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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 510 398 407
Rank change year-on-year -112 +9 -31
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 189 260 506
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.68% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 120 165 376
10th Percentile £47,250 £49,634 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £51,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -2.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,450
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year - +9.24% +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 59,591 38,445 75,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.47% 93.42% 86.89%
Number of salaries quoted 36,208 22,191 57,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £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 £101,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 25 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 25 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 -113 168 £70,000 +7.69% 92
London -35 89 £72,500 +11.54% 35
UK excluding London -118 77 £65,000 - 71
Work from Home -15 66 £70,000 +7.69% 39
Midlands -56 19 £75,000 +25.00% 7
South West -50 15 £62,500 -9.42% 8
North of England -54 15 £72,500 -3.33% 10
South East -57 15 £46,250 -22.92% 34
West Midlands -24 14 £72,500 +18.37% 6
East of England -14 11 £59,450 -15.07% 7
Yorkshire -36 10 £72,500 +31.82% 2
North West -32 4 £60,000 -20.00% 6
East Midlands -42 4 £75,000 +87.50% 1
Scotland -22 2 - - 2
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 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.70%) Confluence
3 6 (3.17%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.17%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.12%) CMS
5 3 (1.59%) IIS
5 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.06%) Apache
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.12%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.53%) Maya
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.59%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.59%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.06%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.06%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.92%) Azure
2 39 (20.63%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (16.40%) AWS
4 16 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.94%) GCP
6 14 (7.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 12 (6.35%) Entra ID
8 11 (5.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 9 (4.76%) SaaS
10 7 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (3.70%) Serverless
11 6 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (3.17%) Cloudflare
11 6 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.17%) Vercel
12 5 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.65%) Power Automate
12 5 (2.65%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.12%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.17%) SSL
1 6 (3.17%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Intranet
2 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.47%) Relational Database
2 12 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.35%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.29%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (5.29%) Power BI
4 9 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.70%) Big Data
5 7 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.70%) Metadata
5 7 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (3.17%) DataStage
6 6 (3.17%) DB2
6 6 (3.17%) Hadoop
6 6 (3.17%) MySQL
6 6 (3.17%) Neo4j
6 6 (3.17%) Pentaho
6 6 (3.17%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 21 (11.11%) JIRA
2 14 (7.41%) Git
3 9 (4.76%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.65%) GitLab
4 5 (2.65%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.06%) JMeter
5 2 (1.06%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.06%) Subversion
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.53%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.53%) NUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 74 (39.15%) Social Skills
2 64 (33.86%) Finance
3 26 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.64%) Law
5 21 (11.11%) Banking
6 13 (6.88%) Legal
7 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.76%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.70%) Marketing
10 6 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.65%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.59%) Front Office
12 3 (1.59%) Games
12 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Billing
13 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Police
13 1 (0.53%) Retail
13 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (21.69%) Lead
2 29 (15.34%) Senior
3 22 (11.64%) Analyst
4 20 (10.58%) Applications Support
5 18 (9.52%) Developer
6 14 (7.41%) Software Manager
7 13 (6.88%) Support Analyst
8 12 (6.35%) Technical Leader
9 10 (5.29%) Applications Support Analyst
9 10 (5.29%) Engineering Manager
9 10 (5.29%) Software Engineering Manager
10 9 (4.76%) IT Manager
10 9 (4.76%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.76%) Service Manager
11 8 (4.23%) Salesforce Developer
11 8 (4.23%) Senior Manager
12 7 (3.70%) Data Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.70%) Release Manager
13 6 (3.17%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.64%) .NET
2 15 (7.94%) React
3 11 (5.82%) REST
4 9 (4.76%) CSS
4 9 (4.76%) HTML
5 8 (4.23%) .NET Core
6 6 (3.17%) LAPP Stack
6 6 (3.17%) LDAP
6 6 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (3.17%) WebSphere MQ
7 5 (2.65%) PySpark
8 4 (2.12%) ARM Templates
8 4 (2.12%) Middleware
8 4 (2.12%) SOAP
9 3 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.59%) HTML5 Canvas
9 3 (1.59%) Visualforce
10 2 (1.06%) .NET Framework
10 2 (1.06%) Next.js
10 2 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.05%) Product Ownership
2 18 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 14 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 13 (6.88%) Data Structures
5 12 (6.35%) Reinsurance
6 9 (4.76%) Cloud Native
6 9 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.17%) Culture of Ownership
7 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.17%) Podcast
8 4 (2.12%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.59%) Derivative
9 3 (1.59%) Equities
9 3 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.11%) Windows
2 9 (4.76%) Linux
2 9 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.23%) Unix
4 6 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.68%) DevOps
2 74 (39.15%) Agile
3 60 (31.75%) CI/CD
4 59 (31.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (26.46%) ITIL
6 43 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (21.69%) Roadmaps
8 38 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 36 (19.05%) Change Management
10 33 (17.46%) Incident Management
11 32 (16.93%) Service Management
12 29 (15.34%) AI
13 26 (13.76%) Scrum
14 25 (13.23%) ITSM
14 25 (13.23%) Test Automation
15 24 (12.70%) Software Engineering
16 22 (11.64%) Data Modelling
16 22 (11.64%) ETL
17 20 (10.58%) Business Intelligence
17 20 (10.58%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.51%) SQL
2 30 (15.87%) Python
3 18 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.88%) Java
6 7 (3.70%) Apex Code
6 7 (3.70%) C#
7 6 (3.17%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.59%) Bicep
8 3 (1.59%) SOQL
9 2 (1.06%) SOSL
9 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.53%) ABAP
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) Korn
10 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.53%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (15.34%) Degree
2 11 (5.82%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.23%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.23%) PMP
5 7 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.17%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.65%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.12%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.59%) MBA
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (18.52%) QA
2 11 (5.82%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.29%) GRC
3 10 (5.29%) SLA
4 9 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.76%) GDPR
5 5 (2.65%) PMO
6 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.59%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.06%) GAAP
7 2 (1.06%) IFRS
8 1 (0.53%) NIST
8 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.53%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.82%) Terraform
3 4 (2.12%) Ansible
4 3 (1.59%) Grafana
5 2 (1.06%) SCCM
5 2 (1.06%) SCOM
6 1 (0.53%) Argo
6 1 (0.53%) Control-M
6 1 (0.53%) Kibana
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (17.99%) ServiceNow
2 28 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 25 (13.23%) Salesforce
4 12 (6.35%) Oracle
5 7 (3.70%) Databricks
5 7 (3.70%) IBM
6 6 (3.17%) Informatica
6 6 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.17%) Talend
7 5 (2.65%) Remedy
7 5 (2.65%) SAP
8 4 (2.12%) BMC
9 3 (1.59%) Intapp
9 3 (1.59%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.06%) VMware
11 1 (0.53%) Google
11 1 (0.53%) Infor
11 1 (0.53%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.53%) Triple Point