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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 447 446
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -68
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 359 244 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.49% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.55% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 251 156 312
10th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,938 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £75,268
90th Percentile £107,500 £93,778 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,250 £53,688 £59,500
% change year-on-year +15.95% -9.77% +5.26%

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 76,247 44,374 67,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.45% 81.06%
Number of salaries quoted 52,515 25,244 44,456
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,246
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,246 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% -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 4 August 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 4 August 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 0 316 £70,000 +16.67% 197
UK excluding London -15 203 £62,250 +15.95% 121
Work from Home +32 144 £70,000 -1.40% 103
London -29 122 £85,000 +17.24% 90
North of England +6 68 £73,500 +35.48% 28
South East -15 53 £57,303 +14.61% 45
North West +18 34 £73,500 +17.60% 22
Yorkshire -11 30 £77,500 +44.86% 4
Midlands -46 26 £53,688 - 13
South West -55 22 £39,000 -31.27% 6
East of England -14 17 £58,475 -14.95% 22
West Midlands -46 17 £52,500 -2.21% 9
East Midlands -13 8 £70,000 - 4
Northern Ireland - 8 - -
Scotland +12 7 £33,000 +1.54% 10
North East -55 4 £63,750 +82.14% 2
Wales -56 2 £55,395 +14.22% 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 12 (3.34%) Confluence
1 12 (3.34%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.39%) Camunda
3 5 (1.39%) IIS
4 4 (1.11%) CICS
5 3 (0.84%) Apache
5 3 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.84%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.84%) WordPress
6 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.79%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.84%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.84%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.56%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.56%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.56%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.28%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 132 (36.77%) Azure
2 79 (22.01%) Azure DevOps
3 64 (17.83%) Power Platform
4 45 (12.53%) Dynamics 365
5 39 (10.86%) SaaS
6 34 (9.47%) AWS
7 31 (8.64%) GitHub
8 26 (7.24%) Azure Logic Apps
9 24 (6.69%) Power Automate
10 22 (6.13%) Entra ID
11 20 (5.57%) PowerApps
12 17 (4.74%) GCP
13 16 (4.46%) Serverless
14 15 (4.18%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 14 (3.90%) Boomi
16 13 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (3.34%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 10 (2.79%) Azure Functions
18 10 (2.79%) Azure Key Vault
18 10 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.67%) DNS
1 6 (1.67%) VPN
2 5 (1.39%) ATM
2 5 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.28%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (11.42%) Power BI
2 22 (6.13%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.51%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.51%) Spark SQL
5 9 (2.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (1.95%) Metadata
7 6 (1.67%) Tableau
8 5 (1.39%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.39%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.11%) Db2
9 4 (1.11%) MySQL
9 4 (1.11%) SAP BW
10 3 (0.84%) Big Data
10 3 (0.84%) Looker
10 3 (0.84%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 57 (15.88%) JIRA
2 30 (8.36%) Git
3 16 (4.46%) Jenkins
4 14 (3.90%) GitLab
5 6 (1.67%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.39%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.39%) JUnit
6 5 (1.39%) Mockito
7 4 (1.11%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.56%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.56%) Postman
8 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.28%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.28%) git-flow
9 1 (0.28%) mountebank
9 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.28%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 169 (47.08%) Social Skills
2 119 (33.15%) Finance
3 75 (20.89%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.80%) Law
5 27 (7.52%) Banking
6 25 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.69%) Marketing
7 24 (6.69%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (5.57%) Retail
9 18 (5.01%) Legal
10 16 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (4.18%) Investment Banking
12 13 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (3.34%) Front Office
13 12 (3.34%) Manufacturing
14 11 (3.06%) Local Government
15 9 (2.51%) Legal Technology
16 8 (2.23%) Financial Institution
16 8 (2.23%) Military
17 5 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (15.04%) Lead
1 54 (15.04%) Senior
2 45 (12.53%) Analyst
3 40 (11.14%) Developer
