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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 458 450
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 -70
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 328 242 451
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.49% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.55% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 233 159 332
10th Percentile £40,635 £43,050 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.44% -1.60%
75th Percentile £87,000 £78,125 £73,375
90th Percentile £107,500 £94,522 £89,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -6.78% -1.67%

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 73,727 44,243 76,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.60% 89.97% 81.83%
Number of salaries quoted 51,045 24,911 52,533
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +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 22 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 22 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 -15 293 £72,500 +16.00% 168
UK excluding London -33 177 £65,000 +18.18% 115
Work from Home +41 139 £70,000 - 81
London -22 117 £85,000 +23.64% 68
North of England +11 62 £73,500 +35.48% 22
South East -18 47 £57,303 -4.50% 39
North West +16 32 £73,500 +17.60% 12
Yorkshire -17 27 £72,500 +63.84% 7
Midlands -34 23 £62,500 +16.41% 20
South West -65 20 £39,000 -31.27% 10
East of England +2 16 £59,450 -15.07% 15
West Midlands -31 16 £52,500 -2.21% 10
Scotland +20 6 £33,000 -40.51% 10
East Midlands -21 6 £70,000 - 10
North East -54 3 £72,500 +107.14% 3
Wales -60 2 £55,395 +14.22% 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 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 11 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.05%) Confluence
3 5 (1.52%) Camunda
3 5 (1.52%) IIS
4 4 (1.22%) CICS
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.61%) Apache
6 2 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.61%) WordPress
7 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.05%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.91%) Carpe Diem
3 3 (0.91%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.61%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.30%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.30%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 124 (37.80%) Azure
2 78 (23.78%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (18.90%) Power Platform
4 43 (13.11%) Dynamics 365
5 37 (11.28%) SaaS
6 29 (8.84%) AWS
7 26 (7.93%) Azure Logic Apps
7 26 (7.93%) GitHub
8 24 (7.32%) Power Automate
9 21 (6.40%) Entra ID
10 20 (6.10%) PowerApps
11 15 (4.57%) GCP
11 15 (4.57%) Serverless
12 14 (4.27%) Boomi
13 11 (3.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 10 (3.05%) Azure Functions
14 10 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.52%) DNS
1 5 (1.52%) VPN
2 4 (1.22%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.91%) ATM
4 1 (0.30%) Broadband
4 1 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.59%) Power BI
2 21 (6.40%) SQL Server
3 16 (4.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.74%) Spark SQL
5 9 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 6 (1.83%) Tableau
7 4 (1.22%) Db2
7 4 (1.22%) Metadata
7 4 (1.22%) MySQL
8 3 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.91%) Big Data
8 3 (0.91%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.91%) Looker
8 3 (0.91%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.91%) SAP BW
9 2 (0.61%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 53 (16.16%) JIRA
2 26 (7.93%) Git
3 15 (4.57%) Jenkins
4 14 (4.27%) GitLab
5 6 (1.83%) Eclipse
5 6 (1.83%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.52%) JUnit
6 5 (1.52%) Mockito
7 4 (1.22%) ChangeMan
8 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.61%) Postman
9 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.30%) git-flow
9 1 (0.30%) mountebank
9 1 (0.30%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.30%) Terragrunt
General
1 151 (46.04%) Social Skills
2 108 (32.93%) Finance
3 59 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.62%) Law
5 23 (7.01%) Banking
5 23 (7.01%) Organisational Skills
5 23 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.10%) Marketing
7 18 (5.49%) Retail
8 17 (5.18%) Legal
9 16 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (4.27%) Investment Banking
11 11 (3.35%) Local Government
12 10 (3.05%) Front Office
12 10 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (3.05%) Manufacturing
13 9 (2.74%) Legal Technology
14 8 (2.44%) Military
15 5 (1.52%) Financial Institution
16 4 (1.22%) Environmental Health
Job Titles
1 52 (15.85%) Lead
2 47 (14.33%) Senior
3 38 (11.59%) Developer
4 37 (11.28%) Analyst
5 25 (7.62%) Senior Developer
6 24 (7.32%) Administrator
6 24 (7.32%) Consultant
7 19 (5.79%) Systems Administrator
