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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 439 482
Rank change year-on-year -22 +43 -89
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 273 242 477
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.55% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.59% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 184 158 344
10th Percentile £43,254 £48,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,227 £53,688 £51,097
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 £78,438 £72,450
90th Percentile £106,000 £98,250 £88,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £59,250
% change year-on-year +16.67% +1.27% +1.94%

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 68,914 40,901 84,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.88% 93.19% 83.44%
Number of salaries quoted 45,055 21,599 60,884
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -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 1 June 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 1 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 -35 246 £72,500 +11.54% 143
UK excluding London -12 145 £70,000 +16.67% 92
Work from Home +37 100 £70,000 +8.31% 104
London -49 96 £75,000 +11.11% 70
North of England 0 50 £73,500 +33.64% 26
South East -14 36 £60,000 - 25
North West +9 26 £73,500 +13.08% 16
Yorkshire -36 21 £82,500 +135.71% 9
East of England -8 20 £59,450 -15.07% 16
South West -54 20 £62,500 -3.57% 7
Midlands -47 17 £75,000 +39.70% 9
West Midlands -43 14 £72,500 +35.04% 5
North East -42 3 £77,500 +40.91% 1
East Midlands -36 2 £75,000 - 4
Wales -37 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 7

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 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.93%) Confluence
3 6 (2.20%) IIS
4 4 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.47%) CICS
5 3 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.73%) Apache
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.47%) Windchill
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 10 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.73%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 117 (42.86%) Azure
2 72 (26.37%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (18.68%) Power Platform
4 30 (10.99%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 22 (8.06%) AWS
7 21 (7.69%) GitHub
8 20 (7.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 18 (6.59%) SaaS
10 17 (6.23%) Power Automate
10 17 (6.23%) PowerApps
11 15 (5.49%) GCP
12 14 (5.13%) Boomi
12 14 (5.13%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 12 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.40%) Serverless
14 11 (4.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 10 (3.66%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (3.30%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.20%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.37%) Broadband
2 1 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.72%) Power BI
2 16 (5.86%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (5.13%) Relational Database
4 13 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (4.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.30%) Spark SQL
8 6 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.83%) Big Data
9 5 (1.83%) Metadata
9 5 (1.83%) MySQL
10 4 (1.47%) DB2
10 4 (1.47%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (1.10%) DataStage
11 3 (1.10%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.10%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.10%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.10%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 37 (13.55%) JIRA
2 21 (7.69%) Git
3 11 (4.03%) Eclipse
4 10 (3.66%) GitLab
5 8 (2.93%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.47%) ChangeMan
7 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.37%) JMeter
8 1 (0.37%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.37%) Selenium
8 1 (0.37%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.37%) Subversion
8 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 109 (39.93%) Social Skills
2 90 (32.97%) Finance
3 43 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.06%) Law
5 21 (7.69%) Marketing
6 14 (5.13%) Banking
7 13 (4.76%) Legal
7 13 (4.76%) Retail
8 11 (4.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.03%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.20%) Local Government
11 4 (1.47%) Environmental Health
11 4 (1.47%) Military
12 2 (0.73%) Billing
12 2 (0.73%) Games
12 2 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (21.25%) Lead
2 51 (18.68%) Senior
3 40 (14.65%) Developer
4 29 (10.62%) Senior Developer
5 22 (8.06%) Analyst
6 21 (7.69%) Administrator
7 16 (5.86%) Consultant
8 15 (5.49%) Systems Administrator
9 14 (5.13%) Software Manager
10 13 (4.76%) Applications Support
10 13 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (4.76%) Data Engineer
10 13 (4.76%) Release Manager
10 13 (4.76%) Technical Leader
11 12 (4.40%) Architect
11 12 (4.40%) Salesforce Developer
12 11 (4.03%) Engineering Manager
12 11 (4.03%) Software Engineering Manager
13 10 (3.66%) Senior Salesforce Developer
14 9 (3.30%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.92%) REST
2 23 (8.42%) Middleware
2 23 (8.42%) SOAP
3 19 (6.96%) .NET
4 17 (6.23%) React
5 16 (5.86%) JSON
6 14 (5.13%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (4.40%) EDI
7 12 (4.40%) PySpark
7 12 (4.40%) XML
8 11 (4.03%) ARM Templates
9 10 (3.66%) CSS
9 10 (3.66%) HTML
10 7 (2.56%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.20%) Visualforce
12 5 (1.83%) YAML
13 2 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
13 2 (0.73%) Swagger
14 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
14 1 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.16%) Data Structures
1 25 (9.16%) Product Ownership
2 17 (6.23%) Management Information System
3 16 (5.86%) Onboarding
4 13 (4.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 12 (4.40%) Cloud Native
6 9 (3.30%) Reinsurance
7 8 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.56%) Culture of Ownership
8 7 (2.56%) Podcast
9 6 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.47%) Legacy Code
11 4 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.47%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.47%) VSAM
12 3 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.49%) Windows
2 10 (3.66%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.47%) zOS
4 3 (1.10%) Linux
5 2 (0.73%) Android
5 2 (0.73%) Unix
5 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (48.35%) DevOps
2 103 (37.73%) CI/CD
3 97 (35.53%) Agile
4 74 (27.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (21.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 53 (19.41%) Roadmaps
8 52 (19.05%) ITIL
9 49 (17.95%) Incident Management
10 43 (15.75%) Change Management
11 42 (15.38%) Integration Patterns
12 38 (13.92%) AI
12 38 (13.92%) Data Modelling
13 37 (13.55%) Scrum
14 36 (13.19%) Technical Leadership
15 35 (12.82%) Test Automation
16 33 (12.09%) ERP
17 32 (11.72%) Decision-Making
17 32 (11.72%) ITSM
18 31 (11.36%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (32.23%) SQL
2 36 (13.19%) Python
3 18 (6.59%) PowerShell
4 17 (6.23%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.40%) Apex Code
6 10 (3.66%) SOQL
7 9 (3.30%) SOSL
8 7 (2.56%) TypeScript
9 6 (2.20%) Java
9 6 (2.20%) VB.NET
10 4 (1.47%) COBOL
10 4 (1.47%) JCL
11 3 (1.10%) Bash
11 3 (1.10%) C#
12 2 (0.73%) Bicep
12 2 (0.73%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) C
13 1 (0.37%) Perl
13 1 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (15.38%) Degree
2 15 (5.49%) PMI Certification
2 15 (5.49%) PMP
2 15 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.03%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.83%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 3 (1.10%) MBA
9 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.37%) CISA
9 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (21.61%) QA
2 28 (10.26%) Data Quality
3 23 (8.42%) GDPR
4 14 (5.13%) PMO
5 13 (4.76%) GRC
6 12 (4.40%) Accessibility
6 12 (4.40%) TickIT
7 4 (1.47%) Def Stans
7 4 (1.47%) ISO 9000
7 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.47%) SLA
7 4 (1.47%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (4.40%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.56%) Docker
3 3 (1.10%) IAG
3 3 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.37%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 30 (10.99%) Terraform
2 17 (6.23%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.40%) Ansible
4 5 (1.83%) Grafana
5 4 (1.47%) CA Endevor
6 2 (0.73%) Argo
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.37%) Packer
7 1 (0.37%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.37%) SCCM
7 1 (0.37%) SCOM
7 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 65 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.82%) Salesforce
3 31 (11.36%) ServiceNow
4 17 (6.23%) Databricks
5 11 (4.03%) Oracle
5 11 (4.03%) SAP
6 5 (1.83%) Google
6 5 (1.83%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (1.47%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.10%) Concur
8 3 (1.10%) Informatica
8 3 (1.10%) Intapp
8 3 (1.10%) Remedy
8 3 (1.10%) Talend
8 3 (1.10%) VMware
9 2 (0.73%) Ariba
9 2 (0.73%) BMC
9 2 (0.73%) Citrix
9 2 (0.73%) Dell
9 2 (0.73%) Isilon