Release Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Release Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £58,373 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 722 700
Rank change year-on-year +170 -22 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Manager 27 41 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.069% 0.058% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.061% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 18 33 35
10th Percentile £46,000 £38,000 £34,723
25th Percentile £52,624 £40,000 £46,259
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,373 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,676 £74,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,568 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £56,745 £64,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -11.34% +8.94% -0.84%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Release Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Release Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Release Manager in the UK excluding London

Release Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 West +104 11 £56,745 -22.27% 2
Scotland +125 7 £78,441 +4.59% 6
Midlands +60 6 £61,250 +53.13% 7
West Midlands +55 4 £61,250 -3.92% 4
North of England +47 3 - - 4
North West +5 3 - - 4
East Midlands +31 2 £53,750 +34.38% 3
Release Manager
UK

Release Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Release Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Release Manager in the job title.

1 21 (77.78%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (44.44%) ITIL
3 12 (44.44%) Release Management
3 12 (44.44%) DevOps
4 11 (40.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (37.04%) Service Management
5 10 (37.04%) Scrum
5 10 (37.04%) Roadmaps
6 9 (33.33%) Agile Coaching
6 9 (33.33%) Release Train
6 9 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
6 9 (33.33%) ITSM
6 9 (33.33%) Coaching
6 9 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 8 (29.63%) Product Management
7 8 (29.63%) Azure
7 8 (29.63%) Service Delivery
7 8 (29.63%) Retail
7 8 (29.63%) QA
7 8 (29.63%) Project Delivery
8 7 (25.93%) JIRA
9 6 (22.22%) Migration
9 6 (22.22%) Confluence
9 6 (22.22%) ISO 20022
9 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
9 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
9 6 (22.22%) Commercialisation
10 5 (18.52%) Change Management
11 4 (14.81%) ITIL Certification

Release Manager Skill Set
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 6 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) JIRA
General
1 8 (29.63%) Retail
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Publishing
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Agile
2 13 (48.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (44.44%) DevOps
3 12 (44.44%) ITIL
3 12 (44.44%) Release Management
4 11 (40.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (37.04%) Roadmaps
5 10 (37.04%) Scrum
5 10 (37.04%) Service Management
6 9 (33.33%) Agile Coaching
6 9 (33.33%) Coaching
6 9 (33.33%) ITSM
6 9 (33.33%) Release Train
6 9 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 9 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
7 8 (29.63%) Product Management
7 8 (29.63%) Project Delivery
7 8 (29.63%) Service Delivery
8 6 (22.22%) CI/CD
8 6 (22.22%) Commercialisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
1 4 (14.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
1 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
1 4 (14.81%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) QA
2 6 (22.22%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft