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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 407 347
Rank change year-on-year -54 -60 -1
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 187 331 443
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 0.61% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.67% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 126 202 331
10th Percentile £26,250 £50,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £74,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £89,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -19.17% +4.35% +4.55%

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 48,217 49,041 48,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.67% 90.12% 91.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,251 24,093 36,700
10th Percentile £28,456 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 January 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 4 January 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 -29 170 £65,000 +8.33% 201
London +10 90 £82,500 +26.92% 36
UK excluding London -23 90 £48,500 -19.17% 183
Work from Home +31 74 £75,000 +25.00% 21
South East +19 27 £27,500 -54.17% 48
Midlands -28 23 £60,000 +10.09% 38
West Midlands -13 21 £57,500 +2.22% 19
North of England +2 15 £52,500 - 33
South West -1 10 £62,500 -3.29% 21
Wales +12 8 £48,500 - 6
Yorkshire -13 7 £60,000 +14.29% 14
Scotland -4 6 £22,129 - 7
North West +14 5 £60,000 -11.11% 14
East of England +18 3 - - 34
North East - 3 £35,000 - 5
East Midlands -5 2 £70,000 +75.00% 17

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 18 (9.63%) WebSphere
2 16 (8.56%) Tomcat
2 16 (8.56%) WebSphere Application Server
3 14 (7.49%) Apache Spark
4 12 (6.42%) Confluence
5 7 (3.74%) SharePoint
6 5 (2.67%) Apache
6 5 (2.67%) CMS
6 5 (2.67%) IIS
6 5 (2.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.07%) HCL Notes
7 2 (1.07%) JBoss
8 1 (0.53%) Umbraco
Applications
1 20 (10.70%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (6.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 13 (6.95%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.53%) Maya
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (1.60%) Fidessa
2 3 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.60%) Unit4 Business World
3 2 (1.07%) Endur
3 2 (1.07%) EuroRunner
3 2 (1.07%) JDE EnterpriseOne
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.07%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.07%) SAP ERP
3 2 (1.07%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.07%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 49 (26.20%) Azure
2 48 (25.67%) AWS
3 21 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.49%) GCP
4 14 (7.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 11 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
6 10 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (5.35%) SaaS
6 10 (5.35%) Serverless
7 9 (4.81%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.81%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (4.28%) Power Platform
8 8 (4.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 6 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.21%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (3.21%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (3.21%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.21%) Route 53
9 6 (3.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.16%) SSL
2 5 (2.67%) WinSCP
3 4 (2.14%) Internet
4 3 (1.60%) LAN
4 3 (1.60%) SAN
4 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.60%) VoIP
4 3 (1.60%) WAN
5 1 (0.53%) HTTP
5 1 (0.53%) Intranet
5 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 27 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.56%) DB2
4 16 (8.56%) MySQL
5 15 (8.02%) MongoDB
5 15 (8.02%) NoSQL
6 14 (7.49%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (7.49%) DynamoDB
7 13 (6.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (5.88%) Big Data
8 11 (5.88%) DataStage
8 11 (5.88%) Hadoop
8 11 (5.88%) Neo4j
8 11 (5.88%) Pentaho
8 11 (5.88%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (13.90%) JIRA
2 14 (7.49%) Git
3 3 (1.60%) Eclipse
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.07%) Ant
4 2 (1.07%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.07%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.07%) JMeter
4 2 (1.07%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.07%) Maven
4 2 (1.07%) NeoLoad
4 2 (1.07%) NUnit
4 2 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.53%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.53%) Moq
5 1 (0.53%) MSTest
5 1 (0.53%) NSubstitute
5 1 (0.53%) Postman
General
1 84 (44.92%) Social Skills
2 82 (43.85%) Finance
3 40 (21.39%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.04%) Banking
5 20 (10.70%) Investment Banking
