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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 445 475
Rank change year-on-year -10 +30 -87
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 319 244 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.52% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.57% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 226 157 359
10th Percentile £41,585 £45,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,175 £53,688 £50,944
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,627 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% +5.08% -1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £56,745 £59,000
% change year-on-year +18.95% -3.82% +2.61%

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 70,838 42,616 86,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.43% 91.47% 82.17%
Number of salaries quoted 48,971 23,341 61,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,171 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.34% - -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -10 286 £70,000 +8.00% 175
UK excluding London -28 170 £67,500 +18.95% 113
Work from Home +39 131 £70,000 +8.31% 76
London -34 113 £75,000 +11.11% 74
North of England -3 58 £73,500 +33.64% 28
South East -22 42 £57,303 -4.50% 38
North West +15 30 £73,500 +17.60% 20
Yorkshire -16 25 £72,500 +107.14% 7
South West -58 22 £63,000 -2.52% 10
Midlands -51 21 £70,000 +30.38% 19
East of England -3 20 £59,450 -15.07% 11
West Midlands -48 14 £58,094 +8.21% 10
East Midlands -21 6 £70,000 - 9
Scotland +19 4 £33,000 -30.22% 6
North East -52 3 £77,500 +40.91% 1
Wales -47 2 £55,395 -7.68% 4
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

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 11 (3.45%) Confluence
1 11 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.88%) IIS
4 4 (1.25%) CICS
5 3 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.63%) Apache
6 2 (0.63%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.63%) WordPress
7 1 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.31%) CMS
7 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (3.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.63%) Carpe Diem
3 2 (0.63%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.63%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 128 (40.13%) Azure
2 81 (25.39%) Azure DevOps
3 60 (18.81%) Power Platform
4 43 (13.48%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (10.03%) SaaS
6 26 (8.15%) AWS
7 25 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
8 23 (7.21%) Entra ID
9 22 (6.90%) GitHub
9 22 (6.90%) Power Automate
10 18 (5.64%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.70%) GCP
12 14 (4.39%) Boomi
12 14 (4.39%) Serverless
13 11 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (3.13%) Azure Functions
14 10 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (2.51%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.31%) Broadband
2 1 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.31%) DNS
2 1 (0.31%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.29%) Power BI
2 15 (4.70%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 14 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (2.82%) Spark SQL
6 8 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.51%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.57%) Tableau
8 4 (1.25%) Db2
8 4 (1.25%) MySQL
9 3 (0.94%) Big Data
9 3 (0.94%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.94%) Looker
9 3 (0.94%) Metadata
9 3 (0.94%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.63%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.63%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 50 (15.67%) JIRA
2 24 (7.52%) Git
3 12 (3.76%) GitLab
3 12 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.45%) Eclipse
5 5 (1.57%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.25%) ChangeMan
7 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.63%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.63%) Postman
7 2 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.31%) git-flow
8 1 (0.31%) Mockito
8 1 (0.31%) mountebank
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.31%) Selenium
8 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 136 (42.63%) Social Skills
2 101 (31.66%) Finance
3 51 (15.99%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.52%) Law
4 24 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.96%) Marketing
6 17 (5.33%) Banking
6 17 (5.33%) Legal
6 17 (5.33%) Retail
7 15 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (3.45%) Local Government
10 10 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (3.13%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.82%) Legal Technology
12 6 (1.88%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.88%) Military
13 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.25%) Environmental Health
14 3 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 55 (17.24%) Lead
2 53 (16.61%) Senior
3 42 (13.17%) Developer
4 30 (9.40%) Analyst
