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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 401 324
Rank change year-on-year -51 -77 +37
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 182 384 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.59% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.69% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 118 247 366
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,803 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £57,013 £56,525
% change year-on-year -14.93% +0.86% +2.77%

All Process and 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 45,531 55,918 47,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.16% 85.44% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 27,749 29,151 36,831
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £99,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -0.94%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -44 166 £60,000 - 81
UK excluding London -34 95 £48,500 -14.93% 77
London +9 81 £82,500 +26.92% 47
Work from Home +42 77 £75,000 +23.71% 47
South East +17 33 £27,500 -51.76% 42
North of England +31 19 £43,750 -16.67% 5
Midlands -6 19 £42,500 -22.73% 7
West Midlands +1 17 £42,500 -26.09% 2
Yorkshire +3 9 £60,000 +14.29% 1
South West +20 8 £52,500 -17.00% 7
Wales +13 8 £48,500 -11.82% 8
Scotland +3 6 £22,129 -65.96% 2
North West +34 5 £52,500 -12.50% 3
North East - 5 £35,000 - 1
East of England +30 4 £55,000 -6.38% 9
East Midlands +19 2 £70,000 +64.71% 5

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 19 (10.44%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.79%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.79%) WebSphere Application Server
3 12 (6.59%) Confluence
4 11 (6.04%) Apache Spark
4 11 (6.04%) IIS
5 8 (4.40%) SharePoint
6 6 (3.30%) Apache
7 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (2.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (2.20%) CMS
9 3 (1.65%) JBoss
10 2 (1.10%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.55%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (7.14%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.55%) Maya
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.75%) Unit4 Business World
2 4 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.65%) Fidessa
4 2 (1.10%) Endur
4 2 (1.10%) EuroRunner
4 2 (1.10%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (1.10%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (1.10%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.10%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.10%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.10%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.27%) AWS
2 41 (22.53%) Azure
3 14 (7.69%) SaaS
4 13 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.59%) GitHub
6 11 (6.04%) GCP
6 11 (6.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 10 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.49%) Serverless
8 9 (4.95%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (4.40%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.30%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (3.30%) Power Automate
10 6 (3.30%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.30%) Route 53
10 6 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.54%) SSL
2 6 (3.30%) Internet
2 6 (3.30%) SAN
2 6 (3.30%) WAN
3 5 (2.75%) LAN
3 5 (2.75%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.75%) VoIP
4 2 (1.10%) Network Security
5 1 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.55%) Firewall
5 1 (0.55%) HTTP
5 1 (0.55%) Intranet
5 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.55%) SSH
5 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 24 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (8.79%) DB2
4 14 (7.69%) MySQL
5 12 (6.59%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.59%) NoSQL
5 12 (6.59%) Relational Database
6 11 (6.04%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (6.04%) DynamoDB
7 8 (4.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 8 (4.40%) Big Data
7 8 (4.40%) DataStage
7 8 (4.40%) Hadoop
7 8 (4.40%) Neo4j
7 8 (4.40%) Pentaho
7 8 (4.40%) RDBMS
7 8 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.20%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 28 (15.38%) JIRA
2 8 (4.40%) Git
3 4 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.65%) Ant
4 3 (1.65%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.65%) Maven
4 3 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.10%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.10%) JMeter
5 2 (1.10%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.10%) NeoLoad
5 2 (1.10%) NUnit
5 2 (1.10%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.10%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.10%) Subversion
6 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.55%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.55%) MSTest
6 1 (0.55%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.55%) Selenium
General
1 79 (43.41%) Finance
1 79 (43.41%) Social Skills
2 37 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.38%) Banking
4 20 (10.99%) Investment Banking
