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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 433 450 468
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 -130
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 425 241 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.49% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 278 158 234
10th Percentile £38,772 £35,000 £45,680
25th Percentile £51,213 £48,250 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,021 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.95% -10.37% -
75th Percentile £84,875 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £89,125 £90,001
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £51,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +17.07% -14.58% +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 83,236 43,812 63,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 88.75% 81.16%
Number of salaries quoted 57,755 24,707 35,897
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,500
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

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 16 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 16 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 +5 369 £70,000 +22.54% 654
UK excluding London +1 262 £60,000 +17.07% 383
Work from Home +52 183 £65,750 +4.37% 287
London -29 134 £85,000 +9.68% 343
North of England -12 79 £72,500 +35.51% 102
South East -25 69 £60,000 +101.68% 83
North West +14 43 £73,500 +17.60% 69
Midlands -30 35 £52,500 -2.21% 50
Yorkshire -11 30 £72,500 +35.51% 26
Northern Ireland - 26 - - 31
South West -61 24 £45,000 -20.70% 36
West Midlands -52 22 £51,875 -3.38% 31
East of England -17 18 £56,250 +2.27% 35
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 19
Scotland +13 9 £33,000 +49.13% 41
North East -63 6 £55,000 +57.14% 8
Wales -83 2 £55,395 +14.22% 10

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 22 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.82%) Confluence
3 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.18%) Camunda
5 4 (0.94%) CICS
6 3 (0.71%) IIS
6 3 (0.71%) WordPress
7 2 (0.47%) Apache
7 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.24%) CMS
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.59%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.94%) Windchill
6 1 (0.24%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (3.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.71%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.71%) Elite 3E
3 3 (0.71%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.47%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.47%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.47%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.24%) Maximo
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 153 (36.00%) Azure
2 90 (21.18%) Power Platform
3 88 (20.71%) Azure DevOps
4 58 (13.65%) Dynamics 365
5 44 (10.35%) SaaS
6 41 (9.65%) AWS
7 36 (8.47%) GitHub
8 33 (7.76%) PowerApps
9 28 (6.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 28 (6.59%) Entra ID
9 28 (6.59%) Power Automate
10 17 (4.00%) Serverless
11 16 (3.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 16 (3.76%) GCP
12 15 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.82%) Boomi
13 12 (2.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 12 (2.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 11 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (2.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.65%) DNS
2 6 (1.41%) VPN
3 5 (1.18%) ATM
3 5 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.71%) NAS
4 3 (0.71%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) DHCP
5 1 (0.24%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (14.59%) Power BI
2 25 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 20 (4.71%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 14 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.35%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.88%) Metadata
9 8 (1.88%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.41%) Tableau
11 5 (1.18%) Db2
11 5 (1.18%) RDBMS
12 4 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.94%) SAP BW
13 3 (0.71%) GIS
13 3 (0.71%) Looker
13 3 (0.71%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (12.94%) JIRA
2 47 (11.06%) Git
3 14 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.35%) GitLab
5 6 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.18%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.18%) JUnit
6 5 (1.18%) Mockito
7 4 (0.94%) ChangeMan
8 3 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.47%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.47%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.24%) git-flow
10 1 (0.24%) mountebank
10 1 (0.24%) Postman
10 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 204 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 151 (35.53%) Finance
3 106 (24.94%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (9.65%) Law
5 35 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.12%) Marketing
6 26 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (5.41%) Banking
9 22 (5.18%) Retail
10 18 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (3.53%) Legal
13 14 (3.29%) Investment Banking
14 12 (2.82%) Front Office
14 12 (2.82%) Local Government
