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 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 447 471
Rank change year-on-year -17 +24 -88
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 323 242 495
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.56% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 229 156 361
10th Percentile £41,518 £45,750 £38,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,688 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,627 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.31% +5.08% -1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £97,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,875 £56,745 £59,000
% change year-on-year +16.09% -3.82% +2.61%

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 71,201 43,352 86,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.63% 91.03% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 49,187 23,974 60,816
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,738 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.48% - -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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +3 290 £70,000 +7.69% 175
UK excluding London -22 173 £65,875 +16.09% 112
Work from Home +39 135 £70,000 +3.99% 78
London -25 114 £77,500 +14.81% 76
North of England +10 59 £73,500 +33.64% 26
South East -23 46 £57,303 -4.50% 39
North West +9 31 £73,500 +17.60% 18
Yorkshire -8 25 £72,500 +63.84% 7
South West -67 21 £64,000 -0.97% 12
East of England -6 20 £59,450 -15.07% 10
Midlands -40 20 £67,500 +25.73% 20
West Midlands -44 13 £53,688 - 10
East Midlands -15 6 £70,000 - 10
Scotland +15 4 £33,000 -30.22% 6
North East -44 3 £77,500 +40.91% 1
Wales -44 2 £55,395 -7.68% 1
Northern Ireland - 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 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (3.10%) Confluence
3 9 (2.79%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.86%) IIS
5 4 (1.24%) CICS
6 3 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.62%) Apache
7 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.62%) WordPress
8 1 (0.31%) Camunda
8 1 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.31%) CMS
8 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.10%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.24%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (3.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.93%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.93%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.62%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.62%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.31%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.31%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 128 (39.63%) Azure
2 81 (25.08%) Azure DevOps
3 61 (18.89%) Power Platform
4 43 (13.31%) Dynamics 365
5 32 (9.91%) SaaS
6 27 (8.36%) AWS
7 26 (8.05%) Azure Logic Apps
8 23 (7.12%) GitHub
8 23 (7.12%) Power Automate
9 22 (6.81%) Entra ID
10 19 (5.88%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.64%) GCP
12 14 (4.33%) Boomi
12 14 (4.33%) Serverless
13 11 (3.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (3.10%) Azure Functions
14 10 (3.10%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (2.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.93%) DNS
1 3 (0.93%) VPN
2 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.31%) ATM
3 1 (0.31%) Broadband
3 1 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.31%) Firewall
3 1 (0.31%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.46%) Power BI
2 18 (5.57%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (2.79%) Spark SQL
7 8 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.55%) Tableau
10 4 (1.24%) Db2
10 4 (1.24%) MySQL
11 3 (0.93%) Big Data
11 3 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.93%) Looker
11 3 (0.93%) Metadata
11 3 (0.93%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.62%) Data Vault
12 2 (0.62%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 49 (15.17%) JIRA
2 24 (7.43%) Git
3 14 (4.33%) GitLab
3 14 (4.33%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.10%) Eclipse
5 6 (1.86%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.24%) ChangeMan
7 2 (0.62%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.62%) Postman
7 2 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.31%) git-flow
8 1 (0.31%) Mockito
8 1 (0.31%) mountebank
8 1 (0.31%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.31%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.31%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 141 (43.65%) Social Skills
2 103 (31.89%) Finance
3 54 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.05%) Law
5 24 (7.43%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.88%) Banking
6 19 (5.88%) Marketing
7 18 (5.57%) Legal
8 17 (5.26%) Retail
9 15 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (4.64%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.41%) Local Government
11 10 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (3.10%) Manufacturing
12 9 (2.79%) Legal Technology
13 8 (2.48%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.86%) Military
15 5 (1.55%) Front Office
16 4 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (1.24%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 53 (16.41%) Lead
