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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 386 432
Rank change year-on-year -122 +46 -51
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 208 266 493
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.25% 0.65% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.70% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 138 173 367
10th Percentile £48,200 £48,100 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,688 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,627 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £102,250 £93,778 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,750 £62,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% +5.04% +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 62,747 38,173 78,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.19% 93.03% 86.26%
Number of salaries quoted 38,762 22,528 58,201
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,290 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,557
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -120 183 £72,500 +12.18% 92
UK excluding London -128 96 £68,750 +10.00% 71
London -29 86 £72,500 +11.54% 35
Work from Home -33 71 £70,000 +8.31% 39
North of England -51 27 £72,500 +31.82% 10
South East -61 20 £49,500 -17.50% 34
Midlands -63 18 £75,000 +39.70% 7
South West -58 15 £62,500 -9.42% 8
Yorkshire -50 14 £72,500 +107.14% 2
East of England -21 13 £59,450 -15.07% 7
West Midlands -37 13 £75,000 +39.70% 6
North West -30 10 £73,000 -2.67% 6
East Midlands -48 4 £75,000 +87.50% 1
North East -25 3 £77,500 +40.91% 2
Scotland -28 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 (4.33%) Confluence
2 7 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.92%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.92%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.92%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.44%) CMS
4 3 (1.44%) IIS
5 2 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.96%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.48%) Maya
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.44%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.96%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.96%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.96%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.96%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.48%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.48%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (38.46%) Azure
2 48 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (14.42%) AWS
4 24 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 16 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
5 16 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 15 (7.21%) GCP
6 15 (7.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 12 (5.77%) SaaS
8 11 (5.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 10 (4.81%) GitHub
10 9 (4.33%) Serverless
11 7 (3.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (3.37%) Boomi
11 7 (3.37%) Cloudflare
11 7 (3.37%) Vercel
12 6 (2.88%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (2.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.88%) WinSCP
2 4 (1.92%) SSL
3 1 (0.48%) Broadband
3 1 (0.48%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.48%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) Intranet
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.69%) Power BI
2 14 (6.73%) Relational Database
3 13 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.33%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.37%) Big Data
6 7 (3.37%) Metadata
7 5 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (2.40%) DataStage
7 5 (2.40%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.40%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.40%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.40%) MySQL
7 5 (2.40%) Neo4j
7 5 (2.40%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.40%) Pentaho
7 5 (2.40%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.92%) DB2
Development Applications
1 30 (14.42%) JIRA
2 18 (8.65%) Git
3 9 (4.33%) Eclipse
4 6 (2.88%) GitLab
4 6 (2.88%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.96%) Subversion
5 2 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.48%) JMeter
6 1 (0.48%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.48%) NUnit
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.48%) Postman
6 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 86 (41.35%) Social Skills
2 66 (31.73%) Finance
3 31 (14.90%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.10%) Law
5 19 (9.13%) Banking
6 14 (6.73%) Legal
7 13 (6.25%) Marketing
8 10 (4.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.88%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.88%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.88%) Retail
11 4 (1.92%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.44%) Games
13 2 (0.96%) Front Office
13 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.48%) Police
14 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (22.60%) Lead
2 37 (17.79%) Senior
3 23 (11.06%) Developer
4 22 (10.58%) Analyst
5 19 (9.13%) Applications Support
6 14 (6.73%) Senior Developer
6 14 (6.73%) Software Manager
7 13 (6.25%) Technical Leader
8 11 (5.29%) Engineering Manager
8 11 (5.29%) Software Engineering Manager
8 11 (5.29%) Support Analyst
9 9 (4.33%) Applications Support Analyst
9 9 (4.33%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Senior Manager
9 9 (4.33%) Service Manager
10 8 (3.85%) Administrator
10 8 (3.85%) Consultant
10 8 (3.85%) IT Manager
11 7 (3.37%) Architect
11 7 (3.37%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.10%) .NET
2 19 (9.13%) REST
3 15 (7.21%) React
4 11 (5.29%) CSS
4 11 (5.29%) HTML
5 9 (4.33%) Middleware
5 9 (4.33%) SOAP
6 8 (3.85%) .NET Core
6 8 (3.85%) JSON
7 7 (3.37%) Lightning Web Components
7 7 (3.37%) PySpark
8 6 (2.88%) ARM Templates
9 5 (2.40%) EDI
9 5 (2.40%) XML
10 4 (1.92%) LAPP Stack
10 4 (1.92%) LDAP
10 4 (1.92%) WebSphere MQ
11 3 (1.44%) HTML5 Canvas
11 3 (1.44%) Visualforce
12 2 (0.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.13%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 15 (7.21%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.73%) Data Structures
5 12 (5.77%) Reinsurance
6 11 (5.29%) Cloud Native
6 11 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (3.37%) Culture of Ownership
8 7 (3.37%) Podcast
9 6 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.92%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.96%) Augmented Reality
13 2 (0.96%) Public Cloud
13 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.17%) Windows
2 9 (4.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (3.37%) Linux
4 5 (2.40%) Unix
5 4 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.96%) Android
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (46.63%) DevOps
2 82 (39.42%) Agile
3 71 (34.13%) CI/CD
4 57 (27.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 50 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (23.56%) ITIL
7 46 (22.12%) Roadmaps
8 43 (20.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 40 (19.23%) Incident Management
10 34 (16.35%) AI
10 34 (16.35%) Scrum
11 33 (15.87%) Change Management
11 33 (15.87%) Service Management
12 31 (14.90%) Test Automation
13 27 (12.98%) ITSM
13 27 (12.98%) Software Engineering
14 26 (12.50%) Data Modelling
15 24 (11.54%) Observability
16 23 (11.06%) ETL
17 22 (10.58%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 60 (28.85%) SQL
2 33 (15.87%) Python
3 20 (9.62%) JavaScript
4 15 (7.21%) PowerShell
5 13 (6.25%) Java
6 7 (3.37%) C#
7 6 (2.88%) Apex Code
7 6 (2.88%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.44%) Bicep
8 3 (1.44%) SOQL
8 3 (1.44%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.96%) Bash
9 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.96%) SOSL
10 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.48%) Go
10 1 (0.48%) Korn
10 1 (0.48%) Perl
10 1 (0.48%) PHP
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (15.38%) Degree
2 12 (5.77%) PMI Certification
2 12 (5.77%) PMP
3 10 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (4.33%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (3.85%) Security Cleared
6 7 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.92%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.92%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.44%) MBA
9 2 (0.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.27%) QA
2 14 (6.73%) Data Quality
3 13 (6.25%) GRC
4 12 (5.77%) GDPR
5 11 (5.29%) Accessibility
6 8 (3.85%) SLA
7 7 (3.37%) PMO
8 5 (2.40%) TickIT
9 4 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (1.92%) SOC 2
10 3 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.96%) GAAP
11 2 (0.96%) IFRS
12 1 (0.48%) NIST
12 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (2.40%) Docker
2 4 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.48%) Terminal Server
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (7.69%) Terraform
2 14 (6.73%) Kubernetes
3 6 (2.88%) Ansible
4 3 (1.44%) Grafana
5 2 (0.96%) SCCM
5 2 (0.96%) SCOM
6 1 (0.48%) Argo
6 1 (0.48%) Control-M
6 1 (0.48%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.48%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.48%) Packer
6 1 (0.48%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 34 (16.35%) ServiceNow
3 26 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 11 (5.29%) Databricks
4 11 (5.29%) Oracle
5 5 (2.40%) IBM
5 5 (2.40%) Informatica
5 5 (2.40%) Remedy
5 5 (2.40%) SAP
5 5 (2.40%) Talend
6 4 (1.92%) BMC
6 4 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.44%) Intapp
7 3 (1.44%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.96%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.96%) Google
8 2 (0.96%) Infor
8 2 (0.96%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (0.96%) VMware
9 1 (0.48%) Triple Point