Release Management Job Trends in the South West

Release Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West 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 165 167 197
Rank change year-on-year +2 +30 +39
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 12 22 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.24% 0.53% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.62% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 19
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,616 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,627 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -8.43% +20.13%
75th Percentile £63,750 £69,500 £72,466
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,350 £80,950
England median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -2.44% -5.38%

All Process & 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 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Release Management job vacancy trend in the South West

Release Management
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Release Management
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 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
Bristol +11 5 £45,000 -60.87% 4
Devon - 5 £62,500 - 5
Gloucestershire +20 1 - - 1
Release Management
England

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) dbt
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Software Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Development Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Software Development Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Release Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) .NET
1 4 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 4 (33.33%) React
2 3 (25.00%) PySpark
3 1 (8.33%) Playwright
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) AI
3 5 (41.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 5 (41.67%) Containerisation
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) SDLC
4 4 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
5 3 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Data Lineage
5 3 (25.00%) Data Management
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) ETL
5 3 (25.00%) Information Management
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (25.00%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Bicep
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft