Release Management Jobs in the South West

Release Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Release Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Release Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 251 238
Rank change year-on-year +92 -13 +51
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 20 40 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.56% 0.41% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.50% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 20 26 21
10th Percentile £56,409 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £56,745 £52,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,814 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% +3.85% +44.44%
75th Percentile £79,688 £72,433 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £72,500 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,300 7,971 6,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.04% 81.38% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 5,719 3,481
10th Percentile £27,225 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -6.48% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the South West

Release Management
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the South West.

Salary trend for Release Management in the South West

Release Management
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the South West over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the South West

Release Management
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Wiltshire +47 8 £60,686 -10.09% 2
Bristol +52 6 £78,622 +12.32% 6
Somerset +13 6 £77,500 +55.00% 1
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) SaaS
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (25.00%) GitHub
3 5 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 5 (25.00%) Serverless
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) Figma
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (15.00%) OCI
5 3 (15.00%) PaaS
6 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
1 5 (25.00%) Postman
2 4 (20.00%) Selenium
2 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (65.00%) Retail
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Fire and Rescue
5 1 (5.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Change and Release Manager
1 8 (40.00%) Change Manager
1 8 (40.00%) IT Change Manager
1 8 (40.00%) IT Manager
1 8 (40.00%) Release Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Lead
4 3 (15.00%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Release Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Business Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Product Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Product Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
1 5 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 5 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 5 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 5 (25.00%) CSS
1 5 (25.00%) HTML
1 5 (25.00%) JSON
1 5 (25.00%) Tailwind CSS
1 5 (25.00%) XML
2 4 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (20.00%) NgRx
2 4 (20.00%) RxJS
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (5.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Agile
2 17 (85.00%) DevOps
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Product Management
3 9 (45.00%) Service Delivery
4 8 (40.00%) ITIL
4 8 (40.00%) ITSM
4 8 (40.00%) Project Delivery
4 8 (40.00%) Project Management
4 8 (40.00%) Service Management
5 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (25.00%) Logistics
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
5 5 (25.00%) SDLC
5 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Supply Chain Management
5 5 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 5 (25.00%) Web Development
6 4 (20.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (25.00%) C#
2 5 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
1 4 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle