Release Management Job Trends in the South East

Release Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East 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 261 249 293
Rank change year-on-year -12 +44 -39
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 41 36 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.28% 0.46% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.51% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 33 9 78
10th Percentile - £52,200 £37,575
25th Percentile £41,585 £57,500 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,303 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +1.69% -10.94%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £93,500 £96,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% +4.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,481 7,057 14,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.45% 90.28% 81.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,401 3,405 10,363
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,625 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
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 South East

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in the South East

Release Management
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Release Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Release Management

Release Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Release Management in the South East

Release Management
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the South East 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
Surrey -4 16 £41,585 -
Thames Valley -3 15 £60,000 -14.89% 1
Oxfordshire +3 8 £62,500 +9.17%
Berkshire -4 6 £42,500 -39.72% 1
Hampshire -32 4 £50,000 -16.67% 3
Buckinghamshire -9 1 £62,000 -
West Sussex -18 1 - - 4
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (9.76%) CICS
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) IIS
2 1 (2.44%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Infor SunSystems
2 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) Azure
2 3 (7.32%) AWS
2 3 (7.32%) Azure API Management
2 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (7.32%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.44%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.44%) GCP
4 1 (2.44%) GitHub
4 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.44%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) Db2
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) ChangeMan
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) GitLab
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
3 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.44%) Subversion
General
1 20 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Influencing Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Local Government
3 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.88%) Law
4 2 (4.88%) Marketing
5 1 (2.44%) Automotive
5 1 (2.44%) Front Office
5 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Consultant
2 11 (26.83%) Management Consultant
2 11 (26.83%) Programme Management Office Consultant
2 11 (26.83%) Programme Office Consultant
3 8 (19.51%) Senior
4 7 (17.07%) Developer
5 4 (9.76%) COBOL Developer
5 4 (9.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
5 4 (9.76%) Senior COBOL Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Service Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Administrator
7 2 (4.88%) Development Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Software Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) REST
2 4 (9.76%) YAML
3 3 (7.32%) JSON
3 3 (7.32%) SOAP
4 2 (4.88%) CSS
4 2 (4.88%) HTML
5 1 (2.44%) Ajax
5 1 (2.44%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (2.44%) CSS3
5 1 (2.44%) DOM
5 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.44%) HTML5
5 1 (2.44%) jQuery
5 1 (2.44%) Laravel
5 1 (2.44%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.44%) Middleware
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.76%) Legacy Code
2 4 (9.76%) VSAM
3 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.44%) CMDB
5 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) zOS
2 2 (4.88%) Windows
2 2 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Unix
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (34.15%) Configuration Management
3 13 (31.71%) Project Management
4 12 (29.27%) Decision-Making
5 11 (26.83%) Agile
5 11 (26.83%) Asset Management
5 11 (26.83%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (26.83%) Programme Management
6 8 (19.51%) DevOps
7 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
8 6 (14.63%) Change Management
8 6 (14.63%) Mentoring
8 6 (14.63%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (12.20%) AI
9 5 (12.20%) Incident Management
9 5 (12.20%) Integration Patterns
9 5 (12.20%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (9.76%) Software Delivery
10 4 (9.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) SQL
2 5 (12.20%) Python
3 4 (9.76%) COBOL
3 4 (9.76%) JCL
4 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.44%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.44%) C
5 1 (2.44%) Go
5 1 (2.44%) Groovy
5 1 (2.44%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) Korn
5 1 (2.44%) Perl
5 1 (2.44%) PHP
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (36.59%) QA
2 11 (26.83%) PMO
3 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.44%) NIST
4 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.44%) Terminal Server
2 1 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Ansible
1 4 (9.76%) CA Endevor
1 4 (9.76%) Terraform
2 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.88%) Argo
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.44%) Packer
4 1 (2.44%) SCCM
4 1 (2.44%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Salesforce
2 3 (7.32%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) Infor
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe
4 1 (2.44%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco
4 1 (2.44%) Google
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) Juniper
4 1 (2.44%) McAfee
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) Okta
4 1 (2.44%) VMware