4 26 (7.24%) Consultant
4 26 (7.24%) Senior Developer
5 24 (6.69%) Administrator
6 21 (5.85%) Support Analyst
7 19 (5.29%) Systems Administrator
8 16 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (4.46%) Release Manager
9 15 (4.18%) Applications Support
9 15 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (3.90%) Architect
10 14 (3.90%) Service Manager
11 13 (3.62%) IT Manager
11 13 (3.62%) Technical Leader
12 12 (3.34%) Applications Manager
12 12 (3.34%) Management Consultant
12 12 (3.34%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (13.65%) REST
2 24 (6.69%) Middleware
2 24 (6.69%) SOAP
3 16 (4.46%) JSON
3 16 (4.46%) Lightning Web Components
4 13 (3.62%) React
5 12 (3.34%) EDI
5 12 (3.34%) XML
6 11 (3.06%) .NET
6 11 (3.06%) CSS
6 11 (3.06%) HTML
7 9 (2.51%) ARM Templates
7 9 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (2.51%) PySpark
8 7 (1.95%) YAML
9 6 (1.67%) Visualforce
10 5 (1.39%) JPA
10 5 (1.39%) OAuth
10 5 (1.39%) OpenID
10 5 (1.39%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.08%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.80%) Onboarding
3 27 (7.52%) Product Ownership
4 20 (5.57%) Cloud Native
5 19 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
6 16 (4.46%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.62%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (3.34%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (2.51%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.95%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (1.95%) Podcast
11 5 (1.39%) CMDB
11 5 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.39%) Life Science
12 4 (1.11%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.11%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.11%) VSAM
13 3 (0.84%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.13%) Linux
2 15 (4.18%) Windows
3 7 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.11%) Unix
4 4 (1.11%) zOS
5 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.28%) Android
6 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (43.18%) DevOps
2 130 (36.21%) Continuous Improvement
3 129 (35.93%) CI/CD
4 117 (32.59%) Agile
5 114 (31.75%) Problem-Solving
6 90 (25.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 89 (24.79%) ITIL
8 84 (23.40%) Change Management
9 58 (16.16%) Decision-Making
10 56 (15.60%) Roadmaps
11 50 (13.93%) Scrum
12 48 (13.37%) Incident Management
13 46 (12.81%) Collaborative Working
13 46 (12.81%) Project Delivery
13 46 (12.81%) Test Automation
14 45 (12.53%) AI
14 45 (12.53%) ERP
14 45 (12.53%) ITSM
14 45 (12.53%) Mentoring
15 44 (12.26%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (25.35%) SQL
2 45 (12.53%) Python
3 25 (6.96%) JavaScript
4 13 (3.62%) Java
4 13 (3.62%) PowerShell
5 11 (3.06%) Apex Code
6 10 (2.79%) SOQL
7 9 (2.51%) C++
7 9 (2.51%) SOSL
8 7 (1.95%) COBOL
8 7 (1.95%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.67%) Bash
10 5 (1.39%) C#
10 5 (1.39%) TypeScript
11 4 (1.11%) JCL
11 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.84%) C
12 3 (0.84%) PHP
13 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 60 (16.71%) Degree
2 30 (8.36%) Security Cleared
3 27 (7.52%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.29%) PMI Certification
5 17 (4.74%) PMP
6 16 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.23%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.84%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.28%) CCSK
12 1 (0.28%) CRISC
12 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (17.83%) QA
2 38 (10.58%) Data Quality
3 29 (8.08%) GDPR
4 21 (5.85%) PMO
5 15 (4.18%) Accessibility
6 13 (3.62%) GRC
7 12 (3.34%) TickIT
8 10 (2.79%) SLA
9 9 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (2.23%) Def Stans
11 5 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (1.11%) ISO 9000
12 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 4 (1.11%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.84%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
15 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 14 (3.90%) Docker
2 13 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.84%) IAG
5 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.28%) Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.28%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 36 (10.03%) Terraform
2 16 (4.46%) Ansible
3 13 (3.62%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.11%) CA Endevor
4 4 (1.11%) Grafana
5 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.56%) Argo
6 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.56%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.28%) Packer
7 1 (0.28%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.28%) SCCM
7 1 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 93 (25.91%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.03%) Salesforce
3 25 (6.96%) ServiceNow
4 16 (4.46%) SAP
5 15 (4.18%) Databricks
6 14 (3.90%) Oracle
7 10 (2.79%) Google
8 9 (2.51%) FIS
8 9 (2.51%) SunGard
9 7 (1.95%) LogicMonitor
9 7 (1.95%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.67%) Intapp
11 5 (1.39%) HP
11 5 (1.39%) iManage
11 5 (1.39%) VMware
12 4 (1.11%) Cisco
12 4 (1.11%) Dell
12 4 (1.11%) VocaLink
13 3 (0.84%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.84%) Splunk