2 52 (16.10%) Senior
3 42 (13.00%) Developer
4 30 (9.29%) Analyst
5 29 (8.98%) Senior Developer
6 25 (7.74%) Administrator
7 22 (6.81%) Consultant
8 19 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
9 16 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (4.95%) Release Manager
10 14 (4.33%) IT Manager
11 13 (4.02%) Applications Support
11 13 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (4.02%) Software Manager
12 12 (3.72%) Management Consultant
12 12 (3.72%) Salesforce Developer
12 12 (3.72%) Service Manager
13 11 (3.41%) Data Engineer
13 11 (3.41%) Programme Management Office Consultant
13 11 (3.41%) Programme Office Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (13.62%) REST
2 24 (7.43%) Middleware
3 23 (7.12%) SOAP
4 17 (5.26%) React
5 16 (4.95%) JSON
6 15 (4.64%) .NET
7 14 (4.33%) Lightning Web Components
8 12 (3.72%) EDI
8 12 (3.72%) XML
9 10 (3.10%) PySpark
10 9 (2.79%) ARM Templates
10 9 (2.79%) CSS
10 9 (2.79%) HTML
11 6 (1.86%) Visualforce
12 5 (1.55%) YAML
13 4 (1.24%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.24%) FIX Protocol
14 3 (0.93%) ASP.NET
14 3 (0.93%) ASP.NET Core
14 3 (0.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.36%) Management Information System
1 27 (8.36%) Product Ownership
2 24 (7.43%) Onboarding
3 22 (6.81%) Data Structures
4 16 (4.95%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.64%) Cloud Native
6 13 (4.02%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (2.17%) Culture of Ownership
8 7 (2.17%) Podcast
9 6 (1.86%) Reinsurance
10 4 (1.24%) CMDB
10 4 (1.24%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.24%) Legacy Code
10 4 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.24%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.24%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.24%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.02%) Windows
2 12 (3.72%) Linux
3 5 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.24%) zOS
5 3 (0.93%) Unix
6 2 (0.62%) Android
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (45.20%) DevOps
2 114 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 112 (34.67%) Agile
4 103 (31.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 92 (28.48%) Problem-Solving
6 84 (26.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 73 (22.60%) ITIL
8 64 (19.81%) Change Management
9 58 (17.96%) Roadmaps
10 52 (16.10%) Incident Management
11 48 (14.86%) Decision-Making
11 48 (14.86%) Scrum
12 43 (13.31%) ERP
13 42 (13.00%) Integration Patterns
14 41 (12.69%) ITSM
14 41 (12.69%) Test Automation
15 37 (11.46%) AI
16 36 (11.15%) Collaborative Working
16 36 (11.15%) Technical Leadership
17 35 (10.84%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (26.93%) SQL
2 38 (11.76%) Python
3 22 (6.81%) JavaScript
4 13 (4.02%) PowerShell
5 12 (3.72%) Apex Code
6 10 (3.10%) SOQL
7 9 (2.79%) SOSL
8 6 (1.86%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.55%) Bash
9 5 (1.55%) Java
9 5 (1.55%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.24%) C#
10 4 (1.24%) C++
10 4 (1.24%) COBOL
10 4 (1.24%) JCL
11 3 (0.93%) C
12 2 (0.62%) Go
12 2 (0.62%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.62%) PHP
12 2 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (14.86%) Degree
2 21 (6.50%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 17 (5.26%) PMP
4 17 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.55%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.93%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.31%) CCSK
11 1 (0.31%) CISA
11 1 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.31%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (21.36%) QA
2 34 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 29 (8.98%) GDPR
4 21 (6.50%) PMO
5 14 (4.33%) Accessibility
6 13 (4.02%) GRC
7 12 (3.72%) TickIT
8 8 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (2.17%) SLA
10 6 (1.86%) Def Stans
11 5 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (1.24%) ISO 9000
12 4 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 15288
12 4 (1.24%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.72%) Docker
3 5 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.93%) IAG
5 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.31%) Firmware
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.31%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 32 (9.91%) Terraform
2 18 (5.57%) Kubernetes
3 16 (4.95%) Ansible
4 4 (1.24%) CA Endevor
4 4 (1.24%) Grafana
5 3 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.62%) Argo
6 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.62%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.31%) Packer
7 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.31%) SCCM
7 1 (0.31%) SCOM
7 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (27.24%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.53%) Salesforce
3 30 (9.29%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.64%) Databricks
5 14 (4.33%) SAP
6 11 (3.41%) Oracle
7 7 (2.17%) Intapp
7 7 (2.17%) LogicMonitor
8 6 (1.86%) Google
9 5 (1.55%) iManage
9 5 (1.55%) VMware
10 4 (1.24%) Dell
10 4 (1.24%) FIS
10 4 (1.24%) SunGard
11 3 (0.93%) Aderant
11 3 (0.93%) Cisco
11 3 (0.93%) Concur
11 3 (0.93%) HighQ
11 3 (0.93%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.62%) OpenAI