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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 395 367
Rank change year-on-year -67 -28 -17
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 195 328 468
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.62% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.68% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 131 199 344
10th Percentile £26,250 £50,400 £40,725
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,000 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +1.69% +7.27%

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 50,076 48,429 57,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.42% 91.10% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 29,566 23,408 43,853
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 16 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 23 January 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 -36 181 £67,500 +12.50% 164
London -1 96 £75,000 +19.05% 28
UK excluding London -51 89 £52,500 -12.50% 153
Work from Home +20 77 £59,450 -0.92% 72
South East +22 26 £27,500 -54.17% 41
Midlands -27 19 £70,000 +25.00% 26
West Midlands -22 17 £70,000 +21.74% 13
North of England -9 15 £60,000 +6.67% 29
South West -5 14 £62,500 -3.29% 22
East of England +22 7 £59,450 -4.88% 24
Yorkshire -22 7 £60,000 +14.29% 12
North West +2 6 £60,000 -11.11% 15
Scotland -10 6 £22,129 -53.21% 5
Wales +7 4 £48,500 - 8
East Midlands -9 2 £70,000 +75.00% 12
North East - 2 £58,750 - 3

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 17 (8.72%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.21%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.21%) WebSphere Application Server
3 13 (6.67%) Apache Spark
4 9 (4.62%) Confluence
5 5 (2.56%) CMS
5 5 (2.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.05%) Apache
6 4 (2.05%) IIS
7 2 (1.03%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.51%) JBoss
8 1 (0.51%) Umbraco
Applications
1 19 (9.74%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.51%) Maya
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.54%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.54%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.03%) Endur
4 2 (1.03%) EuroRunner
4 2 (1.03%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.03%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.03%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.03%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.51%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (28.72%) Azure
2 45 (23.08%) AWS
3 27 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.67%) GCP
4 13 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 10 (5.13%) Amazon EMR
5 10 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (5.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 10 (5.13%) Serverless
6 9 (4.62%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (4.62%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.10%) SaaS
8 6 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
8 6 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (3.08%) dbt
8 6 (3.08%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.08%) Route 53
8 6 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.72%) SSL
2 6 (3.08%) WinSCP
3 2 (1.03%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.51%) Intranet
4 1 (0.51%) LAN
4 1 (0.51%) SAN
4 1 (0.51%) SSH
4 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.51%) VoIP
4 1 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.85%) SQL Server
2 26 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (11.79%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.21%) DB2
5 14 (7.18%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (7.18%) MongoDB
5 14 (7.18%) NoSQL
6 13 (6.67%) DynamoDB
6 13 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (6.15%) MySQL
8 10 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
8 10 (5.13%) Big Data
8 10 (5.13%) DataStage
8 10 (5.13%) Hadoop
8 10 (5.13%) Neo4j
8 10 (5.13%) Pentaho
8 10 (5.13%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.56%) Metadata
11 4 (2.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (10.26%) JIRA
2 13 (6.67%) Git
3 7 (3.59%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.03%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.03%) JMeter
4 2 (1.03%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.03%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.51%) Ant
5 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.51%) GitLab
5 1 (0.51%) Maven
5 1 (0.51%) NUnit
5 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.51%) Subversion
5 1 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 85 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 83 (42.56%) Finance
3 42 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (15.90%) Banking
5 19 (9.74%) Investment Banking
6 18 (9.23%) Law
7 8 (4.10%) Front Office
8 7 (3.59%) Marketing
9 6 (3.08%) Legal
9 6 (3.08%) Retail
10 5 (2.56%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.54%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.03%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (1.03%) Local Government
