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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 435 480
Rank change year-on-year -31 +45 -95
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 292 246 488
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.55% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.59% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 206 158 356
10th Percentile £41,585 £47,471 £37,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +5.69% -1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +0.84% +1.28%

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 68,493 41,477 89,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.95% 92.48% 81.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,109 22,216 63,180
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -45 264 £72,500 +11.54% 101
UK excluding London -34 156 £67,500 +12.50% 71
Work from Home +21 111 £70,000 - 45
London -45 104 £75,000 +11.11% 44
North of England +6 54 £73,500 +33.64% 22
South East -20 40 £53,652 -10.58% 25
North West +18 27 £73,500 +13.08% 14
Yorkshire -22 24 £77,500 +121.43% 6
East of England -7 20 £59,450 -15.07% 7
Midlands -33 19 £75,000 +39.70% 9
South West -58 19 £62,500 -3.29% 10
West Midlands -30 14 £75,000 +39.70% 5
East Midlands -23 4 £72,500 - 4
North East -41 3 £77,500 +40.91% 2
Wales -45 2 £55,395 -7.68%
Scotland +9 1 £33,000 -30.22% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 11 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.40%) Confluence
3 6 (2.05%) IIS
4 4 (1.37%) CICS
5 3 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) Apache
6 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.34%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.08%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.37%) Windchill
5 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.68%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.68%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 117 (40.07%) Azure
2 74 (25.34%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (18.49%) Power Platform
4 36 (12.33%) Dynamics 365
5 24 (8.22%) SaaS
6 23 (7.88%) Entra ID
7 22 (7.53%) AWS
7 22 (7.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 20 (6.85%) GitHub
9 19 (6.51%) Power Automate
10 16 (5.48%) PowerApps
11 14 (4.79%) Boomi
12 13 (4.45%) GCP
13 12 (4.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 12 (4.11%) Serverless
14 10 (3.42%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.08%) Azure Functions
15 9 (3.08%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.03%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.34%) Broadband
2 1 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.34%) DNS
2 1 (0.34%) Firewall
2 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.96%) Power BI
2 14 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (4.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (3.42%) Relational Database
3 10 (3.42%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.08%) Spark SQL
4 9 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.71%) Metadata
5 5 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.37%) Db2
6 4 (1.37%) MySQL
6 4 (1.37%) Tableau
7 3 (1.03%) Big Data
7 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.03%) Looker
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.68%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (0.68%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 42 (14.38%) JIRA
2 21 (7.19%) Git
3 13 (4.45%) Eclipse
4 11 (3.77%) GitLab
5 9 (3.08%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.37%) ChangeMan
6 4 (1.37%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.68%) Postman
7 2 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.34%) git-flow
8 1 (0.34%) JMeter
8 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.34%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.34%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 116 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 90 (30.82%) Finance
3 45 (15.41%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.19%) Law
5 19 (6.51%) Marketing
6 16 (5.48%) Banking
6 16 (5.48%) Retail
7 15 (5.14%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (5.14%) Public Sector
8 13 (4.45%) Legal
9 11 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.77%) Local Government
10 9 (3.08%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.74%) Legal Technology
12 6 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.37%) Environmental Health
13 4 (1.37%) Military
14 3 (1.03%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.68%) Billing
Job Titles
1 53 (18.15%) Lead
2 52 (17.81%) Senior
3 39 (13.36%) Developer
4 29 (9.93%) Senior Developer
5 25 (8.56%) Analyst
6 22 (7.53%) Administrator
7 21 (7.19%) Consultant
8 16 (5.48%) Release Manager
8 16 (5.48%) Systems Administrator
