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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 410 327
Rank change year-on-year -62 -83 +30
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 184 367 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.59% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.68% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 116 236 353
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,750 £57,013 £56,525
% change year-on-year -18.00% +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 47,424 53,892 47,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.09% 86.75% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28,060 28,022 36,472
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £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% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.87%

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 11 December 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 11 December 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 -46 167 £60,000 - 86
UK excluding London -24 93 £46,750 -18.00% 78
London +16 84 £82,500 +26.92% 45
Work from Home +31 77 £72,500 +20.83% 52
South East +19 31 £27,500 -52.17% 39
North of England +14 19 £43,750 -16.67% 10
Midlands -21 19 £42,500 -22.73% 8
West Midlands -16 17 £42,500 -26.09% 5
Yorkshire -12 9 £60,000 +14.29% 2
South West +15 8 £52,500 -17.00% 8
Wales +8 8 £48,500 -11.82% 8
Scotland 0 6 £22,129 - 1
North West +28 5 £52,500 -12.50% 6
North East - 5 £35,000 - 2
East of England +22 4 £55,000 -6.38% 7
East Midlands +8 2 £70,000 +64.71% 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 19 (10.33%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.70%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.70%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (7.61%) Apache Spark
4 11 (5.98%) Confluence
4 11 (5.98%) IIS
5 8 (4.35%) SharePoint
6 6 (3.26%) Apache
7 5 (2.72%) CMS
7 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (2.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (1.63%) JBoss
9 2 (1.09%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.54%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (11.41%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (7.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (7.07%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.54%) Maya
4 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (2.17%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (1.63%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.09%) Endur
3 2 (1.09%) EuroRunner
3 2 (1.09%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (1.09%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.09%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.09%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.09%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (26.63%) AWS
2 44 (23.91%) Azure
3 14 (7.61%) GCP
4 13 (7.07%) SaaS
5 12 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 11 (5.98%) Amazon EMR
7 10 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (5.43%) GitHub
7 10 (5.43%) Serverless
8 9 (4.89%) Amazon S3
8 9 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.80%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.80%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.26%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (3.26%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (3.26%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.26%) Route 53
10 6 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.41%) SSL
2 6 (3.26%) Internet
2 6 (3.26%) SAN
2 6 (3.26%) WAN
3 5 (2.72%) LAN
3 5 (2.72%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.72%) VoIP
4 2 (1.09%) Network Security
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.54%) Firewall
5 1 (0.54%) HTTP
5 1 (0.54%) Intranet
5 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.54%) SSH
5 1 (0.54%) VPN
5 1 (0.54%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (22.28%) SQL Server
2 27 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.24%) MySQL
4 16 (8.70%) DB2
4 16 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 15 (8.15%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.15%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.61%) DynamoDB
7 11 (5.98%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (5.98%) Big Data
7 11 (5.98%) DataStage
7 11 (5.98%) Hadoop
7 11 (5.98%) Neo4j
7 11 (5.98%) Pentaho
7 11 (5.98%) RDBMS
8 9 (4.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (3.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.17%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 27 (14.67%) JIRA
2 10 (5.43%) Git
3 4 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.63%) Ant
4 3 (1.63%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.63%) Maven
4 3 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.09%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.09%) JMeter
5 2 (1.09%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.09%) NeoLoad
5 2 (1.09%) NUnit
5 2 (1.09%) Subversion
6 1 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.54%) Moq
6 1 (0.54%) MSTest
6 1 (0.54%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.54%) Postman
6 1 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 82 (44.57%) Finance
3 40 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (15.22%) Banking
5 20 (10.87%) Investment Banking
6 18 (9.78%) Law
7 12 (6.52%) Front Office
8 10 (5.43%) Retail
9 6 (3.26%) Back Office
10 5 (2.72%) Legal
10 5 (2.72%) Local Government
11 4 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.17%) Marketing
11 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.09%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.09%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.54%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.54%) Games
13 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (21.74%) Analyst
2 38 (20.65%) Applications Support
3 31 (16.85%) Support Analyst
4 22 (11.96%) Lead
5 20 (10.87%) Technical Support
6 19 (10.33%) Senior
7 17 (9.24%) Applications Support Analyst
8 16 (8.70%) IT Analyst
9 15 (8.15%) Linux Support
9 15 (8.15%) Support Engineer
10 13 (7.07%) IT Support
10 13 (7.07%) IT Support Analyst
10 13 (7.07%) Technical Analyst
10 13 (7.07%) Technical Support Analyst
11 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure Support
11 11 (5.98%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (5.43%) Developer
12 10 (5.43%) Support Specialist
12 10 (5.43%) Unix Support
13 8 (4.35%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.50%) .NET
2 16 (8.70%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.70%) LDAP
2 16 (8.70%) WebSphere MQ
3 10 (5.43%) .NET Framework
4 6 (3.26%) .NET Core
4 6 (3.26%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.26%) Entity Framework
4 6 (3.26%) REST
5 5 (2.72%) CSS
5 5 (2.72%) HTML
5 5 (2.72%) React
6 4 (2.17%) Dapper ORM
6 4 (2.17%) Middleware
7 3 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.63%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.63%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.63%) Kafka
7 3 (1.63%) Pandas
7 3 (1.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (27.72%) Management Information System
2 17 (9.24%) Onboarding
3 16 (8.70%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (8.15%) Product Ownership
5 11 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 8 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (3.80%) Virtual Team
8 6 (3.26%) Clustering
9 5 (2.72%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.17%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.63%) Derivative
11 3 (1.63%) Equities
11 3 (1.63%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.63%) Reinsurance
12 2 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 40 (21.74%) Windows
2 24 (13.04%) Linux
3 19 (10.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (9.24%) Unix
5 14 (7.61%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (34.24%) Agile
2 62 (33.70%) Continuous Improvement
2 62 (33.70%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (26.63%) ITIL
4 45 (24.46%) CI/CD
5 36 (19.57%) Change Management
6 34 (18.48%) DevOps
7 31 (16.85%) Roadmaps
8 30 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (15.22%) Analytics
10 27 (14.67%) Service Management
11 23 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (11.96%) Migration
13 21 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (10.87%) Data Migration
14 20 (10.87%) Software Engineering
14 20 (10.87%) User Acceptance Testing
15 19 (10.33%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (10.33%) SDLC
16 18 (9.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (27.17%) SQL
2 42 (22.83%) Python
3 21 (11.41%) C#
4 18 (9.78%) Java
5 11 (5.98%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.17%) Bash
6 4 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.63%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.63%) Groovy
7 3 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.09%) C++
8 2 (1.09%) PHP
8 2 (1.09%) R
8 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.54%) Bicep
9 1 (0.54%) Go
9 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (16.85%) Degree
2 18 (9.78%) AWS Certification
2 18 (9.78%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (4.35%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.72%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.63%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.09%) CCSP
7 2 (1.09%) CISA
7 2 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.09%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.54%) CCSK
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.30%) SLA
2 19 (10.33%) QA
3 6 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.09%) GAAP
5 2 (1.09%) IFRS
5 2 (1.09%) PMO
5 2 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.54%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.72%) Docker
4 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.54%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 6 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.72%) Ansible
3 3 (1.63%) Podman
3 3 (1.63%) Puppet
3 3 (1.63%) SCOM
3 3 (1.63%) Terraform
4 2 (1.09%) SCCM
5 1 (0.54%) Control-M
5 1 (0.54%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
5 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (27.72%) Microsoft
2 27 (14.67%) ServiceNow
3 25 (13.59%) Oracle
3 25 (13.59%) Salesforce
4 19 (10.33%) IBM
5 16 (8.70%) Red Hat
6 11 (5.98%) Informatica
6 11 (5.98%) Talend
7 8 (4.35%) VMware
8 6 (3.26%) SAP
9 3 (1.63%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.09%) BMC
10 2 (1.09%) Cisco
10 2 (1.09%) Dell
10 2 (1.09%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.09%) JD Edwards
10 2 (1.09%) Juniper
10 2 (1.09%) Lotus
10 2 (1.09%) Remedy
10 2 (1.09%) Trayport