.71%) JIRA
4 67 (95.71%) Embedded Systems
4 67 (95.71%) Strategic Thinking
4 67 (95.71%) Continuous Deployment
4 67 (95.71%) Roadmaps
5 3 (4.29%) Git
5 3 (4.29%) Azure
5 3 (4.29%) AWS
6 2 (2.86%) MSTest
6 2 (2.86%) Test Automation
6 2 (2.86%) Selenium
6 2 (2.86%) Test Scripting
6 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.86%) Mathematics
6 2 (2.86%) Software Engineering
6 2 (2.86%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.86%) Degree
6 2 (2.86%) TDD
6 2 (2.86%) NUnit
6 2 (2.86%) C#
6 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.86%) SQL
6 2 (2.86%) T-SQL

Release Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 3 (4.29%) AWS
1 3 (4.29%) Azure
2 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (1.43%) GCP
2 1 (1.43%) GitHub
2 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 67 (95.71%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 67 (95.71%) JIRA
2 3 (4.29%) Git
3 2 (2.86%) MSTest
3 2 (2.86%) NUnit
3 2 (2.86%) Selenium
4 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.43%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.43%) GitLab
4 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.43%) Subversion
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (95.71%) Middleware
2 2 (2.86%) .NET
2 2 (2.86%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 67 (95.71%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 69 (98.57%) Release Automation
3 68 (97.14%) Agile
3 68 (97.14%) Software Delivery
4 67 (95.71%) Artificial Intelligence
4 67 (95.71%) Continuous Deployment
4 67 (95.71%) Roadmaps
4 67 (95.71%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (2.86%) Mathematics
5 2 (2.86%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (2.86%) Software Engineering
5 2 (2.86%) TDD
5 2 (2.86%) Test Automation
5 2 (2.86%) Test Scripting
6 1 (1.43%) Containerisation
6 1 (1.43%) DevOps
6 1 (1.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (1.43%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (1.43%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (1.43%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.86%) C#
1 2 (2.86%) JavaScript
1 2 (2.86%) SQL
1 2 (2.86%) T-SQL
1 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
2 1 (1.43%) Bash
2 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Ansible
1 1 (1.43%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform