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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 406 406
Rank change year-on-year -102 0 -21
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 184 262 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.62% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.66% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 118 169 375
10th Percentile £44,654 £50,963 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -2.39%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,627 £59,500
% change year-on-year -3.29% +8.62% +8.18%

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 58,555 39,559 74,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.69% 93.50% 87.13%
Number of salaries quoted 35,503 22,222 56,291
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,750 £29,035
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,910 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.90%

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 20 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 15 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 20 March 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 -97 166 £70,000 +7.69% 94
London -32 89 £72,500 +11.54% 41
UK excluding London -92 75 £62,500 -3.29% 68
Work from Home -10 64 £67,500 +3.85% 34
Midlands -51 19 £75,000 +25.00% 2
South West -37 15 £62,500 -9.42% 9
South East -40 15 £42,500 -29.17% 34
West Midlands -20 14 £72,500 +20.83% 1
North of England -49 13 £70,000 -6.67% 11
East of England -10 11 £59,450 -15.07% 11
Yorkshire -42 8 £72,500 +31.82% 3
North West -27 4 £60,000 -20.00% 6
East Midlands -51 4 £75,000 +87.50% 1
Scotland -23 2 - - 3
North East -25 1 £82,500 +50.00% 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 8 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.80%) Confluence
2 7 (3.80%) Tomcat
2 7 (3.80%) WebSphere
2 7 (3.80%) WebSphere Application Server
3 4 (2.17%) CMS
4 3 (1.63%) IIS
4 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.09%) Apache
6 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.72%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.54%) Maya
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.63%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.63%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.09%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.09%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.54%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 64 (34.78%) Azure
2 37 (20.11%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (16.85%) AWS
4 15 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 14 (7.61%) GCP
5 14 (7.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 11 (5.98%) Entra ID
6 11 (5.98%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 8 (4.35%) SaaS
8 7 (3.80%) Amazon EMR
9 6 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.26%) Serverless
10 5 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (2.72%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (2.72%) Cloudflare
10 5 (2.72%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.72%) PowerApps
10 5 (2.72%) Vercel
11 4 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.80%) SSL
2 6 (3.26%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.54%) Broadband
3 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
3 1 (0.54%) Intranet
3 1 (0.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 13 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.98%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.89%) Power BI
4 9 (4.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.80%) Big Data
5 7 (3.80%) DB2
5 7 (3.80%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.80%) Metadata
5 7 (3.80%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.80%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.26%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (3.26%) DataStage
6 6 (3.26%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.26%) MySQL
6 6 (3.26%) Neo4j
6 6 (3.26%) Pentaho
6 6 (3.26%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 20 (10.87%) JIRA
2 14 (7.61%) Git
3 9 (4.89%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.72%) GitLab
4 5 (2.72%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.09%) JMeter
5 2 (1.09%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.09%) Subversion
6 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.54%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.54%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.54%) NUnit
6 1 (0.54%) Postman
6 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.54%) Selenium
6 1 (0.54%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 73 (39.67%) Social Skills
2 63 (34.24%) Finance
3 26 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.96%) Banking
5 20 (10.87%) Law
6 12 (6.52%) Legal
7 10 (5.43%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.80%) Marketing
10 6 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.72%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.63%) Front Office
13 3 (1.63%) Games
13 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.54%) Billing
14 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.54%) Police
14 1 (0.54%) Retail
14 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (21.20%) Lead
2 26 (14.13%) Senior
3 22 (11.96%) Analyst
4 20 (10.87%) Applications Support
5 18 (9.78%) Developer
6 14 (7.61%) Support Analyst
7 13 (7.07%) Software Manager
8 12 (6.52%) Technical Leader
9 9 (4.89%) Applications Support Analyst
9 9 (4.89%) Engineering Manager
9 9 (4.89%) IT Manager
9 9 (4.89%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.89%) Service Manager
9 9 (4.89%) Software Engineering Manager
10 8 (4.35%) Salesforce Developer
11 7 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.80%) IT Analyst
11 7 (3.80%) Linux Support
11 7 (3.80%) Release Manager
11 7 (3.80%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.96%) .NET
2 14 (7.61%) React
3 10 (5.43%) REST
4 8 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 8 (4.35%) CSS
4 8 (4.35%) HTML
5 7 (3.80%) LAPP Stack
5 7 (3.80%) LDAP
5 7 (3.80%) WebSphere MQ
6 6 (3.26%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (2.17%) Middleware
7 4 (2.17%) PySpark
7 4 (2.17%) SOAP
8 3 (1.63%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (1.63%) Visualforce
9 2 (1.09%) Next.js
9 2 (1.09%) OAuth
9 2 (1.09%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.87%) Management Information System
2 18 (9.78%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.07%) Data Structures
3 13 (7.07%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.52%) Reinsurance
5 8 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.72%) Culture of Ownership
8 5 (2.72%) Podcast
9 4 (2.17%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.63%) Derivative
10 3 (1.63%) Equities
10 3 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.09%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.96%) Windows
2 10 (5.43%) Linux
3 9 (4.89%) Unix
3 9 (4.89%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.54%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (38.59%) Agile
2 70 (38.04%) DevOps
3 58 (31.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 57 (30.98%) CI/CD
5 50 (27.17%) ITIL
6 41 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (21.20%) Roadmaps
8 37 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (19.57%) Change Management
10 31 (16.85%) Service Management
11 29 (15.76%) Incident Management
12 27 (14.67%) AI
13 25 (13.59%) ITSM
14 23 (12.50%) Scrum
15 22 (11.96%) Software Engineering
15 22 (11.96%) Test Automation
16 21 (11.41%) Data Modelling
16 21 (11.41%) ETL
17 20 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
17 20 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.17%) SQL
2 30 (16.30%) Python
3 17 (9.24%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.61%) PowerShell
5 13 (7.07%) Java
6 7 (3.80%) Apex Code
6 7 (3.80%) C#
7 6 (3.26%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.63%) Bicep
8 3 (1.63%) SOQL
9 2 (1.09%) SOSL
9 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.54%) ABAP
10 1 (0.54%) Bash
10 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.54%) Go
10 1 (0.54%) Korn
10 1 (0.54%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.54%) PHP
10 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (14.67%) Degree
2 12 (6.52%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (5.43%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.80%) PMI Certification
4 7 (3.80%) PMP
5 6 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.26%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.72%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.17%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.63%) MBA
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.09%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.93%) QA
2 10 (5.43%) Accessibility
2 10 (5.43%) SLA
3 9 (4.89%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.35%) GRC
5 7 (3.80%) GDPR
6 5 (2.72%) PMO
7 3 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.09%) GAAP
8 2 (1.09%) IFRS
8 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.54%) NIST
9 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.72%) Docker
2 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.54%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.43%) Terraform
3 4 (2.17%) Ansible
4 3 (1.63%) Grafana
5 2 (1.09%) SCCM
5 2 (1.09%) SCOM
6 1 (0.54%) Argo
6 1 (0.54%) Control-M
6 1 (0.54%) Kibana
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.54%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (18.48%) ServiceNow
2 28 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 25 (13.59%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.98%) Oracle
5 8 (4.35%) IBM
6 7 (3.80%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.26%) Databricks
7 6 (3.26%) Informatica
7 6 (3.26%) Talend
8 5 (2.72%) Remedy
8 5 (2.72%) SAP
9 4 (2.17%) BMC
10 3 (1.63%) Intapp
10 3 (1.63%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.09%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.09%) VMware
12 1 (0.54%) Gemalto
12 1 (0.54%) Google
12 1 (0.54%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.54%) Triple Point