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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 392 417
Rank change year-on-year -99 +25 -51
Permanent jobs citing Release Management 180 305 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.65% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.69% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 123 188 356
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,500 £40,250
25th Percentile £55,175 £53,735 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,644 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £59,500
% change year-on-year - +0.84% +8.18%

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 55,198 43,957 67,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 78.83% 93.01% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 33,132 22,050 51,588
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,125 £29,490
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 28 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Release Management in the UK

Release Management
Top 15 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 28 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 -77 168 £70,000 +12.00% 75
London -18 92 £72,500 +15.08% 37
UK excluding London -87 75 £60,000 - 58
Work from Home -15 65 £66,250 +5.16% 35
Midlands -43 18 £75,000 +30.43% 4
South East -20 17 £27,500 -54.17% 33
South West -18 15 £62,500 -9.42% 8
West Midlands -28 13 £75,000 +27.66% 3
North of England -21 12 £60,000 -11.11% 8
East of England +13 9 £59,450 -15.07% 6
Yorkshire -35 6 £60,000 +9.09%
North West -11 5 £60,000 -20.00% 8
Scotland -19 5 £22,129 -64.80% 1
East Midlands -28 4 £75,000 +87.50% 1
North East -8 1 £82,500 +50.00%

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 (6.11%) WebSphere
2 10 (5.56%) Tomcat
2 10 (5.56%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (5.00%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.89%) Confluence
5 5 (2.78%) CMS
6 3 (1.67%) Apache
7 2 (1.11%) IIS
7 2 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.56%) JBoss
8 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (4.44%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.56%) Maya
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.67%) Fidessa
3 3 (1.67%) SAP ERP
4 2 (1.11%) Endur
4 2 (1.11%) EuroRunner
4 2 (1.11%) SAP CO
4 2 (1.11%) SAP FI
4 2 (1.11%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.56%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 58 (32.22%) Azure
2 34 (18.89%) AWS
3 28 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (7.78%) Power Platform
5 11 (6.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 10 (5.56%) GCP
7 9 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 7 (3.89%) Amazon EMR
8 7 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (3.89%) Serverless
9 6 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.33%) SaaS
10 5 (2.78%) dbt
10 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.78%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon ECR
11 4 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.56%) SSL
2 6 (3.33%) WinSCP
3 1 (0.56%) Broadband
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) Intranet
3 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.56%) Relational Database
2 17 (9.44%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.56%) DB2
4 10 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 9 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 9 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (4.44%) Power BI
7 7 (3.89%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.89%) Big Data
7 7 (3.89%) DataStage
7 7 (3.89%) Hadoop
7 7 (3.89%) Metadata
7 7 (3.89%) MySQL
7 7 (3.89%) Neo4j
7 7 (3.89%) Pentaho
7 7 (3.89%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (10.00%) JIRA
2 13 (7.22%) Git
3 9 (5.00%) Eclipse
4 2 (1.11%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.11%) JMeter
4 2 (1.11%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.11%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.56%) Ant
5 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) Maven
5 1 (0.56%) NUnit
5 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.56%) Subversion
5 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 72 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 64 (35.56%) Finance
3 32 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (12.78%) Banking
5 18 (10.00%) Law
6 12 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.33%) Front Office
7 6 (3.33%) Marketing
8 5 (2.78%) Legal
8 5 (2.78%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.22%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.11%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (1.11%) Games
10 2 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Police
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (21.67%) Lead
2 26 (14.44%) Analyst
2 26 (14.44%) Senior
3 22 (12.22%) Applications Support
4 18 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 17 (9.44%) Developer
6 10 (5.56%) IT Analyst
6 10 (5.56%) IT Manager
6 10 (5.56%) Linux Support
6 10 (5.56%) Technical Leader
7 9 (5.00%) Applications Support Analyst
7 9 (5.00%) Service Manager
7 9 (5.00%) Software Manager
8 8 (4.44%) IT Support
8 8 (4.44%) IT Support Analyst
8 8 (4.44%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.44%) Technical Analyst
8 8 (4.44%) Technical Support
8 8 (4.44%) Technical Support Analyst
9 7 (3.89%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.33%) .NET
2 11 (6.11%) React
3 10 (5.56%) LAPP Stack
3 10 (5.56%) LDAP
3 10 (5.56%) WebSphere MQ
4 9 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 7 (3.89%) REST
6 4 (2.22%) CSS
6 4 (2.22%) HTML
7 3 (1.67%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.67%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.67%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.67%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (1.67%) PySpark
8 2 (1.11%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.11%) Next.js
8 2 (1.11%) OAuth
8 2 (1.11%) Pandas
8 2 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.78%) Data Structures
4 12 (6.67%) Reinsurance
5 10 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (5.56%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.78%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.22%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.67%) Derivative
10 3 (1.67%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.67%) Equities
11 2 (1.11%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.33%) Windows
2 14 (7.78%) Linux
3 11 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (6.11%) Unix
4 8 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (33.33%) Agile
2 59 (32.78%) DevOps
3 51 (28.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 48 (26.67%) ITIL
5 47 (26.11%) CI/CD
6 46 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (20.56%) Change Management
8 35 (19.44%) Roadmaps
9 32 (17.78%) Service Management
10 30 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (13.33%) Incident Management
12 23 (12.78%) ITSM
12 23 (12.78%) SDLC
13 21 (11.67%) AI
13 21 (11.67%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (11.11%) ETL
14 20 (11.11%) Software Engineering
14 20 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
15 19 (10.56%) Analytics
15 19 (10.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 51 (28.33%) SQL
2 32 (17.78%) Python
3 13 (7.22%) Java
3 13 (7.22%) PowerShell
4 12 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.44%) C#
6 6 (3.33%) VB.NET
7 5 (2.78%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.67%) Bicep
9 2 (1.11%) Bash
9 2 (1.11%) PHP
9 2 (1.11%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) ABAP
10 1 (0.56%) Go
10 1 (0.56%) Groovy
10 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.44%) Degree
2 15 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
3 12 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 5 (2.78%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.22%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.67%) MBA
6 3 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.67%) PMP
7 2 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.78%) QA
2 13 (7.22%) SLA
3 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.22%) PMO
5 3 (1.67%) GDPR
6 2 (1.11%) GAAP
6 2 (1.11%) IFRS
6 2 (1.11%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.56%) NIST
7 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.78%) Terraform
3 3 (1.67%) Ansible
4 2 (1.11%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Argo
5 1 (0.56%) Control-M
5 1 (0.56%) Kibana
5 1 (0.56%) Podman
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) SCCM
5 1 (0.56%) SCOM
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (17.78%) ServiceNow
2 28 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 22 (12.22%) Salesforce
4 12 (6.67%) Oracle
5 11 (6.11%) IBM
6 10 (5.56%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.89%) Informatica
7 7 (3.89%) Talend
8 5 (2.78%) Databricks
8 5 (2.78%) Remedy
8 5 (2.78%) SAP
9 4 (2.22%) BMC
10 3 (1.67%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.11%) Intapp
11 2 (1.11%) ION Trading
11 2 (1.11%) Trayport
12 1 (0.56%) Gemalto
12 1 (0.56%) Google
12 1 (0.56%) Sitecore
12 1 (0.56%) Triple Point