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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 397 322
Rank change year-on-year -74 -75 +26
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 178 356 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.61% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.69% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 118 227 336
10th Percentile £26,250 £47,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £53,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £74,250
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £57,500 £57,013
% change year-on-year -15.65% +0.86% +3.66%

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 48,535 51,647 46,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.52% 88.55% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28,396 26,504 35,505
10th Percentile £28,432 £35,000 £32,000
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% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,899
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.49% +4.37% -2.51%

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 14 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 14 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 -61 161 £60,000 - 203
UK excluding London -43 90 £48,500 -15.65% 197
London +13 81 £82,500 +26.92% 54
Work from Home +30 73 £67,500 +12.50% 102
South East +18 30 £27,500 -54.17% 71
Midlands -29 19 £48,094 -14.50% 33
North of England +9 18 £52,500 -6.67% 29
West Midlands -21 17 £42,500 -26.09% 15
Wales +8 8 £48,500 -11.82% 11
Yorkshire -7 8 £60,000 +14.29% 12
South West 0 7 £51,250 -10.87% 21
Scotland +10 6 £22,129 - 8
North West +19 5 £60,000 - 14
North East - 5 £35,000 - 3
East of England +23 4 £55,000 -6.38% 27
East Midlands -6 2 £70,000 +64.71% 16

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 (10.67%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.99%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.99%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (7.87%) Apache Spark
4 11 (6.18%) Confluence
5 8 (4.49%) SharePoint
6 7 (3.93%) IIS
7 6 (3.37%) Apache
8 5 (2.81%) CMS
8 5 (2.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (1.69%) JBoss
10 2 (1.12%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 21 (11.80%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (7.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (7.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (7.30%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.56%) Maya
4 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Fidessa
1 3 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
1 3 (1.69%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (1.12%) Endur
2 2 (1.12%) EuroRunner
2 2 (1.12%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.12%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.12%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.12%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (26.97%) AWS
2 47 (26.40%) Azure
3 15 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.30%) GCP
4 13 (7.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 11 (6.18%) Amazon EMR
6 10 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.62%) Serverless
7 9 (5.06%) Amazon S3
7 9 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.49%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.49%) SaaS
9 7 (3.93%) Power Automate
9 7 (3.93%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 6 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (3.37%) Amazon ECR
10 6 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (3.37%) PowerApps
10 6 (3.37%) Route 53
10 6 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.80%) SSL
2 6 (3.37%) Internet
2 6 (3.37%) SAN
2 6 (3.37%) WAN
3 5 (2.81%) LAN
3 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.81%) VoIP
4 2 (1.12%) WinSCP
5 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.56%) Firewall
5 1 (0.56%) HTTP
5 1 (0.56%) Intranet
5 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.56%) SSH
5 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (20.79%) SQL Server
2 27 (15.17%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (9.55%) MySQL
3 17 (9.55%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.99%) DB2
5 15 (8.43%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.43%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.87%) DynamoDB
7 11 (6.18%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (6.18%) Big Data
7 11 (6.18%) DataStage
7 11 (6.18%) Hadoop
7 11 (6.18%) Neo4j
7 11 (6.18%) Pentaho
7 11 (6.18%) RDBMS
7 11 (6.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (3.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 26 (14.61%) JIRA
2 12 (6.74%) Git
3 4 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.69%) Ant
4 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
4 3 (1.69%) Maven
4 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.12%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.12%) JMeter
5 2 (1.12%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.12%) NeoLoad
5 2 (1.12%) NUnit
5 2 (1.12%) Subversion
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) Moq
6 1 (0.56%) MSTest
6 1 (0.56%) NSubstitute
6 1 (0.56%) Postman
General
1 81 (45.51%) Social Skills
2 78 (43.82%) Finance
3 41 (23.03%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (15.73%) Banking
5 20 (11.24%) Investment Banking
6 18 (10.11%) Law
7 12 (6.74%) Front Office
8 10 (5.62%) Retail
9 6 (3.37%) Legal
10 5 (2.81%) Marketing
11 4 (2.25%) Local Government
11 4 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.12%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.56%) Back Office
14 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.56%) Games
14 1 (0.56%) Police
14 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (21.91%) Analyst
1 39 (21.91%) Applications Support
2 32 (17.98%) Support Analyst
3 23 (12.92%) Lead
4 20 (11.24%) Technical Support
5 18 (10.11%) Applications Support Analyst
6 17 (9.55%) Senior
7 15 (8.43%) Linux Support
7 15 (8.43%) Support Engineer
8 14 (7.87%) IT Analyst
9 13 (7.30%) IT Support
9 13 (7.30%) IT Support Analyst
9 13 (7.30%) Technical Analyst
9 13 (7.30%) Technical Support Analyst
10 11 (6.18%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (6.18%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (5.62%) Developer
11 10 (5.62%) Support Specialist
11 10 (5.62%) Unix Support
12 9 (5.06%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.36%) .NET
2 16 (8.99%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.99%) LDAP
2 16 (8.99%) WebSphere MQ
3 5 (2.81%) .NET Framework
3 5 (2.81%) AngularJS
3 5 (2.81%) React
3 5 (2.81%) REST
4 4 (2.25%) CSS
4 4 (2.25%) HTML
4 4 (2.25%) Middleware
5 3 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.69%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.69%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (1.69%) Kafka
5 3 (1.69%) Pandas
5 3 (1.69%) RESTful
6 2 (1.12%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.12%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.12%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.65%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.99%) Linux Command Line
2 16 (8.99%) Onboarding
3 15 (8.43%) Product Ownership
4 11 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.49%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.93%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.37%) Clustering
8 4 (2.25%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.69%) Derivative
9 3 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.69%) Equities
9 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.69%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.12%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (20.22%) Windows
2 24 (13.48%) Linux
3 19 (10.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (9.55%) Unix
5 11 (6.18%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (32.02%) Agile
1 57 (32.02%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (31.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (26.40%) ITIL
4 46 (25.84%) CI/CD
5 38 (21.35%) Change Management
6 36 (20.22%) DevOps
7 30 (16.85%) Analytics
7 30 (16.85%) Roadmaps
7 30 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (15.73%) Service Management
9 24 (13.48%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (11.24%) User Acceptance Testing
12 19 (10.67%) Change Control
12 19 (10.67%) Migration
13 18 (10.11%) Data Migration
13 18 (10.11%) Mentoring
13 18 (10.11%) SDLC
14 17 (9.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 50 (28.09%) SQL
2 42 (23.60%) Python
3 18 (10.11%) C#
4 17 (9.55%) Java
5 11 (6.18%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.37%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.25%) Bash
8 3 (1.69%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.69%) Bicep
8 3 (1.69%) Groovy
8 3 (1.69%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.12%) C++
9 2 (1.12%) PHP
9 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.12%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (16.85%) Degree
2 20 (11.24%) ITIL Certification
3 18 (10.11%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.49%) Security Cleared
5 5 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (16.29%) SLA
2 19 (10.67%) QA
3 6 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.25%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.12%) GAAP
5 2 (1.12%) IFRS
5 2 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.81%) Docker
3 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 6 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.81%) Ansible
2 5 (2.81%) Terraform
3 3 (1.69%) Podman
3 3 (1.69%) Puppet
3 3 (1.69%) SCOM
4 2 (1.12%) Grafana
4 2 (1.12%) SCCM
5 1 (0.56%) Control-M
5 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (25.28%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.73%) ServiceNow
3 25 (14.04%) Salesforce
4 23 (12.92%) Oracle
5 19 (10.67%) IBM
6 16 (8.99%) Red Hat
7 11 (6.18%) Informatica
7 11 (6.18%) Talend
8 5 (2.81%) SAP
9 3 (1.69%) BMC
9 3 (1.69%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.69%) Remedy
9 3 (1.69%) VMware
10 2 (1.12%) Databricks
10 2 (1.12%) Dell
10 2 (1.12%) ION Trading
10 2 (1.12%) JD Edwards
10 2 (1.12%) Juniper
10 2 (1.12%) Lotus
10 2 (1.12%) Trayport