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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 450 442
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -75
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 367 240 414
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.48% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.54% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 254 156 304
10th Percentile £40,825 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,250 £91,889 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £53,688 £59,500
% change year-on-year +15.48% -9.77% +5.26%

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 78,105 44,566 67,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.45% 89.27% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 53,741 25,228 43,541
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,575 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +3 322 £71,250 +18.75% 245
UK excluding London -27 208 £62,000 +15.48% 148
Work from Home +32 144 £70,000 -1.40% 105
London -27 127 £87,500 +20.69% 113
North of England +3 70 £73,000 +34.56% 37
South East -16 55 £60,000 +23.71% 47
North West +21 36 £73,500 +17.60% 26
Yorkshire -13 30 £77,500 +44.86% 7
Midlands -35 26 £53,688 - 21
South West -56 21 £39,000 -31.27% 11
West Midlands -41 17 £52,500 -2.21% 16
East of England -8 16 £58,475 -13.37% 18
Northern Ireland - 10 - - 3
Scotland +11 8 £33,000 +1.54% 11
East Midlands -20 8 £70,000 - 5
North East -63 4 £63,750 +82.14% 5
Wales -68 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 13 (3.54%) Confluence
2 12 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.36%) Camunda
4 5 (1.36%) IIS
5 4 (1.09%) CICS
6 3 (0.82%) Apache
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.82%) WordPress
7 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.27%) CMS
7 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.72%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.09%) Windchill
5 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.82%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.82%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.54%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.54%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.54%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (37.06%) Azure
2 79 (21.53%) Azure DevOps
3 65 (17.71%) Power Platform
4 45 (12.26%) Dynamics 365
5 41 (11.17%) SaaS
6 37 (10.08%) AWS
7 34 (9.26%) GitHub
8 26 (7.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (6.54%) Power Automate
10 22 (5.99%) Entra ID
11 20 (5.45%) PowerApps
12 18 (4.90%) GCP
13 16 (4.36%) Serverless
14 15 (4.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 14 (3.81%) Boomi
15 14 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (3.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 10 (2.72%) Azure Functions
17 10 (2.72%) Azure Key Vault
17 10 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.91%) DNS
2 6 (1.63%) VPN
3 5 (1.36%) ATM
3 5 (1.36%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.27%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.27%) DHCP
4 1 (0.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (11.44%) Power BI
2 25 (6.81%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.72%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.45%) Spark SQL
6 9 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.91%) Metadata
8 6 (1.63%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.63%) Tableau
9 5 (1.36%) Db2
9 5 (1.36%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.09%) MySQL
10 4 (1.09%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.82%) Big Data
11 3 (0.82%) Looker
11 3 (0.82%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 58 (15.80%) JIRA
2 31 (8.45%) Git
3 16 (4.36%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.81%) GitLab
5 6 (1.63%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.36%) JUnit
6 5 (1.36%) Mockito
7 4 (1.09%) ChangeMan
7 4 (1.09%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.54%) Postman
8 2 (0.54%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.27%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.27%) mountebank
9 1 (0.27%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 176 (47.96%) Social Skills
2 122 (33.24%) Finance
3 79 (21.53%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (8.45%) Law
5 27 (7.36%) Banking
6 25 (6.81%) Marketing
6 25 (6.81%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.54%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (5.45%) Legal
8 20 (5.45%) Retail
9 16 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
10 15 (4.09%) Investment Banking
11 14 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (3.54%) Manufacturing
13 12 (3.27%) Front Office
13 12 (3.27%) Local Government
14 10 (2.72%) Legal Technology
15 8 (2.18%) Financial Institution
15 8 (2.18%) Military
16 5 (1.36%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 54 (14.71%) Senior
2 53 (14.44%) Lead
3 46 (12.53%) Analyst
4 39 (10.63%) Developer
5 26 (7.08%) Senior Developer
6 25 (6.81%) Consultant
7 24 (6.54%) Administrator
8 23 (6.27%) Support Analyst
9 19 (5.18%) Systems Administrator
10 17 (4.63%) Release Manager
11 16 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (4.09%) Applications Support
12 15 (4.09%) DevOps Engineer
12 15 (4.09%) IT Manager
12 15 (4.09%) Service Manager
13 14 (3.81%) Applications Manager
13 14 (3.81%) Architect
14 13 (3.54%) Software Manager
15 12 (3.27%) Technical Leader
16 11 (3.00%) Programme Office Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.35%) REST
2 24 (6.54%) Middleware
2 24 (6.54%) SOAP
3 16 (4.36%) JSON
4 15 (4.09%) Lightning Web Components
5 13 (3.54%) .NET
5 13 (3.54%) React
6 12 (3.27%) EDI
6 12 (3.27%) XML
7 11 (3.00%) CSS
7 11 (3.00%) HTML
8 10 (2.72%) PySpark
9 9 (2.45%) ARM Templates
9 9 (2.45%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (2.18%) YAML
11 6 (1.63%) Visualforce
12 5 (1.36%) JPA
12 5 (1.36%) OAuth
12 5 (1.36%) OpenID
12 5 (1.36%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.45%) Onboarding
2 30 (8.17%) Management Information System
3 29 (7.90%) Product Ownership
4 23 (6.27%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (5.99%) Cloud Native
6 15 (4.09%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.45%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.91%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (1.91%) Podcast
11 6 (1.63%) Life Science
12 5 (1.36%) CMDB
12 5 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.09%) AI Agents
13 4 (1.09%) Legacy Code
13 4 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.09%) VSAM
14 3 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.54%) Linux
2 17 (4.63%) Windows
3 9 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.36%) Unix
5 4 (1.09%) zOS
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.27%) Android
7 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (43.05%) DevOps
2 136 (37.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 134 (36.51%) CI/CD
4 122 (33.24%) Agile
5 117 (31.88%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (25.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 91 (24.80%) ITIL
8 85 (23.16%) Change Management
9 61 (16.62%) Decision-Making
10 57 (15.53%) Roadmaps
11 51 (13.90%) Scrum
12 50 (13.62%) AI
12 50 (13.62%) Mentoring
12 50 (13.62%) Test Automation
13 49 (13.35%) Collaborative Working
13 49 (13.35%) Incident Management
13 49 (13.35%) Project Delivery
14 47 (12.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 46 (12.53%) Service Management
16 45 (12.26%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 91 (24.80%) SQL
2 48 (13.08%) Python
3 25 (6.81%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.09%) Java
4 15 (4.09%) PowerShell
5 10 (2.72%) Apex Code
5 10 (2.72%) SOQL
6 9 (2.45%) C++
6 9 (2.45%) SOSL
7 8 (2.18%) COBOL
8 7 (1.91%) Bash
8 7 (1.91%) C#
8 7 (1.91%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.36%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.09%) JCL
11 3 (0.82%) C
11 3 (0.82%) PHP
12 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 66 (17.98%) Degree
2 31 (8.45%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (5.18%) PMI Certification
5 17 (4.63%) PMP
6 9 (2.45%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.36%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.27%) CCSK
12 1 (0.27%) CSPO
12 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (18.26%) QA
2 37 (10.08%) Data Quality
3 29 (7.90%) GDPR
4 20 (5.45%) PMO
5 16 (4.36%) Accessibility
6 13 (3.54%) GRC
7 12 (3.27%) TickIT
8 11 (3.00%) SLA
9 9 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (2.18%) Def Stans
11 5 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (1.09%) ISO 9000
12 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 4 (1.09%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.82%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 15 (4.09%) Active Directory
1 15 (4.09%) Docker
2 6 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.82%) IAG
4 1 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.27%) Terminal Server
4 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (9.81%) Terraform
2 16 (4.36%) Ansible
3 13 (3.54%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.09%) CA Endevor
4 4 (1.09%) Grafana
5 3 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.54%) Argo
6 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.54%) SCCM
6 2 (0.54%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.27%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.27%) Packer
7 1 (0.27%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 98 (26.70%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.81%) Salesforce
3 24 (6.54%) ServiceNow
4 17 (4.63%) Databricks
5 15 (4.09%) SAP
6 14 (3.81%) Oracle
7 10 (2.72%) Google
8 9 (2.45%) FIS
8 9 (2.45%) SunGard
9 7 (1.91%) LogicMonitor
9 7 (1.91%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.63%) Intapp
10 6 (1.63%) VMware
11 5 (1.36%) HP
11 5 (1.36%) iManage
12 4 (1.09%) Cisco
12 4 (1.09%) Dell
12 4 (1.09%) VocaLink
13 3 (0.82%) Concur
13 3 (0.82%) Splunk