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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 512 417 408
Rank change year-on-year -95 -9 -29
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 182 271 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.62% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.66% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 119 176 378
10th Percentile £43,578 £49,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,713 £55,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £86,625
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 57,853 40,823 73,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.06% 93.60% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 35,092 22,156 55,922
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,366 £29,000
25th Percentile £39,911 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%
75th Percentile £76,674 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 14 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 14 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 -109 167 £67,500 +3.85% 95
London -21 89 £72,500 +11.54% 40
UK excluding London -80 77 £62,500 -3.29% 71
Work from Home -3 64 £67,500 +4.45% 35
Midlands -47 19 £75,000 +30.43% 5
South East -21 16 £35,000 -41.67% 32
South West -40 15 £62,500 -9.42% 11
West Midlands -23 14 £72,500 +20.83% 3
North of England -56 13 £63,750 -5.56% 12
East of England +8 11 £59,450 -15.07% 11
Yorkshire -41 8 £60,000 +9.09% 3
North West -20 4 £60,000 -20.00% 9
East Midlands -32 4 £75,000 +87.50% 2
Scotland -13 3 £22,129 -53.21% 1
North East -20 1 £82,500 +50.00%

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 9 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.40%) Tomcat
2 8 (4.40%) WebSphere
2 8 (4.40%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (3.85%) Confluence
4 4 (2.20%) CMS
5 3 (1.65%) Apache
5 3 (1.65%) IIS
6 2 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (3.30%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.55%) Maya
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.65%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.65%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.10%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.10%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.55%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 61 (33.52%) Azure
2 35 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (17.03%) AWS
4 15 (8.24%) Power Platform
5 13 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 12 (6.59%) GCP
7 11 (6.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 9 (4.95%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
9 7 (3.85%) SaaS
10 6 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (3.30%) Serverless
11 5 (2.75%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.75%) dbt
11 5 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.75%) GitHub
11 5 (2.75%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.75%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.20%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.40%) SSL
2 6 (3.30%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.55%) Broadband
3 1 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) Intranet
3 1 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.34%) Relational Database
2 14 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.59%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.95%) Power BI
4 9 (4.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (4.40%) DB2
5 8 (4.40%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.40%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.85%) Big Data
6 7 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.85%) Metadata
7 6 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (3.30%) DataStage
7 6 (3.30%) Hadoop
7 6 (3.30%) MySQL
7 6 (3.30%) Neo4j
7 6 (3.30%) Pentaho
7 6 (3.30%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 19 (10.44%) JIRA
2 14 (7.69%) Git
3 9 (4.95%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.75%) GitLab
4 5 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.10%) JMeter
5 2 (1.10%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.10%) Subversion
6 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.55%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.55%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.55%) NUnit
6 1 (0.55%) Postman
6 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.55%) Selenium
6 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 72 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 63 (34.62%) Finance
3 27 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.19%) Banking
5 18 (9.89%) Law
6 12 (6.59%) Investment Banking
7 10 (5.49%) Legal
8 7 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.85%) Marketing
9 5 (2.75%) Public Sector
10 4 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.20%) Front Office
10 4 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.65%) Games
12 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.55%) Billing
13 1 (0.55%) Fire and Rescue
13 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.55%) Police
13 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (20.88%) Lead
2 28 (15.38%) Senior
3 22 (12.09%) Analyst
4 21 (11.54%) Applications Support
5 19 (10.44%) Developer
6 15 (8.24%) Support Analyst
7 12 (6.59%) Technical Leader
8 11 (6.04%) Software Manager
9 10 (5.49%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.95%) Applications Support Analyst
10 9 (4.95%) IT Manager
10 9 (4.95%) Service Manager
11 8 (4.40%) IT Analyst
11 8 (4.40%) Linux Support
11 8 (4.40%) Salesforce Developer
12 7 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
12 7 (3.85%) Senior Manager
12 7 (3.85%) Software Engineering Manager
13 6 (3.30%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.64%) .NET
2 12 (6.59%) React
3 9 (4.95%) .NET Core
3 9 (4.95%) REST
4 8 (4.40%) LAPP Stack
4 8 (4.40%) LDAP
4 8 (4.40%) WebSphere MQ
5 6 (3.30%) CSS
5 6 (3.30%) HTML
6 5 (2.75%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (2.20%) Middleware
7 4 (2.20%) SOAP
8 3 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.65%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (1.65%) PySpark
8 3 (1.65%) Visualforce
9 2 (1.10%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.10%) Next.js
9 2 (1.10%) Pandas
9 2 (1.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.64%) Management Information System
2 18 (9.89%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.59%) Reinsurance
5 11 (6.04%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.20%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.65%) Culture of Ownership
9 3 (1.65%) Derivative
9 3 (1.65%) Equities
9 3 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.65%) Podcast
9 3 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 23 (12.64%) Windows
2 11 (6.04%) Linux
3 10 (5.49%) Unix
4 9 (4.95%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.55%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (37.91%) DevOps
2 68 (37.36%) Agile
3 54 (29.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 53 (29.12%) CI/CD
5 50 (27.47%) ITIL
6 44 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (20.33%) Change Management
7 37 (20.33%) Roadmaps
7 37 (20.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (17.03%) Service Management
9 27 (14.84%) Incident Management
10 25 (13.74%) ITSM
11 24 (13.19%) AI
12 22 (12.09%) Scrum
12 22 (12.09%) SDLC
13 21 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (11.54%) ETL
13 21 (11.54%) Software Engineering
14 20 (10.99%) Root Cause Analysis
15 19 (10.44%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.47%) SQL
2 31 (17.03%) Python
3 15 (8.24%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 13 (7.14%) Java
6 8 (4.40%) C#
7 7 (3.85%) Apex Code
8 6 (3.30%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.65%) Bicep
9 3 (1.65%) SOQL
10 2 (1.10%) SOSL
10 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.55%) ABAP
11 1 (0.55%) Bash
11 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.55%) Go
11 1 (0.55%) Korn
11 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.55%) PHP
11 1 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (15.38%) Degree
2 13 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (6.04%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 7 (3.85%) PMP
5 6 (3.30%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.20%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.65%) MBA
9 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.10%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (18.13%) QA
2 11 (6.04%) SLA
3 9 (4.95%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.85%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.30%) GDPR
6 5 (2.75%) GRC
6 5 (2.75%) PMO
7 3 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.10%) GAAP
8 2 (1.10%) IFRS
8 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.10%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.55%) NIST
9 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.30%) Docker
2 2 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.55%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.95%) Terraform
3 4 (2.20%) Ansible
4 3 (1.65%) Grafana
5 2 (1.10%) SCCM
5 2 (1.10%) SCOM
6 1 (0.55%) Argo
6 1 (0.55%) Control-M
6 1 (0.55%) Kibana
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (18.68%) ServiceNow
2 28 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 24 (13.19%) Salesforce
4 11 (6.04%) Oracle
5 9 (4.95%) IBM
6 8 (4.40%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.30%) Informatica
7 6 (3.30%) Talend
8 5 (2.75%) Databricks
8 5 (2.75%) Remedy
8 5 (2.75%) SAP
9 4 (2.20%) BMC
10 3 (1.65%) Intapp
11 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.10%) VMware
12 1 (0.55%) Gemalto
12 1 (0.55%) Google
12 1 (0.55%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.55%) Triple Point