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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 501 418 468
Rank change year-on-year -83 +50 -81
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 235 250 473
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.58% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.62% 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 154 171 348
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% - -
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +20.83% +0.84% +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 68,019 40,426 81,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.51% 93.00% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 42,516 22,659 59,588
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -9.09%

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 May 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 6 May 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 -58 210 £72,500 +16.00% 105
UK excluding London -72 118 £72,500 +20.83% 83
London -59 88 £73,750 +13.46% 41
Work from Home -5 77 £71,250 +16.33% 80
North of England -24 44 £73,500 +33.64% 18
South East -34 25 £58,652 -2.25% 27
North West -12 21 £73,500 +5.00% 11
Yorkshire -36 20 £82,500 +135.71% 7
East of England -2 18 £59,450 -15.07% 9
South West -56 15 £62,500 -3.29% 8
Midlands -62 15 £75,000 +39.70% 10
West Midlands -48 11 £75,000 +39.70% 4
North East -28 3 £77,500 +40.91%
East Midlands -42 3 £75,000 +87.50% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 10 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.83%) Confluence
3 6 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.70%) IIS
5 3 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.85%) Apache
6 2 (0.85%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) CICS
7 1 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (2.98%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Maya
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (0.43%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.28%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.85%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.85%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.85%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.85%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (43.83%) Azure
2 65 (27.66%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (15.74%) Power Platform
4 26 (11.06%) Dynamics 365
5 25 (10.64%) AWS
6 22 (9.36%) Entra ID
7 17 (7.23%) GitHub
8 16 (6.81%) GCP
9 15 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (5.96%) Boomi
10 14 (5.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 12 (5.11%) SaaS
12 11 (4.68%) Power Automate
12 11 (4.68%) PowerApps
13 10 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (4.26%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (4.26%) Serverless
14 8 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.40%) Azure Functions
14 8 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.55%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.43%) Broadband
2 1 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.43%) HTTP
2 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.21%) Power BI
2 16 (6.81%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (5.96%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (3.40%) Spark SQL
6 8 (3.40%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.98%) Big Data
8 6 (2.55%) Metadata
8 6 (2.55%) MySQL
8 6 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (2.13%) DataStage
9 5 (2.13%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.13%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.13%) Neo4j
9 5 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.13%) Pentaho
9 5 (2.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 37 (15.74%) JIRA
2 20 (8.51%) Git
3 9 (3.83%) Eclipse
4 7 (2.98%) GitLab
5 6 (2.55%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.85%) Subversion
7 2 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.43%) ChangeMan
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.43%) JMeter
8 1 (0.43%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.43%) NUnit
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.43%) Selenium
8 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
General
1 91 (38.72%) Social Skills
2 75 (31.91%) Finance
3 39 (16.60%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.21%) Law
5 20 (8.51%) Marketing
6 16 (6.81%) Banking
7 13 (5.53%) Retail
8 12 (5.11%) Legal
9 11 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.40%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.55%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.70%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.28%) Games
15 2 (0.85%) Front Office
15 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
16 1 (0.43%) Environmental Health
16 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (23.40%) Lead
2 47 (20.00%) Senior
3 32 (13.62%) Developer
