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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 456 437
Rank change year-on-year +57 -19 -112
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 515 217 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.44% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.49% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 280 144 231
10th Percentile £38,772 £32,500 £45,680
25th Percentile £51,138 £48,125 £52,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £96,375 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,475 £49,600 £57,013
% change year-on-year +17.89% -13.00% +0.86%

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 86,526 44,119 60,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.04% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 59,327 24,381 32,429
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +26 391 £70,000 +16.67% 601
UK excluding London +51 340 £58,475 +17.89% 308
Work from Home +50 189 £67,500 -1.82% 250
London -28 147 £83,000 +5.40% 311
Northern Ireland - 97 - - 6
North of England -10 79 £70,000 +27.27% 78
South East 0 72 £60,000 +118.18% 90
North West +2 44 £70,000 +12.00% 50
Midlands -47 37 £52,500 -2.21% 41
Yorkshire -12 28 £63,750 +6.25% 24
South West -60 25 £54,000 -4.84% 38
West Midlands -39 24 £51,250 -4.54% 25
East of England -15 17 £56,250 +2.27% 24
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 16
Scotland +4 9 £33,000 +49.13% 23
North East -63 7 £55,000 +57.14% 4
Wales -71 4 £85,198 +75.66% 8

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 24 (4.66%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.14%) Confluence
2 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (0.97%) Apache
3 5 (0.97%) Camunda
4 4 (0.78%) CICS
5 3 (0.58%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.58%) IIS
5 3 (0.58%) WordPress
6 2 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.78%) Windchill
6 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.17%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.58%) Carpe Diem
4 3 (0.58%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.39%) Maximo
5 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.39%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.39%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.19%) Actimize
6 1 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 158 (30.68%) Azure
2 95 (18.45%) Power Platform
3 92 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (9.90%) Dynamics 365
5 46 (8.93%) SaaS
6 43 (8.35%) AWS
7 40 (7.77%) GitHub
8 35 (6.80%) PowerApps
9 31 (6.02%) Azure Logic Apps
9 31 (6.02%) Power Automate
10 28 (5.44%) Entra ID
11 20 (3.88%) Serverless
12 18 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (2.72%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (2.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (2.52%) Azure Functions
16 12 (2.33%) GCP
17 11 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.36%) DNS
2 5 (0.97%) ATM
2 5 (0.97%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.97%) VPN
3 3 (0.58%) NAS
3 3 (0.58%) SAN
4 1 (0.19%) DHCP
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) FTP
4 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.43%) Power BI
2 24 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.08%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (1.94%) Metadata
6 10 (1.94%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.17%) Spark SQL
9 5 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.97%) Db2
9 5 (0.97%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.97%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.78%) GIS
10 4 (0.78%) Redis
10 4 (0.78%) SAP BW
10 4 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (10.68%) JIRA
2 51 (9.90%) Git
3 16 (3.11%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.33%) GitLab
5 6 (1.17%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.97%) Eclipse
6 5 (0.97%) JUnit
6 5 (0.97%) Mockito
7 4 (0.78%) ChangeMan
8 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.39%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.39%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.19%) git-flow
10 1 (0.19%) mountebank
10 1 (0.19%) Postman
10 1 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.19%) Subversion
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 283 (54.95%) Social Skills
2 182 (35.34%) Analytical Skills
3 168 (32.62%) Finance
4 95 (18.45%) Presentation Skills
5 44 (8.54%) Public Sector
6 36 (6.99%) Law
7 30 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (4.27%) Banking
9 22 (4.27%) Marketing
10 19 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (3.50%) Retail
12 14 (2.72%) Investment Banking
13 12 (2.33%) Front Office
13 12 (2.33%) Legal
13 12 (2.33%) Local Government
13 12 (2.33%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.94%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.94%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 142 (27.57%) Analyst
2 130 (25.24%) Senior
3 104 (20.19%) ITSM Analyst
4 81 (15.73%) Senior Analyst