8 16 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (4.57%) Release Manager
10 14 (4.27%) Applications Support
10 14 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.96%) IT Manager
11 13 (3.96%) Service Manager
12 12 (3.66%) Management Consultant
12 12 (3.66%) Support Analyst
12 12 (3.66%) Technical Leader
13 11 (3.35%) Architect
13 11 (3.35%) Programme Office Consultant
13 11 (3.35%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (14.02%) REST
2 24 (7.32%) Middleware
3 22 (6.71%) SOAP
4 16 (4.88%) JSON
5 14 (4.27%) Lightning Web Components
5 14 (4.27%) React
6 12 (3.66%) EDI
6 12 (3.66%) XML
7 11 (3.35%) .NET
8 9 (2.74%) ARM Templates
8 9 (2.74%) CSS
8 9 (2.74%) HTML
8 9 (2.74%) PySpark
9 8 (2.44%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (1.83%) Visualforce
11 5 (1.52%) JPA
11 5 (1.52%) OAuth
11 5 (1.52%) OpenID
11 5 (1.52%) Spring Security
11 5 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.84%) Management Information System
2 27 (8.23%) Onboarding
3 23 (7.01%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.18%) Cloud Native
4 17 (5.18%) Data Structures
5 16 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 12 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.44%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.13%) Culture of Ownership
10 7 (2.13%) Podcast
11 5 (1.52%) CMDB
11 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.22%) Legacy Code
12 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.22%) VSAM
13 3 (0.91%) Replication
14 2 (0.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.79%) Linux
2 14 (4.27%) Windows
3 6 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.22%) Unix
4 4 (1.22%) zOS
5 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.30%) Android
6 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (43.60%) DevOps
2 118 (35.98%) CI/CD
3 108 (32.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 106 (32.32%) Agile
5 98 (29.88%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (26.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 79 (24.09%) ITIL
8 74 (22.56%) Change Management
9 53 (16.16%) Decision-Making
10 52 (15.85%) Roadmaps
11 50 (15.24%) Incident Management
12 45 (13.72%) Scrum
13 43 (13.11%) ERP
13 43 (13.11%) Integration Patterns
14 41 (12.50%) Test Automation
15 40 (12.20%) AI
16 38 (11.59%) Observability
17 37 (11.28%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (11.28%) ITSM
18 36 (10.98%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (25.91%) SQL
2 42 (12.80%) Python
3 24 (7.32%) JavaScript
4 11 (3.35%) Apex Code
5 10 (3.05%) Java
5 10 (3.05%) PowerShell
5 10 (3.05%) SOQL
6 9 (2.74%) SOSL
7 8 (2.44%) C++
8 6 (1.83%) Bash
8 6 (1.83%) COBOL
8 6 (1.83%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.52%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.22%) C#
10 4 (1.22%) JCL
11 3 (0.91%) C
11 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.61%) Go
12 2 (0.61%) Perl
12 2 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (15.24%) Degree
2 23 (7.01%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 19 (5.79%) PMI Certification
5 17 (5.18%) PMP
6 14 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.30%) CCSK
10 1 (0.30%) CISA
10 1 (0.30%) CRISC
10 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (18.90%) QA
2 35 (10.67%) Data Quality
3 29 (8.84%) GDPR
4 22 (6.71%) PMO
5 13 (3.96%) Accessibility
5 13 (3.96%) GRC
6 12 (3.66%) TickIT
7 9 (2.74%) SLA
8 8 (2.44%) Def Stans
8 8 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (1.22%) ISO 9000
10 4 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 4 (1.22%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.61%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (3.96%) Active Directory
1 13 (3.96%) Docker
2 5 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.91%) IAG
4 2 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.30%) Firmware
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.30%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 34 (10.37%) Terraform
2 16 (4.88%) Ansible
3 15 (4.57%) Kubernetes
4 4 (1.22%) CA Endevor
4 4 (1.22%) Grafana
5 3 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.61%) Argo
6 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.61%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.30%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.30%) Packer
7 1 (0.30%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.30%) SCCM
7 1 (0.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 90 (27.44%) Microsoft
2 31 (9.45%) Salesforce
3 24 (7.32%) ServiceNow
4 15 (4.57%) SAP
5 14 (4.27%) Databricks
6 11 (3.35%) Oracle
7 9 (2.74%) Google
8 8 (2.44%) FIS
8 8 (2.44%) SunGard
9 7 (2.13%) LogicMonitor
10 6 (1.83%) Intapp
10 6 (1.83%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.52%) iManage
11 5 (1.52%) VMware
12 4 (1.22%) Dell
12 4 (1.22%) HP
13 3 (0.91%) Aderant
13 3 (0.91%) Cisco
13 3 (0.91%) Concur
13 3 (0.91%) MuleSoft