Release Train Jobs in the UK excluding London

Release Train
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Release Train skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Release Train over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 760 737
Rank change year-on-year +211 -23 +96
Permanent jobs citing Release Train 22 5 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.057% 0.007% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.008% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £60,000 -
25th Percentile - £65,625 £62,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year - +16.79% -3.86%
75th Percentile - £86,250 £76,625
90th Percentile - £87,000 £80,900
UK median annual salary - £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - -3.03% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Release Train 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 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Release Train
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Release Train in the UK excluding London

Release Train
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Release Train in the UK excluding London

Release Train
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 Train within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Scotland +134 12 - -
North of England - 8 - - 4
North West - 8 - - 1
South West +118 1 - -
West Midlands +63 1 - - 2
Midlands +59 1 - - 2
Release Train
UK

Release Train
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 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) SSL
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) MySQL
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
3 6 (27.27%) Marketing
4 3 (13.64%) Publishing
5 2 (9.09%) Retail
6 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Release Manager
1 9 (40.91%) Release Train Manager
2 6 (27.27%) Business Manager
2 6 (27.27%) Digital Product Manager
2 6 (27.27%) Product Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Release Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Product Ownership
2 4 (18.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 2 (9.09%) Online Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Agile
2 16 (72.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (68.18%) Roadmaps
4 11 (50.00%) Coaching
5 10 (45.45%) Scrum
6 9 (40.91%) Agile Coaching
6 9 (40.91%) Creative Thinking
6 9 (40.91%) Customer Experience
6 9 (40.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 9 (40.91%) Servant Leadership
6 9 (40.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (36.36%) Analytics
7 8 (36.36%) Journey Map
7 8 (36.36%) User Experience
8 6 (27.27%) Business Strategy
8 6 (27.27%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (27.27%) Commercialisation
8 6 (27.27%) Digital Marketing
8 6 (27.27%) Migration
8 6 (27.27%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) Java
2 1 (4.55%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Puppet
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle