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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 403 349
Rank change year-on-year -56 -54 +20
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 126 409 527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.58% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.69% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 80 232 271
10th Percentile £45,465 £35,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £53,688 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +5.31% +2.73%
75th Percentile £73,409 £70,313 £71,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £64,627 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.40% - +4.17%

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 36,325 59,458 57,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.93% 83.91% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 17,834 41,124 29,354
10th Percentile £26,929 £27,128 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 15 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 15 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
Midlands +10 33 £53,688 -15.78% 21
South East +27 32 £60,000 +1.69% 43
North of England +12 31 £55,000 - 28
West Midlands +19 29 £53,688 -28.42% 13
North West -39 24 £65,000 +18.18% 16
South West +93 20 £64,627 -4.26% 7
East of England +37 7 £70,000 +2.19% 21
Yorkshire +57 5 £35,000 +7.69% 10
East Midlands +19 4 £40,000 - 6
Scotland +80 3 £47,292 -19.50% 9
North East - 2 £55,000 - 2
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 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.59%) Confluence
3 2 (1.59%) IIS
4 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (12.70%) SAP ERP
1 16 (12.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (4.76%) Infor M3
3 3 (2.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.98%) Azure
2 25 (19.84%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (17.46%) SaaS
4 21 (16.67%) GitHub
4 21 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 18 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 16 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (12.70%) Power Automate
7 12 (9.52%) AWS
7 12 (9.52%) Azure Functions
7 12 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (9.52%) Serverless
8 11 (8.73%) PowerApps
9 10 (7.94%) PaaS
10 8 (6.35%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (5.56%) IaaS
12 6 (4.76%) OCI
13 5 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (3.97%) Azure Service Bus
14 4 (3.17%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.79%) BGP
2 1 (0.79%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.79%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.79%) IPsec
2 1 (0.79%) Network Security
2 1 (0.79%) OpenScape
2 1 (0.79%) OSPF
2 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.79%) VPN
2 1 (0.79%) WAN
2 1 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.90%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.94%) Power BI
3 7 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 7 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.59%) Data Hub
5 2 (1.59%) SQL CLR
6 1 (0.79%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (13.49%) Git
2 15 (11.90%) Selenium
3 13 (10.32%) SonarQube
4 10 (7.94%) Jenkins
5 8 (6.35%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.76%) JIRA
7 5 (3.97%) Postman
8 4 (3.17%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (2.38%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (2.38%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.59%) Appium
10 2 (1.59%) NUnit
10 2 (1.59%) Xcode
11 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.79%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.79%) FitNesse
11 1 (0.79%) Newman
General
1 47 (37.30%) Finance
2 45 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.25%) Law
4 22 (17.46%) Manufacturing
4 22 (17.46%) Marketing
5 16 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (11.11%) Police
7 13 (10.32%) Retail
8 11 (8.73%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.97%) Banking
9 5 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Back Office
10 2 (1.59%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.59%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Automotive
11 1 (0.79%) Cantonese Language
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (17.46%) Architect
2 21 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 21 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
3 16 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (12.70%) SAP Manager
4 13 (10.32%) Developer
5 12 (9.52%) Release Manager
6 9 (7.14%) IT Manager
7 8 (6.35%) Analyst
7 8 (6.35%) Change and Release Manager
7 8 (6.35%) Change Manager
7 8 (6.35%) IT Change Manager
7 8 (6.35%) Lead
7 8 (6.35%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 8 (6.35%) Senior
7 8 (6.35%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.56%) Release Engineer
9 6 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.25%) REST
2 21 (16.67%) .NET
2 21 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (16.67%) Middleware
2 21 (16.67%) SOAP
3 16 (12.70%) SAP Fiori
4 8 (6.35%) .NET Framework
4 8 (6.35%) ARM Templates
5 7 (5.56%) Azure Blueprints
6 6 (4.76%) CSS
6 6 (4.76%) HTML
7 5 (3.97%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (3.97%) Bootstrap
7 5 (3.97%) JSON
7 5 (3.97%) Tailwind CSS
7 5 (3.97%) XML
8 4 (3.17%) NgRx
8 4 (3.17%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (3.17%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 8 (6.35%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.97%) Client/Server
5 3 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.38%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.79%) Clustering
7 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.56%) Windows
2 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (2.38%) Android
3 3 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.59%) Linux
4 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (47.62%) Agile
1 60 (47.62%) DevOps
2 45 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 34 (26.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 34 (26.98%) ITIL
4 33 (26.19%) Computer Science
5 30 (23.81%) Data Modelling
6 28 (22.22%) Change Management
7 26 (20.63%) ERP
7 26 (20.63%) Logistics
8 24 (19.05%) Data Privacy
8 24 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (18.25%) Design Patterns
9 23 (18.25%) Enterprise Architecture
10 22 (17.46%) Microservices
10 22 (17.46%) TOGAF
11 21 (16.67%) Business Strategy
11 21 (16.67%) Software Delivery
11 21 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
11 21 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.46%) C#
2 21 (16.67%) Apex Code
3 16 (12.70%) ABAP
4 14 (11.11%) SQL
5 11 (8.73%) Java
6 5 (3.97%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.38%) C++
9 2 (1.59%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.59%) Python
9 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.59%) Swift
10 1 (0.79%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.79%) ActionScript 2.0
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) Dart
10 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.79%) PHP
10 1 (0.79%) XPath
Qualifications
1 36 (28.57%) Degree
2 27 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (18.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 21 (16.67%) Master's Degree
5 9 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.97%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.97%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.79%) CCNP
9 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.84%) QA
2 23 (18.25%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.56%) NCSC
4 6 (4.76%) GxP
5 2 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (11.90%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.59%) Firmware
4 2 (1.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (11.90%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.94%) Terraform
3 7 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 28 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.46%) SAP
3 21 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 21 (16.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 8 (6.35%) Oracle
5 6 (4.76%) Infor
5 6 (4.76%) VMware
6 3 (2.38%) Citrix
6 3 (2.38%) Dell
6 3 (2.38%) Isilon
7 2 (1.59%) Apple
7 2 (1.59%) Cisco
8 1 (0.79%) Aruba
8 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.79%) BMC
8 1 (0.79%) F5
8 1 (0.79%) IBM
8 1 (0.79%) Juniper
8 1 (0.79%) Remedy
8 1 (0.79%) Splunk