5 79 (15.34%) Support Analyst
6 70 (13.59%) Process Analyst
7 55 (10.68%) Lead
8 47 (9.13%) Developer
8 47 (9.13%) Senior Process Analyst
9 43 (8.35%) Senior Support Analyst
10 37 (7.18%) Service Analyst
11 33 (6.41%) IT Analyst
12 30 (5.83%) IT Manager
13 28 (5.44%) Service Manager
14 27 (5.24%) Service Management Analyst
15 22 (4.27%) Consultant
15 22 (4.27%) Release Manager
16 21 (4.08%) Administrator
16 21 (4.08%) IT Services Manager
17 19 (3.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (9.13%) REST
2 34 (6.60%) Terraform
3 23 (4.47%) Middleware
4 22 (4.27%) SOAP
5 21 (4.08%) .NET
6 18 (3.50%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (2.33%) JSON
8 10 (1.94%) XML
9 9 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
9 9 (1.75%) PySpark
10 8 (1.55%) EDI
10 8 (1.55%) OAuth
10 8 (1.55%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.36%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.36%) JWT
11 7 (1.36%) OpenID
11 7 (1.36%) YAML
12 6 (1.17%) ARM Templates
12 6 (1.17%) React
12 6 (1.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.26%) Management Information System
2 28 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 27 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 26 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (3.11%) Cloud Native
6 12 (2.33%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.75%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.17%) Life Science
11 6 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.97%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.97%) CMDB
12 5 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.78%) Legacy Code
13 4 (0.78%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.85%) Linux
2 18 (3.50%) Windows
3 8 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.97%) Unix
5 4 (0.78%) zOS
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.19%) Android
7 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (55.92%) Continuous Improvement
2 210 (40.78%) ITIL
3 197 (38.25%) Change Management
4 168 (32.62%) DevOps
5 164 (31.84%) Service Management
6 155 (30.10%) Project Delivery
7 154 (29.90%) Decision-Making
8 151 (29.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 142 (27.57%) ITSM
10 141 (27.38%) Root Cause Analysis
11 140 (27.18%) CI/CD
12 134 (26.02%) Agile
12 134 (26.02%) Problem Management
13 132 (25.63%) Problem-Solving
14 130 (25.24%) Risk Management
15 126 (24.47%) User Experience
16 124 (24.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 119 (23.11%) Acceptance Criteria
18 111 (21.55%) Logistics
19 104 (20.19%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 84 (16.31%) SQL
2 45 (8.74%) Python
3 26 (5.05%) C#
4 17 (3.30%) JavaScript
4 17 (3.30%) PowerShell
5 14 (2.72%) Apex Code
5 14 (2.72%) Java
6 10 (1.94%) C++
7 8 (1.55%) COBOL
8 7 (1.36%) Bash
8 7 (1.36%) SOQL
8 7 (1.36%) SOSL
8 7 (1.36%) T-SQL
9 5 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.78%) Bicep
10 4 (0.78%) JCL
10 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.58%) C
11 3 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 153 (29.71%) Degree
2 48 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 37 (7.18%) SC Cleared
4 18 (3.50%) PMI Certification
5 16 (3.11%) PMP
6 12 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (2.14%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.19%) CCSK
14 1 (0.19%) CISA
14 1 (0.19%) CISM
14 1 (0.19%) CRISC
14 1 (0.19%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (13.79%) QA
2 41 (7.96%) Data Quality
3 27 (5.24%) GDPR
4 18 (3.50%) PMO
5 13 (2.52%) SLA
6 10 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.55%) Def Stans
8 8 (1.55%) TickIT
9 5 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.78%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.58%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
12 2 (0.39%) GxP
12 2 (0.39%) ISO 13485
12 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.39%) SOC 3
System Software
1 17 (3.30%) Docker
2 12 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.78%) Firmware
5 3 (0.58%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.58%) IAG
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.19%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (3.11%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.52%) Ansible
3 6 (1.17%) Grafana
4 4 (0.78%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.39%) Argo
6 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.39%) SCCM
6 2 (0.39%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 118 (22.91%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.77%) Salesforce
3 36 (6.99%) ServiceNow
4 25 (4.85%) SAP
5 18 (3.50%) Oracle
6 16 (3.11%) HP
7 15 (2.91%) Databricks
7 15 (2.91%) Workday
8 12 (2.33%) Google
9 9 (1.75%) FIS
9 9 (1.75%) SunGard
10 8 (1.55%) VMware
11 7 (1.36%) Concur
11 7 (1.36%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.36%) Pega
12 6 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.17%) iManage
13 5 (0.97%) LogicMonitor
13 5 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.97%) Okta