Release Management Job Trends in Scotland

Release Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Release Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 138 156
Rank change year-on-year +3 +18 +25
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 6 10 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.22% 0.39% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.42% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 36
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £22,129 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile - - £72,433
90th Percentile - - £117,236
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,206 2,381 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.84% 92.90% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,004 1,812
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,325 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,370 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in Scotland

Release Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Release Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Release Management

Release Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Glasgow +16 4 £22,129 -
Edinburgh -9 2 - - 1
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) JBoss
1 1 (16.67%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Scripter
2 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Windows DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
4 2 (33.33%) Coaching
4 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) High Availability
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) CRM
5 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Groovy
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Podman
3 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Salesforce