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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 409 334
Rank change year-on-year -64 -75 +15
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 179 353 450
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.62% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.69% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 119 223 335
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,700 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -1.47%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £56,525
% change year-on-year -15.65% +1.72% +2.77%

All Process and 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 48,869 51,114 45,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.21% 89.15% 93.71%
Number of salaries quoted 28,622 26,047 34,927
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,952 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.00% +4.76% -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 17 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 16 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 17 December 2025. 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 -66 162 £60,000 - 81
UK excluding London -50 91 £48,500 -15.65% 71
London -2 81 £82,500 +26.92% 37
Work from Home +33 73 £67,500 +12.50% 47
South East +19 31 £27,500 -54.17% 32
Midlands -31 19 £48,094 -14.50% 11
North of England +6 18 £52,500 -6.67% 8
West Midlands -25 17 £42,500 -26.09% 6
Wales +9 8 £48,500 - 7
Yorkshire -15 8 £60,000 +14.29% 1
South West -3 7 £51,250 -10.87% 7
Scotland 0 6 £22,129 -
North West +19 5 £60,000 - 5
North East - 5 £35,000 - 2
East of England +25 4 £55,000 -6.38% 11
East Midlands -3 2 £70,000 +64.71% 5

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 19 (10.61%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.94%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.94%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (7.82%) Apache Spark
4 11 (6.15%) Confluence
5 8 (4.47%) SharePoint
6 7 (3.91%) IIS
7 6 (3.35%) Apache
8 5 (2.79%) CMS
8 5 (2.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (1.68%) JBoss
10 2 (1.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (11.73%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (7.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (7.26%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Maya
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.68%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.68%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.12%) Endur
2 2 (1.12%) EuroRunner
2 2 (1.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.12%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.12%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (27.37%) AWS
2 48 (26.82%) Azure
3 15 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.82%) GCP
5 13 (7.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 11 (6.15%) Amazon EMR
7 10 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.59%) Serverless
8 9 (5.03%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.47%) Power Platform
9 8 (4.47%) SaaS
10 7 (3.91%) Power Automate
10 7 (3.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 6 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.35%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.35%) PowerApps
11 6 (3.35%) Route 53
11 6 (3.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.73%) SSL
2 6 (3.35%) Internet
2 6 (3.35%) SAN
2 6 (3.35%) WAN
3 5 (2.79%) LAN
3 5 (2.79%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.79%) VoIP
4 2 (1.12%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.56%) Firewall
5 1 (0.56%) HTTP
5 1 (0.56%) Intranet
5 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.56%) SSH
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.67%) SQL Server
2 27 (15.08%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.50%) MySQL
3 17 (9.50%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.94%) DB2
5 15 (8.38%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.38%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.82%) DynamoDB
7 11 (6.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (6.15%) Big Data
7 11 (6.15%) DataStage
7 11 (6.15%) Hadoop
7 11 (6.15%) Neo4j
7 11 (6.15%) Pentaho
7 11 (6.15%) RDBMS
7 11 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 26 (14.53%) JIRA
2 12 (6.70%) Git
3 4 (2.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.68%) Ant
4 3 (1.68%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.68%) Maven
4 3 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.12%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.12%) JMeter
5 2 (1.12%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.12%) NeoLoad
5 2 (1.12%) NUnit
5 2 (1.12%) Subversion
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.56%) Moq
6 1 (0.56%) MSTest
6 1 (0.56%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
General
1 82 (45.81%) Social Skills
2 78 (43.58%) Finance
3 41 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (15.64%) Banking
5 20 (11.17%) Investment Banking
6 18 (10.06%) Law
7 12 (6.70%) Front Office
8 10 (5.59%) Retail
9 6 (3.35%) Legal
10 5 (2.79%) Marketing
11 4 (2.23%) Local Government
11 4 (2.23%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.56%) Back Office
14 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.56%) Games
14 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (21.79%) Analyst
1 39 (21.79%) Applications Support
2 32 (17.88%) Support Analyst
3 24 (13.41%) Lead
4 20 (11.17%) Technical Support
5 18 (10.06%) Applications Support Analyst
6 17 (9.50%) Senior
7 15 (8.38%) Linux Support
7 15 (8.38%) Support Engineer
8 14 (7.82%) IT Analyst
9 13 (7.26%) IT Support
9 13 (7.26%) IT Support Analyst
9 13 (7.26%) Technical Analyst
9 13 (7.26%) Technical Support Analyst
10 11 (6.15%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (6.15%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (5.59%) Developer
11 10 (5.59%) Support Specialist
11 10 (5.59%) Unix Support
12 9 (5.03%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.29%) .NET
2 16 (8.94%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.94%) LDAP
2 16 (8.94%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (2.79%) .NET Framework
3 5 (2.79%) AngularJS
3 5 (2.79%) React
3 5 (2.79%) REST
4 4 (2.23%) CSS
4 4 (2.23%) HTML
4 4 (2.23%) Middleware
5 3 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.68%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.68%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (1.68%) Kafka
5 3 (1.68%) Pandas
5 3 (1.68%) RESTful
6 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (1.12%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.49%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.94%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (8.94%) Onboarding
3 15 (8.38%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.47%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.91%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.35%) Clustering
8 4 (2.23%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.68%) Derivative
9 3 (1.68%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.68%) Equities
9 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.68%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.12%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.11%) Windows
2 24 (13.41%) Linux
3 19 (10.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (9.50%) Unix
5 11 (6.15%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (32.40%) Agile
2 57 (31.84%) Continuous Improvement
2 57 (31.84%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (26.26%) CI/CD
3 47 (26.26%) ITIL
4 38 (21.23%) Change Management
5 37 (20.67%) DevOps
6 30 (16.76%) Analytics
6 30 (16.76%) Roadmaps
6 30 (16.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (15.64%) Service Management
8 24 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (11.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (11.17%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (10.61%) Change Control
11 19 (10.61%) Mentoring
11 19 (10.61%) Migration
11 19 (10.61%) SDLC
12 18 (10.06%) Data Migration
13 17 (9.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.93%) SQL
2 42 (23.46%) Python
3 18 (10.06%) C#
4 17 (9.50%) Java
5 11 (6.15%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.23%) Bash
8 3 (1.68%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.68%) Bicep
8 3 (1.68%) Groovy
8 3 (1.68%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.12%) C++
9 2 (1.12%) PHP
9 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (16.76%) Degree
2 20 (11.17%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (10.61%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.47%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.79%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.20%) SLA
2 19 (10.61%) QA
3 6 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.12%) GAAP
5 2 (1.12%) IFRS
5 2 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.35%) Docker
3 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 7 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.79%) Ansible
2 5 (2.79%) Terraform
3 3 (1.68%) Podman
3 3 (1.68%) Puppet
3 3 (1.68%) SCOM
4 2 (1.12%) Grafana
4 2 (1.12%) SCCM
5 1 (0.56%) Argo
5 1 (0.56%) Control-M
5 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.64%) ServiceNow
3 25 (13.97%) Salesforce
4 23 (12.85%) Oracle
5 19 (10.61%) IBM
6 16 (8.94%) Red Hat
7 11 (6.15%) Informatica
7 11 (6.15%) Talend
8 5 (2.79%) SAP
9 3 (1.68%) BMC
9 3 (1.68%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.68%) Remedy
9 3 (1.68%) VMware
10 2 (1.12%) Databricks
10 2 (1.12%) Dell
10 2 (1.12%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.12%) JD Edwards
10 2 (1.12%) Juniper
10 2 (1.12%) Lotus
10 2 (1.12%) Trayport