9 15 (5.14%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (5.14%) Software Manager
10 12 (4.11%) Applications Support
10 12 (4.11%) Architect
10 12 (4.11%) Management Consultant
10 12 (4.11%) Salesforce Developer
11 11 (3.77%) Engineering Manager
11 11 (3.77%) IT Manager
11 11 (3.77%) Programme Office Consultant
11 11 (3.77%) Software Engineering Manager
11 11 (3.77%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.01%) REST
2 23 (7.88%) Middleware
2 23 (7.88%) SOAP
3 19 (6.51%) React
4 16 (5.48%) JSON
5 14 (4.79%) .NET
5 14 (4.79%) Lightning Web Components
6 12 (4.11%) EDI
6 12 (4.11%) XML
7 10 (3.42%) PySpark
8 9 (3.08%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.08%) CSS
8 9 (3.08%) HTML
9 7 (2.40%) .NET Core
10 6 (2.05%) Visualforce
11 5 (1.71%) YAML
12 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.68%) ASP.NET Core
12 2 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.68%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.56%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.22%) Data Structures
3 21 (7.19%) Management Information System
3 21 (7.19%) Onboarding
4 14 (4.79%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 11 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.08%) Reinsurance
8 8 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (2.40%) Culture of Ownership
9 7 (2.40%) Podcast
10 5 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.37%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.37%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.37%) VSAM
12 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.11%) Windows
2 7 (2.40%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.37%) Linux
3 4 (1.37%) zOS
4 3 (1.03%) Unix
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (46.92%) DevOps
2 105 (35.96%) CI/CD
3 102 (34.93%) Agile
4 84 (28.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 74 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (22.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 63 (21.58%) ITIL
8 55 (18.84%) Roadmaps
9 52 (17.81%) Incident Management
10 50 (17.12%) Change Management
11 43 (14.73%) Decision-Making
12 42 (14.38%) Integration Patterns
12 42 (14.38%) Scrum
13 38 (13.01%) AI
13 38 (13.01%) ITSM
14 36 (12.33%) ERP
15 35 (11.99%) Service Management
15 35 (11.99%) Technical Leadership
16 34 (11.64%) Data Modelling
16 34 (11.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 87 (29.79%) SQL
2 32 (10.96%) Python
3 19 (6.51%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.79%) PowerShell
5 12 (4.11%) Apex Code
6 10 (3.42%) SOQL
7 9 (3.08%) SOSL
8 6 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.37%) Bash
9 4 (1.37%) COBOL
9 4 (1.37%) Java
9 4 (1.37%) JCL
9 4 (1.37%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.03%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.34%) Groovy
12 1 (0.34%) Korn
12 1 (0.34%) Perl
12 1 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 45 (15.41%) Degree
2 16 (5.48%) PMI Certification
2 16 (5.48%) PMP
3 15 (5.14%) Security Cleared
4 14 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.11%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.71%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.03%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.03%) MBA
10 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (24.66%) QA
2 29 (9.93%) Data Quality
3 26 (8.90%) GDPR
4 20 (6.85%) PMO
5 13 (4.45%) GRC
6 12 (4.11%) Accessibility
6 12 (4.11%) TickIT
7 6 (2.05%) SLA
8 5 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.37%) Def Stans
9 4 (1.37%) ISO 9000
9 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 4 (1.37%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (4.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.74%) Docker
3 5 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.03%) IAG
5 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.34%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 29 (9.93%) Terraform
2 17 (5.82%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.45%) Ansible
4 4 (1.37%) CA Endevor
5 3 (1.03%) Grafana
6 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.68%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.34%) Argo
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.34%) Packer
7 1 (0.34%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.34%) SCCM
7 1 (0.34%) SCOM
7 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 35 (11.99%) Salesforce
3 34 (11.64%) ServiceNow
4 15 (5.14%) Databricks
5 12 (4.11%) SAP
6 9 (3.08%) Oracle
7 7 (2.40%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (1.71%) Google
8 5 (1.71%) VMware
9 4 (1.37%) Dell
9 4 (1.37%) Intapp
9 4 (1.37%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.03%) Cisco
10 3 (1.03%) Concur
11 2 (0.68%) Ariba
11 2 (0.68%) Citrix
11 2 (0.68%) Commvault
11 2 (0.68%) HP
11 2 (0.68%) Infor
11 2 (0.68%) Remedy