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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 403 402
Rank change year-on-year -67 -1 -45
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 189 324 479
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.62% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.68% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 128 196 355
10th Percentile £26,250 £50,500 £40,200
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,300 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +5.45%

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 51,122 47,498 63,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.11% 91.58% 88.88%
Number of salaries quoted 30,201 22,816 49,001
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,628 £41,024
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,751
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.62% -10.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 February 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 February 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 -51 177 £67,500 +8.00% 89
London +6 95 £72,500 +11.54% 45
UK excluding London -73 84 £58,000 -3.33% 57
Work from Home +3 71 £59,450 -4.88% 48
South East +26 23 £27,500 -54.17% 23
Midlands -31 20 £70,000 +23.35% 7
West Midlands -9 18 £70,000 +21.74% 5
South West -9 14 £62,500 -3.29% 6
North of England -21 13 £60,000 - 12
East of England +21 8 £59,450 -15.07% 6
North West +14 6 £60,000 -11.11% 6
Yorkshire -21 6 £60,000 +14.29% 5
Scotland -8 5 £22,129 -64.80% 2
Wales 0 2 £48,500 - 1
East Midlands -12 2 £70,000 +75.00% 2
North East - 1 £82,500 - 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 15 (7.94%) WebSphere
2 14 (7.41%) Tomcat
2 14 (7.41%) WebSphere Application Server
3 12 (6.35%) Apache Spark
4 8 (4.23%) Confluence
5 5 (2.65%) CMS
6 4 (2.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (1.59%) Apache
7 3 (1.59%) SharePoint
8 2 (1.06%) IIS
9 1 (0.53%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.53%) JBoss
9 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 16 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (6.35%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.53%) Maya
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.59%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.59%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.06%) Endur
4 2 (1.06%) EuroRunner
4 2 (1.06%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 2 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (1.06%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.06%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.06%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 58 (30.69%) Azure
2 42 (22.22%) AWS
3 28 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.88%) GCP
5 12 (6.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 11 (5.82%) Power Platform
7 10 (5.29%) Amazon EMR
7 10 (5.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 8 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (4.23%) Serverless
9 7 (3.70%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.70%) SaaS
10 6 (3.17%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.65%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.65%) dbt
11 5 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (2.65%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.41%) SSL
2 6 (3.17%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.53%) HTTP
3 1 (0.53%) Intranet
3 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (12.17%) Relational Database
2 23 (12.17%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.41%) DB2
3 14 (7.41%) MongoDB
3 14 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 13 (6.88%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (6.88%) DynamoDB
5 11 (5.82%) MySQL
5 11 (5.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.29%) Apache Cassandra
6 10 (5.29%) Big Data
6 10 (5.29%) DataStage
6 10 (5.29%) Hadoop
6 10 (5.29%) Neo4j
6 10 (5.29%) Pentaho
6 10 (5.29%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.65%) Metadata
7 5 (2.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (10.05%) JIRA
2 13 (6.88%) Git
3 8 (4.23%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.06%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.06%) JMeter
4 2 (1.06%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.06%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.53%) Ant
5 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Maven
5 1 (0.53%) NUnit
5 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.53%) Subversion
5 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 81 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 77 (40.74%) Finance
3 40 (21.16%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (14.29%) Banking
5 19 (10.05%) Law
6 16 (8.47%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.70%) Front Office
7 7 (3.70%) Marketing
8 6 (3.17%) Retail
9 5 (2.65%) Legal
10 4 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.12%) Manufacturing
10 4 (2.12%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.06%) Fire and Rescue
12 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Back Office
13 1 (0.53%) Games
13 1 (0.53%) Local Government
13 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (19.05%) Lead
2 33 (17.46%) Analyst
3 30 (15.87%) Applications Support
4 25 (13.23%) Support Analyst
5 23 (12.17%) Senior
6 14 (7.41%) Developer
6 14 (7.41%) Linux Support
6 14 (7.41%) Technical Support
7 13 (6.88%) IT Analyst
8 12 (6.35%) Applications Support Analyst
8 12 (6.35%) IT Support
8 12 (6.35%) IT Support Analyst
8 12 (6.35%) Technical Analyst
8 12 (6.35%) Technical Support Analyst
9 11 (5.82%) IT Manager
10 10 (5.29%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (5.29%) Service Manager
10 10 (5.29%) Software Manager
11 9 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
11 9 (4.76%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.76%) .NET
2 14 (7.41%) LAPP Stack
2 14 (7.41%) LDAP
2 14 (7.41%) WebSphere MQ
3 12 (6.35%) React
4 9 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 7 (3.70%) REST
6 4 (2.12%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.12%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.12%) CSS
6 4 (2.12%) HTML
7 3 (1.59%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.59%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.59%) OAuth
7 3 (1.59%) PySpark
8 2 (1.06%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.06%) Next.js
8 2 (1.06%) Pandas
8 2 (1.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (20.63%) Management Information System
2 20 (10.58%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 14 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.82%) Reinsurance
5 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.17%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.12%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.59%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.59%) Derivative
8 3 (1.59%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.59%) Equities
9 2 (1.06%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.81%) Windows
2 18 (9.52%) Linux
3 15 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (7.94%) Unix
4 8 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.53%) Android
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (33.33%) Agile
2 57 (30.16%) Continuous Improvement
3 52 (27.51%) DevOps
4 51 (26.98%) CI/CD
5 50 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (25.93%) ITIL
7 40 (21.16%) Change Management
8 38 (20.11%) Roadmaps
9 33 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 31 (16.40%) Service Management
11 26 (13.76%) Analytics
12 25 (13.23%) SDLC
13 24 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (12.70%) User Acceptance Testing
14 22 (11.64%) ETL
14 22 (11.64%) Software Engineering
15 20 (10.58%) Collaborative Culture
15 20 (10.58%) Incident Management
15 20 (10.58%) ITSM
16 19 (10.05%) AI
Programming Languages
1 56 (29.63%) SQL
2 38 (20.11%) Python
3 16 (8.47%) Java
4 12 (6.35%) PowerShell
5 11 (5.82%) C#
5 11 (5.82%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.17%) VB.NET
7 4 (2.12%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.59%) Bicep
9 2 (1.06%) Bash
9 2 (1.06%) PHP
9 2 (1.06%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.53%) ABAP
10 1 (0.53%) C++
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) Groovy
10 1 (0.53%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (14.81%) Degree
2 19 (10.05%) ITIL Certification
3 16 (8.47%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.17%) Master's Degree
4 6 (3.17%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.12%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.59%) MBA
7 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.06%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.06%) PMP
7 2 (1.06%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.46%) QA
2 20 (10.58%) SLA
3 5 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.06%) GAAP
5 2 (1.06%) IFRS
5 2 (1.06%) PMO
5 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.65%) Terraform
3 3 (1.59%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) Grafana
4 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.53%) Argo
5 1 (0.53%) Control-M
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) Podman
5 1 (0.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.53%) SCCM
5 1 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (18.52%) ServiceNow
2 34 (17.99%) Microsoft
3 24 (12.70%) Salesforce
4 21 (11.11%) Oracle
5 17 (8.99%) IBM
6 14 (7.41%) Red Hat
7 10 (5.29%) Informatica
7 10 (5.29%) Talend
8 5 (2.65%) Remedy
8 5 (2.65%) SAP
9 4 (2.12%) BMC
9 4 (2.12%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.59%) Databricks
11 2 (1.06%) Conga
11 2 (1.06%) Dell
11 2 (1.06%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.06%) JD Edwards
11 2 (1.06%) Trayport
12 1 (0.53%) Lotus
12 1 (0.53%) NEC