14 12 (2.82%) Manufacturing
15 9 (2.12%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.88%) Military
17 7 (1.65%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 70 (16.47%) Senior
2 68 (16.00%) Analyst
3 55 (12.94%) Lead
4 48 (11.29%) Developer
5 39 (9.18%) Support Analyst
6 27 (6.35%) IT Manager
7 26 (6.12%) ITSM Analyst
7 26 (6.12%) Process Analyst
7 26 (6.12%) Service Manager
8 24 (5.65%) Consultant
9 23 (5.41%) Administrator
9 23 (5.41%) Senior Developer
10 19 (4.47%) IT Services Manager
10 19 (4.47%) Systems Administrator
11 18 (4.24%) Release Manager
12 16 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
12 16 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.53%) Applications Support
13 15 (3.53%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.53%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.53%) REST
2 32 (7.53%) Terraform
3 26 (6.12%) SOAP
4 25 (5.88%) Middleware
5 18 (4.24%) Lightning Web Components
6 17 (4.00%) .NET
7 16 (3.76%) JSON
8 12 (2.82%) EDI
8 12 (2.82%) XML
9 11 (2.59%) PySpark
10 9 (2.12%) FIX Protocol
10 9 (2.12%) React
11 8 (1.88%) ARM Templates
11 8 (1.88%) YAML
12 7 (1.65%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.65%) CSS
12 7 (1.65%) HTML
13 6 (1.41%) Spring
13 6 (1.41%) Spring Boot
14 5 (1.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.47%) Management Information System
2 30 (7.06%) Onboarding
3 27 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 24 (5.65%) Enterprise Software
5 20 (4.71%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.53%) Data Structures
7 14 (3.29%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.12%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.41%) Life Science
12 5 (1.18%) CMDB
12 5 (1.18%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.94%) AI Agents
13 4 (0.94%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.94%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.88%) Linux
2 15 (3.53%) Windows
3 8 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.18%) Unix
5 4 (0.94%) zOS
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (41.65%) Continuous Improvement
2 165 (38.82%) DevOps
3 138 (32.47%) CI/CD
4 129 (30.35%) Problem-Solving
5 127 (29.88%) Agile
6 125 (29.41%) ITIL
7 117 (27.53%) Change Management
8 109 (25.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 82 (19.29%) Service Management
10 79 (18.59%) Decision-Making
11 73 (17.18%) Collaborative Working
12 72 (16.94%) Project Delivery
13 70 (16.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 66 (15.53%) Mentoring
15 65 (15.29%) ITSM
16 62 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
17 60 (14.12%) Roadmaps
18 59 (13.88%) Root Cause Analysis
19 57 (13.41%) ERP
20 53 (12.47%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (20.94%) SQL
2 47 (11.06%) Python
3 21 (4.94%) JavaScript
4 20 (4.71%) C#
5 16 (3.76%) Java
6 14 (3.29%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.06%) Apex Code
8 10 (2.35%) C++
9 8 (1.88%) COBOL
10 7 (1.65%) Bash
10 7 (1.65%) SOQL
10 7 (1.65%) SOSL
10 7 (1.65%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.18%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.94%) JCL
12 4 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.71%) C
13 3 (0.71%) Perl
13 3 (0.71%) PHP
14 2 (0.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 76 (17.88%) Degree
2 41 (9.65%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.76%) SC Cleared
4 16 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.53%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.06%) PMP
7 10 (2.35%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.24%) CCSK
13 1 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.24%) CRISC
13 1 (0.24%) CSPO
13 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (17.18%) QA
2 42 (9.88%) Data Quality
3 29 (6.82%) GDPR
4 19 (4.47%) PMO
5 13 (3.06%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.82%) SLA
6 12 (2.82%) TickIT
7 9 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.88%) Def Stans
9 7 (1.65%) GRC
10 4 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.94%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.71%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.47%) GxP
13 1 (0.24%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.24%) SOC 3
System Software
1 15 (3.53%) Docker
2 14 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.94%) Firmware
5 3 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.71%) IAG
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (3.29%) Ansible
2 13 (3.06%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.94%) CA Endevor
4 3 (0.71%) Grafana
4 3 (0.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.47%) Argo
5 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.47%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.24%) Packer
6 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 119 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 39 (9.18%) Salesforce
3 36 (8.47%) ServiceNow
4 22 (5.18%) SAP
5 17 (4.00%) Databricks
5 17 (4.00%) Oracle
6 15 (3.53%) HP
7 13 (3.06%) Google
8 9 (2.12%) FIS
8 9 (2.12%) SunGard
8 9 (2.12%) Workday
9 8 (1.88%) VMware
10 7 (1.65%) OpenAI
11 6 (1.41%) LogicMonitor
12 5 (1.18%) Concur
12 5 (1.18%) iManage
12 5 (1.18%) NetApp
13 4 (0.94%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.94%) Dell
13 4 (0.94%) VocaLink