Release Management Job Trends

Release Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Release Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 445 454
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 -98
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 408 245 377
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.49% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.56% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 266 155 260
10th Percentile £40,750 £37,250 £44,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,745 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.36% -9.21% -
75th Percentile £87,188 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £88,750 £92,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% -11.67% +6.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 81,483 43,799 64,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.97% 88.49% 80.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,701 24,787 38,319
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,585 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -4.59%

Release Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Release Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Release Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Release Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Release Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Release Management

Release Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Release Management over the 6 months to 6 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 September 2026. 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
England -20 348 £70,000 +21.74% 363
UK excluding London 0 246 £60,000 +13.21% 200
Work from Home +30 167 £70,000 +12.00% 159
London -43 132 £87,500 +20.69% 198
North of England -18 72 £73,500 +37.38% 60
South East -20 65 £58,652 +52.34% 49
North West +5 37 £73,500 +17.60% 43
Yorkshire -25 30 £77,500 +44.86% 15
Midlands -36 30 £52,500 -2.21% 32
Northern Ireland - 26 - - 5
South West -64 23 £54,000 -4.84% 22
East of England -13 19 £57,500 +4.55% 23
West Midlands -47 19 £52,500 -2.21% 22
East Midlands - 11 £70,000 - 10
Scotland +12 9 £33,000 +1.54% 13
North East -67 5 £63,750 +82.14% 4
Wales -69 2 £55,395 +14.22% 2