6 18 (9.63%) Law
7 11 (5.88%) Front Office
8 9 (4.81%) Retail
9 6 (3.21%) Marketing
10 5 (2.67%) Legal
11 4 (2.14%) Local Government
11 4 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.07%) Fire and Rescue
13 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.07%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.53%) Back Office
14 1 (0.53%) Games
14 1 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (22.46%) Analyst
2 40 (21.39%) Applications Support
3 34 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 31 (16.58%) Lead
5 20 (10.70%) Applications Support Analyst
6 18 (9.63%) Senior
6 18 (9.63%) Technical Support
7 15 (8.02%) Linux Support
8 13 (6.95%) IT Analyst
8 13 (6.95%) IT Support
8 13 (6.95%) IT Support Analyst
8 13 (6.95%) Technical Analyst
8 13 (6.95%) Technical Support Analyst
9 12 (6.42%) Support Engineer
10 11 (5.88%) Infrastructure Support
10 11 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (5.35%) Developer
11 10 (5.35%) IT Manager
11 10 (5.35%) Service Manager
11 10 (5.35%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.90%) .NET
2 16 (8.56%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (8.56%) LDAP
2 16 (8.56%) WebSphere MQ
3 8 (4.28%) React
4 5 (2.67%) .NET Core
4 5 (2.67%) .NET Framework
4 5 (2.67%) AngularJS
4 5 (2.67%) REST
5 4 (2.14%) CSS
5 4 (2.14%) HTML
6 3 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (1.60%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (1.60%) Middleware
6 3 (1.60%) Pandas
6 3 (1.60%) RESTful
7 2 (1.07%) Kafka
7 2 (1.07%) Next.js
7 2 (1.07%) OAuth
7 2 (1.07%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 50 (26.74%) Management Information System
2 17 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 17 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 16 (8.56%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.74%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.21%) Reinsurance
7 4 (2.14%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.60%) Clustering
8 3 (1.60%) Derivative
8 3 (1.60%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.60%) Equities
8 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.07%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.07%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.65%) Windows
2 21 (11.23%) Linux
3 18 (9.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (9.09%) Unix
5 10 (5.35%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (34.76%) Continuous Improvement
2 62 (33.16%) Agile
3 54 (28.88%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (28.34%) CI/CD
5 46 (24.60%) ITIL
6 41 (21.93%) DevOps
7 38 (20.32%) Change Management
8 32 (17.11%) Roadmaps
9 30 (16.04%) Service Management
10 29 (15.51%) Analytics
10 29 (15.51%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (12.83%) User Acceptance Testing
12 22 (11.76%) SDLC
13 21 (11.23%) ETL
13 21 (11.23%) Migration
14 20 (10.70%) Data Migration
14 20 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (10.16%) Mentoring
15 19 (10.16%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (29.41%) SQL
2 41 (21.93%) Python
3 18 (9.63%) C#
4 17 (9.09%) Java
5 11 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 9 (4.81%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.67%) VB.NET
8 3 (1.60%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.60%) Bash
8 3 (1.60%) Bicep
8 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.07%) C++
9 2 (1.07%) Groovy
9 2 (1.07%) PHP
9 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 32 (17.11%) Degree
2 21 (11.23%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (10.16%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.67%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.07%) MBA
6 2 (1.07%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.53%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.97%) SLA
2 26 (13.90%) QA
3 6 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.14%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.07%) GAAP
5 2 (1.07%) IFRS
5 2 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) PMO
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.21%) Docker
2 4 (2.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.67%) Terraform
3 4 (2.14%) Ansible
4 2 (1.07%) Grafana
4 2 (1.07%) Podman
4 2 (1.07%) Puppet
5 1 (0.53%) Argo
5 1 (0.53%) Control-M
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) SCCM
5 1 (0.53%) SCOM
5 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 31 (16.58%) ServiceNow
3 26 (13.90%) Salesforce
4 23 (12.30%) Oracle
5 19 (10.16%) IBM
6 16 (8.56%) Red Hat
7 11 (5.88%) Informatica
7 11 (5.88%) Talend
8 4 (2.14%) BMC
8 4 (2.14%) MuleSoft
8 4 (2.14%) Remedy
8 4 (2.14%) SAP
9 2 (1.07%) Databricks
9 2 (1.07%) Dell
9 2 (1.07%) ION Trading
9 2 (1.07%) JD Edwards
9 2 (1.07%) Lotus
9 2 (1.07%) Trayport
10 1 (0.53%) NEC
10 1 (0.53%) VMware