5 29 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 25 (7.84%) Administrator
7 22 (6.90%) Consultant
8 19 (5.96%) Systems Administrator
9 16 (5.02%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (5.02%) Release Manager
10 14 (4.39%) Applications Support
10 14 (4.39%) IT Manager
11 13 (4.08%) Software Manager
12 12 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.76%) Management Consultant
12 12 (3.76%) Salesforce Developer
13 11 (3.45%) Data Engineer
13 11 (3.45%) Programme Office Consultant
13 11 (3.45%) Service Manager
13 11 (3.45%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (13.48%) REST
2 24 (7.52%) Middleware
3 23 (7.21%) SOAP
4 18 (5.64%) React
5 16 (5.02%) .NET
5 16 (5.02%) JSON
6 14 (4.39%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (3.76%) EDI
7 12 (3.76%) XML
8 10 (3.13%) PySpark
9 9 (2.82%) ARM Templates
9 9 (2.82%) CSS
9 9 (2.82%) HTML
10 6 (1.88%) Visualforce
11 5 (1.57%) .NET Core
11 5 (1.57%) YAML
12 3 (0.94%) ASP.NET
12 3 (0.94%) ASP.NET Core
12 3 (0.94%) Swagger
13 2 (0.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.15%) Product Ownership
2 25 (7.84%) Management Information System
3 24 (7.52%) Onboarding
4 23 (7.21%) Data Structures
5 16 (5.02%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (4.70%) Cloud Native
7 13 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.19%) Culture of Ownership
9 7 (2.19%) Podcast
9 7 (2.19%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.25%) CMDB
10 4 (1.25%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.25%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.25%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.25%) VSAM
11 3 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.45%) Windows
2 6 (1.88%) Linux
2 6 (1.88%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.25%) zOS
4 3 (0.94%) Unix
5 2 (0.63%) Android
5 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (45.14%) DevOps
2 112 (35.11%) Agile
2 112 (35.11%) CI/CD
3 102 (31.97%) Continuous Improvement
4 86 (26.96%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (26.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 72 (22.57%) ITIL
7 62 (19.44%) Change Management
8 58 (18.18%) Roadmaps
9 53 (16.61%) Incident Management
10 49 (15.36%) Decision-Making
11 47 (14.73%) Scrum
12 43 (13.48%) ERP
13 42 (13.17%) Integration Patterns
14 41 (12.85%) ITSM
15 39 (12.23%) Test Automation
16 37 (11.60%) AI
17 36 (11.29%) Service Management
17 36 (11.29%) Technical Leadership
18 34 (10.66%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 89 (27.90%) SQL
2 35 (10.97%) Python
3 22 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.76%) Apex Code
6 10 (3.13%) SOQL
7 9 (2.82%) SOSL
8 6 (1.88%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.57%) Java
9 5 (1.57%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.25%) Bash
10 4 (1.25%) COBOL
10 4 (1.25%) JCL
11 3 (0.94%) C#
12 2 (0.63%) C++
12 2 (0.63%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.63%) PHP
12 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.63%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.31%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 48 (15.05%) Degree
2 20 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.96%) PMI Certification
4 17 (5.33%) PMP
5 16 (5.02%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.57%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.31%) CCSK
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (22.26%) QA
2 33 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 28 (8.78%) GDPR
4 21 (6.58%) PMO
5 14 (4.39%) Accessibility
6 13 (4.08%) GRC
7 12 (3.76%) TickIT
8 7 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (2.19%) SLA
9 6 (1.88%) Def Stans
10 5 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (1.25%) ISO 9000
11 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 4 (1.25%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.13%) Docker
3 5 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.94%) IAG
5 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.31%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 31 (9.72%) Terraform
2 17 (5.33%) Kubernetes
3 15 (4.70%) Ansible
4 4 (1.25%) CA Endevor
5 3 (0.94%) Grafana
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.63%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.31%) Argo
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.31%) Packer
7 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.31%) SCCM
7 1 (0.31%) SCOM
7 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (26.65%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.66%) Salesforce
3 31 (9.72%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.70%) Databricks
5 14 (4.39%) SAP
6 11 (3.45%) Oracle
7 7 (2.19%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.88%) Google
8 6 (1.88%) Intapp
9 5 (1.57%) VMware
10 4 (1.25%) Dell
10 4 (1.25%) iManage
11 3 (0.94%) Cisco
11 3 (0.94%) Concur
11 3 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.63%) Ariba
12 2 (0.63%) Citrix
12 2 (0.63%) HP
12 2 (0.63%) NetApp
12 2 (0.63%) SunGard