Release Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 20 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.94%) Confluence
3 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.23%) Camunda
5 4 (0.98%) CICS
5 4 (0.98%) IIS
6 3 (0.74%) Apache
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.74%) WordPress
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.25%) CMS
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.45%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.98%) Windchill
5 1 (0.25%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.74%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.74%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.49%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.49%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 149 (36.52%) Azure
2 89 (21.81%) Azure DevOps
3 74 (18.14%) Power Platform
4 55 (13.48%) Dynamics 365
5 43 (10.54%) SaaS
6 40 (9.80%) AWS
7 36 (8.82%) GitHub
8 29 (7.11%) Entra ID
8 29 (7.11%) PowerApps
9 27 (6.62%) Azure Logic Apps
10 25 (6.13%) Power Automate
11 18 (4.41%) Serverless
12 17 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
12 17 (4.17%) GCP
13 14 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (3.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 13 (3.19%) Boomi
15 12 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 11 (2.70%) Azure Functions
17 10 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.72%) DNS
2 6 (1.47%) VPN
3 5 (1.23%) ATM
3 5 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.74%) NAS
4 3 (0.74%) SAN
5 1 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.25%) DHCP
5 1 (0.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (12.01%) Power BI
2 26 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 16 (3.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 15 (3.68%) Data Lake
5 13 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (2.21%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.21%) Spark SQL
6 9 (2.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.96%) Metadata
8 6 (1.47%) Tableau
9 5 (1.23%) Db2
10 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.98%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.98%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.74%) Looker
11 3 (0.74%) MySQL
11 3 (0.74%) NonStop SQL
11 3 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 57 (13.97%) JIRA
2 44 (10.78%) Git
3 17 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.43%) GitLab
5 6 (1.47%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.23%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.23%) JUnit
6 5 (1.23%) Mockito
7 4 (0.98%) ChangeMan
8 3 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.49%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.49%) Postman
9 2 (0.49%) Subversion
9 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.25%) git-flow
10 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 204 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 148 (36.27%) Finance
3 99 (24.26%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.78%) Law
5 27 (6.62%) Banking
6 26 (6.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (6.37%) Public Sector
7 25 (6.13%) Marketing
7 25 (6.13%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (5.15%) Retail
9 19 (4.66%) Legal
10 17 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
10 17 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.68%) Investment Banking
12 12 (2.94%) Front Office
12 12 (2.94%) Local Government
13 10 (2.45%) Legal Technology
13 10 (2.45%) Manufacturing
14 9 (2.21%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (16.91%) Senior
2 63 (15.44%) Analyst
3 56 (13.73%) Lead
4 46 (11.27%) Developer
5 39 (9.56%) Support Analyst
6 26 (6.37%) ITSM Analyst
6 26 (6.37%) Process Analyst
7 25 (6.13%) Consultant
8 24 (5.88%) Administrator
8 24 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 19 (4.66%) Systems Administrator
10 18 (4.41%) Release Manager
11 17 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (3.68%) IT Manager
13 15 (3.68%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.68%) Senior Support Analyst
13 15 (3.68%) Service Manager
14 14 (3.43%) Applications Support
14 14 (3.43%) Senior Process Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (12.25%) REST
2 36 (8.82%) Terraform
3 26 (6.37%) Middleware
3 26 (6.37%) SOAP
4 17 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (3.92%) .NET
5 16 (3.92%) JSON
6 12 (2.94%) EDI
6 12 (2.94%) React
6 12 (2.94%) XML
7 10 (2.45%) CSS
7 10 (2.45%) HTML
7 10 (2.45%) PySpark
8 9 (2.21%) ARM Templates
8 9 (2.21%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (1.96%) YAML
10 7 (1.72%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.47%) Spring
11 6 (1.47%) Spring Boot
12 5 (1.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 49 (12.01%) Management Information System
2 31 (7.60%) Onboarding
3 29 (7.11%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (5.15%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.68%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.21%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.47%) Culture of Ownership
11 6 (1.47%) Life Science
11 6 (1.47%) Podcast
12 5 (1.23%) CMDB
12 5 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.98%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.98%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.13%) Linux
2 17 (4.17%) Windows
3 9 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 6 (1.47%) Unix
5 4 (0.98%) zOS
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.25%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (41.67%) DevOps
2 161 (39.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 140 (34.31%) CI/CD
4 135 (33.09%) Agile
5 123 (30.15%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (27.45%) ITIL
7 104 (25.49%) Change Management
8 103 (25.25%) Stakeholder Management
9 76 (18.63%) Decision-Making
10 73 (17.89%) Project Delivery
11 66 (16.18%) ITSM
11 66 (16.18%) Service Management
11 66 (16.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 65 (15.93%) Collaborative Working
13 61 (14.95%) Roadmaps
14 59 (14.46%) Root Cause Analysis
15 55 (13.48%) ERP
15 55 (13.48%) Mentoring
16 53 (12.99%) Test Automation
17 49 (12.01%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 89 (21.81%) SQL
2 48 (11.76%) Python
3 25 (6.13%) JavaScript
4 18 (4.41%) C#
5 17 (4.17%) Java
6 14 (3.43%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.70%) Apex Code
8 10 (2.45%) C++
9 8 (1.96%) COBOL
9 8 (1.96%) SOQL
9 8 (1.96%) SOSL
10 7 (1.72%) Bash
10 7 (1.72%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.23%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.98%) JCL
13 3 (0.74%) C
13 3 (0.74%) Perl
13 3 (0.74%) PHP
14 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 79 (19.36%) Degree
2 38 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 31 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 18 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (4.41%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.92%) PMP
6 10 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.74%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.25%) CCSK
12 1 (0.25%) CSPO
12 1 (0.25%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (18.14%) QA
2 40 (9.80%) Data Quality
3 31 (7.60%) GDPR
4 19 (4.66%) PMO
5 15 (3.68%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.94%) GRC
6 12 (2.94%) TickIT
7 10 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (2.45%) SLA
8 8 (1.96%) Def Stans
9 5 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.98%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.74%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.74%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.49%) GxP
12 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.25%) SOC 3
System Software
1 16 (3.92%) Docker
2 15 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.98%) Firmware
5 3 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.74%) IAG
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.25%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (3.92%) Ansible
2 14 (3.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.98%) CA Endevor
3 4 (0.98%) Grafana
4 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.49%) Argo
5 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.49%) SCCM
5 2 (0.49%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.25%) Packer
6 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 110 (26.96%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.56%) Salesforce
3 22 (5.39%) ServiceNow
4 18 (4.41%) SAP
5 17 (4.17%) Oracle
6 16 (3.92%) Databricks
7 13 (3.19%) HP
8 10 (2.45%) Google
9 9 (2.21%) FIS
9 9 (2.21%) SunGard
9 9 (2.21%) VMware
10 7 (1.72%) LogicMonitor
10 7 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.47%) Workday
12 5 (1.23%) iManage
12 5 (1.23%) Intapp
12 5 (1.23%) NetApp
13 4 (0.98%) Cisco
13 4 (0.98%) Dell
13 4 (0.98%) VocaLink