13 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.51%) Back Office
14 1 (0.51%) Games
14 1 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (18.46%) Analyst
2 34 (17.44%) Applications Support
2 34 (17.44%) Lead
3 28 (14.36%) Support Analyst
4 25 (12.82%) Senior
5 16 (8.21%) Technical Support
6 15 (7.69%) Developer
6 15 (7.69%) Linux Support
7 14 (7.18%) Applications Support Analyst
8 13 (6.67%) IT Analyst
8 13 (6.67%) IT Support
8 13 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
8 13 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (6.67%) Technical Support Analyst
9 11 (5.64%) Infrastructure Support
9 11 (5.64%) IT Manager
10 10 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (5.13%) Service Manager
10 10 (5.13%) Support Engineer
10 10 (5.13%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.85%) .NET
2 16 (8.21%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.21%) LDAP
2 16 (8.21%) WebSphere MQ
3 11 (5.64%) React
4 8 (4.10%) .NET Core
5 7 (3.59%) REST
6 4 (2.05%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.05%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.05%) CSS
6 4 (2.05%) HTML
7 3 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.54%) OAuth
7 3 (1.54%) Pandas
7 3 (1.54%) PySpark
8 2 (1.03%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.03%) Next.js
8 2 (1.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (22.56%) Management Information System
2 20 (10.26%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.21%) Linux Command Line
3 16 (8.21%) Onboarding
4 15 (7.69%) Data Structures
5 10 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.13%) Reinsurance
6 7 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.59%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.05%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.54%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.54%) Derivative
9 3 (1.54%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.54%) Equities
9 3 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.03%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.90%) Windows
2 20 (10.26%) Linux
3 17 (8.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 17 (8.72%) Unix
4 9 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Android
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (33.85%) Agile
2 61 (31.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 55 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 52 (26.67%) DevOps
5 47 (24.10%) ITIL
6 39 (20.00%) Change Management
7 38 (19.49%) Roadmaps
8 31 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 29 (14.87%) Service Management
10 27 (13.85%) Analytics
10 27 (13.85%) SDLC
11 26 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
12 25 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
13 23 (11.79%) ETL
14 21 (10.77%) Software Engineering
15 19 (9.74%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (9.74%) Data Modelling
15 19 (9.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 18 (9.23%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 58 (29.74%) SQL
2 41 (21.03%) Python
3 16 (8.21%) Java
4 13 (6.67%) C#
5 12 (6.15%) PowerShell
6 11 (5.64%) JavaScript
7 6 (3.08%) VB.NET
8 4 (2.05%) Apex Code
9 3 (1.54%) Bicep
9 3 (1.54%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.03%) Bash
10 2 (1.03%) C++
10 2 (1.03%) PHP
11 1 (0.51%) ABAP
11 1 (0.51%) Go
11 1 (0.51%) Groovy
11 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (15.90%) Degree
2 21 (10.77%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (9.74%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.08%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.08%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.05%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.54%) MBA
7 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.03%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.03%) PMP
7 2 (1.03%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (17.44%) QA
2 23 (11.79%) SLA
3 6 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.56%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.03%) GAAP
5 2 (1.03%) IFRS
5 2 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.51%) NIST
6 1 (0.51%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.08%) Docker
2 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.56%) Terraform
3 3 (1.54%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) Grafana
4 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.51%) Argo
5 1 (0.51%) Control-M
5 1 (0.51%) Kibana
5 1 (0.51%) Podman
5 1 (0.51%) Puppet
5 1 (0.51%) SCCM
5 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 39 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (17.44%) ServiceNow
3 27 (13.85%) Salesforce
4 22 (11.28%) Oracle
5 19 (9.74%) IBM
6 16 (8.21%) Red Hat
7 10 (5.13%) Informatica
7 10 (5.13%) Talend
8 5 (2.56%) Remedy
8 5 (2.56%) SAP
9 4 (2.05%) BMC
9 4 (2.05%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.54%) Databricks
11 2 (1.03%) Conga
11 2 (1.03%) Dell
11 2 (1.03%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.03%) JD Edwards
11 2 (1.03%) Lotus
11 2 (1.03%) Trayport
12 1 (0.51%) NEC