4 24 (10.21%) Senior Developer
5 20 (8.51%) Analyst
6 14 (5.96%) Software Manager
7 13 (5.53%) Administrator
7 13 (5.53%) Applications Support
7 13 (5.53%) Technical Leader
8 12 (5.11%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.68%) Engineering Manager
9 11 (4.68%) Software Engineering Manager
10 10 (4.26%) Release Manager
11 9 (3.83%) Applications Manager
11 9 (3.83%) Applications Support Analyst
11 9 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.83%) Consultant
11 9 (3.83%) Salesforce Developer
11 9 (3.83%) Senior Manager
11 9 (3.83%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.62%) REST
2 19 (8.09%) .NET
3 18 (7.66%) Middleware
3 18 (7.66%) SOAP
4 16 (6.81%) JSON
4 16 (6.81%) React
5 12 (5.11%) EDI
5 12 (5.11%) XML
6 11 (4.68%) PySpark
7 10 (4.26%) ARM Templates
7 10 (4.26%) CSS
7 10 (4.26%) HTML
8 9 (3.83%) Lightning Web Components
9 8 (3.40%) .NET Core
10 5 (2.13%) Visualforce
11 2 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (0.85%) Next.js
11 2 (0.85%) OAuth
11 2 (0.85%) Swagger
11 2 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.94%) Data Structures
1 21 (8.94%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.53%) Enterprise Cloud
2 13 (5.53%) Onboarding
3 12 (5.11%) Reinsurance
4 11 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 10 (4.26%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.98%) Culture of Ownership
6 7 (2.98%) Podcast
7 6 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.70%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.85%) CMDB
11 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.53%) Windows
2 9 (3.83%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.28%) Linux
4 2 (0.85%) Android
4 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) Unix
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.43%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (51.06%) DevOps
2 89 (37.87%) Agile
3 86 (36.60%) CI/CD
4 64 (27.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 61 (25.96%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (22.98%) Roadmaps
7 52 (22.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (18.72%) Incident Management
9 41 (17.45%) ITIL
10 37 (15.74%) AI
11 35 (14.89%) Test Automation
12 34 (14.47%) Scrum
13 33 (14.04%) Change Management
14 32 (13.62%) Data Modelling
14 32 (13.62%) ERP
14 32 (13.62%) Integration Patterns
14 32 (13.62%) Service Management
15 30 (12.77%) Software Engineering
16 29 (12.34%) ITSM
17 28 (11.91%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 79 (33.62%) SQL
2 34 (14.47%) Python
3 19 (8.09%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.81%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.68%) Java
6 8 (3.40%) Apex Code
7 6 (2.55%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.55%) VB.NET
8 5 (2.13%) SOQL
9 4 (1.70%) C#
9 4 (1.70%) SOSL
10 3 (1.28%) Bash
11 2 (0.85%) Bicep
11 2 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.85%) PHP
12 1 (0.43%) Groovy
12 1 (0.43%) JCL
12 1 (0.43%) Korn
12 1 (0.43%) Perl
12 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (15.32%) Degree
2 13 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (5.53%) PMI Certification
2 13 (5.53%) PMP
2 13 (5.53%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.83%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.70%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.70%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.28%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (1.28%) MBA
6 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.15%) QA
2 22 (9.36%) Data Quality
3 18 (7.66%) GDPR
4 13 (5.53%) GRC
5 12 (5.11%) TickIT
6 11 (4.68%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.98%) PMO
8 5 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.70%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.28%) SLA
11 2 (0.85%) GAAP
11 2 (0.85%) IFRS
11 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.43%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.43%) ISO 9000
12 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 1 (0.43%) NIST
12 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.70%) Docker
3 3 (1.28%) IAG
4 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.43%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 21 (8.94%) Terraform
2 14 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.98%) Ansible
4 3 (1.28%) Grafana
5 2 (0.85%) SCCM
5 2 (0.85%) SCOM
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.43%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.43%) Packer
6 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.19%) ServiceNow
3 26 (11.06%) Salesforce
4 15 (6.38%) Databricks
5 12 (5.11%) Oracle
6 9 (3.83%) SAP
7 5 (2.13%) Informatica
7 5 (2.13%) Talend
8 4 (1.70%) LogicMonitor
9 3 (1.28%) Google
9 3 (1.28%) Intapp
9 3 (1.28%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.28%) Remedy
9 3 (1.28%) VMware
10 2 (0.85%) BMC
10 2 (0.85%) Infor
11 1 (0.43%) Isilon
11 1 (0.43%) Pardot
11 1 (0.43%) Splunk
11 1 (0.43%) Triple Point