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 £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 735 700 820
Rank change year-on-year -35 +120 -179
Permanent jobs requiring a Release Manager 40 54 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.093% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.10% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 32 33 46
10th Percentile £38,000 £34,723 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,504 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% -2.73% -9.95%
75th Percentile £74,500 £63,750 £65,938
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £74,375
UK median annual salary £64,000 £58,750 £58,318
% change year-on-year +8.94% +0.74% -6.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 28 May 2024.

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 28 May 2024. 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 -23 14 £73,000 +98.56% 2
South East -4 8 £38,000 -28.97% 3
North of England +36 7 £62,500 -7.41%
Midlands -1 7 £40,000 -5.88% 2
North West +7 4 £65,000 -
East Midlands -13 4 £40,000 -5.88% 2
West Midlands +12 3 £63,749 +2.00%
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Yorkshire +65 2 £41,500 -38.52%
Scotland -60 1 £75,000 +42.86%
North East - 1 £60,000 -
Release Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, 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 17 (42.50%) Release Management
2 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 13 (32.50%) DevOps
3 10 (25.00%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (25.00%) ITIL
3 10 (25.00%) Salesforce
4 9 (22.50%) Oracle
4 9 (22.50%) System Integration Testing
5 8 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 7 (17.50%) Degree
7 6 (15.00%) Agile
7 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (12.50%) Police
8 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
9 4 (10.00%) Retail
9 4 (10.00%) CMDB
9 4 (10.00%) Telematics
9 4 (10.00%) Change Management
9 4 (10.00%) Finance
9 4 (10.00%) Validation
9 4 (10.00%) CMS
9 4 (10.00%) Logistics
9 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) Apple
9 4 (10.00%) SQL

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 4 (10.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.50%) SAP HCM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.50%) PaaS
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Police
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (2.50%) IoT
2 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Release Management
2 13 (32.50%) CI/CD
2 13 (32.50%) DevOps
3 10 (25.00%) ITIL
3 10 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (22.50%) System Integration Testing
5 8 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 6 (15.00%) Agile
6 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
8 4 (10.00%) Change Advisory Board
8 4 (10.00%) Change Management
8 4 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 4 (10.00%) Logistics
8 4 (10.00%) Runbook
8 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (10.00%) Strategic Roadmap
8 4 (10.00%) Telematics
8 4 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
2 3 (7.50%) APMP
2 3 (7.50%) ISEB
2 3 (7.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) SLA
2 3 (7.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 9 (22.50%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) Apple
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) SAP