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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 388 419
Rank change year-on-year -119 +31 -39
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 189 257 500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.24% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.68% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 122 166 371
10th Percentile £47,500 £49,856 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +4.00% -2.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +9.24% +8.18%

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 59,873 37,939 76,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 77.17% 93.46% 86.66%
Number of salaries quoted 36,505 22,139 57,454
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,410 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.41%

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 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 15 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 27 March 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 -111 167 £71,250 +9.62% 92
London -31 88 £72,500 +11.54% 35
UK excluding London -103 77 £67,500 +3.85% 71
Work from Home -18 64 £70,000 - 39
Midlands -50 18 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North of England -48 17 £72,500 -3.33% 10
South West -47 15 £62,500 -9.42% 8
South East -63 14 £42,500 -29.17% 34
West Midlands -30 13 £75,000 +22.45% 6
East of England -19 11 £59,450 -15.07% 7
Yorkshire -53 10 £72,500 +31.82% 2
North West -26 4 £60,000 -20.00% 6
East Midlands -47 4 £75,000 +87.50% 1
North East -27 3 £77,500 +40.91% 2
Scotland -27 2 - - 2

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 9 (4.76%) Confluence
2 7 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.17%) Tomcat
3 6 (3.17%) WebSphere
3 6 (3.17%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (2.12%) CMS
5 3 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.59%) IIS
5 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.06%) Apache
7 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.12%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.53%) Maya
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.59%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.59%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.06%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.06%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.06%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.53%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (34.92%) Azure
2 39 (20.63%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (15.34%) AWS
4 17 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 15 (7.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 14 (7.41%) GCP
7 12 (6.35%) Entra ID
8 11 (5.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 9 (4.76%) SaaS
10 7 (3.70%) Serverless
11 6 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (3.17%) Cloudflare
11 6 (3.17%) dbt
11 6 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (3.17%) Vercel
12 5 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.17%) SSL
1 6 (3.17%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.53%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) Intranet
2 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 11 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.82%) Power BI
3 10 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (3.70%) Big Data
5 7 (3.70%) Metadata
6 6 (3.17%) DB2
7 5 (2.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.65%) DataStage
7 5 (2.65%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.65%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.65%) MySQL
7 5 (2.65%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.65%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.65%) Pentaho
7 5 (2.65%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.59%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 23 (12.17%) JIRA
2 14 (7.41%) Git
3 9 (4.76%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.65%) GitLab
4 5 (2.65%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.06%) Subversion
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.53%) JMeter
6 1 (0.53%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.53%) NUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.53%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 75 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 62 (32.80%) Finance
3 26 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (11.64%) Banking
5 19 (10.05%) Law
6 13 (6.88%) Legal
7 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.23%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (3.70%) Marketing
10 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.65%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.59%) Front Office
11 3 (1.59%) Games
11 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Billing
12 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Police
12 1 (0.53%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (22.22%) Lead
2 27 (14.29%) Senior
3 24 (12.70%) Analyst
4 22 (11.64%) Applications Support
5 18 (9.52%) Developer
6 13 (6.88%) Software Manager
6 13 (6.88%) Support Analyst
7 12 (6.35%) Technical Leader
8 10 (5.29%) Applications Support Analyst
8 10 (5.29%) Engineering Manager
8 10 (5.29%) Software Engineering Manager
9 9 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.76%) Service Manager
10 8 (4.23%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.23%) Salesforce Developer
10 8 (4.23%) Senior Manager
11 7 (3.70%) Data Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.70%) Release Manager
12 6 (3.17%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.11%) .NET
2 14 (7.41%) React
3 10 (5.29%) REST
4 9 (4.76%) CSS
4 9 (4.76%) HTML
5 8 (4.23%) .NET Core
6 7 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
7 6 (3.17%) LAPP Stack
7 6 (3.17%) LDAP
7 6 (3.17%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (2.65%) PySpark
9 4 (2.12%) ARM Templates
9 4 (2.12%) Middleware
9 4 (2.12%) SOAP
10 3 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (1.59%) HTML5 Canvas
10 3 (1.59%) Visualforce
11 2 (1.06%) Next.js
11 2 (1.06%) OAuth
11 2 (1.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 17 (8.99%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.35%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.35%) Reinsurance
5 9 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.23%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.17%) Culture of Ownership
7 6 (3.17%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (3.17%) Podcast
8 5 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (2.12%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.59%) Derivative
10 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.59%) Equities
11 2 (1.06%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (11.11%) Windows
2 9 (4.76%) Linux
2 9 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 8 (4.23%) Unix
4 6 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (42.33%) DevOps
2 75 (39.68%) Agile
3 59 (31.22%) CI/CD
4 57 (30.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 53 (28.04%) ITIL
6 44 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (21.69%) Roadmaps
8 39 (20.63%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (20.11%) Change Management
10 34 (17.99%) Incident Management
10 34 (17.99%) Service Management
11 30 (15.87%) AI
12 29 (15.34%) Scrum
13 25 (13.23%) ITSM
13 25 (13.23%) Test Automation
14 24 (12.70%) Data Modelling
15 22 (11.64%) Software Engineering
16 21 (11.11%) ETL
16 21 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
17 20 (10.58%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.51%) SQL
2 31 (16.40%) Python
3 17 (8.99%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.41%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.35%) Java
6 7 (3.70%) Apex Code
6 7 (3.70%) C#
7 6 (3.17%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.59%) Bicep
8 3 (1.59%) SOQL
9 2 (1.06%) SOSL
9 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.53%) ABAP
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) Korn
10 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.53%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (15.87%) Degree
2 11 (5.82%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (5.29%) PMI Certification
3 10 (5.29%) PMP
4 9 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 9 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.70%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.12%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.59%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.59%) MBA
8 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.46%) QA
2 11 (5.82%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.29%) GRC
3 10 (5.29%) SLA
4 9 (4.76%) GDPR
5 7 (3.70%) PMO
6 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.59%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.06%) GAAP
7 2 (1.06%) IFRS
8 1 (0.53%) NIST
8 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (2.12%) Docker
2 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.53%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (5.82%) Kubernetes
1 11 (5.82%) Terraform
2 4 (2.12%) Ansible
3 3 (1.59%) Grafana
4 2 (1.06%) SCCM
4 2 (1.06%) SCOM
5 1 (0.53%) Argo
5 1 (0.53%) Control-M
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.53%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (17.99%) ServiceNow
2 28 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 26 (13.76%) Salesforce
4 10 (5.29%) Oracle
5 9 (4.76%) Databricks
6 7 (3.70%) IBM
7 6 (3.17%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.65%) Informatica
8 5 (2.65%) Remedy
8 5 (2.65%) SAP
8 5 (2.65%) Talend
9 4 (2.12%) BMC
10 3 (1.59%) Intapp
10 3 (1.59%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.06%) VMware
12 1 (0.53%) Google
12 1 (0.53%) Infor
12 1 (0.53%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.53%) Triple Point