5 15 (8.24%) Law
6 12 (6.59%) Front Office
7 10 (5.49%) Retail
8 7 (3.85%) Back Office
9 6 (3.30%) Local Government
10 5 (2.75%) Legal
11 4 (2.20%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.65%) Marketing
13 2 (1.10%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (1.10%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.55%) Games
14 1 (0.55%) Police
14 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (21.43%) Analyst
2 37 (20.33%) Applications Support
3 30 (16.48%) Support Analyst
4 22 (12.09%) Lead
5 20 (10.99%) Senior
5 20 (10.99%) Technical Support
6 16 (8.79%) Applications Support Analyst
6 16 (8.79%) IT Analyst
7 15 (8.24%) Linux Support
7 15 (8.24%) Support Engineer
8 13 (7.14%) IT Support
8 13 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
8 13 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (7.14%) Technical Support Analyst
9 11 (6.04%) Infrastructure Support
10 10 (5.49%) Developer
10 10 (5.49%) Support Specialist
10 10 (5.49%) Unix Support
11 9 (4.95%) IT Manager
12 8 (4.40%) Products Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.09%) .NET
2 16 (8.79%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.79%) LDAP
2 16 (8.79%) WebSphere MQ
3 11 (6.04%) .NET Framework
4 7 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.85%) Entity Framework
4 7 (3.85%) REST
5 6 (3.30%) .NET Core
5 6 (3.30%) React
6 5 (2.75%) CSS
6 5 (2.75%) HTML
7 4 (2.20%) Dapper ORM
7 4 (2.20%) Middleware
8 3 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.65%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.65%) Kafka
8 3 (1.65%) Pandas
8 3 (1.65%) Playwright
8 3 (1.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (26.37%) Management Information System
2 18 (9.89%) Onboarding
3 16 (8.79%) Linux Command Line
4 12 (6.59%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.40%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.85%) Data Structures
7 6 (3.30%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.30%) Clustering
8 5 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.20%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.65%) Derivative
10 3 (1.65%) Equities
10 3 (1.65%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.65%) Reinsurance
11 2 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 40 (21.98%) Windows
2 24 (13.19%) Linux
3 19 (10.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (9.34%) Unix
5 13 (7.14%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (34.07%) Agile
3 60 (32.97%) Continuous Improvement
4 51 (28.02%) ITIL
5 42 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 36 (19.78%) Change Management
6 36 (19.78%) DevOps
7 28 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 28 (15.38%) Service Management
8 27 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (13.19%) Analytics
9 24 (13.19%) Migration
10 21 (11.54%) Data Migration
11 20 (10.99%) User Acceptance Testing
12 19 (10.44%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (10.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (9.89%) Scrum
13 18 (9.89%) SDLC
14 17 (9.34%) Problem Management
14 17 (9.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (25.82%) SQL
2 40 (21.98%) Python
3 21 (11.54%) C#
4 16 (8.79%) Java
5 10 (5.49%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.20%) Bash
7 3 (1.65%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.65%) Groovy
7 3 (1.65%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.65%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.65%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.10%) C++
8 2 (1.10%) PHP
8 2 (1.10%) R
9 1 (0.55%) Bicep
9 1 (0.55%) Go
9 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 31 (17.03%) Degree
2 18 (9.89%) AWS Certification
2 18 (9.89%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.10%) CCSP
7 2 (1.10%) CISA
7 2 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.55%) CCSK
8 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.03%) SLA
2 19 (10.44%) QA
3 6 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.20%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.10%) GAAP
5 2 (1.10%) IFRS
5 2 (1.10%) PMO
5 2 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.49%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.75%) Docker
4 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.55%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 6 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.75%) Ansible
3 3 (1.65%) Podman
3 3 (1.65%) Puppet
3 3 (1.65%) SCOM
3 3 (1.65%) Terraform
4 2 (1.10%) SCCM
5 1 (0.55%) Control-M
5 1 (0.55%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.55%) Kibana
5 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (28.02%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 24 (13.19%) Salesforce
4 21 (11.54%) Oracle
5 19 (10.44%) IBM
6 16 (8.79%) Red Hat
7 8 (4.40%) Informatica
7 8 (4.40%) Talend
7 8 (4.40%) VMware
8 6 (3.30%) SAP
9 3 (1.65%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.10%) Cisco
10 2 (1.10%) Dell
10 2 (1.10%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.10%) JD Edwards
10 2 (1.10%) Juniper
10 2 (1.10%) Lotus
10 2 (1.10%) Remedy
10 2 (1.10%) Sybase
10 2 (1.10%) Trayport