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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 457 415
Rank change year-on-year +69 -42 -92
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 513 216 369
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.44% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.49% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 274 145 236
10th Percentile £38,772 £32,500 £45,680
25th Percentile £51,013 £47,750 £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 £82,500 £77,813
90th Percentile £107,500 £96,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £48,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +18.56% -15.65% +1.72%

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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
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 £97,500
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 10 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 10 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 +24 389 £70,000 +17.15% 557
UK excluding London +64 340 £57,500 +18.56% 214
Work from Home +37 189 £67,500 +3.85% 207
London -8 145 £83,000 +7.10% 335
Northern Ireland - 97 - - 8
North of England -4 76 £64,500 +43.33% 49
South East -15 71 £60,000 +118.18% 61
North West +10 42 £70,000 +7.69% 33
Midlands -32 37 £52,500 -2.21% 34
Yorkshire -10 27 £55,000 -8.33% 14
South West -58 27 £63,000 +12.76% 25
West Midlands -50 24 £51,250 -4.54% 27
East of England -20 19 £56,250 +2.27% 20
East Midlands - 13 £70,000 - 7
Scotland +15 9 £33,000 +49.13% 11
North East -69 7 £55,000 +57.14% 2
Wales -82 4 £85,198 +75.66% 6

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 25 (4.87%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.14%) Confluence
3 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.17%) Apache
5 5 (0.97%) Camunda
6 4 (0.78%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.78%) CICS
7 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.58%) IIS
7 3 (0.58%) WordPress
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.53%) 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 (3.12%) 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%) Infor CloudSuite
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%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 158 (30.80%) Azure
2 95 (18.52%) Power Platform
3 90 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (9.16%) AWS
4 47 (9.16%) Dynamics 365
5 46 (8.97%) SaaS
6 38 (7.41%) GitHub
7 37 (7.21%) PowerApps
8 33 (6.43%) Power Automate
9 30 (5.85%) Azure Logic Apps
10 28 (5.46%) Entra ID
11 21 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (3.90%) Serverless
13 17 (3.31%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (2.73%) GCP
14 14 (2.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 13 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (2.34%) Azure Functions
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%) Intranet
4 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.28%) Power BI
2 26 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.09%) Data Lake
4 16 (3.12%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.14%) Metadata
5 11 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 9 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (0.97%) Db2
9 5 (0.97%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.97%) Power Query
9 5 (0.97%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.97%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.78%) Redis
10 4 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 54 (10.53%) JIRA
2 51 (9.94%) Git
3 16 (3.12%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.53%) 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
1 281 (54.78%) Social Skills
2 182 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 169 (32.94%) Finance
4 95 (18.52%) Presentation Skills
5 45 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 35 (6.82%) Law
7 32 (6.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (4.29%) Banking
10 20 (3.90%) Marketing
11 19 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (2.92%) Retail
13 14 (2.73%) Investment Banking
13 14 (2.73%) Manufacturing
14 12 (2.34%) Front Office
14 12 (2.34%) Legal
14 12 (2.34%) Local Government
14 12 (2.34%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.95%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 144 (28.07%) Analyst
2 126 (24.56%) Senior
3 104 (20.27%) ITSM Analyst
4 81 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
5 79 (15.40%) Support Analyst
6 70 (13.65%) Process Analyst
7 54 (10.53%) Lead
8 47 (9.16%) Senior Process Analyst
9 46 (8.97%) Developer
10 43 (8.38%) Senior Support Analyst
11 37 (7.21%) Service Analyst
12 35 (6.82%) IT Analyst
13 30 (5.85%) IT Manager
14 27 (5.26%) Service Management Analyst
15 26 (5.07%) Service Manager
16 22 (4.29%) Administrator
16 22 (4.29%) Consultant
16 22 (4.29%) Release Manager
17 21 (4.09%) IT Services Manager
18 19 (3.70%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.77%) REST
2 33 (6.43%) Terraform
3 22 (4.29%) .NET
4 20 (3.90%) Middleware
5 19 (3.70%) SOAP
6 18 (3.51%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (1.75%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (1.75%) JSON
8 8 (1.56%) OAuth
8 8 (1.56%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.56%) PySpark
9 7 (1.36%) ASP.NET
9 7 (1.36%) JWT
9 7 (1.36%) OpenID
9 7 (1.36%) Spring
9 7 (1.36%) Spring Boot
9 7 (1.36%) XML
9 7 (1.36%) YAML
10 6 (1.17%) Kafka
10 6 (1.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 59 (11.50%) Management Information System
2 27 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 27 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.07%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.31%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.34%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (1.75%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
10 6 (1.17%) Life Science
11 5 (0.97%) AI Agents
11 5 (0.97%) CMDB
11 5 (0.97%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
12 4 (0.78%) Legacy Code
12 4 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.78%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.78%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.87%) Linux
2 18 (3.51%) Windows
3 8 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.97%) Unix
5 4 (0.78%) zOS
6 2 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
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
1 296 (57.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 212 (41.33%) ITIL
3 197 (38.40%) Change Management
4 166 (32.36%) DevOps
5 165 (32.16%) Service Management
6 155 (30.21%) Project Delivery
7 153 (29.82%) Decision-Making
7 153 (29.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 143 (27.88%) ITSM
9 141 (27.49%) Root Cause Analysis
10 140 (27.29%) CI/CD
11 137 (26.71%) Agile
12 134 (26.12%) Problem Management
13 132 (25.73%) Problem-Solving
14 131 (25.54%) Risk Management
15 127 (24.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 126 (24.56%) User Experience
17 119 (23.20%) Acceptance Criteria
18 111 (21.64%) Logistics
19 104 (20.27%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 81 (15.79%) SQL
2 43 (8.38%) Python
3 27 (5.26%) C#
4 17 (3.31%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.12%) PowerShell
6 15 (2.92%) Java
7 14 (2.73%) Apex Code
8 10 (1.95%) C++
9 8 (1.56%) COBOL
9 8 (1.56%) T-SQL
10 7 (1.36%) SOQL
10 7 (1.36%) SOSL
11 6 (1.17%) Bash
12 5 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.78%) Bicep
13 4 (0.78%) JCL
13 4 (0.78%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.78%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.58%) C
14 3 (0.58%) PHP
Qualifications
1 155 (30.21%) Degree
2 46 (8.97%) Security Cleared
3 35 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 19 (3.70%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.31%) PMP
6 13 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.14%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.19%) CCSK
13 1 (0.19%) CRISC
13 1 (0.19%) CSPO
13 1 (0.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (13.65%) QA
2 43 (8.38%) Data Quality
3 26 (5.07%) GDPR
4 18 (3.51%) PMO
5 12 (2.34%) SLA
6 11 (2.14%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.56%) Def Stans
7 8 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.97%) TickIT
9 4 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (0.78%) ISO 9000
9 4 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 3 (0.58%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
11 2 (0.39%) GxP
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 13485
11 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.39%) SOC 3
System Software
1 18 (3.51%) Docker
2 12 (2.34%) 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 18 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (2.34%) 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 (23.00%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.80%) Salesforce
3 38 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 25 (4.87%) SAP
5 17 (3.31%) Oracle
6 16 (3.12%) Databricks
6 16 (3.12%) HP
7 15 (2.92%) Workday
8 14 (2.73%) Google
9 9 (1.75%) FIS
9 9 (1.75%) Pega
9 9 (1.75%) SunGard
10 8 (1.56%) VMware
11 7 (1.36%) Concur
11 7 (1.36%) OpenAI
12 6 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.17%) iManage
13 5 (0.97%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.97%) NetApp
13 5 (0.97%) Okta