Release Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Release Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 446 404 360
Rank change year-on-year -42 -44 +10
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 131 422 499
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.57% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.69% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 80 238 253
10th Percentile £46,164 £35,000 £39,710
25th Percentile £53,688 £47,500 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +3.48% +4.55%
75th Percentile £74,164 £70,000 £71,652
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £61,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% +1.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,483 61,419 55,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.65% 82.37% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 17,392 42,187 28,711
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,574 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.15% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,443 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.44% -9.69% +1.50%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Release Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Release Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK excluding London

Release Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Release Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South East +5 34 £60,000 +1.69% 137
Midlands +27 32 £53,688 -15.78% 70
North of England +8 32 £55,000 - 88
West Midlands +19 30 £53,688 -28.42% 37
North West -28 25 £65,000 +18.18% 45
South West +83 20 £64,814 -3.98% 36
East of England +44 9 £70,000 +2.19% 52
Yorkshire +51 5 £35,000 +7.69% 37
Scotland +86 3 £47,292 -14.01% 13
East Midlands +26 2 - - 25
North East - 2 £55,000 - 6
Wales +11 1 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Release Management
UK

Release Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (6.87%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.05%) IIS
3 2 (1.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (12.21%) SAP ERP
1 16 (12.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.58%) Infor M3
3 4 (3.05%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.76%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.76%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.95%) Azure
2 24 (18.32%) SaaS
3 23 (17.56%) GitHub
4 21 (16.03%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (16.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 18 (13.74%) Power Platform
6 17 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (12.21%) Power Automate
8 14 (10.69%) AWS
9 13 (9.92%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (8.40%) PowerApps
11 10 (7.63%) Azure Functions
11 10 (7.63%) Serverless
12 9 (6.87%) PaaS
13 8 (6.11%) Azure Logic Apps
14 7 (5.34%) IaaS
14 7 (5.34%) OCI
15 5 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
15 5 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.05%) Firewall
2 2 (1.53%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.53%) VPN
2 2 (1.53%) WAN
3 1 (0.76%) BGP
3 1 (0.76%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.76%) IPsec
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
3 1 (0.76%) OpenScape
3 1 (0.76%) OSPF
3 1 (0.76%) SAN
3 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.74%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.63%) Power BI
3 7 (5.34%) Data Lake
3 7 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.05%) Data Hub
4 4 (3.05%) SQL CLR
5 3 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (12.21%) Git
2 14 (10.69%) Selenium
3 11 (8.40%) SonarQube
4 8 (6.11%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.11%) JIRA
4 8 (6.11%) Visual Studio
5 5 (3.82%) Postman
6 4 (3.05%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (2.29%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (2.29%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.53%) NUnit
8 2 (1.53%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.76%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.76%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.76%) Newman
9 1 (0.76%) Redmine
9 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 50 (38.17%) Finance
2 49 (37.40%) Social Skills
3 24 (18.32%) Law
4 22 (16.79%) Manufacturing
4 22 (16.79%) Marketing
5 15 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (9.92%) Police
6 13 (9.92%) Retail
7 10 (7.63%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.82%) Banking
9 4 (3.05%) Back Office
10 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.53%) Legal
12 1 (0.76%) Automotive
12 1 (0.76%) Cantonese Language
12 1 (0.76%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Local Government
12 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (18.32%) Architect
2 21 (16.03%) Enterprise Architect
2 21 (16.03%) Salesforce Architect
3 16 (12.21%) SAP Manager
4 15 (11.45%) Developer
5 14 (10.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Lead
7 10 (7.63%) Release Manager
8 9 (6.87%) Change Manager
8 9 (6.87%) IT Manager
8 9 (6.87%) Senior
9 8 (6.11%) Analyst
9 8 (6.11%) Change and Release Manager
9 8 (6.11%) IT Change Manager
9 8 (6.11%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 7 (5.34%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 6 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) Release Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.08%) .NET
2 23 (17.56%) REST
3 22 (16.79%) Middleware
4 21 (16.03%) Lightning Web Components
4 21 (16.03%) SOAP
5 16 (12.21%) SAP Fiori
6 10 (7.63%) .NET Framework
7 8 (6.11%) HTML
8 7 (5.34%) ARM Templates
8 7 (5.34%) CSS
9 6 (4.58%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.58%) Azure Blueprints
10 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (3.82%) Bootstrap
10 5 (3.82%) JSON
10 5 (3.82%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (3.82%) XML
11 4 (3.05%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.05%) NgRx
11 4 (3.05%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (6.11%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.11%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.82%) Client/Server
4 4 (3.05%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.29%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.53%) Clustering
6 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Windows
2 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.05%) Linux
3 4 (3.05%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (1.53%) Android
4 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (46.56%) Agile
2 58 (44.27%) DevOps
3 45 (34.35%) CI/CD
4 38 (29.01%) ITIL
5 36 (27.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 33 (25.19%) Computer Science
7 31 (23.66%) Change Management
8 30 (22.90%) Data Modelling
9 29 (22.14%) ERP
10 27 (20.61%) Logistics
11 26 (19.85%) Data Privacy
12 25 (19.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (17.56%) Data Management
13 23 (17.56%) Design Patterns
13 23 (17.56%) Enterprise Architecture
14 22 (16.79%) Microservices
14 22 (16.79%) Software Delivery
14 22 (16.79%) TOGAF
15 21 (16.03%) E-Commerce
15 21 (16.03%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.32%) C#
2 21 (16.03%) Apex Code
2 21 (16.03%) SQL
3 16 (12.21%) ABAP
4 11 (8.40%) Java
5 8 (6.11%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.29%) Python
8 2 (1.53%) C++
8 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.76%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.76%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.76%) C
9 1 (0.76%) Dart
9 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.76%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.76%) PHP
9 1 (0.76%) Swift
9 1 (0.76%) XPath
Qualifications
1 36 (27.48%) Degree
2 27 (20.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (16.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (16.03%) Master's Degree
5 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (4.58%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (3.82%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.82%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.76%) CCNP
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.85%) QA
2 23 (17.56%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.58%) GxP
3 6 (4.58%) NCSC
4 2 (1.53%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.76%) GRC
5 1 (0.76%) NIST
5 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (10.69%) Docker
2 8 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.82%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (10.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.11%) Terraform
3 7 (5.34%) Ansible
4 2 (1.53%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 32 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.79%) SAP
3 21 (16.03%) Salesforce
3 21 (16.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 10 (7.63%) Oracle
5 9 (6.87%) VMware
6 6 (4.58%) Infor
7 3 (2.29%) Citrix
7 3 (2.29%) Dell
7 3 (2.29%) Isilon
8 2 (1.53%) Cisco
8 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.76%) Apple
9 1 (0.76%) Aruba
9 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.76%) BMC
9 1 (0.76%) IBM
9 1 (0.76%) Juniper
9 1 (0.76%) Pega
9 1 (0.76%) Remedy