Release Management Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Release Management
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Release Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 1 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.11% - 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £70,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £64,627 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.18% +3.40% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 702 258 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 80.05% 89.27% 87.09%
Number of salaries quoted 262 74 285
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,112 £30,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £40,221 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Release Management
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Release Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Release Management

Release Management
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 31 March 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
County Antrim - 1 - - 1
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle