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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 481 430 483
Rank change year-on-year -51 +53 -88
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 254 238 461
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.54% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.58% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 168 160 334
10th Percentile £48,200 £48,675 £36,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £64,627 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% +0.84% +3.78%

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 67,556 41,227 82,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.64% 93.27% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 43,655 22,384 59,687
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,475 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.05% +4.95% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -56 228 £72,500 +12.18% 112
UK excluding London -27 131 £70,000 +16.67% 77
London -45 91 £75,000 +11.11% 50
Work from Home +43 88 £70,000 +8.31% 72
North of England -8 47 £73,500 +33.64% 20
South East -18 29 £60,000 - 25
North West +23 23 £73,500 +13.08% 14
Yorkshire -26 21 £82,500 +135.71% 6
East of England -6 19 £59,450 -15.07% 7
South West -62 18 £62,500 -3.29% 7
Midlands -48 16 £75,000 +39.70% 13
West Midlands -37 13 £70,000 +30.38% 7
North East -35 3 £77,500 +40.91%
East Midlands -34 2 £75,000 +87.50% 6
Wales - 1 - - 2
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 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.54%) Confluence
3 6 (2.36%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.57%) IIS
5 3 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.18%) CICS
6 2 (0.79%) Apache
6 2 (0.79%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.18%) Windchill
3 1 (0.39%) Maya
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.79%) Infor SunSystems
3 2 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (44.88%) Azure
2 71 (27.95%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (16.93%) Power Platform
4 27 (10.63%) Dynamics 365
5 26 (10.24%) Entra ID
6 24 (9.45%) AWS
7 20 (7.87%) GitHub
8 19 (7.48%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (6.30%) GCP
9 16 (6.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 14 (5.51%) Boomi
10 14 (5.51%) Power Automate
10 14 (5.51%) PowerApps
10 14 (5.51%) SaaS
11 12 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
11 12 (4.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 11 (4.33%) Serverless
13 10 (3.94%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (3.54%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.36%) WinSCP
2 1 (0.39%) Broadband
2 1 (0.39%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.24%) Power BI
2 17 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.91%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (3.54%) Spark SQL
6 9 (3.54%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.76%) Big Data
7 7 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (2.36%) Metadata
8 6 (2.36%) MySQL
9 5 (1.97%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (1.97%) DataStage
9 5 (1.97%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.97%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.97%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.97%) Neo4j
9 5 (1.97%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.97%) Pentaho
9 5 (1.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (14.96%) JIRA
2 21 (8.27%) Git
3 11 (4.33%) Eclipse
4 8 (3.15%) GitLab
5 7 (2.76%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.18%) ChangeMan
7 2 (0.79%) Subversion
7 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.39%) JMeter
8 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.39%) Postman
8 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.39%) Selenium
8 1 (0.39%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 99 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 84 (33.07%) Finance
3 44 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.45%) Law
5 21 (8.27%) Marketing
6 13 (5.12%) Banking
6 13 (5.12%) Legal
7 12 (4.72%) Retail
8 11 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 8 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.18%) Environmental Health
11 3 (1.18%) Games
11 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.18%) Military
12 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Billing
13 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (22.05%) Lead
2 52 (20.47%) Senior
3 38 (14.96%) Developer
4 28 (11.02%) Senior Developer
5 22 (8.66%) Analyst
6 17 (6.69%) Administrator
7 14 (5.51%) Applications Support
7 14 (5.51%) Software Manager
8 13 (5.12%) Data Engineer
8 13 (5.12%) Systems Administrator
8 13 (5.12%) Technical Leader
9 12 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.72%) Salesforce Developer
10 11 (4.33%) Architect
10 11 (4.33%) Engineering Manager
10 11 (4.33%) Release Manager
10 11 (4.33%) Software Engineering Manager
11 10 (3.94%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (3.94%) Senior Salesforce Developer
12 9 (3.54%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.57%) REST
2 22 (8.66%) Middleware
2 22 (8.66%) SOAP
3 19 (7.48%) .NET
4 17 (6.69%) React
5 16 (6.30%) JSON
6 14 (5.51%) Lightning Web Components
7 12 (4.72%) EDI
7 12 (4.72%) PySpark
7 12 (4.72%) XML
8 11 (4.33%) ARM Templates
9 10 (3.94%) CSS
9 10 (3.94%) HTML
10 7 (2.76%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.76%) Visualforce
11 5 (1.97%) YAML
12 2 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.79%) Swagger
13 1 (0.39%) Elastic Stack
13 1 (0.39%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.84%) Data Structures
2 24 (9.45%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.30%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.12%) Enterprise Cloud
5 11 (4.33%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.33%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.94%) Reinsurance
7 9 (3.54%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.76%) Culture of Ownership
8 7 (2.76%) Podcast
9 6 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.57%) Low-Code
11 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.57%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.18%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.18%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.12%) Windows
2 9 (3.54%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.18%) Linux
3 3 (1.18%) zOS
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (51.18%) DevOps
2 101 (39.76%) CI/CD
3 98 (38.58%) Agile
4 73 (28.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 64 (25.20%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (22.44%) Roadmaps
7 55 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (18.90%) Incident Management
9 45 (17.72%) ITIL
10 40 (15.75%) Integration Patterns
11 39 (15.35%) Change Management
11 39 (15.35%) Data Modelling
12 38 (14.96%) Test Automation
13 35 (13.78%) AI
13 35 (13.78%) Scrum
14 33 (12.99%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (12.20%) Software Engineering
16 30 (11.81%) ERP
16 30 (11.81%) Observability
16 30 (11.81%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 86 (33.86%) SQL
2 37 (14.57%) Python
3 18 (7.09%) JavaScript
3 18 (7.09%) PowerShell
4 12 (4.72%) Apex Code
5 10 (3.94%) SOQL
6 9 (3.54%) Java
6 9 (3.54%) SOSL
7 7 (2.76%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.36%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.18%) Bash
9 3 (1.18%) C#
9 3 (1.18%) COBOL
9 3 (1.18%) JCL
10 2 (0.79%) Bicep
10 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.39%) C
11 1 (0.39%) Groovy
11 1 (0.39%) Korn
11 1 (0.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 39 (15.35%) Degree
2 14 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (5.51%) PMI Certification
2 14 (5.51%) PMP
2 14 (5.51%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.94%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.97%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.97%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (1.57%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.18%) MBA
7 2 (0.79%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.39%) CCSK
8 1 (0.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (19.29%) QA
2 27 (10.63%) Data Quality
3 21 (8.27%) GDPR
4 13 (5.12%) GRC
5 12 (4.72%) Accessibility
5 12 (4.72%) TickIT
6 9 (3.54%) PMO
7 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.57%) SLA
7 4 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.18%) Def Stans
8 3 (1.18%) ISO 9000
8 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) NIST
10 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (5.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.36%) Docker
3 3 (1.18%) IAG
3 3 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.39%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 27 (10.63%) Terraform
2 16 (6.30%) Kubernetes
3 10 (3.94%) Ansible
4 5 (1.97%) Grafana
5 3 (1.18%) CA Endevor
6 2 (0.79%) Argo
6 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.79%) SCCM
6 2 (0.79%) SCOM
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.39%) Packer
7 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (23.23%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.99%) Salesforce
3 28 (11.02%) ServiceNow
4 16 (6.30%) Databricks
5 12 (4.72%) Oracle
6 9 (3.54%) SAP
7 5 (1.97%) Informatica
7 5 (1.97%) Talend
8 4 (1.57%) LogicMonitor
8 4 (1.57%) VMware
9 3 (1.18%) Google
9 3 (1.18%) Intapp
9 3 (1.18%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.18%) Remedy
10 2 (0.79%) Ariba
10 2 (0.79%) Citrix
10 2 (0.79%) Concur
10 2 (0.79%) Dell
10 2 (0.79%) Infor
10 2 (0.79%) Isilon