Release Management Job Trends in the Midlands

Release Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Release Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 192 253
Rank change year-on-year -37 +61 -19
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 19 33 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.15% 0.66% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.74% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 18 26 58
10th Percentile £52,169 £47,099 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,313 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £53,688 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.70% -17.40% +30.00%
75th Percentile £83,438 £69,125 £82,188
90th Percentile £97,950 £75,000 £88,825
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,608 4,468 11,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.41% 88.92% 78.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6,029 2,539 7,671
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £48,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Release Management job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Release Management
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Release Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Release Management

Release Management
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the Midlands

Release Management
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 June 2026. 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
West Midlands -35 14 £75,000 +39.70% 3
East Midlands -16 4 £72,500 - 3
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (21.05%) SaaS
3 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) Slack
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JMeter
2 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
2 1 (5.26%) Postman
2 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Billing
4 1 (5.26%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Technical Leader
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Change Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Data Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Change and Release Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Change Control Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Services Manager
4 1 (5.26%) QA Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Software Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.26%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
3 7 (36.84%) Change Management
3 7 (36.84%) Roadmaps
4 6 (31.58%) ITIL
4 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (31.58%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (26.32%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
5 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 4 (21.05%) People Management
6 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.79%) Data Governance
7 3 (15.79%) ERP
7 3 (15.79%) Line Management
7 3 (15.79%) Process Improvement
7 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.79%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Apex Code
2 1 (5.26%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Citrix
2 2 (10.53%) Databricks
2 2 (10.53%) Dell
2 2 (10.53%) Isilon
2 2 (10.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) BMC
3 1 (5.26%) Remedy
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow